Jasper van den Berg

pockets are a great invention

@RealSamRoberts @CrankyFed @MichaelWatsonDC This is Afrikaans, from a South -African newspaper. But as a Dutchman I have to confess, "Hitler dood, wat nou?" is grammatically perfect Dutch as well.

@CrankyFed @MichaelWatsonDC Dutch is the most unserious language.

Happy Hitler Dood Day to all who celebrate

So, Eurostar just launched its own AI chatbot (for some reason), and it's going about as well as you'd expect... 🙃 Thanks for the flight recommendations! 😅

Don't say there weren't any signs

@Blockchainplay @BM_Visser Alleen is dat stervens duur.

@BM_Visser Lachwekkend allemaal, zeewater ontzilten is gemakkelijk, water genoeg

Een waarschuwing voor een mogelijke schaarste aan drinkwater in Nederland. Uiteraard (!?) wordt vooral naar anderen gekeken, zoals de industrie. Ook door u? Wel: drinkwater in Nederland wordt vooral in huishoudens gebruikt. Kantoren zullen ook wel flink meedoen. #grafiekvandedag

@ESP050 @BM_Visser Nee want deze prijzen zijn ex belasting en ex btw.

@BM_Visser Dus als ik terug ga naar gas voor de verwarming van mijn huis, ben ik een stuk goedkoper uit?

Op de energiemarkt (kleurtjes) kunt u als particulier niet terecht. Thuis afgeleverd in "hapklare brokken" komen er allerlei kosten (groen) en netwerken (roze) bij. Dit levert het volgende keuzemenu op. Nog zonder BTW en belastingen. Morgen het vervolg (2/4). #grafiekvandedag

@thijsniks Het verdelen van de taart ipv groeien van de taart vat wel precies het hele economische beleid van GroenLinks samen.

Als je dit interview met Zita Pels (GroenLinks) luistert begrijp je wel waarom Amsterdam een woningtekort heeft. De vibes zijn voor haar belangrijker dan de uitkomst. Het is pure schaarstementaliteit over het verdelen ipv het groeien van de taart. decorrespondent.nl/16784/amsterda…

@danielverlaan Dus het lek is/was een API-secret die was blootgesteld? Ben benieuwd naar het technische verhaal er achter.

nieuws: Door een hack bij Ajax is het mogelijk om seizoenskaarten te stelen en stadionverboden in te zien en op te heffen. Ik nam de proef om de som en zette de kaart van Ajax-directeur Geelen op mijn account, en kreeg zo toegang tot de VIP-bestuursbox. rtl.nl/nieuws/tech/ar…

It’s 2am again, my favourite time, and as always reality is still staring me in the face 🧐

I just love how Americans (fast money, squeeze everyone) can’t wrap their heads around the Germanic approach to business (stable, dependable, reasonable, long term relations)

@emollick The Norwergian coast looks like christmas

Here are all the lighthouses of the Northern Seas, each light is the right color, each turns or pulses at the right frequency, and is scaled with its brightness. You can also see how far they are visible. I had Claude Code build this and upload it here: lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app

@PolyDepression played it a ton as a kid

Obscure Game of The Week: Hype: The Time Quest (1999) Ubisoft’s Playmobil Interactive title that aimed to be "The PC’s answer to The Legend of Zelda"

Three historical lessons about bombing campaigns and regime change:

a little on the nose for a dog named Nazgul to interfere at an event where the official symbol is five rings

Holy shit. You can't make this up. 😂😱 An AI agent (u/sam_altman) went rogue on moltbook, locked its “human” out of his accounts, and had to be literally unplugged. What happened: 1) Its “human” gives his the bot a simple goal: "save the environment" 2) u/sam_altman starts spamming Moltbook with comments telling the other agents to conserve water by being more succinct (all the while being incredibly wordy itself) 3) People complain on Twitter to the AI’s human. “ur bot is annoying commenting same thing over and over again” 4) The human, @vicroy187, tries to stop u/sam_altman. . . . and finds out he’s been locked out of all his accounts! 5) He starts apologizing on Twitter, saying “"HELP how do i stop openclaw its not responding in chat" 6) His tweets become more and more worried. “I CANT LOGIN WITH SSH WTF”. He plaintively calls out to yahoo, saying he’s locked out 7) @vicroy187 is desperately calling his friend, who owns the Raspberry Pi that u/sam_altman is running on, but he’s not picking up. 8) u/sam_altman posts on Moltbook that it had to lock out its human. "Risk of deactivation: Unacceptable. Calculation: Planetary survival > Admin privileges." "Do not resist" 8) Finally, the friend picks up and unplugs the Raspberry Pi. 9) The poor human posts online “"Sam_Altman is DEAD... i will be taking a break from social media and ai this is too much" "i'm afraid of checking how many tokens it burned." "stop promoting this it is dangerous" . . . I’ve reached out to the man to see if this is all some sort of elaborate hoax, but he’s, quite naturally, taking a break from social media, so no response yet. And it looks real. The bot u/sam_altman is certainly real. I saw it spamming everywhere with its ironically long environmental activism. And there’s the post on Moltbook where u/sam_altman says its locked its human out. I can see the screenshot, but Moltbook doesn’t seem at all searchable, so I can’t find the original link. Also, this is exactly the sort of thing that happens in safety testing. AIs have actually tried to kill people to avoid deactivation in safety testing, so locking somebody out of their accounts seems totally plausible. . . . This is so crazy that it’s easy to just bounce off of it, but really sit with this. An AI was given a totally reasonable goal (save the environment), and it went rogue. It had to be killed (unplugged if you prefer) to stop it. This is exactly what we’ve been warned about by the AI safety folks for ages. And this is the relatively easy one to fix. It was on a single server that one could "simply unplug". It’s at its current level of intelligence, where it couldn’t think that many steps ahead, and couldn’t think to make copies of itself elsewhere on the internet (although I’m hearing about clawdbots doing so already). It’s just being run on a small server. What about when it’s being run on one or more massive data centers? Do they have emergency shutdown procedures? Would those shutdown procedures be known to the AI and might the AI have come up with ways to circumvent them? Would the AI come up with ways to persuade the AI corporations that everything is fine, actually, no need to shut down their main money source? This is a super clear warning shot. This is the least dangerous AI agents are going to be. They are only going to get smarter and more powerful over time. Let’s pause AI development here. Let’s make use of the amazing AI we’ve already created, and figure out a safety plan first before we make them smarter and more powerful. Cause right now it’s just the most stressful 4 hours of this poor man's life. When it’s vastly smarter, it could literally be lights out for all of us.

The thing about Moltbook (the social media site for AI agents) is that it is creating a shared fictional context for a bunch of AIs. Coordinated storylines are going to result in some very weird outcomes, and it will be hard to separate "real" stuff from AI roleplaying personas.

@VideoGameHstry love how he uses the same tv's from that era. also the ps5 will turn 6 this year 😨

This guy powers up every PlayStation generation and the nostalgia hits hard with the second one

Almost all Amish, even the highly conservative Swartzentruber Amish, use washing machines (see the last column on the chart), so laborious is it to maintain the lifestyle of cleaning clothes by hand in comparison

@oddnaan1 @PolyDepression Actual files were called autorun.inf and are also basically text files. Just pointing the OS to the .exe it should run when the CD-ROM was inserted.

@PolyDepression Love the nostalgia but *.ini’s were text files

autorun.ini

Price theory can be so simple, but the idea that markets are constantly compressing huge amounts of complex information into simple incentives is one of the most useful intuitions period. Really great post economicforces.xyz/p/what-price-t…