CCS Max 400 kW

Detail of an EV charging cable connected to a charger, in black and white.

Tire in the snow 📷

Overgrown car tire in the snow

Alarm button 📷 (Dutch: “noodbel”)

Alarm button on a wall

Night sky 📷

Night sky with a dimly lit horizon, showing black silhouettes of trees in front of it. Shown in black & white.

Never straight 📷

Diagonal row of bicycle racks in the snow, in black and white.

Automator 📷

Sign saying Automator on top of a 1-story building, shown in B&W.

The only way is up 📷

Looking up a long stairway, in B&W

Cycling away 📷

Cycle path lined by trees, in black and white.

Roots 📷

Roots of a tree above ground, in B&W

XYAB 📷

Detail of a Nintendo Switch, with the X, Y, A, B buttons in the center

Dentist appointment 😉 📷

Teeth on a skeleton of a prehistoric whale

Flames dancing on wood, in B&W 📷

Whimsical flames in black and white

Hoog water, maar (nog) niet bevroren 📷

Disappearing lines and lights 📷

Bus station Amersfoort, with lines of lights in black and white.

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen 📷

Reflectie van het Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in een plas water, in zwart-wit.

Amaryllis in bloom 📷

Amaryllis in bloom, photographed in black and white

Whale spotted 📷

Maashaven, Rotterdam. 📷

Rediscovered my old film camera 📷. Last time I used it was over 20 years ago.

Replaced the battery (light meter seems to work again), bought a roll of B&W film. Let’s see what happens. 🙂

Intellectuele technologieën

Reflecterend op het interview met Sam Altman (OpenAI) in de Hard Fork-podcast haalt Greg Morris een term aan die ik nog niet kende: ‘intellectuele technologie’. Jack Goody and Daniel Bell coined the term intellectual technologies. They were both sociologists, referring to anything that could be used to improve our mental abilities — anything from an abacus, to a clock or a thermometer. In zijn boek The Shallows gebruikt Nicholas Carr de term ook.

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