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Erwin Rossen 🔸

@erwinrossen@mas.to
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Python software developer for Fashion retailers and suppliers at Fashion Cloud. Effective Altruist. Based in Amsterdam.

🔸 Pledged to donate at least 10% of lifetime income to effective charities
🥬 Fan of plant-based food

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Joined October 31, 2022
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
In the Netherlands, blocking a bike lane for passenger drop-off is a traffic violation, full stop. The "too high a bar" answer reveals exactly which users Waymo designed for. This isn't a technical limitation. It's a values choice baked in from the start.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@MarkHoltom I wouldn't say that "all would be fixed" with a 35% reduction, but it's a great place to start!
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@EUCommission "The DSA requires platforms accessible to minors to maintain a high level of privacy, safety and security." I have a better idea. What if you require privacy, safety and security for *all* platforms? That way you also don't have to breach it yourself with age verification.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 4mo ago
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@TheStoneDonkey@beige.party @Mistonas@mastodon.social Even if you tell people, they don't care. Maybe they need to hear it from multiple angles and repeatedly, but just knowing about it is not enough to give up the comfortable life.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 3mo ago
Replying to
@janvlug@mastodon.social @HelgavanLeur@mastodon.green Hier in Amsterdam gaat het anders goed te keer!
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 2mo ago
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@wraptile@fosstodon.org @stux@mstdn.social 👆 Exactly this! People complaining about the environmental destruction of AI while still consuming animal products are at least very inconsistent, to say it nicely. So sad to see that this post is so underrepresented. Vibes over facts, even on Mastodon. 😢
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 4mo ago
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@Blogfeedser@mastodon.nl Ik hoop dat deze "betogers" worden aangeklaagd voor poging tot moord. 😡
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 3mo ago
I see on Our World In Data that The Netherlands charges almost $100 per tonne of CO2. I wonder if this takes into account that we indeed have rules to charge this, but that only small emitters like consumers pay this, and for large polluters we have fossil subsidies. 👉 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-price-vs-share-emissions 👉 https://mas.to/@erwinrossen/111025115687360519 #FossilFuels #CO2 #ClimateChange #CarbonTax #FossilFuelSubsidies
Carbon price vs. share of global CO₂ emissions covered
Our World in Data

Carbon price vs. share of global CO₂ emissions covered

Carbon prices, measured in US$ per tonne of CO₂ on emissions covered by a tax or trading scheme versus the share of global CO₂ emissions covered. These prices can be economy-wide or sector-specific.

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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@craignicol @wdormann @mastodonmigration On my Android it did show Name and message completely. Not sure if I have changed that setting myself in the past 8 years that I have been using Signal, or whether that is/was the default.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@Coho@mountains.social The scraping problem is real and genuinely damaging to irreplaceable scientific resources. Worth separating out though: the culprit is unconstrained bot traffic, which long predates LLMs and happens for scrapers of all kinds. Better rate limiting and robots.txt enforcement — or a small sign-up requirement — can protect these databases without blocking legitimate users.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 8mo ago
@andrewstroehlein It's like reading a story about the resistance in World War II.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
Worth distinguishing the #EffectiveAltruism most of us actually practice, donating 10% of income to wherever it does the most good (global health, animal welfare, climate funds), from the TESCREAL / Roko's Basilisk / longtermist AI cult that keeps getting bundled with it. Very different communities with very different goals. 👉 https://www.givingwhatwecan.org
Giving What We Can
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Giving What We Can

100x your impact by finding and donating to the best charities. Learn about high-impact philanthropy, join an effective giving community, take a giving pledge.

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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@smutmag @whitequark Putting blaming individual behavior aside, how can you blame a person for not being environmentalist enough *on a barbecue* that you're organizing?!
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@dl2jml@mastodon.radio @tezoatlipoca@mas.to Do you know a good way to block ads on your mobile? I'm using DuckDuckGo browser, but haven't found a decent ad blocker plugin yet, like I have for Firefox on my MacBook.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@vonxylofon@witter.cz @TheStoneDonkey@beige.party @Mistonas@mastodon.social You put it stronger than I did, but I think I actually agree with you.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago

Bike Helmets: Stupid Hat or Essential Protection?

