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"If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?" That was the [rhetorical] question The Verge's Sean Hollister asked when he reviewed ModRetro's Game Boy-style handheld device back in 2024. He said it "might be the best version of the Game Boy ever made," though the connection to Palmer Luckey and his defense tech startup Anduril left him conflicted. "I don't remember my childhood nostalgia coming with a side of possible guilt and fear about putting money into the pocket of a weapons contractor," he wrote. "Feels weird!"
Those conflicted feelings have lingered ever since. TechCrunch recently cited Hollister's review while reporting that ModRetro is now seeking funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company is said to have additional retro-inspired hardware in development, including one designed to replicate the Nintendo 64. As for Anduril? It's reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round that would value the company at around $60 billion.
Those conflicted feelings have lingered ever since. TechCrunch recently cited Hollister's review while reporting that ModRetro is now seeking funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company is said to have additional retro-inspired hardware in development, including one designed to replicate the Nintendo 64. As for Anduril? It's reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round that would value the company at around $60 billion.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned. In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) -- the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT -- successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, based on the information they posted. The AI researchers Simon Lermen and Daniel Paleka said LLMs make it cost effective to perform sophisticated privacy attacks, forcing a "fundamental reassessment of what can be considered private online".
In their experiment, the researchers fed anonymous accounts into an AI, and got it to scrape all the information it could. They gave a hypothetical example of a user talking about struggling at school, and walking their dog Biscuit through a "Dolores park." In that hypothetical case, the AI then searched elsewhere for those details and matched @anon_user42 to the known identity with a high degree of confidence. While this example was fictional, the paper's authors highlighted scenarios in which governments use AI to surveil dissidents and activists posting anonymously, or hackers are able to launch "highly personalized" scams.
In their experiment, the researchers fed anonymous accounts into an AI, and got it to scrape all the information it could. They gave a hypothetical example of a user talking about struggling at school, and walking their dog Biscuit through a "Dolores park." In that hypothetical case, the AI then searched elsewhere for those details and matched @anon_user42 to the known identity with a high degree of confidence. While this example was fictional, the paper's authors highlighted scenarios in which governments use AI to surveil dissidents and activists posting anonymously, or hackers are able to launch "highly personalized" scams.
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Altijd maar “sorry” zeggen lijkt beleefd, maar ondermijnt op termijn je zelfvertrouwen, je grenzen én hoe serieus anderen je nemen. Het is geen kleinigheid, maar een patroon dat diep in ons sociale gedrag zit.
Waarom we zoveel sorry zeggen
Veelvuldige excuses komen vaak voort uit angst voor conflict, afwijzing of kritiek. Wie is opgegroeid in een omgeving waar harmonie belangrijker was dan tegenspraak, leert snel dat excuses spanning wegnemen. Psychologen zien overmatig sorry zeggen ook als signaal van laag zelfbeeld en people pleasing: je neemt structureel te veel verantwoordelijkheid op je, zelfs voor dingen die niet jouw fout zijn.
Je maakt jezelf kleiner dan je bent
Wie zich voortdurend verontschuldigt – “sorry dat ik stoor”, “sorry dat ik een vraag heb” – zet zichzelf onbewust in een ondergeschikte positie. Je suggereert dat jouw aanwezigheid, tijd of mening eigenlijk tot last is. Onderzoek laat zien dat mensen die zichzelf steeds downplayen, waaronder via overmatig excuseren, gemiddeld lager scoren op zelfwaardering en levensvoldoening. Het ironische effect: je zegt sorry om aardig gevonden te worden, maar straalt juist onzekerheid uit.
Wanneer sorry wél en niet helpt
Oprechte excuses kunnen relaties repareren, maar ze doen lang niet altijd wat we denken. Experimenteel onderzoek laat zien dat een excuus soms het schuldgevoel bij de dader verlaagt, terwijl de gekwetste zich niet per se vergevingsgezinder voelt – soms zelfs meer geraakt. Daar komt bij dat wie overal spijt van betuigt, zijn “ sorry” inflatie bezorgt: op het moment dat er écht iets ernstigs gebeurt, klinkt het minder geloofwaardig.
Hoe je kunt stoppen zonder asociaal te worden
Stoppen met over-apologiseren betekent niet dat je nooit meer je excuses aanbiedt, maar dat je bewuster taal kiest. Vervang automatische “sorry’s” door neutrale of waarderende formuleringen: “dank je voor het wachten” in plaats van “sorry dat ik te laat ben”, “mag ik je iets vragen?” in plaats van “sorry dat ik je stoor”. Een simpele vuistregel: bied alleen excuses aan als je daadwerkelijk schade hebt veroorzaakt. In alle andere gevallen volstaat duidelijkheid: zeg wat je nodig hebt, waar je grens ligt, of dat je van mening verschilt – zonder je bestaan te verontschuldigen.
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