Luuk Odekerken
@bubskathesecond.bsky.social
Limburger in Exile. Ancient history and modern weird beliefs researcher. Insistent about human rights, principles, and combatting climate change.
I like a lot of stuff.
I blog about that sometimes (NL)
https://wordpress.com/view/dewereldismal.wordpress.com
I like a lot of stuff.
I blog about that sometimes (NL)
https://wordpress.com/view/dewereldismal.wordpress.com
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Ah, look it's the famous Damascus steal I've herd so much about!
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Everyone has made this joke already, haven't they?
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Everyone has made this joke already, haven't they?
As cultural looting surges in Syria after a bloody civil war and a decades-long brutal dictatorship, thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and walked away with six valuable Roman-era statues.
Thieves Steal Roman-Era Statues From Damascus Museum
A historian speculates it might have been an inside job.
hyperallergic.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Ah, look it's the famous Damascus steal I've herd so much about!
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Everyone has made this joke already, haven't they?
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Everyone has made this joke already, haven't they?
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As cultural looting surges in Syria after a bloody civil war and a decades-long brutal dictatorship, thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and walked away with six valuable Roman-era statues.
Thieves Steal Roman-Era Statues From Damascus Museum
A historian speculates it might have been an inside job.
hyperallergic.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
As cultural looting surges in Syria after a bloody civil war and a decades-long brutal dictatorship, thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and walked away with six valuable Roman-era statues.
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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
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I'll be frank with you, I don't fuck with GenAI even a little bit. I don't care how fun a game is, if I catch wind that it was used in place of human work I'll drop the whole thing. I dropped Tribes over its AI banners, I dropped The Finals the minute a friend clued me in. Its a line I won't cross.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I'll be frank with you, I don't fuck with GenAI even a little bit. I don't care how fun a game is, if I catch wind that it was used in place of human work I'll drop the whole thing. I dropped Tribes over its AI banners, I dropped The Finals the minute a friend clued me in. Its a line I won't cross.
The Democratic party may be the most pathetic political institution on the face of the planet.
Stupid, unprincipled, easily scared, complicit in abetting US fashism.
Don't let them live this down.
Stupid, unprincipled, easily scared, complicit in abetting US fashism.
Don't let them live this down.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The Democratic party may be the most pathetic political institution on the face of the planet.
Stupid, unprincipled, easily scared, complicit in abetting US fashism.
Don't let them live this down.
Stupid, unprincipled, easily scared, complicit in abetting US fashism.
Don't let them live this down.
Footnotes please, not endnotes.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Footnotes please, not endnotes.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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This is complete hogwash
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is complete hogwash
I'm an archive worker in the Netherlands.
I would like to formally propose introducing capital punishment for individuals using American-style date notation. (MM-DD-(YY)YY)
Leniency for Americans may be granted on occasion, although the country should change its ways.
I would like to formally propose introducing capital punishment for individuals using American-style date notation. (MM-DD-(YY)YY)
Leniency for Americans may be granted on occasion, although the country should change its ways.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm an archive worker in the Netherlands.
I would like to formally propose introducing capital punishment for individuals using American-style date notation. (MM-DD-(YY)YY)
Leniency for Americans may be granted on occasion, although the country should change its ways.
I would like to formally propose introducing capital punishment for individuals using American-style date notation. (MM-DD-(YY)YY)
Leniency for Americans may be granted on occasion, although the country should change its ways.
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Don't get me wrong, it's just one win, it's NYC etc but symbolically this can help fuel the fight back and show that the alternative to the far right does not have to be found in its mainstream enablers and in the "serious" status quo that's fuelling the polycrisis
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Don't get me wrong, it's just one win, it's NYC etc but symbolically this can help fuel the fight back and show that the alternative to the far right does not have to be found in its mainstream enablers and in the "serious" status quo that's fuelling the polycrisis
I've literally not seen anything negative from Zohran Mamdani at this point, which is kina incredible. What a swell dude.
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I've literally not seen anything negative from Zohran Mamdani at this point, which is kina incredible. What a swell dude.
I just saw someone describe the Pope as a "practicing Catholic".
I thought he'd have mastered the art of Catholicism by now.
I thought he'd have mastered the art of Catholicism by now.
November 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I just saw someone describe the Pope as a "practicing Catholic".
I thought he'd have mastered the art of Catholicism by now.
I thought he'd have mastered the art of Catholicism by now.
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Ik zie graag een gedecimeerde PVV.
Maar de essentie van het tijdperk Wilders is al lang niet meer Wilders. Die essentie zat in álle tv-debatten, zit in alle migratiestellingen, zit in het racisme dat overal vrijelijk mag stromen en in totale verrechtsing. En die is niet weg als Wilders kleiner is.
Maar de essentie van het tijdperk Wilders is al lang niet meer Wilders. Die essentie zat in álle tv-debatten, zit in alle migratiestellingen, zit in het racisme dat overal vrijelijk mag stromen en in totale verrechtsing. En die is niet weg als Wilders kleiner is.
Wie weet is het Tijdperk Wilders vandaag echt voorbij. Dat zou geweldig zijn.
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Ik zie graag een gedecimeerde PVV.
Maar de essentie van het tijdperk Wilders is al lang niet meer Wilders. Die essentie zat in álle tv-debatten, zit in alle migratiestellingen, zit in het racisme dat overal vrijelijk mag stromen en in totale verrechtsing. En die is niet weg als Wilders kleiner is.
