Iskander Smit
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Curating, organising responsible tech and beyond - ThingsCon https://bsky.app/profile/thingscon.org
Research, experiment, co-design human-intelligent technology partnerships in Citiesofthings.org -
Curating, organising responsible tech and beyond - ThingsCon https://bsky.app/profile/thingscon.org
Bots meet bots; the emerging mirror world of agent swarms
Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.
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Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.
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Bots meet bots; the emerging mirror world of agent swarms
Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Bots meet bots; the emerging mirror world of agent swarms
Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.
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Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.
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Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI
Weeknotes 374 - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last week’s news.
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Weeknotes 374 - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last week’s news.
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Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI
Weeknotes 374 - Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last w...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI
Weeknotes 374 - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last week’s news.
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Weeknotes 374 - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last week’s news.
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Great addition to the category of art pieces that unhide what is not seen in our connected world
youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?...
youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?...
I built a light that can see radio waves
YouTube video by Rootkid
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January 24, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Great addition to the category of art pieces that unhide what is not seen in our connected world
youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?...
youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?...
The mundane education of AI. By us.
Weeknotes 373 - Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. This thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.
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Weeknotes 373 - Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. This thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.
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The mundane education of AI. By us.
Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. These thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:18 AM
The mundane education of AI. By us.
Weeknotes 373 - Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. This thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.
www.iskandr.nl/the-mundane-...
Weeknotes 373 - Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. This thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.
www.iskandr.nl/the-mundane-...
The Evolutionary Path to Robot Roommates
Weeknotes 372 - CES 2025 as a fortune teller or misrepresenter for a new breed of robotic roommates. And other news from futures in agentic AI in physical space.
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Weeknotes 372 - CES 2025 as a fortune teller or misrepresenter for a new breed of robotic roommates. And other news from futures in agentic AI in physical space.
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The evolutionary path to robot roommates
Weeknotes 372 - CES 2025 as a fortune teller or misrepresenter for a new breed of robotic roommates. And other news from futures in agentic AI in physical space
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January 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM
The Evolutionary Path to Robot Roommates
Weeknotes 372 - CES 2025 as a fortune teller or misrepresenter for a new breed of robotic roommates. And other news from futures in agentic AI in physical space.
www.iskandr.nl/the-evolutio...
Weeknotes 372 - CES 2025 as a fortune teller or misrepresenter for a new breed of robotic roommates. And other news from futures in agentic AI in physical space.
www.iskandr.nl/the-evolutio...
Systemic co-design with agentic engineers
Weeknotes 371 - The real shift is not from human coders to AI agents—it's from coding to engineering the environment where agents are co-designers. And other news on AI companion devices and robots as CES.
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Weeknotes 371 - The real shift is not from human coders to AI agents—it's from coding to engineering the environment where agents are co-designers. And other news on AI companion devices and robots as CES.
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Systemic co-design with agentic engineers
Weeknotes 371 - The real shift is not from human coders to AI agents—it's from coding to engineering the environment where agents are co-designers. And other news on AI companion devices and robots as CES.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Systemic co-design with agentic engineers
Weeknotes 371 - The real shift is not from human coders to AI agents—it's from coding to engineering the environment where agents are co-designers. And other news on AI companion devices and robots as CES.
www.iskandr.nl/systemic-co-...
Weeknotes 371 - The real shift is not from human coders to AI agents—it's from coding to engineering the environment where agents are co-designers. And other news on AI companion devices and robots as CES.
www.iskandr.nl/systemic-co-...
Thinking while listening to a typical AI consultant story; we are now adding a new phenomenon: human-washing.
Making AI application acceptable by adding a non essential human in the loop.
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We are paperclips after all
Making AI application acceptable by adding a non essential human in the loop.
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We are paperclips after all
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thinking while listening to a typical AI consultant story; we are now adding a new phenomenon: human-washing.
Making AI application acceptable by adding a non essential human in the loop.
…
We are paperclips after all
Making AI application acceptable by adding a non essential human in the loop.
…
We are paperclips after all
Weeknotes 366 - New Luddites signaling deeper connections need
Thinking about how "new Luddites" are reclaiming agency over how they connect, choosing intentional intimacy over AI-mediated relationships.
And much more news from last week captured.
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Thinking about how "new Luddites" are reclaiming agency over how they connect, choosing intentional intimacy over AI-mediated relationships.
And much more news from last week captured.
