I never know what I'm talking about.
Postdoc researcher @ KU Leuven, Belgium, working on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning.
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My blog Brain Baking is now also a physical book!
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/06/the-archivist-in-me-turned-this-blog-into-a-book/
💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform!
🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons.
https://element.io/blog/governments-need-to-adopt-matrix-responsibly/
It’s great to see another European government, this time Belgium, using the Matrix open standard as the foundation for digitally sovereign communications. Matrix enables digital sovereignty through decentralisation, self-hosting and interoperability. As a result, it gives governments full control over their data and operations. By choosing Matrix, Belgium ensures
“Universities that encourage students to use #ChatGPT? I’m stunned to hear something like that.”
Luc Steels – the “godfather of #AI research in Belgium” –is one of the Belgian signatories of a recent open letter to “stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia”, initiated by @olivia and @Iris.
I spoke with Steels, computational linguist Katrien Beuls, and computer scientist @wim_v12e, and others, about their resistance against #genAI in academia.
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