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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 16/04/2026

Oh so you like ChatGPT? So what if I take your favorite website and make it all ChatGPT? Do you like podcasts? Too late, it’s all ChatGPT!! YouTube videos? It’s just you asking ChatGPT questions but with some more steps! Friends? YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS, THEYRE ALL CHATGPT NOW? DO YOU LIKE IT NOW?

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 04/03/2026

In my life I saw a lot of tyrants get bombed. Every single one deserved what they got, yet none of their countries became better for it. I was a kid the last time I saw countries be truly liberated - not because of bombs, but because an empire bankrupted the other in a science race.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 27/02/2026

I don't think a lot of people realize how most of the world economy right now depends on everyone pretending a random monkey on Indonesia never pressed a button.

Comic showing how the world economy depends on AI, which depends on IP enforcement which can be taken down by a monkey selfie

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 25/02/2026

Is “mailing a check” an actual thing Americans do in 2025 or is this only in tv shows?

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 02/02/2026

A visual explanation on why 14.4 : 10 and 17.3 : 10 should be the best screen ratios for foldable and tri-foldable phones.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 21/01/2026

"If it weren't for America you'd be all speaking German" said trump in Davos, Switzerland, where they all speak German.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 20/01/2026

Food scientists have finished a 10.000 year long study of milling, burning, cutting, fermenting, drying, frying and cooking every single plant, and are sad to report nothing else became bread or chocolate.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 19/01/2026

“Climate change is a hoax and the polar caps are not melting. Also, we’re very interested in buying your polar caps and arctic routes”

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 18/01/2026

“We’ve created a new revolutionary technology that will replace all jobs, increase productivity tenfold and might acquire super human powers. How do we make money? We sell you ads” openai.com/index/our-ap...

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Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 16/01/2026

Norwegian Woods is just the story of a very bad date.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 10/01/2026

It’s been 13 years since the Arab spring, and despite the billion of dollars invested apps with the word “decentralized” (social media, file sharing, messaging, etc) the Iranian government can still shut down the internet for protestors.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Another image that sums up the protest.

A young Iranian woman lights a cigarette with a burning photo of Khamenei

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 08/01/2026

“The State is justified in murdering citizens if they fail to obey law enforcement immediately” is saying every ancap and libertarian in the other website and I’m not in the least surprised.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 08/01/2026

Saw the same video but I think saying “men” shifts away responsibility from ONE MAN who built a CSAM robot in the website he bought and can at any point tell it not to undress people but he doesn’t.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 27/12/2025

1) courts have ruled that anything purely created by a machine can’t be copyrighted 2) newest AI models are increasingly being written by the newer models 3) they were all created by massive copyright infringement All AI should in the public domain, it’s not piracy, it’s our moral duty.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 23/12/2025

I've decided to write up a few things that I have been thinking about on hexagons and maps.. again: blog.vandesande.design/a-defense-of...

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 18/12/2025

Maduro is a terrible dictator and the Chaves regime destroyed Venezuela, but as a South American, I can tell you I can't think of a better propaganda for them than an American president saying they will go to war and take their oil. It's as if their main boogeyman made a speech confirming it exists.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/12/2025

Sometimes I go to the other site because there’s i get a lot more replies. But then in a few minutes I am reminded why I left it.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 09/12/2025

What I love about the drake equation is that it includes all main branches of knowledge in a single fundamental question. It’s basically: Physics x chemistry x biology x anthropology x history x tech = are we alone?

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 06/12/2025

So Netflix did become HBO faster than HBO could become them in the end.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 04/12/2025

Re-read The Hobbit for the first time since high school and I’m like WTF? So (SPOILER) they just walk for 90% of the book, with no provisions, decent weapons or even a plan and then in the end a random guy just shoots the dragon and they weren’t even there?!

