Wilbert Kraan

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[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

Stepping into the fediverse @[email protected]

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

That’s my escapism sorted for the next week or two: the @routedurhumENG from Saint-Malo to Guadeloupe.

@pipoceanracing for the IMOCAs
@GoodchildSam for the Ocean50s
And Armel Le Cleac’h there on his flying sea monster in the Ultim class.

[Voile Banque Populaire @VoileBanquePop]

Envie de décoller ? 🚀

Evadez-vous avec ces belles images du Maxi Banque Populaire XI en plein décollage 😍🌅

#PassionVoile

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

Good update on the latest in the perennial language determines / influences thought question.

Still wonder about the causal link, though; isn’t it what a community considers important that influences language rather than v.v.?
https://t.co/R2pb5GG3gK

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

Going to a workshop on our database preservation work for #DigitalPreservation day.

Not sure how we’ll be able to sort the wheat from the chaff in those enterprise beasts while the folk who know them are moving on at pace.

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

hang on, catching up on the new twitter business model

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

Ah. Oops.

“Are you excited for the Chinese government to find ways to threaten Tesla’s huge business in that country over content that appears on Twitter?”

[nilay patel @reckless]

Sorry bro https://t.co/lIaCYPplH6

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@samsterby Oh, and VanMoof bikes; nearly as visibly spendy and recognisable as a Bentley

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@samsterby Make boxbikes / bakfietsen a status symbol. Worked a treat in the Netherlands.

[TwistedDoodles @twisteddoodles]

Ghost encounters

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@JeremyBarraud @dkernohan Ah, like Allende’s project cybersin?
He’d have my vote.

https://t.co/KCGT3eD8nN

[Jeni Tennison @JeniT]

Did you know about Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund? https://t.co/acHW8iW7Ik

It's finally doing something about the problem illustrated in this xkcd: so much of our digital infrastructure is reliant on open source tools that are only kept going through good will.

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@scottbw @samsterby ‘Trivial’

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@nevali Irgendwie kommt es mir vor dass es ‚Bundesfeieramt‘ sein sollte.
Sowas hat es total geben können, gibt es aber nicht.

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@nevali Liest sich wie ‚nen DIN für konzentriertes Dad‘s Humor

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@zeynep I guess “cheap cruise missile’ doesn’t sound as dramatic?

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@psychemedia While all of that is true, in a PR system, a coalition partner would have pulled the plug on the whole charade long before it got this bad.

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@ostephens There’s the Flesch-Kincaid readability tests that are widely used in the US. On the word level, they simply go by how many syllables a word has. https://t.co/l8Cc1nC5ap

There are online Flesch-Kincaid readability calculators: https://t.co/bTlWasfpww

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@ldodds Trolling the libs is all they have left.

[Wilbert Kraan @wilm]

@rossmackenzie It’s some ways off, but it’s clear there’s a big one heading your way. Take care!