I live in an apartment that first gets heated up on one side before noon, then later from the other side. My kitchen is especially hot each year because it has a huge bay window with no shutters installed.
My strategies for keeping cool have been to air out everything at night, and if possible draw in and circulate air via a fan during some of it. Then as soon as the sun is coming up, closing…
I'm in need for some lighthearted stuff. I finally finished a painting from a few months ago, and did a quick gouache doodle in my notebook using the Google captcha look (but slightly wrong).
Gonna redo that on proper paper some time with taping off sections, nicer letters and the correct amount of squares; but I think that is so fun, I can think of so many things to draw in this design.
I…
As usual - not counting the personal blogs I read :)
I think after this one, I am fucking tired about hearing of digital sovereignty, and will stop reading about it for a while.
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society (Archive) - the big news story going around.
From Vigilance to Omnibus: Is the CSDDD Heading Down the Same Path as France’s…
Since reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger and its parts about Covid and fitness influencer culture a while ago (especially the chapter "The Far Right Meets the Far Out"), I cannot help but see that “ Pinterest clean girl fitness and fruit bowl gua sha yoga mat pilates in the forest ” content as covert white supremacy and eugenicist ideals; dog whistles, shared far and wide by people who…
"When I die, delete my browser history. " — Unknown
When you die, there are lots of processes in place to deal with your body, your burial, your physical possessions, subscriptions and bank accounts. But what about your digital accounts and possessions?
As our lives become more and more digital, taking these into account when tying up the affairs of a dead person is increasingly…
I'm feeling pretty down in the dumps today. As my wife listened to me and kindly massaged my feet to make me feel better, she said
"It's exhausting how life is like training with Yoda at Dagobah. Everything is about overcoming obstacles, waiting, and having patience. "
Thought that was funny, and cute.
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Published 15 Jun, 2026
As usual - not counting the personal blogs I read :)
Not much appealed to me this week.
I can't help but wonder whether we will look back on this AI hype in the workplace with confusion and embarrassment. _If_ we indeed progress into a future where the bubble will burst, models will further close up, become too expensive for the average user, enshittified, or really specialized for specific fields and most promises end up not fulfilled, how will employers everywhere play this off?…
Just letting you know that my email address has changed from @pm.me to @tuta.com. The change is reflected in the footer and post template already. I don't know what I will do about the 400+ old posts that have the old email address attached yet; email forwarding has been set, but it will apparently run out next year as my subscription to Proton lapses.
Currently in the process of exporting and…
Whenever I descend into a mental health episode (often, but not always, triggered by cycle-related hormonal changes), there’s very specific signs both my wife and I pick up on. She usually notices it earlier than me, though.
The pattern is always the same:
I've read less this week than the prior one. I was catching up on a lot of recorded talks from re:publica 26, which I couldn't attend (those talks will get their own post!). I was also a tad busy with meeting people and doing the ring class, and also unfortunately struggling with depression. I didn't manage reading a lot of the stuff I meant to read. Oh well.
Here goes!
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Not a webring - maybe some day - but an even cooler one!
My wife and I went to the jewelry workshop our friends gifted us for our wedding last year. I had a moonstone at home I wanted to turn into a ring (yes, I do love big chunky gems as rings, as you might have already guessed from other pics of my hands, especially the aura quartz on my thumb), and she spontaneously made a necklace with a…
Whenever someone talks about how they let AI improve their writing, I realize we are still taking the wrong things away from what good writing supposedly is.
Not that I am the arbiter of good writing, but we can agree that at its core, good writing is a pleasure to read, connects to the reader, respects the context and chooses the correct tone for the audience. It’s also about correctly…
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Thought that after my post on summary distrust, I could share a list of what I read each week. I technically prefer to process and digest what I read into blog posts, but not everything makes it into one, and this is a way to document and keep them, and maybe give others some food for thought.
This is not necessarily stuff I fully agree with, I'm just sharing what ended up in my feed reader or…
Today I partially joked in a chat
I think at this time of my life, I would like to have a nemesis. Everyone has people they don't like and find annoying, I do too. But a nemesis? There's something you can't stand about them, but you recognize they are really good at something, and can admire some things about them too. You might piss each other off, but there is a good kind of competition…
Rishabh made an AI blog question challenge and invited me to fill it out. Let's go!
