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Etnisch nationalisme zorgde vooral voor spanningen tussen volkeren onderling en inspireerde onafhankelijkheidsconflicten; van de strijd van Polen om vrij te worden van Russische overheersing tot de Ierse emancipatiestrijd. Dit liep nooit uit op genocide. Eén van de meest gruwelijke slachtpartijen van het ene volk door het andere in Europa in de... See more

AI coding agents like Devin are already being tested on completing real-world tasks from freelancer platform Upwork, and have even been spotted asking questions in coding communities when it gets stuck. For $500 per month, Devin can work on your code base independently, doing work equivalent to a junior engineer.

In theory, any action that is available through an application programming interface (API) can be done by an LLM. This functionality is available with OpenAI’s custom GPTs—its platform for creating and hosting your own version of ChatGPT—and called GPT Actions.

I tuned my inputs to listen more to channels from the real world, including the nature channel, the friend channel, the love channel, the curiosity channel, the literature channel, and the travel channel. I smelled a lot of roses and marveled at amazing vistas near and far. I even let myself get bored from time to time. I reduced my clock speed to

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Today, if Varoufakis is to be believed, we are up against powerful feudal lords of big tech companies and corporations who have decoupled power from capital; they control not only the factories and farms, but the means to transfer money, and they mediate your access to the rest of humanity. They can de-platform you. They can de-bank you.... See more

Stop trying so hard. Last week I discovered life's greatest irony in a coffee shop at 2 p.m., over-caffeinated and buzzing with excitement about a book titled Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, a treatise on living a life without objectives. What happened next honestly felt like a cosmic joke. My unfiltered brain dump about this book on X—this... See more

In their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan compare over 300 violent and non-violent struggles in the 20th century to conclude that non-violent civil disobedience is about twice as effective as armed revolution.

Dit laatste leefde nog niet heel sterk tijden de latere jaren 40 of de jaren 50, maar is vooral tijdens de jaren 60 prominent geworden. Dat nationalisme en volksidentiteit onder Europese mensen slecht was, dat racisme en segregatie in de VS ook moest leiden tot een schuldcomplex onder mensen in Europa, dat ook toen bezette landen zich schuldig... See more

I recently sent an email that I wouldn’t have dared try a few years ago, along the lines of: “I’m planning to start an organization similar to yours; would you consider letting me run yours instead?” The response? Crickets.