ava's blog
ava's blog
Ava
I’m Ava and I'm writing about my thoughts on tech, data protection law, my health and little creative projects.
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The past few months, I have thought a lot about aging, retirement and disability a lot. I’m often surrounded by people who take their health for granted, and where degenerative effects on the body are something they leave to their future...
My predictions! With a little humor. Take it with a grain of salt, only did this for fun as a little creative exercise, but maybe you agree or wanna write your own? in: Textures and color becoming big after our years-long focus on very...
A while ago, I wrote about intentional times of boredom for easier task switching, because I noticed there was an inner resistance when I had let go of a task in favor of another. In response, I gave myself the space and time to just sit...
I can empathize with using AI sometimes; like when a search engine shows no fitting results, or when searching for a loose synonym or jargon with a vague description. Another use case would be generating silly, annoying filler text no...
I sometimes wonder if we have too uncritically accepted the marketing narrative of social media companies about how connectivity is always good and preferable, and that they as the mediators always need to be the ones facilitating it in...
It’s 1970. You walk into the store, grab a bunch of apples, go to the cash register, pay with cash, and walk out. What kinds of data have been automatically processed about you while doing that? Very little. Most likely, none, as CCTV...
Both my wife and I are going through the annoying process of trying to search for new jobs. I’m still at my current one, but I want to see if something better is out there in the region we wanna move to. But it is absolutely nuts. How...
Content warning: Brief mentions of disordered eating habits. Whenever I am deeply and actively involved in my passion topic (data protection law), I don’t care about the superficial stuff anymore. Writing, researching, talking to others...
'Freaks' is used affectionately here to describe all kinds of creatives, weirdos, misfits, outcasts, alternative individuals, leftists, queers, furries and all that in a loving way. Where I live, law has a reputation to be dry, boring,...
During my decoupling from almost all online services and apps I had (2016-2018), I was prone to looking at the people around me with concern and judgment about their digital consumption. It was the typical sort of short-term...
On the 30th of October, I officially finished my data protection law certificate! I'm a bit late to post this because I was so busy and still needed to wait for the actual paper to arrive plus getting a frame and all. :) The certificate...
A while ago, the European Commission launched a Digital Package on Simplification. The goal was to focus on regulatory and administrative issues in the digital law space ('digital acquis'): Reducing burdens on businesses and citizens,...
At the end of October 2024, I cut all my hair off, and let my wife shave it off to 9mm. I wrote about that here. I did it because various illness and medication effects made me a lose a lot of hair. In November that year, I shaved it...
I am scared of the point in disability when you are seemingly just living for other people, not yourself. The point where all of your personal goals and dreams have been shattered, developing a new identity is gatekept by your abilities...
You've slain me. On your quest to rise up the Bearblog Trending mountain, you had to go past me. As your final hit rains down on me and my HP bar depletes, my body pulsates on the floor and slowly evaporates. What I leave behind are the...