
Hannes Cools ๐ฅ - @hannescools.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor Human Factor in New Technologies - University of Amsterdam (profile no longer in use)
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https://hannescools.com/ 02-10-2014 18:28:13
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Highly recommended ๐ง Every year, Benedict Evans produces a presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. For 2025, his presentation is titled โAI eats the worldโ. More questions than answers, but such interesting questions! ๐ ben-evans.com/presentations



๐จDigital Democracy Centre is hiring full professor ๐จ Professorship in Digital communication & society. Join a fantastic group of researchers in DK ๐ฉ๐ฐ Any questions - Claes de Vreese (go to bsky ๐ฆ ;)) ๐๏ธ Apply before February 17! Full job post: โฆsd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidatโฆ


Just heard that our paper 'Uses of Generative AI in the Newsroom' was the 2nd best read paper of Journalism Practice this year ๐ Nice to know that people still view/read academic papers ๐ Nicholas Diakopoulos tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10โฆ




Happy New Year! ๐ First recommended read: Financial Times staff writers forecasting the world in 2025. Last year, they had 15 out of 20 predictions right ๐ฎโจ ft.com/content/ac44e3โฆ

Big tech is shifting right for Trump ๐๐ง (exhibit โ) โJoel Kaplan has been one of the most forceful voices inside Meta against restrictions on political speech, arguing internally that such policies would disproportionately mute conservative voices.โ semafor.com/article/01/02/โฆ

Not very surprising... ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Was Elon Musk 's opinion piece written by AI? Tagesspiegel thinks so. The newspaper asked Grok to write for a conservative newspaper why only the AfD can save Germany. Result: almost identical piece to the one in DieWelt. tagesspiegel.de/politik/umstriโฆ