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Bas Leenders

Bas Leenders

01 Sep 2011
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Arjen Kamphuis in zijn column over documentformaten, Its a trap! (Wayback Machine)

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One of three things happens

we know that one of three things happens when people use a machine to automate a task they would otherwise have done themselves:Their skill in the activity grows.Their skill in the activity atrophies.Their skill in the activity never develops. Nicholas Carr, on The Myth of Automated Learning

By Bas Leenders 27 May 2025

Narcissism and revenge and self-enrichment

Calling a man whose primary motives are narcissism and revenge and self-enrichment a “populist” does not really illuminate what’s going on here. Hamilton Nolan, pondering why Trump is doing all these things that are not good for business: This is not “populism” any more than a bite from an

By Bas Leenders 06 Apr 2025

Your brain breaks a little

It’s worse than you think in the same way that your brain breaks a little when you try to picture how deep the ocean is. Brian Barrett, in Wired on Musk's DOGE Takeover: It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to

By Bas Leenders 12 Mar 2025

Hoovering up all available government-controlled data

In its current “chainsaw” phase, Musk’s DOGE initiative is attempting to rid the government of as many humans as possible while at the same time hoovering up all available government-controlled data and transferring it into large language models. The intent is to clear a space for the incubation of

By Bas Leenders 10 Mar 2025
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