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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 10h

I just tried this with Gemini... and while it didn't add an artist signature, this AI generated image added the New Yorker logo to it ... 🫤

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 16h

This is pretty cool!! -- FREE Tool for Animated Travel Maps www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CGv...

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I Built a FREE Tool for Animated Travel Maps

YouTube video by Robert Baldinger

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a weird problem. When I write, even though my brain thinks about what to write, my fingers sometimes 'take a shortcut'. I wanted to write "audience engagement", and my fingers wrote "audiengement" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This happens multiple times per week...

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every single day, the top source of malicious traffic to my site is coming from Microsoft's and Google's cloud servers. Meaning, Microsoft and Google is both enabling, allowing and profiting from hosting malicious bots.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So, an acquaintance told me that he had COVID last week. Remember COVID? That thing everyone just pretends no longer exist? Yep, it's still here ... in fact, this is the graph for Denmark, showing it coming back again (and again) for another winter season.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I cancelled my YouTube premium subscription about a month ago, which means YouTube has no gone into "no.... please come back"-mode ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here is how to disable Firefox's hideous new UI. No Firefox, I don't want my browser to have a color tint. I want it to be neutral in color so that it doesn't clash with any website color.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They are coming back...!! ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you know that Denmark is currently being invaded by the Dutch? ... at least according to what is flying over my home ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't think I remember any other time in my life where whenever there is a new update, my reaction is "nope, don't want it!". Windows is now telling me that there is a new Upgrade to Windows 11, and it's just more AI being forced into Windows.

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Jon Snow's Iconic 'I Don't Want It' Scene

ALT: Jon Snow's Iconic 'I Don't Want It' Scene

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"A lot of the guys that we hire haven’t been exposed to that in academy" ... That's the problem! I think the US is the only western countries where the police education is so short. Here in Northern Europe, it's 2.5–3 years of education.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes when I get bored, I ask the AIs to turn an image from old animated tv show into a real one. Is there any purpose to this? Nope... it's just some strange form of fun. This example is from the old animated show 'Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century'.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did you know that the global fresh vegetables industry is about ~$733–749B vs. the 'snacks' industry at around ~$680–750B. I was reminded by this when working on something with the media today. Are you a creating healthy informative media or just quick media snacks?

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I must admit that I will be more than happy to use Claude Code if it means I never have to look at JavaScript ever again in my life... ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have spent all day today getting to Inbox Zero ... I dream of the Roman era ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well, that's explains it ... ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm spending my Sunday answering all the emails I have been neglecting because there has just been too many things to do....

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Heh... Google has been jealous of the other AI companies for all the press they were getting, so now their AI hacked something too 😂 ... and just like the other examples, it's all fake. They didn't hack anything. They went through a door that was left open to them.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I must admit, this is a bit of a problem considering I'm a media analyst ...

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I generally hate captcas, but what I hate even more is when a captcha is just straight up wrong because the images were not picked by actual humans. No Google, that roadside embankment is NOT a mountain.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just found my old DVD set of Spin City (1996-2002) ... those were the days ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just ordered the bird seeds for this year's bird feeding season...

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My sister lives in Canada, so I fully endorse this ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In my latest 'Executive' article, I explain why publishers are not getting results from their own marketing campaigns (publishers promoting their own publications): baekdal.com/article/publ...

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Publishers are spending wrongly on marketing - Baekdal

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Remember back when this was the latest tech? ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This has to be one of the most irresponsible front pages I have seen. Yes, a train was attacked, and yes, shortly before that another train carrying diplomats crossed through it. But the train in this image IS NOT the one Boris Johnson was on.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There those who spend their weekend reading a good book, and then there are people like me who is spending the weekend playing around with a dataset of 110 million rows of data for no other reason that it's fun ;)

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Data Intensifies - Star Trek Meme

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What is your surname from? My surname 'Baekdal' (or Bækdal in danish), literally means 'Brooke (stream)' and 'Valley', aka, the person living near the stream in the valley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF6G...

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Where did your surname come from?

YouTube video by RobWords

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Am I sensing a bit of tension from Claude? ;) Claude Code: "This is a substantial build — new app plus a small extension to the Notes app."

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I write most things in English. And I have gotten so used to it that I don't even realize it. So, I had to write an email to a person in Denmark, and I started to write it in Danish, but then mid-sentence, my brain just switched to English instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The recipient was a bit confused ;)

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What Insanity Is This Now? Kate Lockwood

ALT: What Insanity Is This Now? Kate Lockwood

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Costume designer: How shiny should we make the Cylons? Director: Maximum shiny! ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One thing I cannot get Claude to do is to design things. I mean, it can create html pages and create its own design. But if I tell it. "it should look exactly like this", it always designs it differently. I have never, not even once, managed to get it to design something the way it was supposed to.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Claude has now been working for 40 minutes trying to build something for me ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I simply do not understand why any of this is legal, nor why LG's management is not in jail... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...

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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Look newspaper, I know you feel it's incredibly important to report everything Trump or Netanyahu is saying, but the problem we can't trust a word of it. So, from a news perspective, and as a news reader, this has zero valuable information. I might as well just not read the news at all.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Star Trek TNG was my first Star Trek, I only picked up the original later. But I like to believe that embracing the Gene Roddenberry vision of the future helped me see what kind of world we want to make.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

YouTube has started showing video from weird channels that claim that people have died (they haven't) ... I mean... what the heck?!? Mind you, I'm not surprise that these video exist. There are many scammers online. But why is YouTube's algorithms featuring them?!

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oil tankers are civilian targets. There are no soldiers onboard any of these ships. And on top of that, think about the environmental damage.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I must admit that my cycling took a bit of a break during the summer when it was 30+ degrees... but now that it's Autumn, I guess it's back to the time trials ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My god... it's like every tech company is actually trying to make people stop using them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D96...

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And Now Microsoft Just Ruined Xbox

YouTube video by SAMTIME

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hehe... none of those, unfortunately ;)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just a reminder: Every single time the petrol prices goes up, the publisher subscription rates drops. Not because those two have anything to do with each other, but because it makes people stop spending money, and most media is not a critical need.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You know when you suddenly start thinking about a song you used to like, but somehow you brain cannot remember any details of the actual song itself, nor the artists, or anything. My brain has been liked that for two days now... How do you find a song when you can't remember anything from it? ;)

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Sylvester The Cat's Looney Tunes Headbang

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah... If I had the money, I would also just rent the upstairs too and get the house for myself :)

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There is something I don't understand. I can draw, in fact, I made the drawing you see below. I drew the lines, the leaves, animals, greenhouse, etc. But... I can't write by hand. Seriously, I had to write a note today, on paper, and I seriously struggled with every letter. I mean... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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