A very nuanced video explaining (among other things) how helmets don't necessarily lead to riskier behavior or dehumanization (like many anti-helmet people claim), nor that the risk of injury is big at all in most circumstances (like many pro-helmet people claim).

I did miss the inconvenience factor of always having to bring the helmet everywhere you go though, even when not cycling.

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1HgInvm-gY

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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago

Did you know you could spell your name using satellite images of geographical features? My name is spelled with images from:
📍 Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, Iceland
📍 Florida Keys
📍 La Primavera, Columbia
📍 Borgarbyggð, Iceland
📍 Yapacani, Bolivia

Check it out at:
👉 https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/

#Geography #LandSat #Satellite

Your Name in Landsat - NASA Science
NASA Science

Your Name in Landsat - NASA Science

With this online interactive, users can type in their name then view and export the graphic of that name spelled out in Earth features found in Landsat images.

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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago

Ik zocht vandaag bij zowel de Jumbo als de Albert Heijn in Amsterdam naar een #vegan #diepvriespizza, maar van de 30 verschillende soorten per winkel is er geen een plantaardig. 😠

mas.to

mas.to

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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
I am considering sharing it with my 120 colleagues, but I am still looking at an angle to bring it. I am the only #vegan in the company, and don't want to just push it in their face. Does anyone here have any tips for that, any angles I didn't consider yet?
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
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@anderseknert I didn't know this. Thanks for sharing! 🙏
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@adamchainz @hugovk Great tip! I am introducing it into my team now.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@newsgroup Let me start by saying that AI controlling nukes is very bad. But this is an unfair comparison. There are many more AI systems than LLMs. The systems to detect possible first strikes from an opponent are definitely not LLMs.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 41mo ago
Replying to
@ghorwood@mastodon.social @c_9@mstdn.ca I hope all people not driving a car at all would get the most lottery tickets!
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 14mo ago
Replying to
@jeffowski@mastodon.world Generating an image uses around 2.9 Wh. If you compare this to a 3kW AC, we can say that generating one image consumes as much energy as 3.5 seconds of AC usage. 👉 https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption It is expected that in the next few years, our energy consumption will grow 3 times faster due to AC than due to data centers (which also includes other usages like streaming). 👉 https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-demand So I agree with the cities: if you really care about the planet, focus more on AC than on AI!
How much electricity does AI consume?
The Verge

How much electricity does AI consume?

How many watts and joules does it actually take to generate a single Balenciaga pope?

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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@pennine@mastodonapp.uk I think 59% is still low. What is the main reason for the other 41% for not joining the EU?
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
The incentive to skip review is real, but it doesn't erase the distinction. "Agentic engineering with careful review and tests" is a discipline; vibe coding is skipping that step. The problem isn't the tooling, it's whether you treat review as optional.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago

Last year I tried to move away from Gmail, and I tried out Tutamail (from @Tutanota@mastodon.social) for almost a year now. I am really sympathetic to the company, but their email solution is just not working for me. Text-only emails sometimes take up to 30 seconds to load in the webapp, the search is horrible, and when I paid for premium, my account didn't get upgraded and I couldn't get support on it (because you need a premium account to get support). 😢

