Oliver de Leeuw

Online communicatieregisseur - van klimaattop en medisch congres tot een CEO afscheidsvideo. 💡 Presentator & dagvoorzitter ☕ Drinkt graag offline koffie.

[Oliver de Leeuw @odeleeuw]

Gefeliciteerd Amsterdam met je 749ste verjaardag! 🎉

Vandaag trappen we officieel het jubileumjaar #Amsterdam750 af met het openingsconcert. Trots! ❌❌❌

Kwam nog deze prachtige AI-gemaakte video tegen die de rijke geschiedenis van onze stad tot leven brengt @amsterdam750 🤩

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Oliver de Leeuw @odeleeuw]

Bas Westerweel is onverwachts overleden. https://t.co/gzmIpylKys

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Apple has named John Ternus, a longtime insider who has been groomed as a top executive overseeing hardware projects for years, as its new chief executive, succeeding Tim Cook. https://t.co/NWnpTskHgX

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham explains how he used ChatGPT/AlphaFold (spent $3,000 with no biology background) to create a custom MRNA vaccine to treat his dog’s cancer tumors. Unreal.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Voedselpark Amsterdam @Voedselpark020]

TIP Dit weekend Reclaim the Seeds
Voor iedereen biologische zonnebloemzaden 🌻🌻🌻 zet de stad in bloei

Het programma daarvan vind je hier:
https://t.co/aiTc1uF09T

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Icon, the AI Admaker, just went bankrupt

They paid $12M for the domain https://t.co/MokmFd4GxD and now it's dead

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: James Van Der Beek, who starred in 'Dawson's Creek' and 'Varsity Blues,' dies at 48, his wife says. https://t.co/E3kUdl3wIm

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Large language models can accurately score people’s Big 5 personality traits on the basis of their brief, open-ended narratives.

LLM ratings converged with self-reports, predicted daily behaviour and mental health, and outperformed traditional language processing methods. https://t.co/akxrdZvUQw

[Simon Willison @simonw]

A new post about prompt injection attacks, which I'm increasingly concerned about now that people are hooking LLMs up to external tools through Auto-GPT, ChatGPT Plugins etc https://t.co/swh8TVPkNB

[Oliver de Leeuw @odeleeuw]

Tijd voor een groenere koers

@followthis2015 ✅

https://t.co/VHtb22fKeR

[jan van geffen @jvangeffen]

Vandaag mag @StAmbulancewens de 25.000 ste wens vervullen.
Voor 1 keer trending worden op X zou een leuk cadeautje zijn, helpen jullie mee met een RT ?

[RTV Utrecht @rtvutrecht]

VIDEO: Bekijk hier beelden van de brand in het centrum van Utrecht https://t.co/nr5JlEcvmA

[Justin Bariso @JustinJBariso]

Why I decided NOT to make an “AI clone” of myself:

A lot of coaches are making AI clones, trained on their content and even call transcripts. No shade: I’ve thought deeply about doing this myself, but for now I’ve decided against it.

Here’s why:

1️⃣ SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

Everyone says AI is the best way to “scale yourself.” The challenge when it comes to coaching and consulting, at least in emotional intelligence (and in many other niches, too), is these conversations are complex. They often require using strategies in combination, “breaking” rules (at times), and a lot of nuance.

So far, AI lacks this ability.

2️⃣ COMMODITIZATION

AI coaches may still be novel and interesting…but as they grow in popularity, they’ll become just another needle in the haystack.

The more easily accessible AI coaching is, the less valuable it becomes. In contrast, access to “the real person” will increase in value.

3️⃣ CONNECTION & COMMUNITY
As people connect more and more to ARTIFICIAL intelligence, the more valuable HUMAN connection becomes.

We see this already when it comes to customer service chatbots: If you have a problem, do you prefer to speak to a bot or a real person? That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

People have always valued community. That will only increase as AI continues to rise: Human connection will become increasingly valuable currency.

To clarify, I use AI extensively in my workflow—primarily for research, feedback, and to help me iterate (more on that coming).

But I don’t see outsourcing high-level thinking—whether for myself or trying to help others.

Curious to hear your thoughts on this, especially from coaches who are AI enthusiasts. How do you see things differently?

[Voedselpark Amsterdam @Voedselpark020]

Zie hier de Insprekers 7/1 Commissie RO
- Miranda Suripatty over stadslandbouw https://t.co/frwkvThXV8
- Ivar Smits over grondwaarde https://t.co/KQPAod9YmD

De wethouder RO (d66) herhaalde vooral zichzelf, hij gaf opnieuw aan niet te willen afwaarderen. #Lutkemeerpolder

[Nalden @Nalden]

S🪃🪃N!

[Oliver de Leeuw @odeleeuw]

Tof! En een tech tip:

https://t.co/luz5g43ssj Boomerang voor file sharing, alternatief voor WeTransfer van @Nalden zelf 🔥

Gebruik je al WT, misschien Stack, FromSmash? Altijd handig meerdere opties achter de hand te hebben. Zéker als je haast hebt.

[Oliver de Leeuw @odeleeuw]

Wauw, Jitse Groen na 25 jaar weg bij JET (Just Eat Takeway/Thuisbezorgd).

En: HEMA wordt volledig van Jumbo.

https://t.co/WFv4cf6Wr8

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Coffee price per pound

One year ago: $2.9

Now: $4.1