Nik Hemmeryckx
@nikmrx.bsky.social
thinkerer / AI-theist / thought loader / binfluencer
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen multiple times
All Them Witches
Suuns
Idles
King Hannah
Holy Fuck
All Them Witches
Suuns
Idles
King Hannah
Holy Fuck
I’m such a basic bitch
The Hold Steady
The National
St. Vincent
Sleater-Kinney
Arcade Fire
The Hold Steady
The National
St. Vincent
Sleater-Kinney
Arcade Fire
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen multiple times
Sons of Bill (6x)
Future Islands (4x)
Kathleen Edwards (4x)
Black Keys (2x)
War on Drugs (2x)
Sons of Bill (6x)
Future Islands (4x)
Kathleen Edwards (4x)
Black Keys (2x)
War on Drugs (2x)
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen multiple times
All Them Witches
Suuns
Idles
King Hannah
Holy Fuck
All Them Witches
Suuns
Idles
King Hannah
Holy Fuck
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Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
Life can be good too. The friendly Chechen cable guy saying that he has a couple of old Orbi devices lying around and selling them for €50, @eve.gd providing clear instructions to convert an RBR50 into an RBS50, and I now have 4 instead of 2 satellites in my WiFi mesh. Yay! eve.gd/2021/07/28/m...
Mesh on a budget: converting RBR50 to RBS50 units and using LBR20 for 4G fallback
For quite some time, I’ve wanted to have an internet system that could fallback to a 4G connection if the primary internet connection failed. This would be helpful for when I need to work/go to online...
eve.gd
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Life can be good too. The friendly Chechen cable guy saying that he has a couple of old Orbi devices lying around and selling them for €50, @eve.gd providing clear instructions to convert an RBR50 into an RBS50, and I now have 4 instead of 2 satellites in my WiFi mesh. Yay! eve.gd/2021/07/28/m...
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the legendary, and rarely seen 1975 roundtable discussion with Gerard K. O'Neill and Isaac Asimov discussing space habitation and migration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM88...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM88...
The Roundtable TV Interview
YouTube video by SSI: Space Studies Institute
www.youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
the legendary, and rarely seen 1975 roundtable discussion with Gerard K. O'Neill and Isaac Asimov discussing space habitation and migration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM88...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM88...
The smartest man in the world is not.
September 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The smartest man in the world is not.
Warning from 1985. Plural!
July 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Warning from 1985. Plural!
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Masterchef hosts announce they’ll walk the South West Coastal path together and write memoir after a terminal diagnosis for their careers
MasterChef’s John Torode sacked after racist language allegation upheld
MasterChef’s John Torode sacked after racist language allegation upheld
The MasterChef presenter John Torode has been sacked after an allegation against him of using racist language was upheld.
www.channel4.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Masterchef hosts announce they’ll walk the South West Coastal path together and write memoir after a terminal diagnosis for their careers
Texas flood.
youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H...
youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H...
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Live at the El Mocambo)
YouTube video by stevierayvaughnVEVO
youtube.com
July 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Texas flood.
youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H...
youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H...
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
How dare you rape women AFTER CLOSING TIME?
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Meer dan 3 jaar cel voor Antwerpse cafébaas die vrouwen na sluitingstijd verkrachtte en aanrandde | VRT NWS: nieuws
De zaakvoerder van verschillende Antwerpse cafés is veroordeeld omdat hij 3 vrouwen seksueel misbruikt heeft. Volgens de rechtbank sloeg hij na sluitingsuur toe om dronken klanten te kunnen verkrachte...
www.vrt.be
April 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
How dare you rape women AFTER CLOSING TIME?
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
“When the plans make it out of the group chat”, seen in Antwerp, Belgium today. H/T US SecDef Pete Hegseth, although the ad seems to predate #signalgate
April 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“When the plans make it out of the group chat”, seen in Antwerp, Belgium today. H/T US SecDef Pete Hegseth, although the ad seems to predate #signalgate
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They suck and aren’t useful.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
They suck and aren’t useful.
April 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
What I don’t understand is that in the current situation well-meaning Americans are arguing about whether or not they/others should use the word fascism instead of fighting it.
March 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What I don’t understand is that in the current situation well-meaning Americans are arguing about whether or not they/others should use the word fascism instead of fighting it.
Completely worth reading (and a recommendation of the author and @bellingcat.com in general). It helped me make sense of a few things.
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Completely worth reading (and a recommendation of the author and @bellingcat.com in general). It helped me make sense of a few things.
[in Dutch] The “Last Words” project collects goodbye letters from WWII resistance fighters.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
"Ik had nooit kunnen denken dat ergste mij zou overkomen": stem van verzetsstrijders uit WO II komt tot leven in afscheidsbrieven
www.vrt.be
March 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[in Dutch] The “Last Words” project collects goodbye letters from WWII resistance fighters.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
I cannot explain why this suddenly floated to the surface of consciousness again, but here it is. youtu.be/PzHLPnGuVSQ?...
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio)
YouTube video by DeadKennedysVEVO
youtu.be
February 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I cannot explain why this suddenly floated to the surface of consciousness again, but here it is. youtu.be/PzHLPnGuVSQ?...
Fingers crossed.
“[…] when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”
“[…] when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”
![Page 17 in (my copy of) A Fire Upon the Deep, with “[…] when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.” highlighted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:olkduvgpqn7kn2zqzodkm2q6/bafkreibvsoc2dgriibmmg5txmqf7kh5k73etf7kqhdqqgn2pq43ntio4pq@jpeg)
February 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Fingers crossed.
“[…] when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”
“[…] when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”
Tears for breakfast.
February 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Tears for breakfast.
Joachim Klement about the correlation between tax and growth, and why not. open.substack.com/pub/klemento...
Philosophical economics: The golden calf of business and finance
Note: Please see the explainer to this series at the start of the first instalment.
open.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Joachim Klement about the correlation between tax and growth, and why not. open.substack.com/pub/klemento...
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Needs to be a lot more regulation, and public scrutiny, of bottled water industry.
For a start, consumers don’t know that many brands are essentially just tap water —and others have a lower health standard than tap water.
Then there’s impact of shipping them around.
Maybe tax water extraction?
For a start, consumers don’t know that many brands are essentially just tap water —and others have a lower health standard than tap water.
Then there’s impact of shipping them around.
Maybe tax water extraction?
December 16, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Needs to be a lot more regulation, and public scrutiny, of bottled water industry.
For a start, consumers don’t know that many brands are essentially just tap water —and others have a lower health standard than tap water.
Then there’s impact of shipping them around.
Maybe tax water extraction?
For a start, consumers don’t know that many brands are essentially just tap water —and others have a lower health standard than tap water.
Then there’s impact of shipping them around.
Maybe tax water extraction?
I should not think about work while preparing my son’s lunch.
December 10, 2024 at 6:57 AM
I should not think about work while preparing my son’s lunch.