Dept. of truly amazing initiatives:

Today the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision released _De Schatkamer_ ("the treasure chamber"), a new website where they've made available for free viewing an archive of *HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS* of Dutch public radio and television programmes broadcast from 1920 to 2020.

I am gobsmacked at the sheer scope and size of this project, at how much cultural history has suddenly been made available, for free, for everyone to just enjoy. It's almost enough to restore one's faith in the promise and the power of the Internet to be a force for Good.

(The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, by the way, resides in one of the more awesome buildings in the country.)

https://schatkamer.beeldengeluid.nl/

Prix Ars Electronica has announced its winners for 2026. Some good work in there.

I'm especially stoked to see Forensic Architecture get the recognition they deserve for phenomenal work on the genocide in Gaza. Some courage right there from the jury and AEC team https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/winners/

Scientific American's Megha Satyanarayana asked me what advice I have for young scientists. My answer:

"Question everything, question the source of information that you get [...] Just follow all the rabbit holes [...] You spend years and years and years still asking the same question or following a specific rabbit hole that other people are too tired to follow. And that’s really where there is no shortcut to scientific discovery or innovation. You have to struggle."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timnit-gebru/