Wilte Zijlstra

A detailed and brutal look at the tactics of buzzy AI compliance startup Delve "Delve built a machine designed to make clients complicit without their knowledge, to manufacture plausible deniability while producing exactly the opposite." substack.com/home/post/p-19…

So, a friend of mine has a family bracket tournament every year. Everyone participates, including the family cat. The cat has rules: animals over humans, cats over non-cats, big cats over little cats. The cat has won several years.

Throwback Roland-Garros 2000 where Mary Pierce did this against Monica Seles… Tweener in itself is iconic but a tweener-lob is LEGENDARY…. Craziest & Rare shot 👏

In 2021, after 6 years of shopping at my local Sainsbury’s and tracking where I parked each time on a spreadsheet, I completed all 211 parking spots the store had to offer. In 2024 I moved to a new town - and guess what I’ve been busy doing since :) A thread 🧵

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

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations. With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

Awesome bit of data that makes intuitive sense. “Finland cut VAT on haircuts in 2007 to see if cheaper prices would boost demand and jobs. But when the tax fell by €4, many salons lowered prices by only €2 and kept the rest as profit. When VAT rose again, prices jumped by the full €4, turning a temporary tax cut into a permanent price hike. It’s tax incidence in action: firms with pricing power pass on cuts partly, and hikes fully.” Source: buff.ly/9vkSfvn

Has this become the new design process? 🤖 What happens when AI improves? Image credit Hang Xu

"In America, wanting to sleep at night is only acceptable if you record it as a disability"

Due to pre-tournament seedings, Group 1 of the Super Eight stage will have all four teams who topped their first-round groups unbeaten 😳 #T20WorldCup

Man, it's remarkable how few people are behind on their mortgage. Latest data through Q4 2025.

The Most Cold-Blooded At-Bat of All Time. 😳

This awesome paper finally got published! The conclusion is, basically, that we've been mismeasuring lifespan, so the resulting heritability estimates are halved compared to if we measured without counting stuff like getting killed by cars or guns or accidents.

Me when Hotel California comes on.

engineered a "rat race" that extracted significant additional effort from its best pilots. When pilots got close to the informal quota, their effort spiked; once they had the award, it slumped. New medals spelled more renewed efforts.

Our project just got shut down by Berkeley in <15 days of operation.

GREAT list of questions. For me the best ones are TRANSLATOR and ARCHITECT

Gele kaart vragen = gele kaart krijgen 😅🟨 #azexc

Saw Marty Supreme last weekend, and was inspired to do a comp of serving advantage across multiple sports. Tennis 🎾: it's an advantage to serve Volleyball 🏐: it's a disadvantage to serve Table Tennis 🏓: nearly 50/50, based on what limited data I was able to find

This chart is fun studying if you watched any TV show in the last 25 years. It also shows how rare it is what Breaking Bad pulled off. The show improved its rankings each season. Usually shows get worse (The Simpsons and even Yellowstone). Source: #lightbox" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…