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“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

Big ❤️❤️❤️ for the Python Software Foundation.

Yes, I am still taking my camera out sometimes - for those who were wondering 🫣 A series shot last Sunday - work in progress. Also: great news coming up soon on the photography front - working hard on a lovely new project. ☺️ #Leicamini #kodakcolorplus200 #brussels #celebration #joy

Tell me this doesn’t sound like a Black Mirror plot 🫣 Maybe we stop trying to automate pain — and stop trusting machines to know our feelings better than we do… 😕

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

How have politics changed in #Niger in the aftermath of the July 2023 coup? Researchers Joost Fontein and Nele Van Doninck explore here 👇 k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/pol...

the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...

The city speaks ✨ #thecityspeaks #motivation #urbanspeak #komtgoed #leuven

It finally arrived! Looking forward to learn about how messiness,creativity and grassroots initiaties bring vitality to our cities, away from too restrictive planning. ‘They are the paths we take, rather than the paths we are given’ #citiesfrombelow #messiness #urbancitizenplanning

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Whenever working away from home, it’s always such a joy to check the wifi networks nearby - it never disappoints 😅🙈

Big Tech won’t build us a safer, fairer digital world. That’s why we need alternatives - experiments like Floya, steps toward tech built on public value. Maybe not perfect yet, but at least the right direction. The way forward is simple: 1. Build alternatives 2. Regulate what already exists

So many untold stories of women's innovation in electronic music still to be brought to light, including this key figure who developed Casio backing tracks that enabled a revolution in reggae. Great profile!

Cold-blooded horror. Read this article. 🍉🍉🍉

📷 Back to Sunday habits: more from the #Olympusxa and Schaarbeek, Molenbeek and Kuregem. The joy of walking the streets and finding the beauty in the people and the things: my happy place ☺️ #anthropologist #photographer #storyteller Happy Sunday!

More #commentsfrombelow, deze keer in #Leuven. 🍉🍉🍉

La #Belgique, as seen from #Kuregem #commentsfrombelow #Cureghem #belgique #brussels #bruxelles #allyouneedisamarker

We don’t trust our children to play outside unsupervised, so we let them do it online. 🤔 Super interesting piece on risk, danger, and freedom. And perhaps the most dangerous trend to come: do we really want AI companions to be our kids best friend?

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Ah yes, the right to repair and how capitalism thinks about that 🙄

Oh great - the do-good sector strikes again 🙄.

Help Bits of Freedom fits algorithmic censorship! 👇

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Oh wait… were movies the LLM’s before there were LLM’s? 🫣😜 #stereotyping #bias #ohnoohwait 😂

‘Mistakes by these models are inevitable, certainly. They hallucinate, they reflect biases, they behave in unexpected ways. But the responsibility for those mistakes does not belong to the models — it belongs to the people who made them.’

Far from perfect – but oh what is this print beautiful. The quiet joy of analogue photography: waiting patiently for the plane to take just the right turn… while knowing the light’s already fading. And then it turns out soft, dreamy - better than expected. ❤️ #olympusxa #slowphotography

A must-read on how to use AI to build civic tools to empower and protect - and on the immense creativity of Kenia’s youth in doing so ✊

Rêve! Tu es Libre! Today we went to depose the bidbook for Molenbeek to be European cultural capital in 2030. We were loud, we were beautiful, we were Molenbeek. Let’s goooo! #MolenbeekforBrussels2030 #Sadaka #tueslibre #lesfillesdumercredi

On warm summer evenings, it’s like the real Brussels shows: people having improvised meetings on folding chairs by Schaarbeek city hall, girls playing football in the park like pros, kids trying how many can actually fit on a BMX bike, their mothers gathering in Brusilia’s shade. (1/3)

Slowly but steadily we will win this battle. Let’s keep fighting, advocating, but most of all: cycling! 👊

Belgische regering ingebreke gesteld voor ‘medeplichtigheid aan genocide in Gaza’: komt er een primeur op wereldvlak? www.demorgen.be/aanval-op-is...

Keep an eye on Kenya. 🇰🇪 The kids are unafraid - let’s have their back. 👊

More Brussels and Amsterdam… still going strong, but moving towards #veryslowphotography 🫣 #olympusxa #kodakgold200 #lifeinfilm #veryslowphotography

Really excited for this! Tech depends on global majority workers who are too often invisible. Uplifting their stories is a crucial step toward recognizing their impact, improving conditions, and supporting their aspirations for lives in which they can truly thrive…

The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.

And we’re back on track - trying not to jinx it though 😅🫣 More #olympusxa on #kofakgold200 and #filmiscertainlynotdead 🥰 This week: Brussels and Amsterdam 🌞

‘Enfin je suis là’ *Middernachtzomerboom* Zeg niet zinkgat, zeg begin van een bos 🫣😅 #brussel #bruxelles #rewilding #urbanforest #repairingthecity

Met *enige* vertraging. Zoals ongeveer *alles* tegenwoordig 🙈 #olympusxa #kodakgold200 #filmisnotdead #slowphotography

Today’s playground: Building mesh networks - networks they can’t shut down Thank you radicaldata.org More on mesh.radicaldata.org

Ik wil dit in Brussel! 🤩 ❤️ Amsterdam ❤️

🤩 #pubconference2025

Loving the #pubconference2025 workshop on permacomputing, challenging traditional, extractive technologies. Thinking with communities, and asking questions like ‘can your old, broken smart fridge become your neighborhood’s social media platform?’ More here: permacomputing.net

What are the next steps? #PubConf2025 Two pillars 🎯 1️⃣ Regulate the problem 2️⃣ Build something new! That's what we need. We need stronger regulations of Big Tech. And the Draghi report is a push to deregulate the EU under the excuse of innovation.

So happy to be at the Public Spaces #pubconf2025 in Amsterdam today! 🫶 First stop: Keynote by @parismarx.com 🤩

Throwback to the beautiful people at the protest for #meernatuurlelongducanal on Sunday. With a little delay — because analogue 🙃 #olympusxa etc. 🫣

A powerful call from Adam Tranter not to repeat mistakes from the past and to not allow hostile design to once more inform what our streets and public spaces look like and how they function. Urban design should always benefit people, not cars - and movement, not exclusion. 🤸‍♂️

A new series: things that seemed to be a lot easier when we were kids. Episode 1: daisy headbands 🫣 (Or maybe it’s actually correct that I remember spending hours doing them 🙈) Happy 🌞 everyone!