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Romantische Machines
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HistoFuturist at dechrononauten.substack.com and monnik.org
If you're in Amsterdam this Sunday, you can enjoy some phone-free time and reconnect with yourself and others at the Offline Gardens in the Tolhuistuin.

Together with Christiaan I will host a conversation about the Homo Romanticus in 'The Pit'

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August 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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It was not enough to defile US soil by inviting Putin to Alaska, now they are using the US flag when attacking Ukrainian positions.
August 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#UKLG hitting the streets in A’dam
August 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Hiro Isono, 1993
May 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Darum wurde es in den letzten zwei Jahren global sprunghaft wärmer:
April 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Dave Allen, the bassist who played with Gang of Four in their heyday, died at home with his family on Saturday, April 5
Gang of Four Bassist Dave Allen Dies at 69
Allen worked on Entertainment! and Solid Gold before leaving the group to form Shriekback
pitchfork.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Ik sprak voor @nrc met Julia Ebner, expert op het gebied van online radicalisering en desinformatie.
Hoe heeft het kunnen gebeuren dat het hatelijke gedachtegoed van extreemrechtse marginale groepen in slechts een paar jaar mainstream zijn geworden? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Julia Ebner over online radicalisering: ‘Mensen zitten zoveel online dat ze geestverwanten als een soort vervangende familie gaan zien’
Julia Ebner: Door zich voor te doen als geestverwant van neonazi’s en transfoben drong onderzoeker Julia Ebner door in afgesloten online netwerken. „Het schokte me hoeveel geradicaliseerde jongeren ik...
www.nrc.nl
April 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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www.wealthsimple.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long.

youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...
CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
YouTube video by ContraPoints
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you buy this (very nice) record you can suport those who where hit by the floods in Valencia. With Jacco Gardner, Palmbomen II, Eilandnet, Maria Pandiello and more experimental and psychedelic electronica artists nuovamateria.bandcamp.com/album/el-fang
El Fang, by Nuova Materia
17 track album
nuovamateria.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Just got started with Pantheon. Looks great, good storytelling. Seems like they’ll be exploring some ideas from @robinhanson.bsky.social ‘s Age of Em. www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/pantheon
Pantheon | Rotten Tomatoes
Bullied teen Maddie begins receiving messages from a mysterious stranger that claims to be her recently deceased father, David; his consciousness has been uploaded to the cloud after an experimental b...
www.rottentomatoes.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Wat is de rol van de Homo Nobilis (Trump, Wilders en co.) in de Tussentijd? Lees het in onze laatste editie van de Chrononauten.
Trump en de Tussentijd
De Homo Nobilis ontketend; het wordt een wilde rit.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Deze week in de Chrononauten: Mediatycoon Maarten Luther, de Cosmisten, de Universal Data Commons en wat verfrissende speculatieve verbeelding. open.substack.com/pub/dechrono... #mappingthefuture
Maarten Luther als selfmade mediamagnaat
Plus: iedereen een datakluis, liefde in het Lange Nu & speculatieve kunstzinnigheid
open.substack.com
February 3, 2024 at 10:04 AM