Belgian keynote speaker & tech optimist | 20+ yrs in digital | Girl geek, author, trainer, thinker | Sharing insights without the fluff

Mechelen, Belgium
Joined April 2007
Over half of @Deezer 's daily uploads are now AI songs, and most of their streams are bots. So we've built a music economy where robots make the songs for other robots to listen to, and the humans are just there for the concerts. npr.org/2026/10/27/nx-s1-599…
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Walkipedia maps every Wikipedia article within a 30 minute walk of you. I thought I knew my town. I did not. Try it and see what’s hiding around your block. neil-scott.com/walkipedia/
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If this is what the richest man on the planet can come up with, I can safely say AI movies won’t be replacing actual movies anytime soon.
Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok Imagine. Let us know in the comments if you'd like a full breakdown of how it was done! Creative collaboration with @WonderStudiosX and director Dev Walker @glumlot_
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doomscrolling habit so bad playing videogames feels productive
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This week in Chaos & Amazement #2641: AI found a flaw in the software behind ~70% of websites, a private classifier now decides who counts as human, and someone is building genetically modified war dogs. Normal Saturday. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/…
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La fin est juste géniale 😂😂😂😂
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Pangram says AI writing is detectable, with a false positive rate of 1 in 10,000. Maybe. But one private company deciding what counts as human, and who gets believed, is a new gatekeeper. Norm-building shouldn’t be outsourced to a classifier. bigthink.com/science-tech/tr…
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Fell down a rabbit hole on fallasleeep.com last night. It has a cognitive shuffle, a brain dump journal, guided breathing etc. Wild that the fix for a racing mind is a website, but here I am, visualizing random words & feeling weirdly calmer. 😴🌊 fallasleeep.com/
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The Best of Social Media youtu.be/durjl0e43Sk?is=wiN-… It’s funny because i’ve seen most of the originals in my feed. And I watched them. What does that say about me
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Who truly connects Hollywood? It is no longer Kevin Bacon. A fascinating data project by The Pudding recalculated film co-star networks: Samuel L. Jackson took the crown, and Chloë Grace Moretz is projected as the next center for Gen Z. pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-b…
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Studio Wrong made a beach music video. It is cute and beautifully animated. It is basically “Dumb Ways to Die” but I feel emotionally fine afterwards. Beach Therapy, 1:18 long. Watch it. youtu.be/aI_fww5pIzo?is=X6V-…
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Your old phone just got a promotion. UCLA built PhoneBot, a 19-inch walking robot that uses an Android phone as its torso, borrowing the camera, sensors, and processor to see, balance, and move. The other parts run about $400. Would you?
You can now use your old Android phone as the brain of a bipedal humanoid robot. UCLA researchers built PhoneBot a 48 cm robot with 13 motorized joints. The phone handles vision and walking control. It can walk track people and stand back up. Hardware costs around $400, excluding the phone.
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AI is getting the travel-policy treatment, by @johnny_watersc aesiris.substack.com/p/ai-is… “Hire fewer starters, tell everyone else to use more AI, and next thing you know, the AI gets capped.”
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Big Tech is giving AI agents big eyes and cute mascots so hallucinations feel less alarming. Cute stops being a differentiator the moment everyone does it. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/…
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Frightgeist 2026 is a goldmine for Hollywood costume ideas, even with US-only data. Michael Jackson is at a 10-year search high and Disco Scooby Doo is trending. Me? I’m going as Nyan Cat (not on the list) , so I’m either a trendsetter or very lost 🌈🐱 frightgeist.withgoogle.com/c…
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