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Milan van Lange πŸŸ₯

@milanvlange.bsky.social

Researcher #digitalhistory, computational #archivalstudies, #history at NIOD | Volunteer at Dutch Cyclists' Union | Interested in history, data, ethical tech, text mining, urban planning, bicycles, cars, climate change, minimal computing, and brutalism.

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Belastingdienst verplaatst mail naar Microsoft, ondanks zorgen over meekijken VS Volgens de fiscus is er geen andere optie, ondanks de mogelijkheid dat de VS meekijkt of zelfs manipuleert.

Hou toch op! Dit is het omgekeerde van wat nodig is. De volledige Duitse regio Schleswig-Holstein is goed op weg van Microsoft en andere US Tech op EU alternatieven over te schakelen. Er is heus wel een alternatief. Grote overheidscontracten zijn cruciaal om die verder uit te bouwen.

02.10.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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Mannen met FvD-vlaggen vernielen D66-kantoor. Als we graag een organisatie willen verbieden, kan dit misschien beter FvD zijn dan Antifa.

20.09.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Seen at the Utrecht Archives:

β€œWe should design neighborhoods so that everything is accessible by bike.”

The box for β€œstrongly agree” ran out of space.

16.09.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Eens, en ik zou er aan willen toevoegen: de extreme toename in het verspreiden van leugens, het niet voeren van een feitelijk debat, etc. door politici. Eens de grens tussen 'feit' en 'leugen' niet meer helder wordt, en politici weg geraken met de twee te mengen, staat de democratie onder druk.

19.09.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Opinie: Woningen zijn onbetaalbaar, en dat komt niet door schaarste Huizen zijn duur omdat ze speculatieobjecten zijn geworden. Door minder leenruimte en slimmer belasten krijg je weer normale prijzen, betoogt Dirk Bezemer.

Opinie: Woningen zijn onbetaalbaar, en dat komt niet door schaarste

www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

18.09.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Deleting my account was very easy.

18.09.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Families don't need a house with a big yard when their city is their kid's playground.

18.09.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
The new TOC from academia dot edu. 

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The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

17.09.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2148    πŸ” 1304    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 206

Thanks to all work done by local colleagues at @fietsersbond.nl !

18.09.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ben jij al overgestapt op een browser en zoekmachine die jouw privacy waarborgt en je beschermt tegen tracking? Doe mee! https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/09/16/gebruik-de-juiste-browser-en-zoekmachine/

18.09.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, it's the WiFi, for sure. They spent billions of dollars and wasted incredible amounts of energy to develop a creepy product no one needs, and it doesn't even work. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad

18.09.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Advertisement featuring an illustration of a child riding a bike wearing a red poncho in the rain. There's a black dog (Scotty, maybe?) sitting on the rear rack of the bike. The text at the bottom translates from Dutch to: It's always Big Ben again! (according to Google Translate).

Advertisement featuring an illustration of a child riding a bike wearing a red poncho in the rain. There's a black dog (Scotty, maybe?) sitting on the rear rack of the bike. The text at the bottom translates from Dutch to: It's always Big Ben again! (according to Google Translate).

Big Ben rain wear
Artist: Fiep Westendorp

17.09.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Bij het FD kregen we laatst ook zo'n mail van een lezer: 'volgens ChatGPT klopt het niet wat er vanmorgen in de krant stond'. Opvallende mengeling van enerzijds mediakritisch en sceptisch zijn en tegelijkertijd voor zoete koek aannemen wat een lettersorteermachine je voorschotelt.

17.09.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Wilders: ik laat mij niet vertellen dat mijn mensen niet hard werken!

Rachel van Meetelen: *klopt enthousiast op haar bankje en knikt instemmend

Ook Rachel:

17.09.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 786    πŸ” 230    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 12
BBC News article with headline β€˜New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss’ and image of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

BBC News article with headline β€˜New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss’ and image of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

β€˜Giving me your wallet could rapidly boost your wealth and definitely not lead to me stealing your money’ says wallet inspector

17.09.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Over an image of the Hagley Library's website, the following text is written: "When AI Data Scraping Causes Problems for Digitized Archives.  This summer one of my favorite archival websites was hit by so much AI bot traffic it amounted to a denial of service.  Which is bad, because the Hagley Digital Archives are awesome."

Over an image of the Hagley Library's website, the following text is written: "When AI Data Scraping Causes Problems for Digitized Archives. This summer one of my favorite archival websites was hit by so much AI bot traffic it amounted to a denial of service. Which is bad, because the Hagley Digital Archives are awesome."

