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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 23h

Owneeee, voor de papieren krant natuurlijk te laat 😱

Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 23h

Ja je smeekbedes zijn verhoord :D

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 23h

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/ongemakkelijk-maar-waar-veel-mensen-geloven-echt-dat-ze-superieur-zijn~b16380ae/

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 23h

Als we die theorie niet blootleggen, snappen we er niks van.

Maar ik begin met een kleine cameo van Heinrich Hertz en het foto-elektisch effect, want je moet je serieuze boodschap, zo heb ik geleerd in een workshop wetenschapscommunicatie, verpakken in wat luchtigs :)

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 23h

Mijn eerste column in Volkskrant als vaste columnist, vanaf nu schrijf ik iedere tweede vrijdag van de maand een stuk! Het was niet fijn om te schrijven, maar het moet gezegd: de logica van extreem rechts is de logica van wit mannelijk superioriteitsdenken.

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Lennart Quispel @lquispel.bsky.social · 1d

Heel mooi artikel van @felienne.bsky.social

TLDR: Het wordt tijd om te accepteren dan extreem rechts zich baseert op het idee dat zelf superieur zijn. En dus alles mogen maken ...

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Ongemakkelijk, maar waar: veel mensen geloven echt dat ze superieur zijn

www.volkskrant.nl

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 1d

Toen ik hoorde dat er dingen gingen schuiven met mijn komst was het eerste dat ik dacht: Ik hoop dat Asha blijft!! Dat is dus gelukkig wel zo, en zo tof dat wij een soort "duo" zijn.

Maar snap ook helemaal je gevoel dat je een plekje mist voor je gedachten!

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 1d

All fun and games to be doing the human free work for a few decades!

And then came AI... More in this week's newsletter:

www.felienne.nl/2025-40/#is-...

AI in week 40

Gelijkheid in tech, de publieke digitale ruimte, waarom vibe coding schade toebrengt aan de IT, en wel of geen interviews met AI doomers? | Equality in tech, the public digital space, why is vibe codi...

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 1d

Or a subject called something like Requirements Engineering, which sounds very difficult and technical, but is just “asking people what they want.” And you only need to learn that indirectly, because talking to customers is something a product manager does for you. You get to type code all day long!

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 1d

I argue that we have socially constructed parts that aren't the programming itself out of our job descriptions, starting in education. A course on testing is more often about techniques and frameworks than about user testing. After all, that's not your job later on, that's what a tester does!

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 1d

However, coding entails much more! If I say "I'm writing a book", it is clear to most people that I don't just mean typing on the keyboard, but also planning, deleting, and rereading. How come programming, which is at its core similar to writing, is seen so much more narrow?

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 1d

The term "vibe coding" raises an important question: what exactly is coding? In my last newsletter I argue that coding is very narrowly defined, as just getting ideas already crystal clear in your brain into source code.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 2d

it's crazy how fast movies become dated. for instance, the 2021 movie "Don't Look Up" no longer makes sense, because if an American scientist discovered a planet-killing comet heading towards us today, their main response would be "oh thank fuck for that"

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 3d

How cute that they used bubbles to depict the companies

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jim Jansen @jimjansen.bsky.social · 3d

Op 17 oktober reiken we in Parnassos in Utrecht voor de vierde keer de Cosmos Boekenprijs. Met @dorineschenk.bsky.social Daphne Stam en @felienne.bsky.social en @jpvdschaar.bsky.social

Wees welkom via [email protected] en dan zetten we je op de gastenlijst.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes let us not judge her based on the words that come out of her own mouth but rather whether or not she created shareholder value

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 4d

I often wonder how long would it take my employer to notice if I died. I reckon somewhere between 3-6 months but it could be up to 12 months if I've just had my annual appraisal.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 4d

Here we go!

www.felienne.nl/2025-40/ (Dutch)
www.felienne.nl/2025-40/#eng... (English)

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 4d

Unlike you Tesla owning rabble i drive a volkswagen a family values car with an unblemished and unproblematic history

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 5d

Funny immigrant story. My wife won one of these as a bingo prize last night. Actually, someone else won it but passed her the winning ticket. "I already have one," he said. She tried to give it to other people. "We already have one," she was told. Turns out that EVERYONE has one.

a multilayer grill like contraption in black and chrome metal. the image is taken from an online site. on the top plate are some sausages and vegetables. on the lower plate is an egg and some white substance, perhaps cheese? the staged appliance also has four wooden paddles and two black trays for inserting on the lower plate.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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