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  • A Long Summer – Creativity Refill

    A Long Summer – Creativity Refill

    I took a long break from writing. I don’t write when I have doubts whether I have someting meaningful to say. So I spent a summer with introspection. Just sitting with my unease. Yesterday I felt the creative energy coming back for the first time. At the end of two weeks with my children here Read more

  • Addendum on Cyber Warfare

    Yesterday I published a piece on the need to better comprehend, and possibly to regulate, the implications which come from the use of new and highly sophisticated systems in the field of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). New applications with abilities to understand, and to respond, in natural language, or in the form of complex visual compositions Read more

  • Would You Trust an Alien Without Knowing Anything About That Alien?

    We are at the brink of exactly doing that. Like many others, I have poked around a little bit into the topic of A.I. driven computerized models, whether language models which make the news all over the place, such as GPT-4, “a state-of-the-art language model that makes it feel like you are communicating with a Read more

  • On Male Social Control

    I came back from a week in Canada yesterday. I spent an exceptionally wonderful week with my teenager children there, we bonded in so many ways. Coming back, with no sleep for almost 36 hours yesterday evening, I was enthusiastically welcomed by my cat friend when he returned from his boarding place where he happily Read more

  • Enforcing – Not the law – Enforcement gone criminal beyond imagination

    Enforcing – Not the law – Enforcement gone criminal beyond imagination

    Even after 45 years, I find it an ambitious and daunting task to write about policing. Because the issue at hand is not as easy and simple as it looks. It is not possible to do it out of context, meaning my own socialisation into a police organisation. My time inside policing and the larger Read more

  • We don’t go it alone

    We don’t go it alone

    Prelude: My French friend with whom I wanted to meet this morning, discussing work over coffee, got sick. Sending him a “Get Well”, and using the time alone with my coffee for a piece I wanted to “put out there”. There have been many articles and comments in the media about an expectation towards Germany Read more