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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/09/2026

waterbed /effect/

Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/09/2026

I really doubt it, actually. Contrary to the dot com bubble, these crazy investments have not been done with borrowed capital. Pension funds probably will take a hit, but our taxes won't be involved. Yes, there is always a waterbed, but that's very indirect.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/09/2026

I don't think (anymore) that they will go bankrupt, but it's still possible. In any case, *if* they will get bailed out, it's the American taxpayer that pays, not us.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 13/09/2026

De AI-bros blijven dit soort berichten sturen om maar aan te geven: je kan maar beter ons product afnemen, anders mis je de boot. Ik ben niet onder de indruk.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 13/09/2026

These messages always make me worried that Democrats and anti-Trumpers become complacent. Get out there and vote! And talk with your friends and family members, who doubt whether to vote or who to vote for.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 07/09/2026

I get the impression everyone except Gen Z hates LLMs. Younger people have a harder time finding a job. Older people just don't like the change. The ones in the middle love how everything suddenly becomes easier. I'm generalising, of course. This is just a pattern I've noticed.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 31/08/2026

Small correction: "Commemorate the brave Finnish people" is the inscription

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 31/08/2026

What an extraordinary gift I received today! When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in 1939, the Finnish consul in The Hague started a fundraising campaign. For that purpose, silver spoons like these were made. It shows the Finnish pennant, and a Dutch inscription: "For the brave Finnish people"

Silver tea spoon with a Finnish pennant and an inscription on a wooden table

The handle of a silver tea spoon with a Finnish pennant and the inscription "Voor het dappere Finsche volk"

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 25/06/2026

Could you please give a link to the source? I conclude from the bottom that an author of yougov.com compiled it based on data by Tom Calver of Times Radio. So it should be on yougov.com somewhere, but I can't find it.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 11/06/2026

home.lensink.fi/prosper A homemade app creating a random 3D world map. It's not much, but it's a start, and something I would not have considered building without AI. A few years ago this would've taken me months to build. Now? Two evenings. Absolute madness what's possible nowadays.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 20/05/2026

Nostalgic Nationalism: the yearning for a past that never existed.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/05/2026

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

Comic. [Person 1 sitting at desk typing on laptop while Person 2 with shoulder-length hair stands behind.] PERSON 1: Aw man, speedrun.com removed my world record just because I listened to lateralus and ænima to get in the flow. PERSON 2: Oh, a copyright thing? PERSON 1: No, they don’t allow tool-assisted speedruns.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 08/05/2026

Just fooling around with Gemini's image generator... :-J

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 19/04/2026

Five ghost battles blended in equally, with a proper metal soundtrack. Doom art 🎨

youtu.be

Unholy Voices on Cue

YouTube video by Matrix

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/04/2026

More camera fun in Doom! :D Clearing map 1 efficiently (though not a WR) from all kinds of camera positions. I built in static camera views, linear moving, following an arc, and even a bezier curve! All vibe-coded so far, though, so I have quite some cleaning up to do if I want to expand this thing.

youtu.be

Doom E1M1 Hangar cleared cinomatographically

YouTube video by Matrix

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 13/04/2026

Flawless reasoning! The criteria for being a successful pope might still be subject to debate, but that's another matter.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 12/04/2026

I was playing around with DSDA-Doom and found a way to control the camera during a replay. So here is part of my Sunlust record, the end of map 24 Dying on Cue, viewed from a rotating angle. Cool stuff. :)

youtu.be

Dying on Cue cinematographically

YouTube video by Matrix

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 08/04/2026

Almost looks like it just had a haircut.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 07/04/2026

Ah yes, he said the states should take care of health care and such. But he's cutting their budget as well, with $15.5 billion.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 05/04/2026

I just played Doom at 240 FPS for the first time ever. :')

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 29/03/2026

I don't think it's that obvious to the populace of most Western nations.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If we examine the origins the the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor. snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...

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The Oligarchical Corridor

A Source of War

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 02/03/2026

Since only Congress is allowed to declare war, should we call this a special military operation?

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 22/01/2026

Ah, ja, uiteraard! Maar goed, ik zie Trump als een onherstelbare narcist, dus beredeneerde ik hier vanuit het perspectief van Rutte en Europa over hoe daarmee om te gaan. Persoonlijk zou ik Trump de huid volgescholden hebben. Maar daar bereik je niks. Rutte deed dat handiger.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 22/01/2026

Ja, dat klopt. Maar voorlopig is een invasie van de baan, en ik noem dat winst. Volgens mij ziet vooralsnog niemand een permanente oplossing. En bestaat dat überhaupt? Want alles verandert continu, en met name Trumps hersenspinnen.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 22/01/2026

Er is een crisis bezworen en een alliantie behouden. Het is even aanmodderen tot Europa de VS niet meer nodig heeft. Maar voor nu zijn dit exact de soort oplossingen die we nodig hebben.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 22/01/2026

Ik vond hem maar een matige premier, maar hij zit nu precies op de juiste plek!

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 09/01/2026

It was even a news item on Finnish TV.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 09/01/2026

-20°C in Tampere. Yes, Finland is cold, but this is a bit over the top.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 05/12/2025

I don't want to watch the Eurovision Song Contest anymore. I don't want to watch the World Cup Football anymore. Unfettered capitalism can really ruin traditions. :'(

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 14/10/2025

Gotta love Tampere in the autumn...

Red leafs on a tree in front of illuminated Finlayson.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/09/2025

lnkd.in/dBvQeJi9 I've made a GPT voting assistant for the upcoming Dutch parliamentary election. It knows the electoral programmes of all parties currently in parliament. It does tend to answer in Dutch, but you can ask it to repeat itself in your language, it will.

lnkd.in

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/09/2025

lnkd.in/dBvQeJi9 Ik heb een GPT-stemwijzer voor de TK-verkiezingen gemaakt. Het kent de verkiezingsprogramma's van alle zittende partijen. Dus vraag maar raak!

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/09/2025

Even in France their former president, Sarkozy, was imprisoned for corruption. And he wasn't even half as corrupt as Trump.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 19/07/2025

So now the administration is burdened with the task of finding evidence for something that didn't happen and doesn't exist. A process that will reveal that not just the Clintons, but also Trump himself and many of his allies were in frequent contact with Epstein. Rock | Trump | hard place

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 19/07/2025

Suicide is still by far the most likely cause of death. So why does the issue linger? Trump & co campaigned on unraveling the pedo-conspiracy, and part of the MAGA base is utterly convinced there is one. But there is no 'client list', only flight logs and exchanged messages.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 19/07/2025

He attempted suicide before. And more importantly, it would have required an extraordinary plan, executed to perfection, to commit the murder in such a short time frame, involving many people, keeping even more mouths shut, and cover up a huge stack of evidence.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 19/07/2025

Both the official declarations and the investigative journalistic findings describe a failure cascade: loafing guards, broken camera's, tampered "raw" footage... This feeds conspiracy theories and makes that we cannot rule out with certainty that he was murdered. However, there is no smoking gun.

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 19/07/2025

The Epstein scandal never had my interest much, but after reading this article I decided to do a more thorough investigation. Or rather, have ChatGPT do that for me. The *deep research* option is fascinating, but you need to be careful what exactly your question is. Anyway, here are my findings...

wired.com

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 29/06/2025

With all the seriousness and worrisome nature of geopolitics, seeing these trees of the day always makes me smile. Please keep on sharing them. :)

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 14/06/2025

Gelukkig hebben we de liedjes nog...

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 09/06/2025

Another milestone completed: Doom 1 episode 2, 100% kills & secrets, tool-assisted speedrun. Previous record was 20:06; now 16:53. Hopefully this set a new benchmark. I think improvements on this episode will be in the margin of seconds from now on.

youtu.be

Episode 2: The Shores of Hell, UV-Max (TAS)

YouTube video by Matrix

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 19/05/2025

essential context for uk/eu trade deal passed to “reset” their post-brexit relationship

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 16/05/2025

touché, google touché

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/05/2025

Ja, maar voor een FC Groningenfan was het ook wel leuk, hoor. 😁

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Maarten @lensink.fi · 15/05/2025

1,400 km away from my hometown (as the dragon flies) and I'm still happy to see its football team throw a spanner in the works of the prematurely presumed competition champion. 😇

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Hoe een Groningse explosie de totale implosie van Ajax compleet maakte

Een terugblik op een memorabele avond, waarop Ajax door een 2-2 gelijkspel bij FC Groningen de koppositie in de eredivisie verspeelt.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

At last, moral leadership from an American who now leads much of the world’s faithful. No wonder we are all profoundly hopeful.

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