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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

When the apocalypse came in march 2020, people didnt pick their guns neither ran to the woods. Instead we knitted, made bread and stayed home.. at least for a few weeks until things got sour.

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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 · 08/01/2026

According to the video you can see she blocked her path for like one second and then backed up, and then they storm her? I’d be terrified too.

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

Also important to notice the car wasn’t even identified as a police car. If masked men got out of an unmarked vehicle and started to try to open your door you might have panicked also!

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 03/01/2026

I’m currently playing with simple Lego robots with my kids and I am thinking of how cool it would be if I could have an AI inside a raspberry that could have access to a camera, their own servo motors and write their own code. I’m sure they’d be able to figure out how to move on their own!

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 02/01/2026

Personally I’d like a little drone with local processing that can fly around and look at stuff and fetch things on their own.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 02/01/2026

It’s one of the things sci-fi got wrong (unfortunately) robots that have their own personalities, processing their own thoughts desires and loyalties, instead of a single hive mind subservient to the corporate overlords that speaks in many machines.

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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

Maybe we should be happy that the quota doesn’t count “deported OR dead”, as it would create even worse incentives

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

The whole world speaks their language and they’re worried about cultural contamination. Beautiful.

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

Calm down people! I’ll do it when I can but tagging me every day isn’t making it go faster.

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

That’s what happens when the boss sets a random quota.

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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

Will get there when we get there. Don’t worry, time is your friend. What if we wait a few years and the value 10x? 😉

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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 · 01/11/2025

Have suggestions to where it should go? Although I should probably ask permission from the foundation to do it

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

Mm. You might be right. I might have mixed it with the dogethereum bounty which definitely required more people. I still have to check that key from the freezer.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 31/10/2025

Mmm. Thanks but could we not? There are certainly great causes for donations, and this particular tipjar is not very active, moving funds from it takes signatures from people who aren't even in the ecosystem anymore!

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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 · 08/10/2025

Using a domain (or other tool) for your username should be considered standard for any serious user or anyone representing any entity. The fact that this represents a few percent of users shouldn’t really matter. A fire extinguisher is never used 99.999% yet it’s useful it’s always there.

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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 · 23/09/2025

Because the UK started this whole Autism and vaccines thing, so it’s your mess to clean too

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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 · 15/09/2025

Funny how that illustration is pretty much the opposite of how you described how a city on mars would work on the book

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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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