Dirk Ahlers

Smart Sustainable City facilitator and researcher, Project Manager @pluscities @NEBStavanger @ReValueCities, sciencing at @NTNU. Digitalisation for Smart Cities

[Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU]

Torino, Cities Mission Annual Conference 2026.

3 days of concrete exchanges on what implementation looks like in practice today, from financing projects to delivery on the ground, as cities move ahead with their Climate City Contracts.

🎥Rewatch online https://t.co/TriXb4ilDD

[Damien Masson @damienhci]

Visual Story-Writing. While you write, our word processor visualizes the timeline, world map, and character relationships. Editing these visuals updates the story (e.g. drag a character on the map to move them).

This summarizes our #UIST2025 paper. #HCI #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵
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[Замаханий репортер @ReporterTired]

I don’t know if many English-speaking people read my account, but it’s worth a try. After nights like this one, I feel the need to explain a little what it's like: living in Kyiv during a full-scale war 👇

[West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) @WestWingReport]

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: https://t.co/PrSnworkRv

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[mike ginn @shutupmikeginn]

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

[Kristen Michal @KristenMichalPM]

Desynchronising our energy grid from Russia has begun.

We have thoroughly prepared for this. There are sufficient controllable capacity and external connections in the Baltic States to ensure a smooth transition.

Tomorrow we will join the Continental European frequency band.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

We got these phone booths (a K6 from the 1930s, and a KX100 from the 1990s) for the @stripe lobby, as a reminder that there are always two paths in everything we make: something that elevates and makes you smile, or, well, whatever the thing on the right is.

[Dirk Ahlers @dirkahlers]

Really impressive generation. Also, watch till the end.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

For a couple years, I have been using "otter using wifi on an airplane" as my test for the improving ability of AI image and video systems.

But this is now too easy a challenge for current AI, so what if we kicked it up a notch (these are all veo 2 clips).

[Letzte Generation Österreich @letztegenAT]

Wenn Medien über alles so berichten würden, wie über die Klimakatastrophe 👇

[Smart Cities Marketplace @EUSmartCities]

🚀 Scalable Cities at #SCEWC24 Agora Sessions Recap🌍
🌱 The Power of #Communities:
Jörgen Lööf, Baptiste Mougeot, Anh Minh Vu, Dirk Ahlers, & Leen Peeters.
🚀 Building Better Cities through #PEDs:
Monjur Murshed, Omar Shafqat, Humberto Queiroz, Cecilia Sanz.
🙏 Thank you to all!

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

They say climate *protesters* are disruptive.
Valencia today.

[Dirk Ahlers @dirkahlers]

Flying back to Norway...

[Siddharth Sareen @sidsareen]

A highlight of the @ped_eu conference is breakout groups in workshop mode. Vital discussions that pull together a wealth of experience and expertise flow freely in such a convivial format.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

The problem with appeasement is you eventually run out of other people’s countries.

[Garrison Lovely @GarrisonLovely]

Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras.

Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT 🧵

[Dirk Ahlers @dirkahlers]

Open researcher and project manager @NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities on understanding and shaping impact towards #UrbaTransition,#ClimateTransition, Cities Mission, New European Bauhaus @CrAFt_NEB @NEBStavanger @ReValueCities #BauhausBites #ClimaGen
https://t.co/2GvmsLgHQm

[Ruprecht Polenz🇪🇺 @polenz_r]

Einfach Klasse @katjaberlin