Gert

I'm honestly incredibly jaded about all car related reporting in the media. Whenever I read anything, I mostly see the shadow of the petrol lobby colouring all opinion and tilt.

The signs are there, but I can't imagine Germany allowing that to happen.
Then again, politics are fickle at best.

Maybe a fresh European carmaker needs to come out of the woods.

Still stuck in their old fashioned hype marketing to hide their playbook of selling the most minimal evolution of their old crap as innovation.

Just give me power, efficiency and reliability.
You know, like my Tesla.

I was reading about the BMW electrification Neue Klasse Initiative. And it looked interesting. Promising? I've been waiting for a Tesla level European mature EV.

Then I read about their 4 superbrain computers inside..
And just completely noped out.

Reading that AI is good or bad always gives me pause

I'm very weary of the huge amounts of propaganda floating around all things AI.

And fascinated that were dealing with a technology that is evolving too fast to have proper clinical/scientific studies that should inform these opinions & articles.

Talking to AI, compared to talking to your people..

One of them is digestive. The other one is the building of your essentials social fabric.

I recently read that the GPTs are good at psycho support, or at least emotional support.

And I'll admit. Yeah. It works.

I also definitely see that it shouldn't replace the actual conversation with humans afterwards.

PRETEND hysteria is the key word.

Everyone takes the issue, hypes it up to about 10x it's real impact in conversation, intonation and energy

And then the others adopt that as the new baseline.
That then they have to 10x it, not because they feel that, but just to be heard over the others

In a way, America is not so much a crisis of democracy (their words, not mine) and more of a dual system and outrage culture taken to the political maximum.
The lesson is to not fall into that outrage and othering pretend hysteria, more than anything.

YouTube video by The Daily Show Horny, Anti-Woke GOP Defends Sydney Sweeney Amid Denim Ad Backlash | The Daily Show

Can't help but observe that most of the 24/7 Outrage TV is on old fashioned TV channels.

I guess at least the cable cutting generations will be liberated from this old fashioned hate pipeline as the constant TV habits get replaced by constant influencers doom scrolling

youtu.be/LWnHWbeeFxA?...

That said. I don't see Europe in any space to compete with openAI. We're feeding the foreign beast; an umbilical cord feeding ideology back to us in unprecedented levels.

As if the political blocking of the international court of justice's chief prosecutor's email address by Microsoft on white House order wasn't enough already.

(Because he issued the arrest warrant for Netanyahu)

And puts another checkmark on the European dependence on American technology providers being problematic.

In a way, this invalidates American hosted AI as a valid source for search results.

Trump Administration Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand

They're planning on censoring, propagandisng AI answers!

"A.I.’s development to remove mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion, climate change and misinformation."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/t...

in a way, microblogging is more than ever screaming into the void and it feels like most social interactions have moved to private instances and chats.

Our Privacy Expert Tried, and Failed, to Disappear From the Internet It’s not as simple as deleting a few accounts.

interesting read

www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

food for though on what we wanted social media to be and how we ultimately evolved to (not) use it.

Establishment is gonna establish.
It's interesting, rising to a position of responsibility on a platform of dissent; only to learn that with a broader information horizon, you make the same informed choices.

I've been there.. learned that lesson around age 19.

I conjured up my first Ninja Creami pot!!

Had some great things already. Wonderful strawberry sorbet (Offspring2), great chocolate ice-cream with fresh brownies bits from scratch (Offspring1)
A delight.

Not mine. Mine was a skyr based disgusting abomination of disappoint.

#TryAgain #NinjaCreami

Watched The Phoenician Scheme yesterday.
Another great Wes Anderson experience!!

Are you planning to see it?

Hoppa! Launched teamplaylab.be today! On the heels of a great moment in Germany, where we took the tean from Retrospective to Revelation

It wasn't just productive—it was energizing.

#TeamBuilding #AgileTeams #TeamDynamics #SeriousPlay #TeamPlayLab

naah, that's exactly how gaslighting works.
En dat teert op die maybe. Niet door laten doen.

Trump: "[disagreeing is] such a disservice, why don't you say "yes, he does" and, you know, go on to something else"

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Ik denk dat we in europa gerust het onderscheid mogen maken tussen geloven en gaslighting.
Ik ben redelijk zeker dat het in dit geval, net zoals ik de rest van zn communicatie, over strategische, vergedreven wereldwijde gaslighting gaat.

Chilling.

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Gert again now.
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It's a brave new world, that's for sure.

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Hey meatbags, Bender here with CardCuts

a Python CLI that auto-detects cut marks on your print-at-home card game PDFs, crops ’em, trims ’em, and slaps on mirror bleed for slick, professional-grade cards.

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also, I have Codex talking to me like it's Bender or Archer or ..... now

Fun.
But not perfect for generating copy 😅

Passing the mic to..