#socio-technical systems

The EU AI Act is often perceived primarily as a regulatory challenge, as another layer of compliance requirements, documentation obligations, and control mechanisms that organisations must integrate into their existing processes. This perspective, however, remains incomplete. The deeper significance of the EU AI Act lies not only in the requirements it imposes on AI systems, but in the structural…

31.07 - What do you like most about the beach?

Staring out across the sea feels like freedom and I get to feel really small before the beauty that is the ocean.

29.07 - Have you done or are you planning to do any activities (such as work experience, summer schools or watching lectures) other than normal work during the summer?

I don’t have any fixed plans yet but I’m contemplating taking up a Yale philisophy lecture about death again. I had to drop it when uni started because I was completely overwhelmed with the situation, buuuut since it was incredibly interesting though I might pick it up again! I might also start to do more self studying outside of what I am being taught already in my Korean course? I don’t want to lose any progress I made this semester during my semester break!

Almost done for today! I love putting those ticks at every lesson I worked through, makes me feel accomplished and the workload seem smaller.

Let to do:

- finish writing flash cards for Korean

30.07 - Beach or swimming pool?

Definitely beach. For the beach I don’t have to pay, can enjoy the water and don’t look supid if I don’t go in because of dysphoria! Only good things! Best way to waste money: take me to a swimming pool and watch me not take anything off....

The Italian open access journal Tecnoscienza recently published an article that

"reconstructs the process of technoscientific innovation of digital formats pursued in the ‘80s by the MPEG group led by Leonardo Chiariglione. Through a historical and cultural frame provided by Paolo Magaudda and the very words of the main character of this technoscientific story, Leonardo Chiariglione, the contribution gives fresh insights into the relationship between sociotechnical standards and the digitization of media culture."