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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 17/04/2025

@gruber.foo Your post comparing ChatGPT to Siri reminded me of this classic from dilbert (way back when Adam Scott wasn’t an ass)

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 15/04/2025

I think I'd be read to ditch my phone for a ChatGPT only device. Something that can replace an Alexa when standing on a kitchen table, but also can be carried in a pocket, take a look at your surroundings, send emails, do scheduled tasks, program its own little widgets etc

A sleek white device, similar to an iPod nano, with a large camera and a wrap around e-ink display, saying "Good morning Dave, don't forget an umbrella today".

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 14/04/2025

I've asked ChatGPT to translate from TrumpSpeak and finally understand what he means to say.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 09/04/2025

Checking some tools for tax reporting... uh, apparently I have 10 quadrillion dollars in "USD"?

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 01/04/2025

I made this helpful chart which I hope can clarify some questions about common Trans questions by either they're complicated or not.

Common questions about Trans people, followed by a chart ordered by Seems simple/Seems complicated and It's complicated/it's simple.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 14/03/2025

Three attempts at trying to visualize the CMYK space. As a prism made of 3 cubes, as a 3 cubes or as a hypercube (showing only the faces relevant for RGB conversion). Which do you prefer?

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 10/03/2025

Worked a little bit on this piece for Wikipedia on Stellar Evolution, as part of the Triangle of Everything series.

A mass-radius plot (log) of multiple celestial bodies and their evolution:

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 10/03/2025

The true about the autism-vaccine connections.

SMBC Comic: "autism spectrum people are over represented in science.. but that means"... Austism Causes Vaccines.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 29/01/2025

You’re forgetting a little known constitutional loophole…

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 24/01/2025

It’s the same one joke again.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 22/01/2025

Movies and plays set in the Roman period depicted the salute. One of these was partly written by an Italian poet and army officer who refused to accept the Italian defeat on WWI and declared a sovereign short lived state in the city of Fiume, considered the birthplace of the Italian fascism.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 22/01/2025

It was basically invented by a late 18th century painter and during the 19th became associated with all things Roman. It then inspired the “Bellamy salute” in the US as the standard pose for the pledge of allegiance.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 22/01/2025

So apparently the “Roman salute” is just the same as the “fascist salute”. It’s also anachronistic invention as there are no depictions from the period.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 19/01/2025

Linda coincidência do meu feed:

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 19/01/2025

So UFOlogists created an innovative financial instrument which you can get a 10% annual yield, with more certainty than any index fund.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 03/01/2025

When I was a kid my aunt had a car with these automatic seatbelts. They would automatically slide and wrap you making a lot of noise which would inevitably jump scare everyone, doesn’t matter how many times they got in the car. Amazing how a little beeping noise can be much more effective.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 28/12/2024

Pede pra essa pessoa explicar isso então:

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 12/12/2024

Small project of the day: uploaded this little beauty to Wikimedia. I heard you liked hexagons so I made a hexagon map of the world divided in equal area hexagons, showing hexagonal ecological Lifezones and hexagonal sea zones. Each hexagon is a million square miles (2.6M km²)

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 12/12/2024

Don’t goat me into talking about the advantages of using hexagonal fractals for a constant area projection that doesn’t distort Antarctica 😆

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 09/12/2024

Here's another thread example from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social on mobile app. The "highlight" for the selected post is just a decoration, the cool thing is how we moved from reading 2 ½ posts to 4 ⅓ posts in a single screen. Most of the space was being used to post redundant information.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 09/12/2024

UI suggestion for threads. What if, instead of repeating the header, date and metrics on every single post, we made a sticky header once, and only shown the metrics on the "selected" post? it would make the content easier to read without changing the short content structure.

The same thread but with simplified visuals

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 05/12/2024

Leaving this here. You should all read Radicalized. Four extremely still relevant short stories.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 03/12/2024

Just updated an image on Wikipedia. The original was so comically confusing that it seems its only purpose was to show how intractable the war relationships were. I rearranged players so that it's clear which are the self-supporting factions and reduced the visibility of the ISIL nodes.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 15/10/2024

Guys did you see the Optimus playing chess at the Tesla event? So amazing!

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 07/10/2024

My new dumb phone Home Screen

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 17/09/2024

Under 100k. Not that small today, but I'm sure it will be impressive in 5 years or whatever. 🤷‍♂️

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 11/09/2024

I do not follow this man. I don’t think I’ve liked a tweet from him since they stopped being called tweets (if ever). The app isn’t even working on my country: yet this is the sort of notification I get. Turned off all notifications from the app. Might delete next.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 28/08/2024

In retrospect, this is when we started losing the geeks in the culture war.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 07/08/2024

This is what polymarket VP predictions were two weeks ago. I believe it’s clear that Prediction markets aren’t predicting the news but rather just just reacting to it. And I don’t think it could be otherwise unless there was a large flood of insider trading happening, which

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 01/08/2024

Interesting clarification as the bigots reign in. Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif is NOT a transgender, in fact she couldn’t be if she wanted as Algeria prohibits gender affirming care or identity change and being gay is illegal can lead to prison. She’s intersex, with both X and Y

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 26/07/2024

Being a “father” of 12 children with different women is like being a CEO of four different companies: you can’t possibly be there for quality time and you’ll end up doing a shitty job at all of them.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 18/07/2024

Dreading the jet lag on Bangkok. By the time I get used to it it will be time to go back home. Maybe I should use the strategy of not changing my sleep schedule at all and just sleep through most of the conference from 10 to 18am and do all the night owl satellite events?

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 17/07/2024

Vitalik: "Immigration law is crypto law" Ryan Selkis: "I hope you never become a citizen and we send you back where you came from". The difference is stark. If your "pro-crypto" politics don't align with global freedom goals, then we are very different "crypto people".

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 15/07/2024

Captain Hindsight is working overtime this week.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 04/07/2024

Polymarket's election page is truly beautiful. Feels like a "News Before it happens" like @shayne_coplan had told me he wanted to build some years ago. Congratulations. t.co/n3HnasEr9a Also, notable how Harris leads Biden in the market (but that hasn't affected Trump

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 01/07/2024

I've been preparing this new blog post for almost half a year now, and it's because it comes with something very cool: an awesome poster about the physics of everything t.co/97xrTu1AOe A while back I read a physics paper on how you could plot every particle, star,

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 23/06/2024

After years of going to crypto conferences, Im presenting somewhere completely new in August and I might have just found out my tribe.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 23/06/2024

After years of going to almost exclusively to Crypto events, this year I’m proudly presenting on something.. different!

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 16/06/2024

I suppose they were having a big issue with the tourists bringing their own hand carved stones attempting to raise the Incan walls.

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