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Wim W
@wimw-mh.bsky.social
680 followers 920 following 120 posts
Engineer telecom, arts lover, sports, photography, woodworking, DIY, gardening, ...
He / him
Removed twitter (wil_wim) from my phone. And found a way to transfer accounts I followed.
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wimw-mh.bsky.social
@fietsflik.bsky.social en nu ik toch bezig ben u te taggen... Die rode saucisse die rondfietst is u waarschijnlijk gekend. Mag dat zomaar aan 50km/u zonder kenteken op het fietspad rondzoeven? Ik verschiet mij altijd een beroerte wanneer die passeert.
June 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
Ik rijd met de fiets over de Suzanne Danielbrug. Mag ik hier rechtdoor over de straat of moet ik een 5-tal meter naar rechts en over het fietspad als ik oversteek richting noordstation @fietsflik.bsky.social ?
June 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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pdbruyne.bsky.social
Het verschil tussen 70 en 65 punten= 5
February 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
Made about 40 pancakes this morning. First time I baked it in a stainless steel pan. All went well, no sticking to the pan and only little amount of grease needed.
A pile of delicious pancakes I baked this morning in a stainless steel pan. The last pancake, still in the pan, being baked.
February 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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anthonyzach.be
You won't believe this but a transport improvement that was controversial and caused local uproar has turned out to be popular in practice. www.dhnet.be/regions/brux...
"In Neder-Over-Hembeek, 'even those who were against the tram have started to change their minds' - For three months now the tram has been running in Neder-over-Hembeek. In the streets, some are convinced, others still sceptical. On the street reporting by François Vekemans."
January 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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benoitdhondt.bsky.social
Kan er iemand mij uitleggen hoe dat dan precies gaat? Je bent gevlucht, je bent alles kwijt, je bent tijdens je asielprocedure 2 jaar dakloos geweest en je krijgt nergens vaste grond onder de voeten maar je MOET integreren.
January 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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jbaert.bsky.social
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a while—in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were [...]
www.vintagecomputing.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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drcollette.bsky.social
Not a surprise is it - when we compare what the BBC reports with what we see on social media and what reporting comes from other media - even from Israel!!

Also a reminder that journalists are often constrained by editorial interference.

thecradle.co/articles/bbc...
BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes
News editor Raffi Berg reportedly controls online coverage of genocide in Gaza to ensure Israeli crimes are 'watered down' or ignored
thecradle.co
December 29, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, Sam, then you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social
#Israël schendt op uitzonderlijk destructieve manier het internationaal recht in #Gaza. Daarbij krijgt het de hulp van het #Westen, met de VS op kop. Hierdoor verliest het Westen zijn geloofwaardigheid in het Globale Zuiden. Een analyse van John Vandaele.
Het Westen ondermijnt zijn geloofwaardigheid ten opzichte van het Globale Zuiden – MO*
Israël schendt op uitzonderlijk destructieve manier het internationaal recht in Gaza.
buff.ly
December 20, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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buildsoil.bsky.social
Alexandria is burning
spavel.bsky.social Pavel* @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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begov.skyfleet.blue
Wiskundeprofessor Ann Dooms | Druk de kopieerbladen af en deel ze uit
Wiskundeprofessor Ann Dooms | Druk de kopieerbladen af en deel ze uit
11:55 Kinderen worden geparkeerd voor een invulboek waarin amper of geen uitleg te vinden is. Dat staat zo in de handleiding voor de leerkracht. Wat daar niet in staat, verbijstert wiskundeprofessor Ann Doo...
www.tijd.be
December 6, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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wagatwe.com
I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.
Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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maylikestoronto.bsky.social
This article goes DEEP into the human exploitation of these AI companies. nymag.com/intelligence...
Inside the AI Factory
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
nymag.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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megancarpentier.bsky.social
This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)

www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
This is indeed great and hilarious.
I had a good laugh with my own roast.
blueskyroast.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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Politici hebben het ANPR-schild ooit geïnstalleerd om “de georganiseerde misdaad en het terrorisme te helpen bestrijden”. Nu zijn we hier aanbeland 👇
November 22, 2024 at 11:11 AM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
A dressing space I created some years ago. Used for clothes as it should be but also for other storage (like beer).
A view of our dressing. Cubboards with drawers and shelves. One to the left of the room and one on the right side. All DIY, rubberwood, finished with Rubio oil. A view on the right side. Three rows of drawers on the bottom. And one space above to hang costumes, shorts, etc Handle of the drawers haveen made in the wood with a router. View on the left cupboard. Five vertical sections. Second section had three drawers in the bottom. Rest are all shelves to put pullovers, t-shirts, etc. Cupboard is not equally deep everywhere. It gets less deep towards the sides to fit with the protruding wall. Middle section about 50cm deep while the sides are about 30cm
November 24, 2024 at 2:34 PM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
Woow, 500 followers. How did I do that? Did not get near to that figure on twitter. I am not that interesting tbh.
A printscreen of my profile page showing 500 followers.
November 24, 2024 at 2:26 PM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
Any ideas what to do with dried peppers?
A bowl of homegrown and dried hot peppers.
November 24, 2024 at 8:20 AM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
What is this? Get the hell out of here.
Not sure it is him of course, but anyway blocked. Can't he be added to that MAGA block list?
A screenshot of the account of what seems to be Elon Musk.
November 21, 2024 at 10:35 AM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
Kitchen in the studio in the attic almost finished. What do you all think? The cupboards also roll forward to use all available space #diy #woodworking
A view on the kitchen I made in wood from scratch. Left the refrigerator, then below the countertop the first and third cupboard open with a door but can also be rolled forward to use the maximal of space under the roof. In between the table which folds down to also look like a door. Below the table also a cubboard. The 4th space is the oven with on top the cooking plate. Still have to work on 3 drawers in the 5th space.
November 7, 2024 at 12:54 PM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
4:30am: a long scream at the neighbours waking me.
4:35am: hear someone crying
5am: ambulance at the door.
5:30am: police going through our garden to reach the neighbours.
Strange things going on.
November 1, 2024 at 7:32 AM
wimw-mh.bsky.social
Keukenkast op studio. Nog niet afgewerkt. Kast staat op wieltjes, dus moest iets vinden om de deur te openen en om de hele kast eruit te rollen.
Houten keukenkast met gesloten deur. Deur met uitgefreesde opening om de deur te openen en om de hele kast naar voor te rollen. Detail van het uitgefreesde handvat van de deur. Afgerond rechthoekige uitfrezing.
October 22, 2024 at 9:41 AM