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Milan van Lange 🟥
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Radical Research and Digital Documents at NIOD | Volunteer at Dutch Cyclists' Union | Interested in history, data, ethical tech, text mining, urban planning, bicycles, cars, climate change, minimal computing, and brutalism.
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brookebikesmke.bsky.social
So many people have told me that autonomous vehicles will solve traffic. I could be sold on them as safer than human driven vehicles, but those cars still have to go somewhere! The only thing that solves traffic is getting people out of cars.
aniccia.bsky.social John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 22h
Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

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November 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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olivia.science
Second, if we uncritically adopt AI in psychology, we outsource programming of our experiments to companies. This undoes a lot of open source: experiments are under industry capture, written without formal specifications. It deskills us: psychologists spent the last decade learning to code.

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4 Outsourcing Programming to Companies [Sanford’s mechanical vernier chronoscope] had two pendulums, one set longer than the other but both set at known lengths. When the stimulus appeared, the longer pendulum was released mechanically. When the participant pressed the key in response, the shorter pendulum was similarly released. By counting the number of swings it took the shorter pendulum to catch up with the longer, experimenters could use a mathematical formula to calculate the difference in time between the two events. (Evans, 2000, p. 322–323) A century later, all this is now done by programming computers to display stimuli, and collect and analyse data. The largely harmless and perhaps even beneficial (cf. Guest, 2025) transition to computational experimentation, where all instruments (e.g. EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking) are hooked up to the codebase for running experiments and the database for storing participant data, has been completed through: the adoption of programmes such as SPSS for statistics (Landau & Everitt, 2003) and E-Prime for presenting stimuli (Spapé et al., 2019); and training psychologists to use programming languages (e.g. R, Python; British Psychological Society, 2017; Peirce et al., 2022). The last part, from the mid 2010s onwards, where psychologists spent time and effort learning how to program is a massively laudable case of reskilling (N. D. Anderson, 2016; Guest & Forbes, 2024; Scherer et al., 2019) From the 2020s, however with the rise of the kinds of AI products we critique herein, this is under threat. If scientists accept the AI “snakeoil” and “con” (Bender & Hanna, 2025; Bjarnason, 2023; Narayanan & Kapoor, 2024) and use it to deskill themselves from learning proper programming, then code reproducibility and verifiability are lost causes; not just short-lived, dead on arrival (Becker et al., 2025a). If the code is for running experiments, strange side-effects will be present from so-called ‘vibe coding’ (Harkar, 2025), which is ‘programming’ using a chatbot such that nothing is checked or verified against software engineering principles and only the output being seen as acceptable under a small sample of conditions is evaluated. This means that because standards are ignored and best practises are violated the stimuli may be presented in the wrong order, participant data may not be properly or securely saved, and the code may be unmaintainable (Burgess, 2023, 2025; El-Mhamdi et al., 2022; Greshake et al., 2023; Ming, 2025; Tangermann, 2025). And the same is true for this non-engineered code in the case of analysing data, which will not only not be analysed, but open to all sorts of bugs. To add insult to injury, because the scientist is not practising programming or never learned how to code, all this will be outside their skill level and they will be unable to detect and fix these issues (Becker As Danielle Navarro (2015) says about shortcuts through using inappropriate technology, which chatbots are, we end up digging ourselves into “a very deep hole.” She goes on to explain: The business model here is to suck you in during your student days, and then leave you dependent on their tools when you go out into the real world. [...] And you can avoid it: if you make use of packages like R that are open source and free, you never get trapped having to pay exorbitant licensing fees. (pp. 37–38) These were and are the reasons to switch from e.g. SPSS, which is owned by IBM, to R or Python (Wills, 2019). The same and more hold for being locked in and addicted to AI products, which have closed or industry-controlled source code (Hao, 2025; Liesenfeld & Dingemanse, 2024; Liesenfeld et al., 2023; Maffulli, 2023; Maris, 2025; Mirowski, 2023; Solaiman, 2023) , and mislead us into overestimating our programming abilities (Lehmann et al., 2025)
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
It says it all
Advertising poster promoting cycling for transport featuring four people in a row on bikes. At the top the text says, "You'd be better on a bicycle", and then in a bubble it says "Still [emphasized with big, red, italicized letters] the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about."
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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sepiatekst.bsky.social
Bij vastgoedbaasjes die zich verrijkten over de rug van gedupeerden 'Groningen' werden behalve beslag op vastgoed (vuur)wapens, illegaal vuurwerk, 2 Lamborghini’s, 1 Audi RS6, 1 Maserati Levante en 1 Ferrari in beslag genomen.
En maar klagen over de Wet betaalbaar wonen.

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Vastgoedmagnaat Wim de Vries en consorten verdacht van fraude met aardbevingssubsidies
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
milanvlange.bsky.social
'Wij van WC-eend adviseren een techno-distopia waar we steenrijk van worden, maar wel graag gedekt door publiek geld'.

'Zo moet de overheid helpen de financiële risico’s van durfkapitalisten en pensioenfondsen die (...) willen investeren zo veel mogelijk te beperken.'

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Advies van experts: nationaal plan zoals de Deltawerken is nodig om mee te doen in AI-race
AI-plan: Ruim vijftig deskundigen schreven op verzoek van de minister van Economische Zaken een plan voor Nederland om mee te doen in de AI-race. Zoals: meer datacenters, een staatssecretaris AI en ze...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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707kat.bsky.social
Once again an amazing comic and commentary.

