What do we need academia for? Episode 10: The Gift of Slow Time 

In nine episodes (you can find them here), I have focused on some characteristics of the current academic life that is killing the university system -not any more- slowly: Nine episodes of administrative bloat, ranking obsessions, funding regimes that reward the wrong things, accreditation rituals nobody quite believes in, a journal hierarchy that has turned … Read more

Claude vs. Perplexity: How They Help Users with Computer Tasks

While the world is burning with the war, I was busy playing with the staff Claude and Perplexity offer. I rely on both AI tools, and although their aid with the computer tasks looks similar, they are more complementary than interchangeable. Here is an in-depth comparison: Claude vs. Perplexity: How They Help Users with Computer … Read more

My talk at the RESAID event: “Information Disorders in the Age of AI and Algorithms”

A few days ago, I was invited to serve as a panelist at a RESAID project (“Creating Societal Cognitive Resilience Against Information Disorders – RESAID”) event. This EU-funded project has substantive online course content and has developed a few online games related to disinformation issues. The panel was reported by AA as well. Here are … Read more