Wessel Valkenburg

@wesselvalk
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Physicist (CERN and others) turned data-science entrepreneur (Prevue.ch).
Aside: I once considered forming an ops consulting service called "Age Against The Machine". I kind of regret not doing that.
De gemanipuleerde beelden van Wilders zijn geen satire of verkiezingsboodschap meer: dit is semiotische oorlogsvoering https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/de-gemanipuleerde-beelden-van-wilders-zijn-geen-satire-of-verkiezingsboodschap-meer-dit-is-semiotische-oorlogsvoering~bae47e73/
De gemanipuleerde beelden van Wilders zijn geen satire of verkiezingsboodschap meer: dit is semiotische oorlogsvoering

de Volkskrant
Study: Meta’s Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Saved what I thought was the most meaningful #NoKings sign in #SLC #Utah for last
Just thinking about better ways to penalize corporations that break the law.

Fines are trivial and never keep pace with reality. Instead, what if companies had to give back a chunk of shares to the government? Issuing new shares that dilute existing shareholder value, and making the govt part owners. Effectively, nationalize the company in degrees with every breach of trust.

How a tax cut for a small group of people led to a financial bloodbath in the Research & Development departments of American tech companies.

#section174 #innovation #layoffs #tech

https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

Quartz

TIL that the Swiss railways uses different announcement jingles, depending on which language region you're in. And each jingle corresponds to the language's acronym for the railway company, interpreted as German note names:
- German: Es-B-B (Es = E♭, B = B♭)
- French: C-F-F
- Italian: F-F-Es (Es = E♭)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XUxlOrE1ME

#MusicTheory #SwissRailways

SBB CFF FFS - JINGLE

YouTube
At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.
#html #web
https://justfuckingusehtml.com/
C'est assez drôle. On sent le mec qui n'en peut plus des frameworks javascript usine-à-gaz. Et il n'a pas tort.
Just fucking use HTML

Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.

Just fucking use HTML