Off-topic
One year with Long Covid
“I am now the person who is alert to every twinge or mark anywhere on me. I am getting to know this person. This is not me This is me” Michael Rosen, Going Home I never thought that I would Read more…
Blockchain
Copyfraud and copyright infringement in NFTs
| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Here we go again. I was seriously planning not to blog again about non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and instead concentrate on writing a full academic Read more…
Blockchain
Can copyright teach us anything about NFTs?
| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | If you have been reading any technology and art news in the last week, you may have come across the newest hype in the Read more…
Regulation
GameStop, Musk, and the threat to decentralization
One of my favourite phrases from Gabriel García Márquez can be found in The Autumn of the Patriarch, and reads: “El día que la mierda tenga algún valor, los pobres nacerán sin culo.” (The day shit has any value, the Read more…
Regulation
Trump, Parler, and the internet regulation fallout
The events of last week require no introduction. The world looked in shock as the QAnon-MAGA mob stormed the US Capitol, disrupting the certification process for the US election. Disbelief, anger, sadness, in some circles. In others glee at the Read more…
Image rights
Revamp image rights to fight deepfakes
If you are paying attention to technology news, you may have come across deepfakes. In case you haven’t, a deepfake has become an umbrella term for various types of image and video manipulation in which a realistic computer rendering of Read more…
Data protection
Make the Web Great Again
After the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the entire world changed the way in which airport security was conducted. Some of the features made sense: sturdier metal detectors and more baggage scanners. But we also started seeing an increase Read more…
Regulation
Time to decolonise the Internet
During my university years in Costa Rica, I used to be quite involved in student politics. You know, the usual stuff, marches, protesting, political parties, advocacy, but mostly sitting around talking about politics at the Law School’s cafeteria. I used Read more…
Off-topic
Diary of a Long Covid patient
So, I am a patient of what they are calling Long-Covid, I’m a long-hauler. If you follow some of my social media, this will not come as a surprise, but I haven’t been posting too much about my condition lately Read more…
Bitcoin
The stock market looks like the Bitcoin economy, and that’s not a good thing
I’ll get to the Bitcoin bit soon, but first let me explain what prompted this idea. Thanks to a Twitter thread by Cory Doctorow (archived here), I’ve been listening to this great interview with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis. In the video, Read more…