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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Twitch.tv and Tuvalu
Originally this blog post was supposed to be about the physical location of the services I use on a daily basis. But while researching the services...
Continue reading...Is Google the natural and neutral world brain?
A look at the search history is always super interesting. My third most recent search was: “best hikes in the Netherlands”. I wanted to explore this...
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How Rate Your Music made me care even more about music
Most of us love to listen to music. Some of us love to record, catalog and categorize every little thing we do every day. At the...
Continue reading...Where Do We Find Someone Like Us?
It is Week 4, still sitting on my desk, in front of my computer writing yet another blog. Behind me, I am spinning the newest addition...
Continue reading...The Sound of Silence: Rediscovering Boredom in a Noisy World
Do you get the feeling of being busy all day, watching television, scrolling to TikTok and studying online? I have this feeling of the need of...
Continue reading...The Simple-pocalypse
Recently, I was looking for a recipe to make a mousse for my brother’s birthday. For a few months we’ve been exchanging an idea of a...
Continue reading...The Self-Help Genre and its (un)Helpfulness
Self-Help books have been around for centuries, with topics spanning from guiding you to achieve your best self to books detailing on how to be rich....
Continue reading...Algorithms and Short-Form Content
Short form content is everywhere nowadays, with Tiktok, Instagram reels and Youtube shorts seemingly grabbing our collective attention span with an iron fist. At least that’s...
Continue reading...Music Streaming: A Perspective
I sometimes wonder how people like my dad viewed music when he was my age. These days, I can open Spotify and listen to anything from...
Continue reading...A World Without Google: Evil Deeds of Baidu
Google exited the Chinese market in 2010. For a primary schooler as I was at that time, if it was not for I am studying outside...
Continue reading...Do It Yourself, Teach Yourself: Empowering or Overwhelming?
DIY Culture, meaning “Do It Yourself” culture, is a term used to talk about people creating or doing things for themselves rather than relying on paid...
Continue reading...Why do you like what you like?
These days on social media, we see makeup trends with a set of “rules” to be followed, and everybody doing the same things the same way,...
Continue reading...Trump 2016: How Cambridge Analytica breached data privacy ethics to help Trump win.
Introduction At the time of writing this, the 2024 US presidential election is just around the corner. With Trump facing off against Harris, it is a...
Continue reading...Algocracy: Government by Algorithm
I am a simple man; when I see a cat video coming by on YouTube shorts recommendations I click on it. For a whole 25 seconds,...
Continue reading...Does the human brain degrade, while The World Brain progresses?
Recently, I realised that watching a full movie seems like a task and not a pleasure for me. I am not even mentioning reading or studying...
Continue reading...Technological evolution meets modern medicine: Neuralink’s brain chip
Back in the day, the idea of controlling computers with our minds seemed just far from reality. The only times we saw something like that was...
Continue reading...THERE ARE BUGS UNDER YOUR SKIN, and being scared of the number 7
Another week, another day in which I am sitting in my room, in front of my computer, spinning a record as I type. This week’s pick...
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