I used to have fun playing around with NeuralBlender, and used it to inspire glitch art of mine that I drew. Back when ChatGPT launched, I used it to teach myself HTML and CSS.
On average, I use it once a…
While I was at the conference, my wife explored Brussels on her own.
As you might know, she doesn't have a smartphone, and the only similar thing she has is a tablet with only WiFi capabilities. Public WiFi is more and more common, but you can still walk half the city without a connection. I asked her to document her experience, as I think most people would like to rely on their smartphone a lot…
I've finished reading the Draft Guidelines for transparency requirement under the AI Act that are out for comment until the 3rd of June, and a variety of exemptions for law enforcement and similar actors greatly concern me. I haven't seen media pick this up in any meaningful way, but this should be highlighted and discussed.
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A short explanation upfront:
Transparency requirements under…
Among all this talk of European sovereignty and switching to European alternatives in a move to better privacy and less support of Big Tech, I wish for more emphasis on not just blindly copying US products and slapping an EU label on it.
I see news like the Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution backing away from using Palantir and using a software solution from France…
I have previously written about what resources I subscribe to (newsletter, RSS, manual checking) to keep on top of data protection law news, cases, new reports, recommendations by authorities, papers of notable personalities in the space, and more. Since then, it grew to even more sources.
Many of these notify me of new releases and briefly summarize them before linking to them. While I use the…
For the CPDP 2026, I was in Brussels this week.
The inner city with all its cute little shops, fancy buildings and barely any cars was very charming. Have some pics.
We spotted Super Dragon Toys on the way and had to stop there, of course. Surprisingly, they had a lot of Sanrio, and even a blind box I was trying to get months ago that was sold out everywhere on and offline before,…
I've recently participated in an entrepreneurship workshop hosted by my university, which focused on idea generation for a startup. I have absolutely no plans to do that, and I think I am the wrong person for this, but I wanted a brief glimpse into the mind of people in that space. We tend to be complete opposites, and I wanted to know and understand how they think and what makes them tick. I…
For the last 2 weeks, I have received 2FA codes for my UberEats account that I did not request roughly every couple days. The account was only created a year ago and used twice, then never again. The email address and password were created specifically for it and are not used elsewhere. No other accounts and services I use are affected. A quick search shows others have been dealing with the same…
I've been thinking more about the future we might be heading towards if things continue the way they do, relatively unstopped, especially in regards to data harvesting and leaks, and how digitalized our society continues to become.
I wonder if we are simply headed for a society in which there is bleak acceptance and normalization of most pieces of information being out there already. Everything…
I've been able to go to the gym more consistently lately, and I've started using the strength machines too, instead of just using the treadmill. Usually my workouts consisted of the treadmill, my indoor cycle, pilates and yoga, but I wanted more, especially after this year has been more difficult with consistency because I felt sick more often.
I thought about what an absolutely guaranteed…
In the past, I have complained about some aspects of my work here and there. As I continue to grow, get more qualifications, visit conferences, and apply to interesting positions, I've put more effort into transforming the place where I'm at, to the best of my abilities.
I've repeatedly asked for more work, I've asked for different tasks, and I helped create a new role. Not replacing my current…
Following up to my agentic consent piece, a reader (Shugo Nozaki) shared with me some interesting perspective around human consent (both by email and post) that I felt like was worth exploring and discussing!
He pointed out that while our current model of consent still relies on direct human perception and some understanding of what is being agreed to, it is already quite fragile in most areas.…
When I think something is bad, immoral, unethical, harmful, evil - or whatever may apply - I neither do it in private or in public. I don’t just adhere to this rule of not doing it when I’m by myself, I also don’t do it when I’m with others, regardless of whether they might do that thing and would think it’s more comfortable for them when I partake as well.
That’s what’s at the core of living…
Today, I attended a protest for the visibility of ME/CFS sufferers.
ME/CFS is short for _Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome_ ; it is a chronic illness characterized by extreme fatigue that doesn't improve with rest, along with sleep issues, dizziness, muscle and joint pain, cognitive difficulties, extreme sensitivity to stimuli, and more. There is significant overlap with what is…