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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I actually like this design. It might not be clear to all, but who cares, just use whichever toilet you want.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 14mo ago
Replying to
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place @jeffowski@mastodon.world It's fair to compare the training as well, but not too an unofficial using it of course. The second article I shared did look at the training energy usage. Note that I'm not saying that AI doesn't use a lot of electricity. I'm saying that AC uses a lot more and you hear nobody about this.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@kathhayhoe Something else that any individual can do and is super impactful is giving a donation to an effective climate nonprofit organization, e.g. 🇺🇸 https://www.givinggreen.earth/giving-green-fund 🇬🇧 https://www.founderspledge.com/programs/climate-fund/about or https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ 🇳🇱 https://doneereffectief.nl/toporganisaties/klimaat/ Read more about the tremendous impact you could make here: 👉 https://www.bmg.org.uk/protecting-our-glaciers-effective-climate-action-for-the-international-year-of-glaciers-2025/ 👉 https://effectivealtruism.org.au/reducing-emissions-the-biggest-impact-isnt-where-you-think/
givinggreen.earth
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@mercedesallen Sounds like a landslide victory, but 17 abstains (and in the article explaining that some might agree with the US, but just didn't like the form it was presented) is not something to be happy with.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems When you skip the figuring out part when using LLMs, you're using them wrong. It should be a tool that can actually aid you in the figuring out part.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@mercedesallen You're right, it's definitely a win! 🙌
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 20mo ago
Replying to
@DrPen I think it's more powerful to go for the opposite and complete the #genericide, just like it happened to Kleenex, Xerox or Band-Aid. Say to everyone you will send them a Word document, and then send them a random other text document. Say you'll app somebody, then don't use WhatsApp but Signal, etc. These terms are so generic now, I think we're almost there already.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
Super tip! En voor wie ook effectief wil doneren aan de voedseltransitie: het Doneer Effectief Fonds Dierenwelzijn & Voedseltransitie zet je geld in bij bewezen effectieve organisaties. 👉 https://doneereffectief.nl/toporganisatie/doneer-effectief-fonds-dierenwelzijn-en-voedseltransitie/ #DoneerEffectief #PlantBased
doneereffectief.nl
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 14mo ago
Replying to
@jeffowski@mastodon.world Everybody who complains about AI's energy usage from an AC'ed space either doesn't know how bad an AC is (good faith take), or doesn't really care about the climate in the first place (bad faith take). 🌍
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@anze3db@fosstodon.org I read this post a few weeks ago, and thought: that makes sense! But now I was seeing this graph, and learned that there is less than 24 hours between when a vulnerability is found and when it is exploited. Now I am wondering what the correct cooldown strategy should be. Any thoughts on that?
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 14mo ago
Replying to
@Vorsos@beige.party @jeffowski@mastodon.world I show you the numbers that AC is many times worse than data centers, and you are still saying that AC is okay. Isn't it you who is parroting the fossil billionaires, that it's okay to burn up the entire planet? There's plenty wrong with AI, but please, that's not a reason to stick your head in the sand for energy consumption in general, like for AC! Pointing to AI is just a whataboutism, a distraction from even worse polluters. Don't side with Big Oil on this, please!
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Yes AI, but more transparency and regulation on big tech companies currently owning the models (and us).
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@knowmadd@mastodon.world Did you also do a survey how many people would be tricked by this question? I, for one, admit am one, because my initial reaction to your post was: what's wrong with that answer?
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@randahl@mastodon.social How I envy the Danish politics.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 44mo ago
Replying to
@bryanjclark@mastodon.social Meh, I had to look at the icon for a couple of seconds before I saw what it was. I'm not an Apple books user. How is nonfiction a genre? It's a class of genes at best. Does it have subgenres below nonfiction?
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@dahukanna@mastodon.social Data hygiene is equivalent to personal carbon footprint: not the thing we should focus on, but unfortunately the only thing we have (a little bit) in control.
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 5mo ago

Petitie: Hervorm de NVWA!

Er gaat van alles mis bij teams Dierenwelzijn van de Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA): er is geen capaciteit voor controles, inspecteurs zijn niet streng genoeg, er is een slechte bestuurscultuur en er zijn bedreigingen vanuit de industrie. Dit MOET aangepakt worden!

👉 https://hervormdenvwa.petities.nl/

#Dierenwelzijn

hervormdenvwa.petities.nl
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Erwin Rossen 🔸 @erwinrossen@mas.to
· 14mo ago
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@Vorsos@beige.party We are probably more aligned than you think. We're both against cooking the Earth, and in favor for human survival that's a great start. 😊
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