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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Ethereum Foundation Alumni, ENS cofounder, Dad.</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz</link><title>@avsa.eth.xyz - Alex Van de Sande </title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mjmonye3ik24</link><description>Oh so you like ChatGPT?  So what if I take your favorite website and make it all ChatGPT? Do you like podcasts? Too late, it’s all ChatGPT!! YouTube videos? It’s just you asking ChatGPT questions but with some more steps! Friends? YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS, THEYRE ALL CHATGPT NOW? DO YOU LIKE IT NOW?</description><pubDate>16 Apr 2026 15:04 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmonye3ik24</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mg6yikajos25</link><description>In my life I saw a lot of tyrants get bombed. Every single one deserved what they got, yet none of their countries became better for it. &#xA;&#xA;I was a kid the last time I saw countries be truly liberated - not because of bombs, but because an empire bankrupted the other  in a science race.</description><pubDate>04 Mar 2026 00:08 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6yikajos25</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mfu22bcqmk2t</link><description>I don&#39;t think a lot of people realize how most of the world economy right now depends on everyone pretending a random monkey on Indonesia never pressed a button.</description><pubDate>27 Feb 2026 15:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfu22bcqmk2t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mfordi3of22c</link><description>Is “mailing a check” an actual thing Americans do in 2025 or is this only in tv shows?</description><pubDate>25 Feb 2026 13:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfordi3of22c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mdvkw3z5rc22</link><description>A visual explanation on why 14.4 : 10 and 17.3 : 10 should be the best screen ratios for foldable and tri-foldable phones.</description><pubDate>02 Feb 2026 19:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdvkw3z5rc22</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mcxd3skjac2u</link><description>&#34;If it weren&#39;t for America you&#39;d be all speaking German&#34; said trump in Davos, Switzerland, where they all speak German.</description><pubDate>21 Jan 2026 18:40 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcxd3skjac2u</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mcu3tdgefc2q</link><description>Food scientists have finished a 10.000 year long study of milling, burning, cutting, fermenting, drying, frying and cooking every single plant, and are sad to report nothing else became bread or chocolate.</description><pubDate>20 Jan 2026 11:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcu3tdgefc2q</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mcs3qixt5227</link><description>“Climate change is a hoax and the polar caps are not melting. Also, we’re very interested in buying your polar caps and arctic routes”</description><pubDate>19 Jan 2026 16:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcs3qixt5227</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3mco2ijp5xk2w</link><description>“We’ve created a new revolutionary technology that will replace all jobs, increase productivity tenfold and might acquire super human powers. How do we make money? 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People don’t want tiny helicopters, they wanted the suburbs and highways urbanism but without having to think about the infrastructure needed or the harms caused on the ground.</description><pubDate>21 Oct 2025 12:11 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pchdooos2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/avsa.eth.xyz/post/3m2hepsjxcc2c</link><description>Taylor didn’t discover a hack to avoid social media. We all used to have hobbies and then Zuck &amp; Co figured how to have us give all that up on them and replace with dumbscrolling.</description><pubDate>05 Oct 2025 15:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:e55gzhexumbabciuediyssmb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2hepsjxcc2c</guid></item></channel></rss>