Maar de essentie van het tijdperk Wilders is al lang niet meer Wilders. Die essentie zat in álle tv-debatten, zit in alle migratiestellingen, zit in het racisme dat overal vrijelijk mag stromen en in totale verrechtsing. En die is niet weg als Wilders kleiner is.
I mean, if you're very very dim, and you go into a very sus tattoo shop asking for a cool skull, maybe?
But when you inevitably learn about basic Nazi symbolism within a year, you get the tattoo removed and throw an apology brick through the Nazi artist's window.
That's just common sense, right?
But when you inevitably learn about basic Nazi symbolism within a year, you get the tattoo removed and throw an apology brick through the Nazi artist's window.
That's just common sense, right?
who among us hasn’t gotten an accidental nazi symbol tattooed across our chest and then kept it for 18 years accidentally while campaigning for us senator?
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I mean, if you're very very dim, and you go into a very sus tattoo shop asking for a cool skull, maybe?
But when you inevitably learn about basic Nazi symbolism within a year, you get the tattoo removed and throw an apology brick through the Nazi artist's window.
That's just common sense, right?
But when you inevitably learn about basic Nazi symbolism within a year, you get the tattoo removed and throw an apology brick through the Nazi artist's window.
That's just common sense, right?
"I love the bible"
"Really? What's your favorite psalm?"
"Psalm BODY once told me the world is gonna roll me"
"Really? What's your favorite psalm?"
"Psalm BODY once told me the world is gonna roll me"
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"I love the bible"
"Really? What's your favorite psalm?"
"Psalm BODY once told me the world is gonna roll me"
"Really? What's your favorite psalm?"
"Psalm BODY once told me the world is gonna roll me"
I think it's generally unhealthy to be this much in favor of a politician, so I'll ask:
Am I missing something or is Zohran Mamdani being the best political candidate imaginable?
Like, flaw him up a little bit. Tell us he owns BP stock or summin. I'm too jaded tp be this optimistic about someone.
Am I missing something or is Zohran Mamdani being the best political candidate imaginable?
Like, flaw him up a little bit. Tell us he owns BP stock or summin. I'm too jaded tp be this optimistic about someone.
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I think it's generally unhealthy to be this much in favor of a politician, so I'll ask:
Am I missing something or is Zohran Mamdani being the best political candidate imaginable?
Like, flaw him up a little bit. Tell us he owns BP stock or summin. I'm too jaded tp be this optimistic about someone.
Am I missing something or is Zohran Mamdani being the best political candidate imaginable?
Like, flaw him up a little bit. Tell us he owns BP stock or summin. I'm too jaded tp be this optimistic about someone.
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Lots of people dodging this question, unsurprisingly, but I'll step up: AI has been amazing, like game-changingly amazing, at introducing inexplicable errors into my research. I have also used it to make my writing more stilted and boring. And guess what? It's only getting better at all that.
October 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Lots of people dodging this question, unsurprisingly, but I'll step up: AI has been amazing, like game-changingly amazing, at introducing inexplicable errors into my research. I have also used it to make my writing more stilted and boring. And guess what? It's only getting better at all that.
Wikipedia is one of the few organisations that redeems the internet at this moment. Don't let A.I. kill my favorite thing.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Wikipedia is one of the few organisations that redeems the internet at this moment. Don't let A.I. kill my favorite thing.
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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PSA: We’ve reached the “protect & hide your persecuted neighbors” phase of fascism. So be prepared to protect & hide your persecuted neighbors.
Never Again is now. Behave in a way you won’t be ashamed to tell your future grandkids about.
Never Again is now. Behave in a way you won’t be ashamed to tell your future grandkids about.
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.
The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
PSA: We’ve reached the “protect & hide your persecuted neighbors” phase of fascism. So be prepared to protect & hide your persecuted neighbors.
Never Again is now. Behave in a way you won’t be ashamed to tell your future grandkids about.
Never Again is now. Behave in a way you won’t be ashamed to tell your future grandkids about.
If I ever see tampons in a male bathroom i'm gonna forget about that soo hard, probably within 3 seconds after washing my hands.
Why the fuck would anyone care?
Why the fuck would anyone care?
I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If I ever see tampons in a male bathroom i'm gonna forget about that soo hard, probably within 3 seconds after washing my hands.
Why the fuck would anyone care?
Why the fuck would anyone care?
Ik vind het idee van een staakt het vuren en gijzelaaruitwisseling in principe goed, maar de gedachte dat we Israel en Hamas nu blijkbaar moeten zien als onderhandelingsbekwame partijen in plaats van bloeddorstige moordbendes vind ik toch wel frustrerend.
Gazanen verdienen dringend gerechtigheid.
Gazanen verdienen dringend gerechtigheid.
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Ik vind het idee van een staakt het vuren en gijzelaaruitwisseling in principe goed, maar de gedachte dat we Israel en Hamas nu blijkbaar moeten zien als onderhandelingsbekwame partijen in plaats van bloeddorstige moordbendes vind ik toch wel frustrerend.
Gazanen verdienen dringend gerechtigheid.
Gazanen verdienen dringend gerechtigheid.
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Een politicus hoort niet te fungeren als factchecker voor zijn opponent in een televisiedebat. Een debat gaat over botsing van visies en argumenten, maar wel op basis van een gedeelde werkelijkheid en met respect voor feiten.
October 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Een politicus hoort niet te fungeren als factchecker voor zijn opponent in een televisiedebat. Een debat gaat over botsing van visies en argumenten, maar wel op basis van een gedeelde werkelijkheid en met respect voor feiten.