Surveillance Log 010 - 2025-12-12
Hello! Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less!) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. ☙ The...
Surveillance Log 009 - 2025-11-28
Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less!) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. ☙ Meet the...
Surveillance Log 008 - 2025-11-21
Hello! Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less!) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. ☙...
Surveillance Log 007 - Noteworthy links for 2025-11-14
Hello! Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less!) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. ☙...
Surveillance Log 006 - Noteworthy links for 2025-11-07
Hello! Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less!) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. ☙...
Surveillance Log 005 - Noteworthy links for 2025-10-31
Hello! Welcome to this week’s list of five (or less) interesting links. If you want to revisit earlier weeks, all previous issues are available here. I...
Surveillance Log 004 - Noteworthy links for 2025-10-24
Welcome to a new experiment on Surveilled, a weekly (or less) log of five (or less) links that I found interesting. The subject matter will mainly remain...
Surveillance Log 003 - Noteworthy links for 2025-10-19
Hello! Welcome to a new experiment on Surveilled, a weekly (or less) log of five (or less) links that I found interesting. The subject matter will mainly...
Surveillance Log 002 — Noteworthy links for 2025-10-10
Surveillance Log 002 - Noteworthy links for 2025-10-10 Hello! Welcome to a new experiment on Surveilled, a weekly (or less) log of five (or less) links that...
Surveillance Log 001 - Noteworthy links for 2025-10-05
Hello! Welcome to a new experiment on Surveilled, a weekly (or less) log of five (or less) links that I found interesting. The subject matter will mainly...
Surveilled 95: Elon Musk's radicalisation playground
Elon Musk's radicalisation playground Conger, K., & Mac, R. (2024). Character limit: how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter. Penguin Press. American journalists...
Surveilled 94 - the ideological movement that culminated in DOGE
The ideological movement that culminated in DOGE Slobodian, Q. (2023). Crack-up capitalism: market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy....
Surveiled 93 — AI and the Management Singularity
My EV nightmare before Christmas
A bit late, but I nonetheless wish you all a happy festive season and all the best for 2025! My EV nightmare before Christmas ‘KER-Chunk’, went the car,...
Surveilled 92 — Apple Kremlinology and industrial policy
Can Apple Kremlinology help us design successful industrial policy? At the start of the year, the “state of the iPad” was a hot topic among Apple...
Surveilled 91 — How Physics and Geopolitics Collide: Chris Miller's "Chip War"
Greetings from a typical Belgian summer, propitious to spending time indoors and reading. Hence, no surprise that this month's edition is another book...
Surveilled 90 - The Power Behind the Works: Robert Caro’s “Working”
The Power Behind the Works: Robert Caro’s “Working” Working, Robert Caro, 2019 I first became aware of Robert Caro when we lived in the US and Master of the...
Surveilled 89 — How the World Really Works book review
Shocker! Good policies are based on facts How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil, 2022 Over the last few years, climate change has come to dominate the...
Surveilled no. 88: Standard Chartered takeover; the limits of ML; managing a team on a creative project
Just a quick list of five interesting items that I came across this week. First Abu Dhabi bank is/was considering a takeover of Standard Chartered, in what...
Surveilled No. 87 - Enter the Fediverse
It seems there are two big overarching story arcs in tech right now. One of them is the Twitter saga. Blow-by-blow accounts of Musk’s careening takeover may...