Martijn ter Haar
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"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine"
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The lead investigator is also struggling with past trauma and a relationship on the brink of collapse. Or they are already divorced and because of obsession with solving the crime, they neglect the children, who then start doing Stupid Stuff to draw attention.
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tweakers.net
Persoonlijke informatie van Australische burgers in de staat Nieuw-Zuid-Wales is uitgelekt door ongeautoriseerd gebruik van ChatGPT. Een voormalige aannemer van de staat uploadde in maart een Excel-spreadsheet naar de AI-chatbot van OpenAI, meldt de lokale overheid nu. #Tweakers
Gegevens van Australische burgers uitgelekt via ChatGPT-gebruik door overheid
Persoonlijke informatie van Australische burgers in de staat Nieuw-Zuid-Wales is uitgelekt door ongeautoriseerd gebruik van ChatGPT. Een voormalige aannemer van de staat uploadde in maart een Excel-spreadsheet naar de AI-chatbot van OpenAI, meldt de lokale overheid nu.
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martijnterhaar.bsky.social
I briefly seen a glimp of Young Tories about once a year, usually when the party has its congress and somehow they always look like 20-somethings cosplaying as slightly inbred landed gentry from 1935. Is there a dress code or a yearly "Siegfried from All Creatures Great and Small" lookalike contest?
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Dit is volgens mij een al een tijdje spelende spanning tussen de bouwondernemers- en projectontwikkelaarspartij VVD en de agri-industriëlen van BBB. Laat ze elkaar maar lekker de tent uitvechten.
martijnterhaar.bsky.social
Nou, ik heb niet het idee dat Halsema en de andere twee punten van De Driehoek dit onderschatten. Zeker niet met die voetbalinterland er ook nog bij.
Burgemeester verplaatst anti-immigratieprotest van Dam naar Museumplein
Burgemeester verplaatst anti-immigratieprotest van Dam naar Museumplein
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De mensheid én alle dieren op het land en in de lucht. Dieren in het water waren woke genoeg en kregen zelfs tijdelijk wat extra, uh, levensruimte.
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You might hate your job. But at least you're not a russian general invited to a meal & drinks with Putin next to an open window.
martijnterhaar.bsky.social
I haven't seen this movie since it release, but there's this scene with beached sharks in the California morning light I vividly remember. I should rewatch it.
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Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up
From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.
martijnterhaar.bsky.social
Weirdly enough here in the Netherlands all you hear about is rising homophobia, because of far right manosphere influencers.
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#THETWEN2IE5: Rosalie Cunningham - Return of the Ellington (UK, 2024)

The sequel you haven't been waiting for, considering the lack of likes yesterday's track had. This one is less vaudeville and more psychrock, maybe that helps.

Important thing: I love it. So tuneful and catchy, yet so intricate!
Rosalie Cunningham - Return Of The Ellington OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Rosalie Cunningham
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
when Sora was released, the entire app was people making Spongebob and Pikachu videos

Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos

seems like an app with real staying power

www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...
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martijnterhaar.bsky.social
Compared to Tool and K-pop bands, the top contenders for best at extracting money from fans, Swift is a good amateur. Iron Maiden-level seems about right.
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The #THETWEN2IE5 feed still seems to work.
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But the lack of friction is the problem. Without AI slop machinery you had to really go to some trouble to imitate someone for satire and so you needed both motivation and talent. Now everyone can do it, and that makes the ratio of actual satire vs tasteless crap go completely out of whack. 2/2
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"The friction matters". I think @hankgreen.bsky.social gets to the crux here. When I first saw these tasteless AI videos with MJK and Hitler, I thought: "That should be illegal." But then I was: "But you can also use them for actual satire and it is not new, just easier." 1/2
Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.
YouTube video by Hank Green
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#TheTwen2ie5 Day 8

43. I Love My Wife - Touchdown Jesus (2025; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dI...
A mess of squeals build into a pumping bass 
line. A guitar starts blurting out like a trumpet 
played backwards, blaring out a stop-start rhythm designed to throw you around a bit. Things drop down and we get a chord sequence that I can only describe as Cardiacs-y. (If you know who Cardiacs are, your ears have either picked up or I’ve just alienated you from this song entirely.) A minute in, we get a key change before the music settles into an actual rock beat, heralding the introduction of our lead singer. Said man swaggers around the place, speaking a bit too quickly and stuttering his lyrics, talking about how ‘I like to get to know you, I really really really really like to get to know you’.  Then we get to the heavy chorus and the guy is shouting at the top of his lungs about how “I LOVE TO COME HOME BECAUSE I LOVE MY WIFE!” Cue a final minute of solos.

We are actually in something of a golden age of songs from men singing about how much they love their wives, these songs mostly coming from the increasingly trad-conversative country market or, for some reason, Justin Beiber. Those songs are rubbish though: with their edgeless sound and lyrics that are too perfect for their own good, they all end up trying way too hard to sound romantic and thus end up feeling like fakes. They’re pandering at best and PR at worst.

Put this topic in an alt-rock context and it suddenly works though. This is the sound of someone whose love for his wife is so complete that it can’t help but burst out of him. I want a love like this. Screw the hollow promises of a chaste forever, give me grand proclamations of how much your humble homelife makes existence a joy.
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#THETWEN2IE5, Day 8: Rosalie Cunningham ft. Rosco - Duet (UK, 2022)

Rosalie Cunningham's dedication to late Beatles/Jethro Tull style British prog probably will never make her a household name, even though she got both the talent and the looks.

But so many ideas, yet so tuneful and catchy!
Duet - Rosalie Cunningham (featuring Rosco)
YouTube video by Rosalie Cunningham
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martijnterhaar.bsky.social
That's correct, so that part of Google still works.
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Ik zag dus heel veel 'grappige' AI-filmpjes met Bob Ross en ik vroeg me al af hoe dat voor de nabestaanden van Bob Ross moest zijn.

Dat weet ik nog niet (misschien heeft Bob Ross ook wel helemaal geen nabestaanden), maar de dochter van Robin Williams reageert zoals ik had gedacht.
chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop