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I just cancelled my Adobe licence after many years as a customer. The new terms give Adobe "worldwide royalty-free licence to reproduce, display, distribute" or do whatever they want with any content I produce using their software. This is beyond insane. No creator in their

Interesting plot twist: DeepSeek is possible because Elon Musk gave the Chinese access to Grok, just to screw Sam Altman.

What the hell, I almost like Steve Bannon. Railing wonderfully against the broligarchy youtube.com/watch?v=BrSLe3…

This deserves to be watched. youtube.com/watch?v=MX_BHF…

You just play your strategy. This is what we're all dealing with. youtube.com/watch?v=hA9qmO…

📚🗓️ Join us for a fascinating presentation of 'Blockchain Governance' with author Wessel Reijers at 5PM on March 28th! Featuring responses by Katrin Becker and moderated by Anna-Verena Nosthoff 🏛️ In-person at Humboldt University Berlin or online.

Very happy to announce an upcoming special issue with Topoi that I'll be co-editing with Dr.Avigail Ferdman🟣 avigailferdman.bsky.social. It will be on "Political Virtues in the Age of Technology" link.springer.com/collections/ia…

Sometimes I forget the beauty of Alfred Schnittke's heavenly music. youtube.com/watch?v=_OcYNQ…

--Death of the Author-- In our new book--Communicative #AI Polity--Mark Coeckelbergh and I argue that #LLMs and #GenerativeAI operationalize Roland Barthes' "Death of the Author." The US Court of Appeals, however, is desperately trying to keep it functioning on life support.

1/ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲?" by Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan| মোর্শেদ মান্নান & Wessel Reijers in Regulation & Governance analyzes how blockchain reconfigures trust dynamics online, tracing evolution from Web1 through Web3.

Van Jolle Demmers: 'herbewapening' EU is volkomen onzinnig. Zeer mee eens.

Release day! Our band Paper Knife just released its first three songs, produced by the great Nicholas Braren! Check us out on Spotify! open.spotify.com/album/0DOEy1Mn…

Na de zoveelste Correspondent-midlifer die via een theatertour of boek het maatschappelijke Licht laat schijnen op Ons Onwetenden - is het mooi geweest. Tijd voor een interventie. dieuwsnieuws.nl/p/verlos-ons-v…

Publication day! Introduction to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies, which I wrote together with Mark Coeckelbergh and Mark Thomas Young, is out today! Published with Palgrave Macmillan, it offers an accessible introduction to the topic. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Gelukkig neemt iemand nog wel de moeite om Ernst-Jan Pfauth wat vragen te stellen. groene.nl/artikel/21-vra…

What's the best evidence that free speech is dying in America? That a US Attorney could do this:

More author copies arrived.. this time it’s Introduction to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies with Wessel Reijers and Mark T. Young Palgrave Macmillan Hope colleagues will find it useful for teaching!

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I have the sense that a lot of AI research, being funded by big tech, is becoming similar to tobacco companies researching lung disease and oil companies researching climate change. It's hard to not take positive views with a huge grain of salt.

Whoever is doing an ethnography of AI talk on Reddit must be having a complete field day. There are so many gems of discussions on there.