Anna Helmers-Dieleman
@annavertaalt.bsky.social
Translator, book lover, weather geek
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Post from the great Padraig Kenny over on IG
July 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Post from the great Padraig Kenny over on IG
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To whoever wrote in asking us about the lyrics “Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey,” we also don’t know what it means.
July 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
To whoever wrote in asking us about the lyrics “Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey,” we also don’t know what it means.
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Boo fucking hoo. It's built on THEFT. "I don't know how I'd ask all those people or afford to pay for all their work." Then you DON'T GET TO HAVE IT. These would-be geniuses have convinced themselves that something in their miracle blah-blah machine is so inherently amazing rules don't apply.
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Clegg said. “And by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
www.theverge.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Boo fucking hoo. It's built on THEFT. "I don't know how I'd ask all those people or afford to pay for all their work." Then you DON'T GET TO HAVE IT. These would-be geniuses have convinced themselves that something in their miracle blah-blah machine is so inherently amazing rules don't apply.
Het is het nieuwe de?
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Het is het nieuwe de?
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May 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
September 2, 2024 at 12:02 AM
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
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Whenever I talk to dissidents from Russia, Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, they all have deja vu about what's happening in the US. Worse yet, they all say that the opposition is doing literally the exact same things that failed to stop budding dictators in their countries.
April 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Whenever I talk to dissidents from Russia, Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, they all have deja vu about what's happening in the US. Worse yet, they all say that the opposition is doing literally the exact same things that failed to stop budding dictators in their countries.
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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(1/2) Vandaag zou het kabinet eindelijk met een oplossing komen om de btw-verhoging op boeken, cultuur en sport terug te draaien.
Na zes maanden wachten is er nog steeds geen duidelijkheid & lijken partijen de btw-verhoging slechts voor één jaar te willen schrappen.
Na zes maanden wachten is er nog steeds geen duidelijkheid & lijken partijen de btw-verhoging slechts voor één jaar te willen schrappen.
April 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
(1/2) Vandaag zou het kabinet eindelijk met een oplossing komen om de btw-verhoging op boeken, cultuur en sport terug te draaien.
Na zes maanden wachten is er nog steeds geen duidelijkheid & lijken partijen de btw-verhoging slechts voor één jaar te willen schrappen.
Na zes maanden wachten is er nog steeds geen duidelijkheid & lijken partijen de btw-verhoging slechts voor één jaar te willen schrappen.
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ik weet eigenlijk niet eens waarom ik de moeite heb gedaan om ze naast elkaar te zetten maar goed het is nu toch al gebeurd
April 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ik weet eigenlijk niet eens waarom ik de moeite heb gedaan om ze naast elkaar te zetten maar goed het is nu toch al gebeurd
Eigenlijk zouden we deze gewoon elke dag allemaal even moeten kijken.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Eigenlijk zouden we deze gewoon elke dag allemaal even moeten kijken.
Amazing, amazing thread. "People are trying, learning, fighting, giving a shit" ❤️
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Amazing, amazing thread. "People are trying, learning, fighting, giving a shit" ❤️
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Allemaal even boekwinkel Savannah Bay in Utrecht steunen deze boekenweek want ze hebben inbraak gehad 💔
March 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Allemaal even boekwinkel Savannah Bay in Utrecht steunen deze boekenweek want ze hebben inbraak gehad 💔
Mooie recensie van de roman Van man tot man (Olive Schreiner & J.M. Coetzee) die ik samen met Peter Bergsma mocht vertalen voor Uitgeverij Cossee 📚
Coetzee voltooit Olive Schreiners roman. Is dat een eerbetoon of betutteling?
Coetzee voltooit Olive Schreiners roman. Is dat een eerbetoon of betutteling?
De Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijfster Olive Schreiner overleed voor ze haar magnum opus kon voltooien. Bewonderaar Coetzee schiet meer dan een eeuw later te hulp: een gewaagd experiment.
www.trouw.nl
March 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Mooie recensie van de roman Van man tot man (Olive Schreiner & J.M. Coetzee) die ik samen met Peter Bergsma mocht vertalen voor Uitgeverij Cossee 📚
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.
February 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.
Daar is ze: de roman Van man tot man, geschreven door Olive Schreiner, bewerkt en voltooid door J.M. Coetzee. Vertaald door Peter Bergsma en mijzelf voor Uitg. Cossee.
Rijk proza, een spannend en aangrijpend verhaal, personages waar je van smult - dit boek heeft het allemaal. Nu in de boekhandel!
Rijk proza, een spannend en aangrijpend verhaal, personages waar je van smult - dit boek heeft het allemaal. Nu in de boekhandel!
January 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Daar is ze: de roman Van man tot man, geschreven door Olive Schreiner, bewerkt en voltooid door J.M. Coetzee. Vertaald door Peter Bergsma en mijzelf voor Uitg. Cossee.
Rijk proza, een spannend en aangrijpend verhaal, personages waar je van smult - dit boek heeft het allemaal. Nu in de boekhandel!
Rijk proza, een spannend en aangrijpend verhaal, personages waar je van smult - dit boek heeft het allemaal. Nu in de boekhandel!