De EU heeft plannen om de GDPR flink aan te passen om de AI-industrie meer ruimte te geven. Politico: Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
“Is this the end of data protection and privacy as we have signed it into the EU treaty and fundamental rights charter?” said German politician Jan Philipp Albrecht
Gestemd! 🗳️ Natuurlijk op een kandidaat met veel digitale ervaring. Vind je dat ook belangrijk, check dan even @bert_hubert’s Nerdvote voordat je gaat stemmen: www.nerdvote.nl
Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
In Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers, Ben Werdmuller quotes Alexandra Geese (member of the European Parliament):
“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a level playing field for information, safeguard media freedom and guarantee genuine freedom of speech, including the right to access facts instead of being fed lies and propaganda.”
As Bert Hubert highlights (Dutch article), government organizations in the Netherlands are still focussed on migrating everything to US cloud infrastructure. In spite of rules being in place that don’t allow this.
There is a long road ahead…
Brought the camera with me on a stroll through a nearby forest last weekend. Amazin fall colors, and a wealth of mushrooms dotting the forest floor and fallen wood. 🍄
Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. An entertaining heist story set in a Medieval city that resembles Amsterdam, with a dash of magic. Good fun. 📚
Fall colors
I started reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚
Earlier this morning… 🌈 🌅
We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a few short years kitchens will be much smaller. Gone will be stoves and ovens and flat tops. Restaurant kitchens will only be a small closet with a microwave. I predict this will happen by 1955 at the latest.
I missed this one over the summer, but it’s just great. (Via onfocus.com)
Om te snappen hoe online cultuur ons leven beïnvloedt lees ik Ryan Broderick. Ook over hoe Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme:
We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral.
Niet dat je daar vrolijk van wordt. :(
I started reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚
Truck-Wasch
‘Moet’ je AI gebruiken? Als je influencers, Big Tech CEO’s of startup oprichters moet geloven is het antwoord: “Ja, altijd en overal”. Maar het is, behalve als je bij Shopify werkt, geen plicht maar een keuze. Thom Hogan bekijkt die vraag vanuit zijn ervaring als natuurfotograaf: I get asked a lot these days about whether or not [photographers] should use any of the AI tools we now have available to us.
Lines & clouds 📷
Went for a photo break after an early start. Just getting outside before it gets hot (35° Celsius). 📷
Commuting by train today
Really liked Maria Farrell’s keynote at the Public Spaces conference this year. Of course she spoke about the importance of rewilding the internet.
Camera’s are a lot like software applications: we use them often, but overlook the less known features. Today I tried the timelapse feature on my camera for the first time. It was a lot of fun!
Er waren weer veel mensen gekleed in rood in Den Haag vandaag. Mooi om te zien, solidair voor mensenrechten en tegen genocide.