The layers in this one are pragmatic magic. Superb! 😘👌
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Still funny.
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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kimvankeken.bsky.social
‘Betrokkenen noemen het ‘kwalijk’ dat de minister de privacy van bewoners schendt voor ‘politiek gewin’ en de Silja gebruikt als ‘decor’ voor haar partijstandpunt.’
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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myrthehilkens.bsky.social
Zo kwaadaardig.
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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kimvankeken.bsky.social
Ik heb hier geen woorden voor. ‘Keijzer wilde haar bezoek per se filmen, zeggen bronnen, terwijl dat niet was toegestaan. Tóch deed ze het. „Jij bent niet de baas over dit schip.”’ www.ad.nl/binnenland/r...
Ruzie op opvangschip tussen asielminister Mona Keijzer en Rotterdamse wethouder: ‘Jij bent hier niet de baas’
Een werkbezoek van minister Mona Keijzer (asiel en migratie, BBB) aan een opvangschip in Rotterdam is eerder deze week uitgelopen op een ruzie. Keijzer wilde haar bezoek per se filmen, zeggen bronnen,...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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roosvonk.bsky.social
Het kan Femke Wiersma geen sodemieters schelen hoe verschrikkelijk dieren lijden in snikhete vrachtwagens in de zomer. Zij voelt alleen maar minachting voor dieren en dierenbeschermers. De industrie moet doordraaien, geen seconde oponthoud want er moeten elke dag 1,8 miljoen dieren geslacht worden.
dierenbescherming.nl Dierenbescherming @dierenbescherming.nl · 5d
We zijn diep teleurgesteld over het besluit van minister Wiersma @ministerielvvn.bsky.social om de maximumtemperatuur voor diertransport niét te verlagen van 35 naar 30 graden. En dat terwijl 30 graden het absolute minimum is en eigenlijk nog steeds veel te hoog.
Minister doet niets voor dieren met hittestress - Dierenbescherming.nl
We zijn diep teleurgesteld over het besluit van minister Wiersma om de maximumtemperatuur voor diertransport niét te verlagen naar 30 graden.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
1929
📷 Fosco Maraini
Photo of a person snapped mid-fall on a bicycle. He's riding on a snowy street.
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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klinkklarezin.bsky.social
Dit zou tot een massale opstand moeten leiden. Onbestaanbaar dat wij onze relatie met de overheid aan een Amerikaanse commerciële partij verkopen!
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Bikes and Cars by Jen Sorensen
Comic called "Bikes and Cars". Panel 1: A bike rider rides in a street followed by a massive truck. Text: "Bikes could be our main form of transportation in cities, except for one problem:" Panel 2: Text: "It's like putting rabbits in with stampeding elephants", featuring an elephant leg barely missing a running rabbit who's thinking, " I hope they're not texting!" Panel 3: Text: "So, we either need giant bikes...", with a picture of a massive bike with tiny rider saying, "Suck it, Suburban!" and a Chevy Suburban that looks tiny in comparison with the driver saying, "Share the road!" Panel 4: Text: "Or we need lots more bike paths completely separated from cars." The picture is a giant truck called Glacier following closely behind a scared-looking cyclist, with the driver saying, "Are you kidding? That would be excessive!"
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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anthonymoser.com
LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style.

But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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innes.bsky.social
year of linux on the desktop
enginvir.bsky.social ThanksgiVIRing @enginvir.bsky.social · 6d
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"

bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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sungkim.bsky.social
I feel old.
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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laurabromet.bsky.social
Ik had niet anders verwacht.
Snel een nieuw kabinet.
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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volkskrant.nl
Enorme heisa om privébericht Wijers, intussen gaat PVV’er met haatpagina weer fluitend aan het werk
Enorme heisa om privébericht Wijers, intussen gaat PVV’er met haatpagina fluitend aan het werk
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November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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stefantt.bsky.social
(ja alleen als je een auto inruilt tegen een elektrische fiets is het natuurlijk prima, maar cijfers uit het stuk laten zien dat dat over het algemeen niet gebeurt. We zijn zelfs minder kilometers gaan fietsen de laatste jaren)
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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stefantt.bsky.social
Veel argumenten ontbreken nog: zoveel extra batterijen zijn slecht voor klimaat en milieu. En dat miljoenen mensen minstens 3000 euro uitgeven aan een fiets (en honderden euro's aan een diefstalverzekering) is weggegooid geld. Hadden we kunnen gebruiken voor duurzame investeringen.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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stefantt.bsky.social
Geweldig stuk van Eefje Oomen over elektrisch fietsen. Ik verzet me ook met hand en tand tegen die ondingen. Ga toch écht fietsen.
Ga toch écht fietsen: journalist Eefje Oomen (55) ergert zich aan alle Nederlanders op e-bikes
Terwijl verslaggever Eefje Oomen al haar ritjes nog op haar stadsfiets aflegt, ziet ze tot haar frustratie de ene na de andere vriendin op de e-bike overstappen. Is dit het einde van onze oergezonde f...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social
👉 The program for our workshop History of Digital History between East and West is online.

5-6 february 2026 at the @c2dh.uni.lu, remote participation is possible. More information in the link below.

#digitalhistory
#dhist
#digitalhumanities
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History of Digital History between East and West
This workshop will address the history of digital history by enlarging the scope outside of the United States and Western Europe, taking into account crucial developments elsewhere which have often be...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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thomascauvin.bsky.social
Next week (19.11), @finolafinn.bsky.social 's presentation at @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu

#AI #Archive #DigitalHumanities

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AI assistants in the archive and the lure of ‘instant history’
AI assistants are increasingly used for navigating and analysing the contents of major archives. Applying Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to existing
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November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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richove.bsky.social
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM