Nele Van Doninck
@nelevandoninck.bsky.social
PhD. Anthropologist, writer, photographer, storyteller. Mensenmens. Thinking about how tech can serve people, not profit.
Yes, I am also particularly proud of my article {{Title}}. I put in a lot of effort, but people tell me it’s a bit hard to find in the search engines, so citations are still a bit low for now… 🙈😂😂
#spam #pleaseatleasttryabitharder #idoactuallyhavethatphd 😅
#spam #pleaseatleasttryabitharder #idoactuallyhavethatphd 😅
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Yes, I am also particularly proud of my article {{Title}}. I put in a lot of effort, but people tell me it’s a bit hard to find in the search engines, so citations are still a bit low for now… 🙈😂😂
#spam #pleaseatleasttryabitharder #idoactuallyhavethatphd 😅
#spam #pleaseatleasttryabitharder #idoactuallyhavethatphd 😅
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Reposted by Nele Van Doninck
“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
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“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.
The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5m grant from the National Science Foundation as it came with a restriction that they would not operate any programs (at all - not just funded by the grant) that promote diversity, equality or inclusion…
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...
pyfound.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
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
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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
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… 😕
Maybe we stop trying to automate pain — and stop trusting machines to know our feelings better than we do… 😕
“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”
AI is changing how we quantify pain
Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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… 😕
Maybe we stop trying to automate pain — and stop trusting machines to know our feelings better than we do… 😕
Reposted by Nele Van Doninck
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...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
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 unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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...
Reposted by Nele Van Doninck
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...
Researchers Joost Fontein and Nele Van Doninck explore here 👇
k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/pol...
Politics in Niger after the 2023 Coup
This rapid evidence review explores the politics and political economy of Niger after the 2023 coup.
k4d.ids.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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...
Researchers Joost Fontein and Nele Van Doninck explore here 👇
k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/pol...
Reposted by Nele Van Doninck
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...
Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press
Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.
www.techpolicy.press
October 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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...
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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
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
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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
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
In the same line 😂🤭:
September 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In the same line 😂🤭:
Whenever working away from home, it’s always such a joy to check the wifi networks nearby - it never disappoints 😅🙈
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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
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
Vervoersapp Floya trappelt ter plaatse met 35.000 regelmatige gebruikers
Floya is sinds zijn lancering twee jaar geleden 280.000 keer gedownload.
www.bruzz.be
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
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
Reposted by Nele Van Doninck
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!
A Japanes woman at Casio hand coded the Sleng Teng riddim that formed the basis for dance hall! It's an amazing story www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...
Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae
The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline origi...
www.nippon.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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.
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Read this article.
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For Israel to deploy AI-powered deadly force against them, Palestinians must simultaneously be the lives from which surveillance data is captured, and the tabulation of deaths through which the lethality of AI systems is demonstrated and later improved, writes Sarah Fathallah.
Artificial Intelligence and the Orchestration of Palestinian Life and Death | TechPolicy.Press
The tabulation of Palestinian deaths is used to enhance the lethality of the systems targeting them, writes Sarah Fathallah.
www.techpolicy.press
August 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Cold-blooded horror.
Read this article.
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Read this article.
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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!
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!
August 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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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!
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!
August 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
La #Belgique, as seen from #Kuregem
#commentsfrombelow #Cureghem #belgique #brussels #bruxelles #allyouneedisamarker
#commentsfrombelow #Cureghem #belgique #brussels #bruxelles #allyouneedisamarker
August 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
La #Belgique, as seen from #Kuregem
#commentsfrombelow #Cureghem #belgique #brussels #bruxelles #allyouneedisamarker
#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?
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?
What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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?
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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It’s easy to feel like there’s nothing you can do to stop being tracked online by advertisers.
✨ But we want you to know that there are steps you can take right now to be a bit more protected.
Read our short how-to guides 👇
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✨ But we want you to know that there are steps you can take right now to be a bit more protected.
Read our short how-to guides 👇
privacyinternational.org/guides/ad-bl...
Ad Blocking 101 | Privacy International
A beginner-friendly collection of guides to block ads and trackers on browsers and mobile devices. Learn simple steps to protect your privacy, speed up your browsing, and reduce unwanted distractions.
privacyinternational.org
August 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Tech workers across the industry are organizing to demand their companies end ties to Israeli apartheid and genocide.
www.notechforapartheid.com
www.notechforapartheid.com
No Tech for Apartheid
www.notechforapartheid.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Ah yes, the right to repair and how capitalism thinks about that 🙄
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ah yes, the right to repair and how capitalism thinks about that 🙄
Oh great - the do-good sector strikes again 🙄.
July 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Oh great - the do-good sector strikes again 🙄.