French humor

Back in 1996, this was how I got to know the French. Mind you, as most Flemish teens, I did know about France and had already visited Paris and been to some random touristic areas. But talking to and meeting actual French guys of about my age, no, that was new.

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New media is the new old focus

Inspired by David Seah’s article on refocusing his website. I also started thinking. In many regards, I’m also continuously adapting my site(s). But stripped from all fills, what is the goal of this blog? Of this website? As is, I’m sure, it is impossible for a random visitor to figure it out. That’s probably because I’m not even sure myself. This weblog evolved from a music-only blog at Radio to a selfhosted mp3 blog, to what you are reading right now, a more general blog.

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Free E-books by A-list writers

“Despite all our propaganda attempts to convince you otherwise, AI is alarmingly easy to produce; the human brain isn’t unique, it isn’t well-tuned, and you don’t need eighty billion neurons joined in an asynchronous network to generate consciousness. And although it looks like a good idea to a naive observer, in practice it’s absolutely deadly.”

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