Nowadays it seems more and more that our culture is curated by algorithms. Every single day we interact with content mediated and recommended to us by...
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Is AI really moral neutral?
In today’s world, algorithms shape so much of what we see and do. When I watch videos or listen to music, the content that pops up...
Continue reading...Trusted Flaggers – Angel or Devil?
Whether/how should digital content be regulated? The question of whether/how content in digital media should be regulated came to my attention again through the blog: “Censorship...
Continue reading...Just (don’t) film it
Due to sickness, my screen time has increased massively in the past few weeks. I have been watching a lot of videos on YouTube, which is...
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With the capabilities of (generative) AI on the rise, individuals and companies have adapted and changed their workflow to fully exploit the benefits AI offers. Companies...
Continue reading...A hackathon to save Christianity
On Friday, NOS, the main news outlet in the Netherlands, headlined: “Talkshow met Mozes? Bijbelgenootschap en EO hacken de Bijbel met AI” [Talkshow with Moses? The...
Continue reading...Navigating the Digital Afterlife: What Happens to Our Digital Remains?
With the increasingly digitalized world we live in, our online presence is both larger and more important than ever. We make and leave behind an extensive...
Continue reading...Facebook: An Old People’s App
In the times where TikTok is probably the main app gen Z and gen Alpha (?) uses, applications like Facebook became, well, at least in my...
Continue reading...Essentiality of Social Media: Reinstalling Instagram after 7 months
In a beautiful morning sometime around March 2024, I decided to delete Instagram from my phone. For the longest time, I struggled with doom scrolling on...
Continue reading...Algorithms: A Human Tool for the Greatest Good, the Ugliest Evil, and all that Lies in Between
I am once again, sitting in my room, in front of my computer, writing my sixth and final blog. Behind me is my record player, spinning...
Continue reading...Can Social Media Make Us More Charitable?
Sometimes I would like to think that social media can do good. Nowadays information can be reach from anywhere. No matter if you live in Miami...
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Quantum Physics: From Atom Bombs to the Cutting Edge of Innovation
Would you believe me if I told you that quantum physics is one of the most interesting fields in physics? It’s a field that dives deep...
Continue reading...Ray Kurzweil and Our Bright Future
Recently, I was listening to a podcast on which one of my favorite YouTube content creators was a guest. The topic got to computer programming, and...
Continue reading...Online Offline Connecting Lost Stories
History on the internet often takes the form of just another plotline, some facts and events that we scroll through, enjoy, and quickly forget. Something completely...
Continue reading...The Many Identities I Knit
Sitting in front of my computer, writing my fifth blog as has become the usual. Behind me is my record player, I have decided to spin...
Continue reading...How will AI effect the future of Music?
The first encounter I had with AI music is listening to an AI Kurt Cobain cover. At first, I found it cool and interesting that a...
Continue reading...Jodi.org and the Deconstruction of Games
The early internet pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s envisioned a democratic environment of commonly accessible creative tools, where communication channels would enable innovative approaches for...
Continue reading...A Small Peek into the World of Innovative Vaccines
I think most of us wouldn’t know that Edward Jenner introduced us to the ‘classic’ vaccine, a substance designed to trigger our immune response to protect...
Continue reading...Digital Cooking Culture
While I tend to have bleak messages in other blog posts, today I want to talk about an enormous shift in food culture in places with...
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