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New Luddites reclaiming agency in immersive lifeworlds
Thinking about how "new Luddites" aren't rejecting technology but reclaiming agency over how they connect, choosing intentional intimacy over AI-mediated relationships as artificial intelligence incre...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Weeknotes 366 - New Luddites signaling deeper connections need
Thinking about how "new Luddites" are reclaiming agency over how they connect, choosing intentional intimacy over AI-mediated relationships.
And much more news from last week captured.
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Thinking about how "new Luddites" are reclaiming agency over how they connect, choosing intentional intimacy over AI-mediated relationships.
And much more news from last week captured.
www.iskandr.nl/new-luddites...
From simulation to intuition layer: the intelligence of space itself
Weeknotes 365 - Universal Ambient intelligence or immersive AI, how does it create general intuition. Connecting things that triggered thoughts this week. Like more news on human-AI collaborations.
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Weeknotes 365 - Universal Ambient intelligence or immersive AI, how does it create general intuition. Connecting things that triggered thoughts this week. Like more news on human-AI collaborations.
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From simulation to intuition layer: the intelligence of space itself
Weeknotes 365 - Universal Ambient intelligence or immersive AI, how does it create general intuition? Connecting things that triggered thoughts this week. Like more news on human-AI collaborations.
www.iskandr.nl
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
From simulation to intuition layer: the intelligence of space itself
Weeknotes 365 - Universal Ambient intelligence or immersive AI, how does it create general intuition. Connecting things that triggered thoughts this week. Like more news on human-AI collaborations.
www.iskandr.nl/from-simulat...
Weeknotes 365 - Universal Ambient intelligence or immersive AI, how does it create general intuition. Connecting things that triggered thoughts this week. Like more news on human-AI collaborations.
www.iskandr.nl/from-simulat...
Super curious to the new initiative of @genmon.fyi Technology for universal ambient intelligence
inanimate.tech
It seems to connects well to thoughts in my last RIOT article on “balancing personal agency, and collective governance in AI-augmented environments”
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inanimate.tech
It seems to connects well to thoughts in my last RIOT article on “balancing personal agency, and collective governance in AI-augmented environments”
thingscon.org/publications...
Inanimate
Universal Ambient Intelligence
inanimate.tech
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Super curious to the new initiative of @genmon.fyi Technology for universal ambient intelligence
inanimate.tech
It seems to connects well to thoughts in my last RIOT article on “balancing personal agency, and collective governance in AI-augmented environments”
thingscon.org/publications...
inanimate.tech
It seems to connects well to thoughts in my last RIOT article on “balancing personal agency, and collective governance in AI-augmented environments”
thingscon.org/publications...
Pluribus signaling beyond intelligence societies
Weeknotes 364 - This week, I explore the fine line where human–AI co-performance can compromise our humanity—and what agentic AI in physical spaces means for our relationships. Plus more reflections on the latest news.
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Weeknotes 364 - This week, I explore the fine line where human–AI co-performance can compromise our humanity—and what agentic AI in physical spaces means for our relationships. Plus more reflections on the latest news.
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Pluribus signaling beyond intelligence societies
Weeknotes 364 - This week, I explore the fine line where human–AI co-performance can compromise our humanity—and what agentic AI in physical spaces means for our relationships.
Also..., reflections on...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Pluribus signaling beyond intelligence societies
Weeknotes 364 - This week, I explore the fine line where human–AI co-performance can compromise our humanity—and what agentic AI in physical spaces means for our relationships. Plus more reflections on the latest news.
www.iskandr.nl/pluribus-sig...
Weeknotes 364 - This week, I explore the fine line where human–AI co-performance can compromise our humanity—and what agentic AI in physical spaces means for our relationships. Plus more reflections on the latest news.
www.iskandr.nl/pluribus-sig...
We just announced more names and sessions for @thingscon.org TH/NGS 2025–resize
Find here more:
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PS: early bird ends this weekend!
Find here more:
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PS: early bird ends this weekend!
Program – ThingsCon
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November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We just announced more names and sessions for @thingscon.org TH/NGS 2025–resize
Find here more:
thingscon.org/events/thing...
PS: early bird ends this weekend!
Find here more:
thingscon.org/events/thing...
PS: early bird ends this weekend!
Weeknotes 363 - Thinking about the relations with our chore assistants, learning from humanoid experiments. And more from the news of last week on human-AI interactions.
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Morphing appearances of our future chore assistants
Weeknotes 363 - Morphing appearances of our future chore assistants
Thinking about the relations with our chore assistants, learning from humanoid experiments. And more from the news of last week on ...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Weeknotes 363 - Thinking about the relations with our chore assistants, learning from humanoid experiments. And more from the news of last week on human-AI interactions.
www.iskandr.nl/morphing-app...
www.iskandr.nl/morphing-app...
