Etienne Posthumus
@epoz.org
I like to make simple solutions to complex problems.
https://epoz.org/
Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe
NFDI4Culture
∴ Digital Art History ∴ Knowledge Engineering ∴ Yoga ∴
https://epoz.org/
Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe
NFDI4Culture
∴ Digital Art History ∴ Knowledge Engineering ∴ Yoga ∴
Funny, even on here, I still refer to things as "tweets" when I think about them.
August 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Funny, even on here, I still refer to things as "tweets" when I think about them.
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“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.
January 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“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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Why I 🧡 the web.
Fliiipbook is a "simple #gif animation app for the web".
www.fliiipbook.com
#webtools #animation
Fliiipbook is a "simple #gif animation app for the web".
www.fliiipbook.com
#webtools #animation
FliiipBook - A simple gif animation app for the web
Draw frame-by-frame animations and create GIFs directly in your browser. Simple, fun, and powerful animation tool with onion skinning, timeline controls, and instant GIF export.
www.fliiipbook.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Why I 🧡 the web.
Fliiipbook is a "simple #gif animation app for the web".
www.fliiipbook.com
#webtools #animation
Fliiipbook is a "simple #gif animation app for the web".
www.fliiipbook.com
#webtools #animation
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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)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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)
Having a bad day? World politics getting you down, heat too much to bear?
Behold the Singer-theremin-hurdygurdy magic.
Behold the Singer-theremin-hurdygurdy magic.
There's a chap on TikTok who has built a custom instrument out of a hurdy-gurdy and a Singer sewing machine (plus an attached theremin) which he uses for Daft Punk covers and they are genuine bangers www.tiktok.com/@singersound...
💿Veridis Quo//Daft Punk🤖 This melody is so nostalgic🥹🎶. And it's great fun to filter the sound of my Sewing-Gurdy with my mini Theremin! (Talk-Wha Filter this time 👌😎) #hurdygurdy #sewinggurdy #bardco...
TikTok video by Gabriel / SingerSoundSystem
www.tiktok.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Having a bad day? World politics getting you down, heat too much to bear?
Behold the Singer-theremin-hurdygurdy magic.
Behold the Singer-theremin-hurdygurdy magic.
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 €€€€
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 €€€€
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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 €€€€
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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A printed ❤️ symbol from a 1702 text about the Holy Trinity.
June 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A printed ❤️ symbol from a 1702 text about the Holy Trinity.
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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 $$$. 1/3
The first thing I notice: I didn't realize Anthropic had rolled their own GBooks. Doesn't sound prohibitively $$$. 1/3
June 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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 $$$. 1/3
The first thing I notice: I didn't realize Anthropic had rolled their own GBooks. Doesn't sound prohibitively $$$. 1/3
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...
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...
Making.a MonsterUI blog with Isaac and Audrey
YouTube video by Isaac Flath
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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...
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...
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...
👉 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...
Two Part Workshop "Iconclass – Content Classification and Technical Features” - NFDI4Culture
nfdi4culture.de
June 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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...
👉 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...
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!
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!
June 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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!
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!
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...
"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...
June 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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...
"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...
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.
#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.
June 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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.
#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.
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.
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.
June 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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.
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.
Tomorrow night in Amsterdam!
www.melkweg.nl/nl/agenda/fo...
Fokofpolisiekar / Van Pletzen / Early B | Melkweg
www.melkweg.nl/nl/agenda/fo...
Fokofpolisiekar / Van Pletzen / Early B | Melkweg
Fokofpolisiekar / Van Pletzen / Early B | Melkweg Amsterdam
Fokofpolisiekar is terug met hun grootste Amsterdamse show tot nu toe! Dit jaar is hun energieke punkrockshow doordrenkt met Hip-Hop en Mengels. Met hun Zuid-Afrikaanse vrienden Van Pletzen en Early B...
www.melkweg.nl
June 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tomorrow night in Amsterdam!
www.melkweg.nl/nl/agenda/fo...
Fokofpolisiekar / Van Pletzen / Early B | Melkweg
www.melkweg.nl/nl/agenda/fo...
Fokofpolisiekar / Van Pletzen / Early B | Melkweg
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.
Really looking forward to meeting new people and the intense week.
ISWS 2025
2025.semanticwebschool.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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.
Really looking forward to meeting new people and the intense week.
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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! 🍪
If you’d like to see more in the meantime:
- ellahawkins.com
- Instagram – @ellamchawk
- Facebook – Ella Makes Cakes
Happy National Biscuit Day 2025! 🍪
May 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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! 🍪
If you’d like to see more in the meantime:
- ellahawkins.com
- Instagram – @ellamchawk
- Facebook – Ella Makes Cakes
Happy National Biscuit Day 2025! 🍪
This Way Up in Cape Town
May 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This Way Up in Cape Town
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Happy Glorious 25th of May! GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. How do they rise up?
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
May 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Happy Glorious 25th of May! GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. How do they rise up?
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
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I do love a good fact check.
Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo
Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I do love a good fact check.
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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.
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.
Trump is now giving the South African president the full Zelenskyy treatment
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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.
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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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.
This is lies through curation.
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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.
This is lies through curation.