Belgian keynote speaker & tech optimist | 20+ yrs in digital | Girl geek, author, trainer, thinker | Sharing insights without the fluff
Mechelen, Belgium
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New Chaos & Amazement ➛ AI gets physical, prompts become creative acts, privacy gets murky, and the future remains gloriously weird.
Enjoy!
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The new flex is apparently making something look AI-generated, then dropping the BTS to prove actual humans made it by hand. What a time to be alive.
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At Meta Connect, the VR glasses were Zuckerberg’s “one more thing” moment. And they do look genuinely impressive. But after years of metaverse hype, is this finally the breakthrough, or just another very expensive detour?
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« This is the discomfort that comes from the virtual and real worlds overlapping. [Yet t]he rules of the real world don’t always apply virtually, and the behavior of the virtual world, in real life, is typically weird and antisocial. longreads.com/2026/09/15/con…
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NEW VIDEO - We need to talk about Apple Watch's new "Audio Intelligence" features: piped.video/pOX1l1edBME
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Happy 16th anniversary to @okgo’s “White Knuckles” video! 🐶
The band learned the hard way about the "Beasts" rule of the 3Bs of filmmaking. It took 14 rescue dogs, one goat, and three months of intense training to pull off that flawless choreography.
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Clo Willaerts retweeted
“你支持放缓前沿 AI 模型的研发节奏吗？”
提示词/图像生成：Gpt-6-Astra / Gpt-Image2.5
视频模型：Seedance2.5
参考影片：《Titanic》
背景音乐：Rose - James Horner
Made with AI
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator 🇳🇴piped.video/d6SPV4GZp-U?is=6dZZ…
« Everything dies around me »
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"GGEZ" started as an AI-generated track before (real humans) Kaien Nuen and Angelina Zhang covered it. A viral hate campaign on X did the rest. This might be how AI music will actually break through: not on its own, but once people attach a face to it. piped.video/kgAVoL49H3M?is=S5NK…
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Solitaire Alone Together: Windows 98 solitaire where you can watch strangers play and fumble their moves, but never talk to them.
More social than solitaire used to be, also a little lonelier.
Feels like a good summary of the internet right now.
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Amazon blocking AI agents from shopping on its site on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and lack of merchant consent. The platform vs. agent turf war is and who owns the customer relations is heating up fast. geekwire.com/2026/amazon-blo…
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This tool pairs cities with their future climate analogs.
By 2080, Mechelen resembles central Italy (+5.1°C summers, +15% wetter winters).
Sounds like a good thing at first, but our local housing, soil, and drainage systems were never engineered for this.
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Their siren song is irresistible... (The Odyssey Parody) | This Hour Has... piped.video/5WxhQp_FV00?is=JZPY…
We could keep it casual! No strings attached!
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A dozen Coco delivery robots swarming a Chicago sidewalk and trapping pedestrians sounds less like the future and more like a tiny robot uprising. 🤖
Apparently it was a glitch, fixed within minutes.
Still, maybe give pedestrians the right of way?
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Kids off social media, AI leaders hitting the brakes, ads inside ChatGPT, and a highway that plays music 🎶🚗
New Chaos & Amazement is out: clowillaerts.substack.com/p/…
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Real live traffic on the southbound 101 in LA. Every car that crosses the line plays a note, and the music is being made in your browser as they go past. jayjudah.com/101/
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TALK NICER ONLINE - Fighting hate speech with nice speech
The cutest little liar on the internet right now 🥺 talknicer.online/
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Instinct: the invite-only AI agent blowing up on X. Lives in your iMessage/WhatsApp, makes calls, books stuff, even talks to your friends' agents.
Next Clubhouse? Probably not. Instinct gets better the longer you use it, so a clone can't copy your history. instinct.com/
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