I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Overheard a conversation on the train where someone explained how he prompted his chatbot to formulate ‘interesting questions at the next meeting’. There are many problems with LLMs but a lot of the slop-related ones are more about corporate culture than technology.

I don’t know what I was expecting but 1986 eurovision is a-mazing! #esc #eurovision

I know it is silly. But joy is a powerful form of resistance. You don’t have to accept (*gestures widely*) all that is happening tonight in Vienna. But you shouldn’t let awful people take away the joys of a Eurovision viewing party.

For 20 years, the journalist in me has been fascinated by the politics of #Eurovision. But in this piece for The Guardian, I write from the fan perspective - about why things have crossed a line and so many of us won't be watching this year.

Boeiend artikel bij @fd.nl over governance en leiderschap in de cultuursector dat al heel de dag in mn feed verschijnt via mn Nederlandse netwerk. Ook zeer relevant voor de Belgische context. https://fd.nl/samenleving/1596188/vogelvrij-bestuurders-bij-musea-en-cultuurcentra-voelen-zich-onveilig

Whenever I do workshops on pricing strategy I always use the same example to illustrate the concept of Willingness to Pay. I would never pay 7.9 euros for bad coffee and an industrial pain au chocolat but every time I’m at the airport I pay 7,9 for bad coffee and an industrial pain au chocolat

In the last couple of months I’ve been going for an indoor treadmill run once a week. Now that spring is in the Belgian air I decided to go for a quick outdoor run this Sunday afternoon. Tried out German software Komoot (as a European alternative to -say- Strava and liked it.) 🏃🇪🇺

Good read. Software brain as the inability to think outside of the database metaphor. When all you see it is code and automation opportunities, you are missing a lot of life’s broader dimensions. To a man with 27 OpenClaw bots, every problem looks like something that needs to be automated.

Looking forward to seeing Rosalia next week. But oh my word Ticketmaster is such an utterly terrible ticket provider. In order to acces an expensive ticket they require you to give an email address, a phone number, face verification (whut?) and to download their app.

Interesting to see what happens when we approach the European project not only as a series of complicated technicalities but as a story of shared values that need to be defended/celebrated. Feels like we haven’t been doing that in a long time.

As much as I want to be the nuanced ‘it depends’ kind of person, I think I agree here. Writing is thinking. When you don’t write the application, you don’t fully know what you are promising which makes it impossible to deliver on the promise.

Yesterday Bluesky went down. @eurosky.social servers worked but we couldn't communicate as we don't have an app. Our next step is to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. We're raising €100,000 to build a European app backend supporting 100k+ users. Let's do this fund.eurosky.tech

The Eurovision Song Contest has become untenable so fully on board with this year’s boycott. But we don’t want to give up this piece of European heritage just because of EBU mismanagement. So this year we’ll be watching a rerun of 1986. The only year Belgium ever won. 🇧🇪

A lot of digital sovereignity is technical and boring. For non-tech people the distinction between platforms and infrastructure feels a lot like eating your veggies. That is why I am happy @eurosky.social somehow finds a way of making this exciting. Check out this interview! 👇🏼

A very common mistake in fundraising is when mission-driven organisations forget to mention people CAN actually donate money. For every Marek taking the time to ask how they can support your mission, there are 100 people who maybe wanted to give money but didn’t know they could

Sifa is a new professional networking platform on the Atmosphere - fully compatible with your Eurosky account. ➡️ go to sifa.id ➡️ login with your Eurosky account ➡️ import your LinkedIn profile and upload to Sifa You’re set. Sifa have a very exciting roadmap of features coming. Be ready! @gui.do

Am I missing something? I'm spending way too much time trying to get AI to do stuff for me and the result is disappointing. If I'm honest I went from being excited to frustrated with the tech, in the last months. This morning I had some notes that I thought I could turn into a Bluesky thread 👇🏼

Basically, I’m looking for affordable European non-Big Tech AI driven calendar management. Any suggestions?

Hey non-Big Techies, I’m looking for a way to connect my CalDAV calendar to Le Chat/ Mistral. Ideally it can answer questions about availabilities etc. But I’m not a very technical person so I’m stuck. Any suggestions?

People ask me all the time for my favorite Onion headline, and there are like 200 of them, but my favorite recent print headline is easily this:

The one thing worse than a guy being on the phone in the silent carriage of a morning train, is a guy on the phone saying “I should keep this short cause I am in the silent carriage of a train” 🤯

I’m sorry WHAT

I feel this new toothbrush is profiling me.

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux France is ditching US software for homegrown alternatives of Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Telegram Libre Office is very good. www.techspot.com/news/112032-...

Europa heute Abend

Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.

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Hall of fame FT correction

Ken je pronoia? Dat is de tegenhanger van paranoia. Het is het geloof dat iedereen achter je rug het beste met je voor heeft. Een stukje over leiders die loslaten of net controle houden. #leiderschap #organisaties

I have gotten a DM on LinkedIn from a company specialising in “safety ladders custom-built for not-for-profit organisations” and I think we’ve reached peak AI for the day. (But the day is still young)

BRDCST festival 2026 #thatsitthatstheskeet

As an author who is not really opposed to AI from a moral perspective, I find myself rather unimpressed by the tech’s writing abilities. I’ve never seen it produce a sentence I would actually consider passing off as my own.

Percepticide and perspecticide. Big words I used again last night while talking to a friend about disinformation, and I thought I should try to write something today using a real life example, just to show what these words mean and how they hit civil society regardless of borders.

The best thing I’ve read on this butterfly site about AI and skill building.

Technische helden Tijs en Bob zijn de eerste #Stuurkunst podcast aan het klaarzetten. Een podcastreeks over leiderschap en organisatieontwikkeling in kunstenorganisaties. Meer nieuws gauw. #kunst #organisaties

Bluesky still feels heavily American. My discover feed is nothing but US opinions. Who should I follow for all things EU politics, tech and culture?

This reminds me that I still haven’t answered those 3 emails for my nomination for an award in the category of ‘European Business Leader’. All I have to do is the paper work Sounds legit and , frankly, deserved.🤪

Behold post-traumatic growth in the making. Often the skills we need to learn to get through the crisis provide an insight into a better world. Adopting these 10 points will be hard for some, but will result in a better world.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

I am trying to build an AI habit that is GDPR compliant so not linked to US or Chinese big tech. Feeling kinda stuck with the move to agentic AI. Le Chat by Mistral is an excellent LLM but doesn't really do much when it comes to agentic AI or connectors. Pretty new to @n8n.io etc. Any suggestions?

Having a mission is not the same as having a compelling story. Strategic storytelling means telling a story in such a way that outsiders can join in and help your mission. It is crucial

Can one of the AT Protocol techies help me out? I understand the advantages of having everything decentralised in your own PDS. But doesn’t that make it a lot more damaging when my @eurosky.social account gets hacked? After all, it’s one password

Posting this from @aetheros.computer just to see if that works.

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Rewatching 1973’s James Bond flick Live And Let Die has led me to the oddly excellent Wild Life album by Wings. I am at the age where I’m discovering music that is even older than me 😀

The two biggest European search engines want to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on foreign technology.

Eurosky is heating up. Also: it feels like a very European thing to just occasionally add a little collective break to the whole always-on thing 😀🇪🇺