Profile avatar
comcortim.bsky.social
Born in Lancashire, grew up in Yorkshire, live in The Netherlands. Speak English and Dutch. CTO of the still programming variety, co-founder of Nalanda, angler, boater. Views are solely mine and not those of current or past employers; then again …
198 posts 239 followers 497 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 21 Comments 28

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

Best image of the day:

submitted 5 days ago • 593 comments

Trump has unleashed something terrifying in the US – that even he may be powerless to control | Gaby Hinsliff

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Volgens mij is de enige echte oplossing een totaalverbod op ALLE algoritme-gestuurde sociale media. Mensen zijn gewoon te makkelijk te manipuleren door hen alleen te vertellen wat ze willen horen. Of dat nou waar is of niet. Social Media zijn een verslavend hallucinerend middel.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

'Onverantwoord' dat Wilders uit coalitie stapt, waagt Yesilgöz te zeggen. Onverantwoord was de kabinetsval die ze 2 jaar geleden in gang zette. Onverantwoord was de open deur naar ondemocratisch rechts. Onverantwoord was een kabinet met Wilders.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Trump’s support is sliding – except where Fox News is strongest. A powerful new analysis shows just how tightly his vote maps to viewers of one channel. Read why this matters ⤵️

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of US global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. And I wonder if your proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family ... I know you know this in your heart."

submitted 31 days ago • 790 comments

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/mo...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

submitted 43 days ago • 214 comments

submitted 46 days ago • 154 comments

The true owners of American soil were the Native Americans, long before Columbus arrived in 1492. Colonization led to the extermination of millions. Today's Americans are not indigenous — never forget whose land this really is.

submitted 53 days ago • 14 comments

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

submitted 58 days ago • 71 comments

I thought this was really interesting: Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power futurism.com/altman-pleas...

submitted 61 days ago • 9 comments

Ignore Trump for a moment, and all the other calamities going on around the world. Climate change is still the biggest threat to us all, and we are in danger of ignoring it. youtu.be/6F21B2FdU_w?...

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

Terugkijktip: Koot & Bie NPO3 vanavond ging over veehouderij, jacht en mestoverschot (“strontsurplus”). Het is helaas zó actueel, het had nu kunnen zijn. Bv ⤵️wethouder Deurne: je kunt het toch door de wc spoelen. Jaap Korteweg: die zou zó aan de slag kunnen bij BBB🎯

submitted 62 days ago • 15 comments

In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into its maw while further destroying our public institutions and wrecking what’s left of our civil norms. Yet this week also featured 11 reasons for modest optimism.

submitted 77 days ago • 41 comments

submitted 64 days ago • 57 comments

www.wallawallademocrats.com/other-voices...

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

I just asked #MetaAI which Java API to use to process *large* spreadsheets and its response was far inferior to the #chatGpt response to the same query. The damned thing is in #whatsapp now whether you want it or not.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

BBC: ‘Summers says: "There's no one who doesn't work for the president who doesn't think this is a good idea."’ No one who doesn’t work for. … = one who does work for … so somebody that works for the pres doesn’t think this is a good idea?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments