Censorship on Minds.com; Pay attention Bill Ottman

Published on August 10th, 2017 in Information Technology, Law, Personal, Politics, Software, Takes on Life • Tags: , , • 8 Comments »
In June 2017 I learned about a new social media website called Minds.com. Read more »

Court rules that Politicians blocking followers on Social Media violates Free Speech

Published on July 30th, 2017 in Information Technology, Law, Personal, Politics, Software, Takes on Life • Tags: , , , , , , • 2 Comments »
Back in October 2016 I had blogged about my experiences with censorship on Facebook, where I mentioned that the reporting functionalities provided by the social media network were “being abused […] to harass, silence and censor people, ... Read more »

Choose Pussy over Pain

Published on April 25th, 2017 in Information Technology, Law, Takes on Life • Tags: , , • 1 Comment »
Cidny G. Green published a video on Vimeo where she discusses the problem of sexual suppression and repression on social media these days, making many good points. I highly recommend watching it. Read more »

An explanation for my website intro

Published on February 24th, 2017 in Art, Design, Information Technology, Personal, Programming, Religion, Science, Takes on Life • Tags: , , , , • No Comments, leave one »
There’s a lot of thinking that went into the creation of the intro sequence that I have on the homepage of my new website. Read more »

My new website went live

Published on February 19th, 2017 in Art, Design, Information Technology, Personal, Photography, Programming, Software • No Comments, leave one »
Yesterday I launched a brand new design for my main website at kareldonk.com. It was long overdue considering that the previous design was launched all the way back in May of 2011. Read more »

Facebook Created a Censorship Tool

Published on November 23rd, 2016 in Information Technology, Law, Politics, Software • Tags: , , , • No Comments, leave one »
Well, well, well. A very interesting article was published on the New York Times website yesterday confirming much of what I recently blogged about. Read more »

On the Facebook 30-Day Ban and Censorship

Published on October 19th, 2016 in Information Technology, Personal, Politics, Software • Tags: , , , , , • 3 Comments »
This week I got temporarily banned, again, for 30 days on Facebook after someone apparently reported a comment I had published below a friend’s post. Read more »

Convincing C programmers to switch to C++; A look at human thinking behavior

Published on October 2nd, 2016 in General, Information Technology, Personal, Programming, Science, Takes on Life • Tags: • 9 Comments »
A few days ago I watched a CppCon 2016 presentation by Dan Saks titled “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++” and was pleasantly surprised by the information and insights he shared. Read more »

On Simulations and the Purpose of Life

Published on July 22nd, 2016 in General, Information Technology, Religion, Science, Takes on Life • Tags: , , , • 2 Comments »
All of my life I’ve wondered: Why am I here? What is the purpose of life? And I think I finally know the answer to both of those questions. Read more »

What we’ve learned from Tay, Microsoft’s Chatbot

Published on March 27th, 2016 in Information Technology, Programming, Science, Software, Takes on Life • No Comments, leave one »
Microsoft Research launched a chatbot on Twitter called Tay on the 25th of March 2016 and had to take it down just two days after that because the AI (artificial intelligence) behind the chatbot had become very offensive. Read more »
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