From Immersive to Permeating: How AI Quietly Transforms Our Lives
Weeknotes 362 - Thinking about adding to the "immersive AI" narrative, the more subtle reality of AI gradually "permeating" our daily lives. Learning from Neo and other news of last week.
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Weeknotes 362 - Thinking about adding to the "immersive AI" narrative, the more subtle reality of AI gradually "permeating" our daily lives. Learning from Neo and other news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/from-immersi...
From immersive to permeating AI entering our lives
Weeknotes 362 - Thinking about adding to the "immersive AI" narrative a the more subtle reality of AI gradually "permeating" our daily lives. Learning from Neo and other news of last week.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
From Immersive to Permeating: How AI Quietly Transforms Our Lives
Weeknotes 362 - Thinking about adding to the "immersive AI" narrative, the more subtle reality of AI gradually "permeating" our daily lives. Learning from Neo and other news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/from-immersi...
Weeknotes 362 - Thinking about adding to the "immersive AI" narrative, the more subtle reality of AI gradually "permeating" our daily lives. Learning from Neo and other news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/from-immersi...
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Looking forward to the ThingsCon Salon in collaboration with the Human Values for Smarter Cities program and Smart City The Hague. Today 16:00 in Scheveningen.
"Maintaining good intentions in the smart city"
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"Maintaining good intentions in the smart city"
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ThingsCon Salon; maintaining good intentions in the smart city, Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
# **From ambition to execution: maintaining good intentions in the smart city**
When you interact with the municipality, you often first encounter a digital tool: a websit
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October 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Looking forward to the ThingsCon Salon in collaboration with the Human Values for Smarter Cities program and Smart City The Hague. Today 16:00 in Scheveningen.
"Maintaining good intentions in the smart city"
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"Maintaining good intentions in the smart city"
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Building a collaborative society with Fifth Order AI
Weeknotes 361 - A design debate discussing the usual edges, triggered thoughts on the next AI society. And lots of other news from last week captured.
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Weeknotes 361 - A design debate discussing the usual edges, triggered thoughts on the next AI society. And lots of other news from last week captured.
www.iskandr.nl/building-a-c...
Building a collaborative society with Fifth Order AI
Weeknotes 361 - A design debate discussing the usual edges, triggered thoughts on the next AI society. And lots of other news from last week captured.
www.iskandr.nl
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Building a collaborative society with Fifth Order AI
Weeknotes 361 - A design debate discussing the usual edges, triggered thoughts on the next AI society. And lots of other news from last week captured.
www.iskandr.nl/building-a-c...
Weeknotes 361 - A design debate discussing the usual edges, triggered thoughts on the next AI society. And lots of other news from last week captured.
www.iskandr.nl/building-a-c...
Weeknotes 360 - Making AI tools for reshaping personal realities
Wondering how engaging vibe tools will potentially lead to hyperstition cases. Looking back (and ahead) at events and news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/making-ai-to...
Wondering how engaging vibe tools will potentially lead to hyperstition cases. Looking back (and ahead) at events and news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/making-ai-to...
Making AI tools for reshaping personal realities
Weeknotes 360 - Making AI tools for reshaping personal realities
Wondering how engaging vibe tools will potentially lead to hyperstition cases. Looking back (and ahead) at events and news of last we...
www.iskandr.nl
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Weeknotes 360 - Making AI tools for reshaping personal realities
Wondering how engaging vibe tools will potentially lead to hyperstition cases. Looking back (and ahead) at events and news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/making-ai-to...
Wondering how engaging vibe tools will potentially lead to hyperstition cases. Looking back (and ahead) at events and news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/making-ai-to...
Weeknotes 359 - Friction of Creation for Social Dynamics of AI Tools
What is the needed friction, and what social mechanics are driving tools like Sora 2? And the latest news of last week in human-AI-things co-performances.
www.iskandr.nl/friction-of-...
What is the needed friction, and what social mechanics are driving tools like Sora 2? And the latest news of last week in human-AI-things co-performances.
www.iskandr.nl/friction-of-...
Friction of Creation for Social Dynamics of AI Tools
Weeknotes 359 - Friction of Creation for Social Dynamics of AI Tools - What is the needed friction, and what social mechanics are driving tools like Sora 2? And the latest news of last week in human-A...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Weeknotes 359 - Friction of Creation for Social Dynamics of AI Tools
What is the needed friction, and what social mechanics are driving tools like Sora 2? And the latest news of last week in human-AI-things co-performances.
www.iskandr.nl/friction-of-...
