Eric van der Linden

I have a particular interest in how Tagore is still transcending into the world, like when quoted by someone like @BarackObama or Marta Nussbaum. But esp. when through music, mostly settings. A favorite is Songs of Eternity. Here song 3, Peace My Heart facebook.com/tagoresettings…

@Fahadnaimb Back when I was in high school in the 70’s, I used to see them flying along the railroad tracks toward Rotterdam Zestienhoven. Magnificent!

Ever seen a plane that looks like it got punched right in the face with a massive cargo door? Meet the UK's absolute legend... the ATL-98 Carvair, aka the "Big Head" plane! 🚗✈️ Freddie Laker’s team at Aviation Traders took old Douglas DC-4s from the 1940s, completely reworked them by raising the cockpit way up and adding this huge hinged nose door at the front. Why? So you could actually drive cars straight into the belly of the plane. Imagine this: 5 family cars loaded up front, plus 22 passengers sitting comfortably in the back, flying across the English Channel. Proper mad 1960s British engineering at its finest. This thing was perfect back then... before the Eurotunnel existed... for quick hops between the UK and France without dealing with seasickness on the boats. They only ever built 21 of them. By the 1970s, bigger ferries and proper jet cargo planes came along and slowly killed it off. But man, what a character it was. This is peak British ingenuity for me... quirky as hell, super practical, and just unforgettable. What’s the weirdest but actually useful plane you’ve ever come across?

❗️During NATO exercises to defend the Swedish island of Gotland from a simulated “Russian attack,” Ukrainian drone operators completely crushed the Swedish forces. The Swedes halted the drills three times to rethink their tactics. Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Michael Claesson, stated that all NATO armies must urgently learn how to fight with drones directly from the Ukrainians.

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🧵 People with ADHD are not lazy. Their brain has a dopamine supply chain shortage. And that changes everything about how they need to work. Here is what is actually going on and how to fix it.

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NIH’s 2026 findings point to something most people misunderstand: Stimulants don't “fix attention.” Here are 6 findings that will radically alter how you understand ADHD: (THREAD) 1. ADHD rejects dead information.

@realBigBrainAI @simonmontefiore People still will play chess, still will run marathons, still will programme

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, offers a sobering view: The biggest technological shift in human history is happening, and almost no one is talking about it. Schmidt opens with a startling industry prediction: "We believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers. We also believe that within one year you will have graduate level mathematicians that are at the tippy top of graduate math programs." He explains why this matters so much. Programming and math aren't just two fields among many: "Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world." And the AI labs are already using AI to build better AI: "The research groups in OpenAI and anthropic and so forth… around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing in their research programs is being generated by the computer. That's called recursive self-improvement." @ericschmidt then lays out the timeline most people haven't grasped: "Within 3 to 5 years we'll have what is called general intelligence AGI which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician physicist artist writer thinker politician." He gives this belief system a name: "I call this by the way the San Francisco consensus because everyone who believes this is in San Francisco it may be the water." But the truly unsettling part comes next. Once AI starts improving itself, humans become optional to the process: "The computers are now doing self-improvement… they don't have to listen to us anymore. We call that super intelligence or ASI… computers that are smarter than the sum of humans. The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years." And here's where Schmidt sounds the alarm. The conversation isn't keeping pace with the technology: "This path is not understood in our society. There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this. This is happening faster than our human that our society, our democracy, our laws will address." His closing thought captures why this matters: "That's why it's underhyped. People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free."

Only a Tim Conway character could have this much of a struggle trying to fire a cannon… #timconway #humor #sketchcomedy

Twelve years ago, on April 17, 2014, in Donbas. Russian special-ops group led by 🇷🇺 FSB-officer Igor Girkin (Strelkov), seized and tortured local 🇺🇦 politician Volodymyr Rybak. A man whose only “crime” was that he was for Ukraine. His stomach was slit, a backpack filled with stones was put on his back, and he was thrown (still alive) into the river. His dead body was fished out days later. Together with him they found Yury Popravka, an 18-year-old student who also suffered a martyr’s death. His “crime” was the same. It was April 2014. There was still no understanding that war had come. But Russians already created a daily Golgotha, to which they and their local collaborators took anyone who was for Ukraine. Let us remember Volodymyr, Yury, and all the others who endured torment in Donbas and Crimea in March, April and May 2014. Let’s not forget who started the bloodshed.

On April 17, 2014, Horlivka city council member Volodymyr Rybak went to the russian-occupied government building to remove the DPR flag but he was surrounded by russian mercenaries & russified locals. Hours later he was kidnapped, tortured & thrown into a river where he drowned.

Opinie van @RenskeLeijten en mij in de Volkskrant (zonder betaalmuur nu) over de datakluis: "Stilzwijgen over de datakluis is niets minder dan sabotage van de rechtsstaat" volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie…

@Jennnyyyyyy Though also 1 and 9, 3 in total…

@Jennnyyyyyy 9 of course…

This is harder than it looks 😬 Difficulty - Max 😎

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n 1945, a young man dropped out of Harvard Law without a degree. He had $20 in his pocket and a family to feed. He became Warren Buffett's only partner. Together they built a $700 billion empire. He never used a computer. Rarely took meetings. Read for 6 hours a day until he was 99. His name was Charlie Munger. The man Buffett called "the abominable no-man" — because he could destroy any bad idea in 30 seconds flat. He didn't have a strategy. He had a system for thinking that made bad decisions almost impossible. I turned Munger's mental models into 12 Claude prompts. Here are all 12: 🧵

@J_00_S_T Het lijkt zelfs dat vliegveld Ockenburg er nog op staat. Maar dat was niet meer in gebruik

Nu ook het Zuid-Holland van 1951 in de collectie oude schoolkaarten 🤩 Vliegveld Zestienhoven was er nog niet, de Maasvlaktes evenmin en Den Haag en Delft waren nog niet naar elkaar toe gegroeid ☺️

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

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90% of home cooks ruin their food before it even hits the plate. Not because they cannot cook. Because nobody ever teaches them these basic kitchen rules. Here are 7 mistakes most people make: 🧵

Humans are returning to the Moon for the first time in 54 years exactly one week from today. This is not being talked about enough.

@Boenau Last year I happily biked through the center of Paris and suburbs. Great experience! Only issue is with elevators to the subway platforms which are far too small…

"Residents won't use bikes or scooters." "Commuters won't use bikes or scooters." "Tourists won't use bikes or scooters." And then something magical happens when you create a network of bike lanes. 👀

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In 1895, a French social psychologist named Gustave Le Bon published a book so dangerous that it became the private playbook of dictators for the next century. Hitler quoted it. Mussolini kept it by his bedside. Edward Bernays used it to build modern propaganda. The book's name? "The Crowd." Its core claim: The moment people form a group, they become stupid. Not slightly dumber. Fundamentally, structurally incapable of rational thought. And the tactics he described for controlling them still work on you right now. 🧵 (thread)

Source: youtube.com/watch?v=-AgapC…

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🚨 BREAKING: Iran didn't respond to US bombs with missiles. They responded with GAME THEORY. And in doing so, they may have just fired the most dangerous shot at the US dollar in 52 years. Here's the move most people completely missed: 🧵 (Read this slowly. Share it widely.)