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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2025-01-16 at 20:04

Ideas I am playing around with for a new project. Realist political philosophy, imagination, design, and AI infrastructure. This might get messy.

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2024-11-28 at 09:46

Updated my homepage with a new bio (long overdue) including a short bit on my current research project, tangentially titled “People’s Compute.” If you want to chat AI infrastructure, popular sovereignty, and HCI design research, let me know. https://leapfrog.nl/

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2024-11-25 at 15:40

Marching along with twenty thousand others past the Dutch Ministry of Education and chanting “student struggle, class struggle:” downright therapeutic. #woinactie

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2024-11-19 at 15:54

Putting together a deck for a half-day workshop on contestable AI and ICT architecture for civil servants working across various Dutch national and local government institutions. This kind of translation work is challenging but also very satisfying.

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2024-11-14 at 09:18

🚶 Join local walkouts today.

📺 Follow the livestream: https://www.aob.nl/actueel/campagne/kabinetsloopthogeronderwijs/

📝 Sign the petition: https://campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/stop-de-bezuinigingen-op-hoger-onderwijs

📧 Register for the WOinActie email list: https://list.uva.nl/mailman/listinfo/woinactie

🤗 Join a union. I like AOb: https://www.aob.nl

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2024-11-14 at 09:18

Angry and frustrated by the cancellation of the demonstration against the cuts in higher education? Me too. But the fight is not over yet, and there is still plenty we can all do.

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2024-09-12 at 09:43

Assembling a list of communities in NL that critically engage with technology. Thinking of groups such as Varia, Nieuwe Vide, Creative Coding Utrecht… Any further suggestions? /cc @varia @lurk @creativecoding

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2024-08-19 at 08:16

Finished "What Design Can't Do" by @entreprecariat—a frequently amusing but also sharply observed account of the sources of disillusionment with design's unrealized potential. One of those books I wish many of my peers in design practice as well as design research would read. https://silviolorusso.com/work/what-design-cant-do/

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