Ed Akerboom
@eakerboom.bsky.social
Father, technologist, politics junkie, EU federalist, adopted Berliner.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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07:15. Bereits Tausende sind in Gießen
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
07:15. Bereits Tausende sind in Gießen
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Dear Europe, especially Germany,
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
October 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dear Europe, especially Germany,
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
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Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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over/under that he's picking random porn titles & adding "Operation"
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
over/under that he's picking random porn titles & adding "Operation"
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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Ik weet geen beledigingen voor Yesilgöz meer. Best jammer.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Ik weet geen beledigingen voor Yesilgöz meer. Best jammer.
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De BM is het zat en reageert duidelijk naar de minister voor de Diaspora van Israël.
Slay.
@femkehalsema.bsky.social
Slay.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
De BM is het zat en reageert duidelijk naar de minister voor de Diaspora van Israël.
Slay.
@femkehalsema.bsky.social
Slay.
@femkehalsema.bsky.social
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Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
"Which is to say, if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire"
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And in case you missed my own post about how Grokipedia is error-prone right-wing "AI"-babble:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject
What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Which is to say, if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire"
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😂
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Kustaw Bessems leg feilloos de vinger op de vele zere plekken in onze democratie in dit duizeligmakende essay: Hoeveel radicale verrechtsing kan de democratie nog aan? ↘️ www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Hoeveel radicale verrechtsing kan de democratie nog aan, vraagt columnist Kustaw Bessems zich af
Na de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen concludeert columnist Kustaw Bessems: we schuiven met z’n allen, en de richting is radicaal-rechts en in hoge mate autoritair. Het afglijden van onze democratie stopt me...
www.volkskrant.nl
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Kustaw Bessems leg feilloos de vinger op de vele zere plekken in onze democratie in dit duizeligmakende essay: Hoeveel radicale verrechtsing kan de democratie nog aan? ↘️ www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
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An interesting graphic showing how Dutch parties changed between 2023 and 2025
D66 and CDA moved to the left a bit
VVD and PVV moved firmly to the right
GL/PvdA barely changed
D66 and CDA moved to the left a bit
VVD and PVV moved firmly to the right
GL/PvdA barely changed
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
An interesting graphic showing how Dutch parties changed between 2023 and 2025
D66 and CDA moved to the left a bit
VVD and PVV moved firmly to the right
GL/PvdA barely changed
D66 and CDA moved to the left a bit
VVD and PVV moved firmly to the right
GL/PvdA barely changed
Good analysis on the Dutch elections. The far-right lost the battle but is unfortunately still winning the war.
www.groene.nl/artikel/stra...
www.groene.nl/artikel/stra...
Het tijdperk van Wilders is niet voorbij: zijn rabiate gedachtegoed over asiel en de islam is genormaliseerd
Het radicaal-rechtse blok is in Nederland groter dan ooit. Des te kwalijker dat Rob Jetten er tijdens zijn campagne voor koos een vrolijk nationalisme te etaleren.
www.groene.nl
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Good analysis on the Dutch elections. The far-right lost the battle but is unfortunately still winning the war.
www.groene.nl/artikel/stra...
www.groene.nl/artikel/stra...
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ik schreef een kalm en degelijk LinkedIn-postje over hoe uiterst rechts zichzelf gisteren versplinterde, maar evengoed consolideerde in de Tweede Kamer, komt Geerten Waling helemaal hysterisch doen dat dat ondermijnend is voor de democratische rechtsstaat 🥲
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October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
ik schreef een kalm en degelijk LinkedIn-postje over hoe uiterst rechts zichzelf gisteren versplinterde, maar evengoed consolideerde in de Tweede Kamer, komt Geerten Waling helemaal hysterisch doen dat dat ondermijnend is voor de democratische rechtsstaat 🥲
www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-ho...
www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-ho...
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Wedje maken dat de VVD straks weigert kleinste partij te zijn in een coalitie en stiekem hoopt dat een brede 5 of 6 partijen coalitie net zo snel op de klippen loopt als hun Schoof puinbak.
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Wedje maken dat de VVD straks weigert kleinste partij te zijn in een coalitie en stiekem hoopt dat een brede 5 of 6 partijen coalitie net zo snel op de klippen loopt als hun Schoof puinbak.
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Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
This is happening all over Europe. Why are we implicitly allowing the far right to determine which topics we are discussing? So stupid.
Migration in particular is NOT the most important issue that determines the average person’s welfare or happiness.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Migration in particular is NOT the most important issue that determines the average person’s welfare or happiness.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This is happening all over Europe. Why are we implicitly allowing the far right to determine which topics we are discussing? So stupid.
Migration in particular is NOT the most important issue that determines the average person’s welfare or happiness.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Migration in particular is NOT the most important issue that determines the average person’s welfare or happiness.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
People are using ChatGPT to get laid on dating apps, and apparently it works 🤷♂️ I think we can definitely say that we’ve passed the Turing Test.
People are not just confused if the “other party” is human or machine, quite the a few prefer the AI version.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
People are not just confused if the “other party” is human or machine, quite the a few prefer the AI version.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
People are using ChatGPT to get laid on dating apps, and apparently it works 🤷♂️ I think we can definitely say that we’ve passed the Turing Test.
People are not just confused if the “other party” is human or machine, quite the a few prefer the AI version.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
People are not just confused if the “other party” is human or machine, quite the a few prefer the AI version.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Zijn het de buitenlanders, speculanten, boeren, senioren die te groot wonen of toch ouders die scheiden, zoals de SGP betoogt? Voor @groene.nl ging ik op zoek naar een antwoord op de whodunnit van de #woningnood www.groene.nl/artikel/het-...
Dit zijn de échte oorzaken van de woningnood (spoiler: de huisvesting van vluchtelingen hoort daar niet bij)
Volgens Geert Wilders zijn het de buitenlanders, de SGP wijst naar echtscheidingen, terwijl voor anderen speculanten, boeren of riant behuisde senioren de boosdoener zijn. Waar ligt, voorbij de politi...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Zijn het de buitenlanders, speculanten, boeren, senioren die te groot wonen of toch ouders die scheiden, zoals de SGP betoogt? Voor @groene.nl ging ik op zoek naar een antwoord op de whodunnit van de #woningnood www.groene.nl/artikel/het-...
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Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
www.theverge.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...