Andre Theelen

My new EP “Almost Morning Now” has been released on Bandcamp! sequencedreality.bandcamp.com/releases #ElectronicMusic #ambient #drone

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

“There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?’ And someone else said, ‘A poor choice of words in 1954’.” A more helpful term would be “applied statistics.” Ted Chiang talking to @madhumita29 on.ft.com/3N6VD4W

If you’re making arguments for synthetic data in public governance, using “AI” synthesized user feedback, or broadly adding distance between human participation and the design of the systems that define their life… you are part of the technology and democracy problem.

As with many Twitter policies that are poorly thought out, if you wait 24 hours they get reversed.

losing the verified badge is going to be really bad news for people like me who are completely full of shit and required a signifier like that to be taken seriously. it’s frankly sort of a scary time for some of us in the full-of-shit community

Here, video of the Moon traverses three security monitors and a large acrylic bell jar as a “Pepper’s Ghost” reflection illusion. The effect is being manipulated by sounds from my synthesizers in real-time. #practical #vfx #avart #videoart #diy #imagineering

Vintage blue screen of death… 😁 #vintagesynth

"Perfect your memories" is perhaps the most haunted phrase I've ever read.

@sama @OpenAI That is, the very people in charge of building #ChatGPT want to believe SO BADLY that they are gods, creating thinking entities, that they have lost all perspective about what a text synthesis machine actually is. >>

Conny Helder, @MinisterLZS, vindt “dat het niet meer past”… En waar worden vakmensen mee van hun werk gehouden? Met paarse krokodillen die gevoed blijven worden door de olifant in de kamer die het @MinVWS in stand blijft houden: Huidig zorgstelsel.

No ‘ordinary’ tea towels in our house 🎛️

What a terrible experience 😖. I hope this gets resolved soon…

I unfortunately had to switch to Twitter’s own app as the excellent @tweetbot app I have been using for years has been banned from authenticating.

The space between paragraphs in online stories is getting filled with more and more stuff (video ads, display ads, links to other stories) that it's a chore to read anything online. I often have to scroll down 7-8 inches to get to the next paragraph.

A lot of people make fun of Elon Musk's tunnels, but I'm impressed by it. You could give me 1,000 years and I'd never come up with a solution to traffic as dumb as "a single lane tunnel for only one kind of car that you still have to drive in". Truly beyond the scope of my mind.

Penny Hardy, You Blew Me Away, 2014, recycled metals #WomensArt

A Dutch supermarket chain introduced slow checkouts for people who enjoy chatting, helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness. The move has proven so successful that they installed the slow checkouts in 200 stores.