Writing

Here I publish pieces I wrote. Varying from essays and personal reflection, to (short) fiction. I keep meaning to write more on techology, but it never really seems to come to that.

Essays

TV recommendation: "Corridors of Power" 2025-01-06
The Cowboy Bebop jazzhop mix that makes me nostalgic for Finland 2024-03-01
Rethinking economics workshop at CCC 2024-01-04
Anarchist technologists on a hot summer day 2023-07-08
Calisthenics and bouldering 2023-01-03
Coffee adventures in Amsterdam 2022-05-24
From frisbee happiness to future memories 2022-05-24
The four films I saw at IDFA today 2021-11-26
The difficulty of categorizing cuisines by country 2021-08-24
Exploring the life vibes of Simon Sarris 2021-05-15
The dystopian mindlessness of living in a single room 2021-02-08
Twelve photos from Stockholm 2021-01-07
On Coomaraswamy and art 2020-12-23
Urban exploration on campus 2020-11-03

Fiction

The tale of the dark historians 2023-09-29
On life under AI-perpetuated capitalism 2023-08-01
Cuisine d'amnésie 2022-07-25
Hiro and the Vatican psychedelic conspiracy 2021-05-31
Fictional abstracts 2021-03-16
Flyn's space opera 2018-12-26

Flash fiction

Rise Bakery 2023-03-19
Dementia 2023-01-19
Artificial culinary consciousness 2022-01-16

Micro-blog

For very short thoughts I wanted to publish somewhere. Most recent snippet:

The danger, he warns, is that this digital mythmaking can convince a generation to accept authoritarianism as normal, overlooking the real costs to democracy, peace and development. “This is not just about fake videos or social media hype,” Folahanmi said. “It’s about the rewriting of political reality in ways that threaten the future of the continent.”

—Kwangu Liwewe and Alec D'Angelo, Africa's AI strongmen, New Lines Magazine

This piece feels like a premonition of what the abundance of generative AI will lead to in politics across the world. But in this case, it's already happening in African military dictatorships. "Digital mythmaking" as a description of this phenomenon feels like such a good term for this new form of propaganda.

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