Alex Van de Sande
@avsa.eth.xyz
Ethereum Foundation Alumni, ENS cofounder, Dad.
A visual explanation on why 14.4 : 10 and 17.3 : 10 should be the best screen ratios for foldable and tri-foldable phones.
February 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
A visual explanation on why 14.4 : 10 and 17.3 : 10 should be the best screen ratios for foldable and tri-foldable phones.
"If it weren't for America you'd be all speaking German" said trump in Davos, Switzerland, where they all speak German.
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"If it weren't for America you'd be all speaking German" said trump in Davos, Switzerland, where they all speak German.
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.
January 20, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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.
“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”
January 19, 2026 at 4:45 PM
“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”
“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...
openai.com/index/our-ap...
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.
openai.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:13 AM
“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...
openai.com/index/our-ap...
Norwegian Woods is just the story of a very bad date.
January 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Norwegian Woods is just the story of a very bad date.
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.
January 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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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Another image that sums up the protest.
January 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Another image that sums up the protest.
“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.
January 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
“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.
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.
Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy
January 8, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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.
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.
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.
December 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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.
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.
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...
blog.vandesande.design/a-defense-of...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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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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.
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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.
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.
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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.
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?
Physics x chemistry x biology x anthropology x history x tech = are we alone?
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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?
Physics x chemistry x biology x anthropology x history x tech = are we alone?
So Netflix did become HBO faster than HBO could become them in the end.
December 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
So Netflix did become HBO faster than HBO could become them in the end.
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?!
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?!
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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?!
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?!
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.
In anticipation of the big choice we’ve now crossed $25,000 in donations! 🔥
Can’t wait to see which of the two EF-approved initiatives @avsa.eth.xyz picks, ProtocolGuild or BuidlGuidl🔨
Either choice, the ecosystem wins. 🦄
Can’t wait to see which of the two EF-approved initiatives @avsa.eth.xyz picks, ProtocolGuild or BuidlGuidl🔨
Either choice, the ecosystem wins. 🦄
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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.
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.
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.
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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.
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.
Adobe: that's not what it means to "update" an app on my computer.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Adobe: that's not what it means to "update" an app on my computer.
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.
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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.
People who think the super rich are also super intelligent or super productive hasn’t met a wealthy person in their life.
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
People who think the super rich are also super intelligent or super productive hasn’t met a wealthy person in their life.
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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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.
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.
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.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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.
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.
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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.