Bas van Baalen
basvanbaalen.com
Bas van Baalen
@basvanbaalen.com
Currently on Bluesky more of a content consumer then a producer. In daily life I try to do the opposite.
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Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.
May 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#skyspace @skyspace.me Very cool page, thank you for this.
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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“When a main path to financial security comes through the algorithmic gods rather than institutional advancement it fundamentally changes how people view everything from education to social structures to political systems that they’re apart of.” – @kyla.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Your outie writes unit tests
February 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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thus ends the humane story, a very only-in-silicon valley tale.

ambitious, mysterious, buzzy startup backed by big names, big $$--> splashy, hyped up launch--> fails to deliver on promise, launch flops--> firesale to legacy company, product shut down

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/t...
HP to Buy Humane, Maker of the Ai Pin, for $116 Million
Humane, which marketed its Ai Pin as the next big thing after smartphones, had raised $240 million from investors, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman. The pin will be discontinued.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Something I've been working on using GenAI: A visualization of how world leaders talk about each other during UN speeches. Select a country on the globe to explore diplomatic relationships and see who's saying what about whom.

un-speeches.koenvangilst.nl
December 23, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Nifty! someone turned Microsoft's new Markdown conversion tool into a webapp
December 14, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Hello world
October 21, 2024 at 1:53 PM