@waxle

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Designer turned scientist. PhD candidate @umcg, lecturer @nhlstenden Do not anthropomorphize computers. They hate it when you do that.
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Met zo'n geheugen kun je Minister-President worden in dit land. #VanBerkel
LPF'er Philomena Bijlhout mocht na ga beëdiging in 2002 dezelfde dag nog het veld ruimen vanwege jokken over haar 'arbeidsverleden'. Het lijkt me dat @D66 het daar niet op wil laten aankomen? #VanBerkel

Waymo is paying people $10 to close car doors.

That's the whole job. A passenger left the door open. Now a human has to drive across town to close it.

This is what happens when you optimise for everything except the obvious.

#tech #technology

Ik voel een versterkingsoperatie aankomen. #schadedoormijnbouw #IMG #Groningen
‘Oxveckorna.’ Now there’s a word I needed, but didn’t know existed until now. ‘The ox weeks.’ The long, dark, featureless weeks between New Year and Easter when there are no public holidays, and everything’s dull, and the weather is harsh, and you just trudge to and from work, day in, day out. The weeks when you slog through every day like a toiling ox. Tack, my Swedish friends, for naming the concept.
(Een slogan bedenken voor je coalitieakkoord die vervolgens steeds gebruikt kan worden bij cynische reacties op die coalitie? Het kan wél!)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theverge_com/116077117503882349

So, this whole stunt was a kind of vibe-portfolio-schtick and it worked brilliantly as Sam took the bait. One more reason to keep a really really safe distance from openAI’s products.

You can’t build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government

If you somehow still considered uploading your face/ID to Discord, here's one more reason not to: Peter Thiel seems to be the lead investor in the service that implements the age check. And, oh, the service page says they will store our data on their side (at least for a little while).

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

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