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 13/11/2025

Proposal 32 has been put forth, to donate 13.7 ETH (over $45k) to Build Guidl. It will be ready to be executed Friday, November 14, when it will be open to be executed by anyone.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/11/2025

Who would win in a fight: one Tesla Optimus versus one hundred cheap drones. Both are allowed to use any weapon they can carry. This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s going to be a real scenario someday and it’s another reason anthropomorphic robots is a dumb idea.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 10/11/2025

Adobe: that's not what it means to "update" an app on my computer.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 06/11/2025

I don’t understand how Apple giving $1B per year to google for renting is better than them buying a few billion of anthropic and owning the models outright.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 06/11/2025

People who think the super rich are also super intelligent or super productive hasn’t met a wealthy person in their life.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 04/11/2025

It’s funny that in the last few years the word “liberal” in the US converged again to the same meaning as in Europe. Republicans are now the protectionist-interventionists, while Democrats are the free-trade neoliberals, such that no Bush era policy would feel out of place in their platform.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 01/11/2025

I wouldn’t say I’m becoming more conservative with age but, as an eternal optimist, I’ve noticed I’m slowly moving more from “let’s try to make the world better” mode into “let’s try to make the world not worse” mode.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 21/10/2025

Flying cars dreams were never about the flying but about cars. People don’t want tiny helicopters, they wanted the suburbs and highways urbanism but without having to think about the infrastructure needed or the harms caused on the ground.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 05/10/2025

Taylor didn’t discover a hack to avoid social media. We all used to have hobbies and then Zuck & Co figured how to have us give all that up on them and replace with dumbscrolling.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 15/09/2025

Found some comics I drew in 2021, during lockdown. Always liked the text but didn't like how the art came out. They were satirical jokes on tropes from fantasy, sci-fi and super hero movies.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/09/2025

I'm surprised Polymarket doesn't present these different markets in a single unified and custom made interface. Maps showing expectations for the wars, a single bar chart with market expectations about the FED or Bitcoin, etc

A series of Polymarket markets about russia capturing cities

A series of Polymarket markets about Fed decisions

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 08/09/2025

I was lucky to see an advance screening of Code is Law, featuring interviews with Griff, Christoph, Fabien and others. It's a really good snapshot of The DAO hack, the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...

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Code Is Law (2025) - Trailer - Feature Length Documentary

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 31/07/2025

Of the 10 years Ulisses spent coming home from the Odissey, only 2 were in actual tribulations. The other 8 years were spent having sex with an Enchantress and then a Nymph. A prisoner, he claimed. Yeah sure dude, we believe you.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 28/07/2025

Started reading a great book about Zeno’s paradox, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to finish it.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 26/07/2025

My kids discovered the perfect RPS 5-variant: it’s rock, papers, scissors, dinosaur and astronaut. Dinosaur eats astronaut. Astronaut lands on rock. Rock killed the dinosaurs. Astronaut uses scissors. Scissors stabs dinosaur. Dinosaur eats paper. Astronaut program cancelled by paperwork.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/07/2025

I wish more men understood that just like evolution tricked us in having sex by adding tons of sensory receptors in weird parts, so it has done with child-raising. Seeing your offspring growing up healthy releases all sorts of life satisfaction chemicals in our brain.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/07/2025

This is what happens when engineers main worry is to not the product, but to make the boss happy.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/07/2025

Yet another proof American companies don’t understand being multilingual is not about switching the one language, but speaking many languages at the same time in different contexts.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 30/06/2025

Apple already has its “post iPhone” platform. It’s Apple Watch + AirPods. But it has to have a proper AI for it to work and whatever it has now is not that. They’re skating towards where the puck was last year.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/06/2025

Asked Apple intelligence a simple question. It responded by calling my sister in law for some reason (I guess her name vaguely sounds a word I said?). Apple is furiously skating where the puck used to be a few years ago.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 14/05/2025

It’s not that I don’t believe in the possibility of a future artificial super intelligence. I don’t believe in super intelligence. There’s no such thing. IQ is a dumb myth. We’re not that much smarter than apes, we just figured out how to retain ideas over generations.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 13/05/2025

Gay sin paradox: homosexuality is a modern phenomenon but also it’s explicitly mentioned multiple times in our five thousand year old book.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 12/05/2025

I used to joke, long before having kids, that one day we would be all old bigots complaining "NO DAUGHTER OF MINE IS DATING A ROBOT!" It used to be a joke on the inevitable progress of social norms, not a prediction of the current reactionary dystopia we are living.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2025

Europe’s choice is clear. To put science at the heart of its economy. To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration. And to welcome talent from all over the world. I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative. → europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 05/05/2025

My kid just referred to “The Wizard of Oz” as “Wicked 2” and I think that’s wonderful.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 28/04/2025

If instead of developing the perfect humanoid robot, we focused on making sure our society is accessible by smaller legged or wheeled robots, you know who else would benefit? Everybody. Kids, small people, wheelchair users, parents with strollers, prosthetics users, etc etc.

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