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On 9 januari 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone on stage at the Macworld conference with the words: “every once in a while, a revolutionary product...
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During the lecture on cyborgs, a TV series I had not thought about in a while crossed my mind. It’s called Westworld. It premiered in 2016...
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If there is one certainty in life, it is that eventually, everything will end. This is also true for anything on the internet. From viral videos,...
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Today I read a news article about Dutch influencer Donny Roelvink who apologized for recommending a cosmetic medical procedure. He had had porcelain plates added to...
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(WARNING: May include racism and other unpleasant contents in the following!) Under China’s intense speech censorship and online surveillance, there is less and less room for...
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A couple of weeks ago there was a lecture on the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg’s new interpretation and creation of an online community. So, what is the...
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The popularity of reaction channels on Youtube is high, and has been for several years. I myself follow quite a lot of reaction channels. A simple...
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What is Dungeons and Dragons? Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D for short, is a tabletop RPG where the core is storytelling and the goal is having...
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It Wednesday December 1 and I open Instagram and see a story that fills me with so much joy and excitement. It is a story that...
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Voice messages are a type of messages that are not typed on a keyboard but recorded by a person saying something and sent as an audio...
Continue reading...UNSEE US: NO MASS SURVEILLANCE ON LEIDEN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Imagine a building you’re obligated to enter every week, where cameras are faced on every entrance and exit. These cameras are owned by a company which...
Continue reading...Youtube fitness content, how it kept me more motivated to keep exercising.
I’ve had multiple subscriptions to multiple gyms, but after a few months I just had no motivation to continue going. I was either too busy or...
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Are Influencers the Modern Day Merchant?
Hello everyone! This is a video I created discussing how social media influencers have become the modern day merchant! I hope you enjoy! Images sourced from: ...
Continue reading...Let’s talk about ceiling scanners…
Description The topic of this video is “digital surveillance.” I was inspired to make it after Leiden University made an announcement last week that they been...
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When I was in my first year of high school, I took a typing class. In this typing class, I was meant to learn how to...
Continue reading...The transphobia pipeline – TikTok’s algorithm and harmful content
I was scrolling through TikTok, as I usually do, and sometimes you can come across actually insightful and interesting content. One of those videos came on...
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Do you ever watch YouTube for a long period of time and then suddenly find yourself watching “Top 10 frog sounds”, or some other random video...
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