Belgian keynote speaker & tech optimist | 20 yrs in digital | Girl geek, author, trainer, thinker | Sharing insights without the fluff
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Where do migrants live, and where were they born? - Our World in Data
2.2 million people in Belgium were born elsewhere
and 520,000 people born in Belgium live abroad ourworldindata.org/where-do-…
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A searchable archive of nearly 5,000 Attenborough episodes across 90 series. Look up any animal or ecosystem and it tells you where to stream it. Basically instant access to the planet’s greatest field guide.
attenborough-100.vercel.app/
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A developer built a black hole in the terminal that grows the longer you work without a break, slowly warping your code until you finally step away from the keyboard.
Jun 12
A Ukrainian developer created a black hole in his terminal to force himself to take breaks.
The more you work nonstop, the more it grows and distorts your code with its gravitational lens. You rest and it shrinks.
[🎞️ s13k_]
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The Ring Always Home Cam is a security camera that flies itself from room to room. Feels less like home security and more like a Black Mirror episode that accidentally shipped.
ring.com/ca/fr/always-home-c…
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Jun 14
TIL verifier tax: an AI agent can complete a task and still fail.
It might get the right outcome while breaking a policy, skipping an approval step, or exposing sensitive data. The task is done, but the process wasn't safe.
Counts as success or failure? dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/…
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Clo Willaerts retweeted
Jun 12
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
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“Stumble Again” by @RatheeJaisal is a nostalgia project for the era when the internet felt like wandering instead of scrolling. Back when StumbleUpon did the heavy lifting and we all pretended that was enough structure for every day’s chaos. stumbleagain.com/
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Jun 13
Inside United Kingdom’s so-called “bedroom generation,” over 1M young people are out of work, education, or training. Mental health is now cited by 43% of NEETs as the barrier. Everyone calls it a crisis. The waiting room has no exit sign. dazeddigital.com/life-cultur…
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Jun 13
I'd fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please, oh
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Jun 12
Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO
We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...
Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!
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Jun 13
MrBeast just hit 500M subscribers on YouTube, becoming the first creator to turn “audience” into something that looks suspiciously like a small country. Went from 100M in 2022 to this, 4 years later. Normal growth curves are optional now.
thewrap.com/media-platforms/…
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Jun 13
Creating is getting easier.
Ownership is getting harder.
This week's Chaos & Amazement covers Google's AI liability problem, Apple's EU AI delay, Canva's Magic Layers, why AI-written apologies backfire, and a few wonderfully weird corners of the internet. open.substack.com/pub/clowil…
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Jun 11
Cancel the rest of the day. Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk just did a 75-minute set @TheLotRadio playing Boards of Canada, Burial, Sonic Youth and even Daft Punk.
youtube.com/live/5BMvgdFzRsQ…
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Jun 11
When brands use AI to write emotional messages, people notice and they don’t like it. AI-written apologies and notes cut brand recommendations by 24.6% and raised moral disgust by 58.4%.
Keep the voice human, use AI lightly. app.sciencesays.com/p/when-a…
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Jun 11
Part of the appeal of AI image generation is speed. Part of the frustration is control.
The next wave seems less about creating images and more about giving people precise ways to shape them afterward.
PSA 📣 You can now turn your ChatGPT-generated images into fully editable Canva designs with Magic Layers, without ever leaving the chat.
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Jun 11
The Social Network was about building Facebook. The Social Reckoning appears to be about living with what Facebook became.
That's a much harder story to tell. youtu.be/gM4LkaXwGuY?is=fqJO…
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Jun 11
A German court rejected Google's argument that users should verify AI Overviews themselves.
If AI Overviews are Google's own words, the implication is huge: Google may be liable whenever their LLM hallucinates.
the-decoder.com/landmark-ger…
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Jun 10
Bending Spoons being Italy-based is still wild to me. I keep expecting Silicon Valley and it’s just Milan running a 500M-user subscription empire.
$1.31B revenue, IPO talk, and a very efficient app-collecting machine. techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/ev…
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Jun 10
75 oil paintings, 11 years, 30 artists… and the internet still asks “AI or not?”
Danse Macabre is mostly just humans doing extremely slow, expensive but absolutely gorgeous art and getting mistaken for a prompt. youtu.be/ups-2JRDiMw?is=XkQ9…
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