What is the needed friction, and what social mechanics are driving tools like Sora 2? And the latest news of last week in human-AI-things co-performances.
www.iskandr.nl/friction-of-...
Alien intelligence shaping human connections
Weeknotes 358 - in between short edition
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October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Weeknotes 357: AI's stochastic nature and our interface confusion - a shorter edition thinking about the Apple event and relation with AI knowledge triages.
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AI's stochastic nature and our interface confusion
Weeknotes 357 - A short newsletter announcing a vacation break and short thoughts of the last weeks.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Weeknotes 357: AI's stochastic nature and our interface confusion - a shorter edition thinking about the Apple event and relation with AI knowledge triages.
www.iskandr.nl/ais-stochast...
www.iskandr.nl/ais-stochast...
August Reflections: From Tools to Companions to Immersive Presences.
Annotating a future agentic thing from August news reflections
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Annotating a future agentic thing from August news reflections
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August Reflections: From Tools to Companions to Immersive Presences.
Annotating a future agentic thing from August news reflections
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
August Reflections: From Tools to Companions to Immersive Presences.
Annotating a future agentic thing from August news reflections
open.substack.com/pub/citiesof...
Annotating a future agentic thing from August news reflections
open.substack.com/pub/citiesof...
Weeknotes 356 - Building the RealOS through hybrid intelligent layers -
Looking for hints in the presentation of the new iPhones and beyond, connecting human with physical AI. And more from the news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/building-the...
Looking for hints in the presentation of the new iPhones and beyond, connecting human with physical AI. And more from the news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/building-the...
Building the RealOS through hybrid intelligent layers
Weeknotes 356 - Building the RealOS through hybrid intelligent layers -
Looking for hints in the presentation of the new iPhones and beyond, connecting human with physical AI. And more from the news...
www.iskandr.nl
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Weeknotes 356 - Building the RealOS through hybrid intelligent layers -
Looking for hints in the presentation of the new iPhones and beyond, connecting human with physical AI. And more from the news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/building-the...
Looking for hints in the presentation of the new iPhones and beyond, connecting human with physical AI. And more from the news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/building-the...
“The to more efficiency makes the world a worse place”
@romanmars.bsky.social
@romanmars.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“The to more efficiency makes the world a worse place”
@romanmars.bsky.social
@romanmars.bsky.social
Reposted by Iskander Smit
Nieuwe BBB-minister onderwijs (én emancipatie) Gouke Moes zet regenboogpad op 1 lijn met hakenkruis. Laat even doordringen. Nazi-symbool op gelijke hoogte met LHBTIQ+-emancipatie
Extreemrechtse haatzaaierij en antisemitisme in centrum van de macht. VVD moet dit blokkeren. Zo niet, is het aan Kamer
Extreemrechtse haatzaaierij en antisemitisme in centrum van de macht. VVD moet dit blokkeren. Zo niet, is het aan Kamer
Nieuwe BBB-minister van Onderwijs Gouke Moes vergeleek regenboogsymbool met hakenkruis - Joop - BNNVARA
De partijen in de Groningse Provinciale Staten distantieerden zich van de schokkende uitlatingen.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Nieuwe BBB-minister onderwijs (én emancipatie) Gouke Moes zet regenboogpad op 1 lijn met hakenkruis. Laat even doordringen. Nazi-symbool op gelijke hoogte met LHBTIQ+-emancipatie
Extreemrechtse haatzaaierij en antisemitisme in centrum van de macht. VVD moet dit blokkeren. Zo niet, is het aan Kamer
Extreemrechtse haatzaaierij en antisemitisme in centrum van de macht. VVD moet dit blokkeren. Zo niet, is het aan Kamer
Weeknotes 355 - Mass intelligence immerses in physical reality
Designing for meaningful conversations and immersive behaviors. And more on human-AI-things collabs.
www.iskandr.nl/mass-intelli...
Designing for meaningful conversations and immersive behaviors. And more on human-AI-things collabs.
www.iskandr.nl/mass-intelli...
Mass intelligence immerses in physical reality
Mass intelligence immerses in physical reality - Designing for meaningful conversations and immersive behaviors. And more on human-AI-things collabs.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Weeknotes 355 - Mass intelligence immerses in physical reality
Designing for meaningful conversations and immersive behaviors. And more on human-AI-things collabs.
www.iskandr.nl/mass-intelli...
Designing for meaningful conversations and immersive behaviors. And more on human-AI-things collabs.
www.iskandr.nl/mass-intelli...