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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 26/07/2026

Congrats. How is it being in DE, having fun yet?

Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 20/07/2026

Raises hand! And I still even have that CD on my shelf. And some other titles from them. But the weird, almost comically close-minded utterings of the lead singer has soured things a bit for me.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 31/01/2026

As a professional software developer, I can only say: Yes!

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 29/01/2026

I really love FastHTML, but have been putting off investing time into drinking the nbdev Kool-Aid. At some point I should _really_ just take an evening and give it a whirl. Thanks for the heads-up.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 12/01/2026

Now that you mention it... iconclass.org/31B623591

iconclass.org

31B623591 (English)

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 19/12/2025

For a nice sample of some more December labours, see: iconclass.org/23K43 Tip: presse the little "full-screen" button in the image overview for some gorgeous views of the materials.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 09/09/2025

I should monitor my feed more often... 🤪

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 05/08/2025

Funny, even on here, I still refer to things as "tweets" when I think about them.

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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“Boids Demo Reel” survived as a videotape cassette on my bookshelf for many years, then was digitized for a documentary around 2010. “Breaking the Ice” was on broadcast quality reel-to-reel videotape until 2023 when Tom McMahon and others worked on a remastering for the 50ᵗʰ SIGGRAPH conference.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 30/06/2025

Having a bad day? World politics getting you down, heat too much to bear? Behold the Singer-theremin-hurdygurdy magic.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 27/06/2025

Model year 2016. Not *that* old, but clearly old enough to have dropped off the radar.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 27/06/2025

I just bought a 2nd-hand Volkswagen car, and I am gob-smacked that you can not download the user manual as a PDF anywhere. Been scouring forums, various sites, pages and pages of search engine links, but, nada. "official" VW position? You should order the dead-tree version from a dealer for €€€€

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 27/06/2025

My son is nuts about Balatro, and quite ace with it. He showed it to me, and I was WTF? You enjoy doing this?!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A printed ❤️ symbol from a 1702 text about the Holy Trinity.

A page from a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 27/06/2025

One of the best hard SF reads ever. Riveting right up to the end.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24/06/2025

I'm reading Bartz v Anthropic, of course, from a very practical, interested perspective. ("What can libraries let me do, and how exactly can we stay out of jail?") The first thing I notice: I didn't realize Anthropic had rolled their own GBooks. Doesn't sound prohibitively $$$. 1/3

Instead, Turvey and his team emailed major book distributors and retailers about bulk- purchasing their print copies for the AI firm’s “research library” (Opp. Exh. 22 at 145; Opp. Exh. 31 at -035589). Anthropic spent many millions of dollars to purchase millions of print books, often in used condition. Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals. Each print book resulted in a PDF copy containing images of the scanned pages with machine-readable text (including front and back cover scans for softcover books). Anthropic created its own catalog of bibliographic metadata for the books it was acquiring. It acquired copies of millions of books, including of all works at issue for all Authors.2

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 26/06/2025

Jottum, mee eens. Dit druist gewoon in tegen het idee van om met z'n allen iets te maken om vooruit te komen. Ik was bij een van de eerste meetings met erfgoed instellingen om data te vinden, en "word het open weights?" was mijn grote vraag. Njet, dus. Zeer teleurstellend.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 26/06/2025

I am really quite charmed with MonsterUI monsterui.answer.ai It feels like that moment when Bootstrap came out way back when, and made everyones lives easier. See this great video tutorial for why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVWA...

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Making.a MonsterUI blog with Isaac and Audrey

YouTube video by Isaac Flath

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 17/06/2025

Curious about ICONCLASS? 👉 You can still register for the two-part online workshop “Iconclass - Content Classification and Technical Features” on Monday, June 30 and Tuesday, July 1 (10:00 - 13:00) nfdi4culture.de/events/detai...

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Two Part Workshop "Iconclass – Content Classification and Technical Features” - NFDI4Culture

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 08/06/2025

Off to Bertinoro, Italy today for: International Semantic Web Research Summer School Knowledge graphs for reliable AI 2025.semanticwebschool.org Looking forward to being a participant, and not a tutor or speaker. Fun!

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 07/06/2025

And it is 23:30, done for now. 2 hours later. I learnt enough about the project, and to be honest, my first experience with using Claude Code to explain something to me is astonishingly good. Next up, asking it to help in making some stuff. But that will have to wait for another day.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 07/06/2025

And as background music at high volume: "Levi Schechtmann, born in 1999 in Hamburg, is a German pianist redefining classical music by fusing it with hip-hop, electronic beats, and contemporary sounds." open.spotify.com/album/3BHHdM...

