Dirk Geurs
@dirklectisch.bsky.social
Creator of sociotechnical systems by day, board gamer in the evening, night clubber in the weekend. European 🇪🇺
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Joost Prinsen is overleden, man met een speciaal plekje in mijn hart. Mijn kennismaking met hem via iconische kinderprogramma’s op televisie, daar heb ik niets van onthouden. Maar hoe geweldig hij het prachtige gedicht “Ben Ali Libi” van Willem Wilmink voordraagt, dat zal ik nooit vergeten.
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Joost Prinsen is overleden, man met een speciaal plekje in mijn hart. Mijn kennismaking met hem via iconische kinderprogramma’s op televisie, daar heb ik niets van onthouden. Maar hoe geweldig hij het prachtige gedicht “Ben Ali Libi” van Willem Wilmink voordraagt, dat zal ik nooit vergeten.
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
Pinning Wikipedia to always be the first search result on @kagi.com has significantly changed how I consume the web. For many searches now my first stop is the encyclopaedia. The ordering of search results matters much more than I imagined.
August 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Pinning Wikipedia to always be the first search result on @kagi.com has significantly changed how I consume the web. For many searches now my first stop is the encyclopaedia. The ordering of search results matters much more than I imagined.
I wish the internet has a better way to find commentary like this. This showed up on my timeline but if I try to find it using a search engine or even Bluesky's search it doesn't turn up.
Late to this but @economist.com published an editorial that is factually wrong, misleading (not to say manipulative) and presents a convoluted argument about how to build a better international protection system – essentially by scrapping international protection.
First, a couple of facts.
First, a couple of facts.
Scrap the asylum system—and build something better
Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration
www.economist.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I wish the internet has a better way to find commentary like this. This showed up on my timeline but if I try to find it using a search engine or even Bluesky's search it doesn't turn up.
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What you definitely want in the mountains is a nav app which isn’t actually deriving its advice from the real world. 🤦♂️
"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.'
But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."
But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."
AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members
One of the world’s most popular hiking apps has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers sa...
www.nationalobserver.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
What you definitely want in the mountains is a nav app which isn’t actually deriving its advice from the real world. 🤦♂️
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I think people have a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia towards LLMs — like, they can think "AI is bad at things I am good at and know about, but good at things I can't judge because I'm bad at them"
Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding
Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding
April 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I think people have a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia towards LLMs — like, they can think "AI is bad at things I am good at and know about, but good at things I can't judge because I'm bad at them"
Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding
Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding
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the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017.
@bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net
@bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net
May 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017.
@bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net
@bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net
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We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.
May 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.
Whenever I hear someone talk about AI enthusiastically my mind turns to how braindead we can all become.
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Whenever I hear someone talk about AI enthusiastically my mind turns to how braindead we can all become.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
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Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
April 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
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Looking around the world right now, it’s hard not to feel very bloody lucky to be a citizen of the European Union.
The European Union has achieved its highest-ever approval rating, with 74% of those surveyed in the latest Eurobarometer believing their country benefits from EU membership. 🇪🇺
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
EU basks in all-time high citizen approval rate amid tense geopolitics
The European Union has achieved its highest-ever approval rating, with 74% of those surveyed in the latest Eurobarometer believing their country benefits from EU membership. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Looking around the world right now, it’s hard not to feel very bloody lucky to be a citizen of the European Union.
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BlueSky becoming more useful for news basically every day. Simple reason: None of that Elon trash code that punishes direct links. People share stories and we click, like God intended.
March 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
BlueSky becoming more useful for news basically every day. Simple reason: None of that Elon trash code that punishes direct links. People share stories and we click, like God intended.
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Reminder: after around 900k total casualties, #Russia currently occupies 19% of #Ukraine. It occupied 30% three years ago, when it had less than 100k total casualties. Let’s stop pretending that Russia is in a position of strength. It’s only #Trump that tries to put it in one.
March 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I watched Nickel Boys last night and can't help but relate the racism in that movie to everything going on in trumps America right now.
March 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I watched Nickel Boys last night and can't help but relate the racism in that movie to everything going on in trumps America right now.
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The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined
there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges
Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined
there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
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Just gonna point out she is saying this just 50 yards or so from Lafayette Square, which sits immediately outside the White House and includes a giant statue of General Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the Revolution and a visible reminder of the key role France played in securing U.S. independence.
Leavitt: "It's only because of the United States of America that the French aren't speaking German right now."
March 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Just gonna point out she is saying this just 50 yards or so from Lafayette Square, which sits immediately outside the White House and includes a giant statue of General Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the Revolution and a visible reminder of the key role France played in securing U.S. independence.
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US historians will forever fondly remember these justices.
For they looked at Trump's first term, attempted coup and all, and concluded that what the country needed was presidential immunity from prosecution.
For they looked at Trump's first term, attempted coup and all, and concluded that what the country needed was presidential immunity from prosecution.
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
US historians will forever fondly remember these justices.
For they looked at Trump's first term, attempted coup and all, and concluded that what the country needed was presidential immunity from prosecution.
For they looked at Trump's first term, attempted coup and all, and concluded that what the country needed was presidential immunity from prosecution.
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Trump is clearly bad for business but the cost to CEOs and billionaires’ support of the bulldozers to democracy and the betrayers of Ukraine and Europe is impossible to express in dollars ↘️
NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion
As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...
www.bloomberg.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Trump is clearly bad for business but the cost to CEOs and billionaires’ support of the bulldozers to democracy and the betrayers of Ukraine and Europe is impossible to express in dollars ↘️
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Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
March 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
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The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.