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Johan Oomen

@johanoomen.bsky.social

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Research Director Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision. Researcher at VU University. Board member of EUscreen and PublicSpaces. Europeana

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Europeana community has launched the alignment assembly "Culture for AI"! Over 200 people are already participating in it. Please join too!

🎰 Go directly to the Alignment Assembly: pol.is/2tynneeisx
🪩 Hear more about the process: pro.europeana.eu/post/share-y...

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Jun 13

Fantastic talk by @mariafarrell.bsky.social at the @publicspaces.net annual conference. #publicspaces2025

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beeldengeluid.bsky.social @beeldengeluid.bsky.social · Jun 13

Bij Beeld & Geluid verkennen we #XR als nieuwe mediavorm om #erfgoed te presenteren. Collega @steffie-beng.bsky.social deelt in dit blog de drempels én kansen vanuit het @transmixr.eu project.
💡Wat vind jij: is XR dé toekomst voor erfgoedinstellingen?
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Erfgoed beleven in eXtended Reality | Beeld & Geluid

Beeld & Geluid beheert één van de grootste gedigitaliseerde media-archieven ter wereld. Onze dagelijks groeiende mediacollectie bewaren we als erfgoed voor de eeuwigheid. Maar hoe zorg je er nu voor d...

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Jun 11

#europeana2025

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Jun 10

zuckerberg has set billions of dollars on fire on gibberish and copycat garbage, can't competently manage the scale of his primary business, has zero ethics or original ideas, and can't innovate his way out of a paper bag

yet U.S. "business journalism" never makes any of that clear

Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta

Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated with Meta Platforms Inc.’s shortfalls in AI, is assembling a team of experts to achieve artificial general intelligence, recruiting from a brain trust of AI researchers and...

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · May 30

Beeld & Geluid zoekt een 𝗢𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘇𝗼𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗿 / 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 voor 𝟮𝟰 𝘂𝘂𝗿 per week. In deze rol coördineer je het Beeld & Geluid team binnen 𝗲𝗸𝗶𝗽 en leid je de oplevering van onderzoeksresultaten.

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#projectleider #ekip #onderzoeker #innovatiebeleid #cultureleindustrieën… | Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid

Wij zoeken een 𝗢𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘇𝗼𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗿 / 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 voor 𝟮𝟰 𝘂𝘂𝗿 per week. In deze rol coördineer je het Beeld & Geluid team binnen 𝗲𝗸𝗶𝗽 en leid je de oplevering van onderzoeksresultaten. Daarnaast doe je o...

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models

Frontier reasoning models exploit loopholes when given the chance. We show we can detect exploits using an LLM to monitor their chains-of-thought. Penalizing their “bad thoughts” doesn’t stop the majo...

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Mar 7

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social of Signal at #sxsw25 #sxsw2025

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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · Feb 27

Confused about the TikTok case?--Watch @alanrozenshtein.com and me offer different perspectives, with expert moderation by @zittrain.bsky.social in this fun debate.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWf...

Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum: TikTok and Free Speech

YouTube video by Harvard Law School

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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · Feb 17

This is a brilliant analysis of the moment, and promising as a future:

Jonah Peretti, The Anti-SNARF Manifesto www.buzzfeed.com/jonah/the-an...

The Anti-SNARF Manifesto

Big tech destroyed the internet. What's next?

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Feb 8

At the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium today. @sciencespo.bsky.social

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Jan 27

now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Jan 16

makesocialssocialagain.nl spread the word! #MakeSocialsSocialAgain

Make Socials Social Again

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Jan 14

Creatives & Archives: ❤️❤️https://pro.europeana.eu/post/open-archief-project-demonstrates-the-creative-potential-of-archives?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabMjPpHJwleyxsriBTk0V42MjiSIKo3jcF00t0n-W3d-0LfE3xvQW0VCkk_aem_R-7AfrISKEN9yY8PCxIGbw

Open Archief project demonstrates the creative potential of archives | Europeana PRO

What happens when artists and archives meet? ‘Open Archief, Artistic Reuse of Archives’, a new book from the Open Archief project, brings together the voices…

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Thomas REGNIER @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu · Jan 8

On today’s questions in the press room:

We firmly reject any claims of censorship on social media platforms.

Freedom of expression lies at the heart of the Digital Services Act.

Nothing in the DSA obliges online intermediaries to remove lawful content.

europa.eu/!vW49R8

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Nov 30

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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Nov 27

Wij zoeken een 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝘂𝗿 voor >𝟯𝟮 𝘂𝘂𝗿 per week.

de volledige vacature:
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Johan Oomen @johanoomen.bsky.social · Nov 18

Our white paper "The media sector on its AI journey: directions for experimentation & implementation" has been published!!

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Johan Oomen on LinkedIn: #ai4media #artificialintelligence #innovation #mediatech #responsibleai

⭐ Our white paper "The media sector on its AI journey: directions for experimentation & implementation" has been published!! In it, Rasa Bocyte, Kelly…

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