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 07/06/2025

My first question was: "can you explain how the sparql evaulation is done when processing a sparql query?" And the explanation ran through the various files and the methods with line numbers, explained the parsing and how the mapping to SQL is done. 😵‍💫 Waaaaaay better than I have understood it

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 07/06/2025

Approximately 90min later, it has been crunching away. (after buying and setting up a Pro account) Asked it to explain the code for: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tinysp... Seems to take forever, but so far the explanations seem *very* impressive.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 07/06/2025

Trying Claude Code this evening, instead of going Tango dancing. #nerd It's just too tantalizing. First thing is trying to understand an existing codebase from an opensource project I wanted to read ages ago.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 06/06/2025

Yes, there are still stupid, racist dingbats. But it is not the default any more. You are not looked at weirdly for being "the other" just because of your skin-tone. Yes, there is still crazy inequality and poverty and crime. But slowly, the wheel turns, and things become lekker again.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 06/06/2025

And that was for me symbolic, things have changed. There were white/black/whatever people having a good time. Looking for fun, drowning the boredom of living in the hinterland with booze. The MC spoke Afrikaans as fluent as anything (maybe it was his mothertongue) but had a black skin and dreads.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 06/06/2025

Last weekend I was at a festival in Welkom, Vrystaat. Most of the people there would readily identify as "Afrikaners". Early afternoon, not many people there yet. The cover band plays the iconic "Pata, Pata" by Miriam Makeba, and the few people bop happily. Gave me the feels.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 05/06/2025

Just back home from the trip to SA, next week I will be at 2025.semanticwebschool.org Really looking forward to meeting new people and the intense week.

2025.semanticwebschool.org

ISWS 2025

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 05/06/2025

Geweldig analyse van Gary Marcus, thanks! Wat is die vent nog altijd een bastion van gezond verstand, ik heb deze van hem niet gezien.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 05/06/2025

Ah, sorry, ik kijk helaas heel weinig TV, dus weet niet wat in de show was. Hadden zij niet juist geprobeerd om het als conservatief (en met twee kanten) te onderbouwen? Ik was er enorm van geschrokken. Heb je tips voor een keerzijden, of een repliek waarom hun scenario(s) niet kloppen?

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 05/06/2025

Zie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htOv... voor een beter onderbouwing van waarom wij ons wel zorgen zouden moeten maken. (en deze is niet van hijgerig media-geilerds of techbros)

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AI 2027: Month-by-Month Model of AI Takeover — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 05/06/2025

Ik ben zeker ook geen Klöpping fan, er kunnen ook m.i. ook meer goed geïnformeerd sprekers te gast bij de talkshows. Maar, ik ben het helaas mee eens dat onze wereld radicaal gaan veranderen op korte termijn. Heb je deze scenario al doorgenomen? ai-2027.com Is zeer de moeite waard.

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AI 2027

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I’m currently on maternity leave. Biscuit-making opportunities are proving hard to come by, but I should have a couple of new sets to share soon. If you’d like to see more in the meantime: - ellahawkins.com - Instagram – @ellamchawk - Facebook – Ella Makes Cakes Happy National Biscuit Day 2025! 🍪

A mosaic of 15 small images of biscuits. Some of the biscuit sets pictured look like Elizabethan embroidery, and one is inspired by 18th-century trade cards. One square shows a close-up image of a biscuit being painted by hand.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 29/05/2025

This Way Up in Cape Town

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Happy Glorious 25th of May! GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. How do they rise up? #Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname

A mug of tea with a lilac blossom pattern on it, alongside lilac and Terry Pratchett pin badges.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I do love a good fact check.

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Repeat after me: There's no genocide happening in South Africa. White people have on average longer life expectancies, better educational outcomes, higher incomes, more wealth, better healthcare access, and more local and international mobility than any other racial or ethnic group in the country.

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The amazing thing is the way that the truth is blended with falsehood. True stories of crime, but with collapsed timelines and fake statistics, real rally clips assembled over 10+ years that make these songs feel ubiquitous.. This is lies through curation.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 19/05/2025

Not sure yet. I am still only using it casually, considering replacing Sublime eventually. The marketing videos showing their LLM integration looked wildly impressive, but I am yet to use it in anger.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 15/05/2025

Yeah, I feel your pain. I have the same problem for the systems I administer. It has really ruined the goal to provide anonymous open access.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 15/05/2025

Alas, I get an error message: "Derzeit werden ungewöhnlich viele Suchanfragen an den Katalogplus gestellt. Um die IT-Systeme vor einer Überlastung zu schützen wurde ihre Suchanfrage nicht bearbeitet."

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · 15/05/2025

Congrats on the completion! Your blogpost mentions extensive indexing, but I do not see any subject cataloguing of the content. Is that still planned at some stage?

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