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives.

Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks.

Latest in The Lint Trap

linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

14.09.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."

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16.09.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Doughnut academia.
Adapting the β€œdoughnut” model of economics to the academic world enables us to visualize the inner social foundations that universities should provide, and the outer human and planetary boundaries that universities need to avoid overshooting. Note that the ordering of elements within the inner and outer rings is random; there is no direct pairing between foundations and ceilings.

Adapted from Raworth, 2017 under a CC-BY-SA license.

Doughnut academia. Adapting the β€œdoughnut” model of economics to the academic world enables us to visualize the inner social foundations that universities should provide, and the outer human and planetary boundaries that universities need to avoid overshooting. Note that the ordering of elements within the inner and outer rings is random; there is no direct pairing between foundations and ceilings. Adapted from Raworth, 2017 under a CC-BY-SA license.

Seven ways to think like a 21st century scientist.
1. Change the goal: from a business that produces papers and graduated students, towards a university that works towards the inside space of the academic doughnut. 2. Get savvy with systems: from feeling like a cog in the university machine, towards being gardeners of our academic system. 3. See the big picture: from academics who look out over the world from their ivory tower, towards scholarship which accepts its own embeddedness in (and dependence on) society and the planet. 4. Create to regenerate: from a rat race where we tread water, towards β€œslow scholarship” that values community building, deep thinking and rest crucial for intellectual work. 5. Nurture human nature: from the lone genius, towards team science. 6. Design to distribute: from a funding system where the rich get richer, towards a fair distribution of opportunities and resources. 7. Be agnostic about growth: from a focus on increasing numbers of papers, citations and students, towards rebuilding trust in our own academic communities and with society.

Seven ways to think like a 21st century scientist. 1. Change the goal: from a business that produces papers and graduated students, towards a university that works towards the inside space of the academic doughnut. 2. Get savvy with systems: from feeling like a cog in the university machine, towards being gardeners of our academic system. 3. See the big picture: from academics who look out over the world from their ivory tower, towards scholarship which accepts its own embeddedness in (and dependence on) society and the planet. 4. Create to regenerate: from a rat race where we tread water, towards β€œslow scholarship” that values community building, deep thinking and rest crucial for intellectual work. 5. Nurture human nature: from the lone genius, towards team science. 6. Design to distribute: from a funding system where the rich get richer, towards a fair distribution of opportunities and resources. 7. Be agnostic about growth: from a focus on increasing numbers of papers, citations and students, towards rebuilding trust in our own academic communities and with society.

Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone.

@clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991

But, have these ideas changed anything? πŸ‘‡

10.02.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

100%, so many things that need to change... have been thinking a lot about ideas that empower ppl to speak up. Some attempts bsky.app/profile/anne...

16.09.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In multiple conversations with academics I have been confronted with the reality that some think figuring this out is not our job, sadly.

16.09.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Ik hoop dat dit briljante plan bedacht is door McKinsey, voor de complete peak-VVD experience

16.09.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œHeel vervelend maar wat kan een klein land als ons daar aan doen?”, vraagt een van de primaire wapenleveranciers zich af

16.09.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ik kan de woorden 'problemen oplossen' niet meer horen. Het is de meest nauwe opvatting van politiek en impliceert ook dat dossiers afgerond kunnen worden, zoals vaak ook is gedacht dat we er wel waren met de democratie. #Prinsjesdag

16.09.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mark Rutte: β€œKlimaatverandering? We hebben meer ijsbrekers nodig” - DeWereldMorgen.be Zo luidde het antwoord van NAVO-secretaris generaal Mark Rutte op een vraag op 9 juni over de gevolgen van klimaatopwarming.

Fiction over fact

"Rutte brengt dit alles met een vanzelfsprekendheid van wetenschappelijk bewezen feiten. Hij negeert dat indien de NAVO 5% realiseert, ze méér zal uitgeven dan op dit moment de hΓ©le wereld samen. Vrolijk negerend ook dat πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί 84 mld uitgeeft aan defensie tegen de 1.280 mld van NAVO."

16.09.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

One annoying thing about continuantly getting older is that, every time a new report or project is released, I have to resist the pedantic temptation to point out the precedent project addressing the very same issue from a decade ago.

15.09.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Kiezers zijn somber over de politiek en verwachten voorlopig geen verbetering Uit de Prinsjesdagpeiling blijkt dat veel Nederlanders vinden dat de politiek niet samenwerkt, niets oplost en vooral met zichzelf bezig is.

Hoeveel mensen bij mij in de bus vanochtend zou het gevoel hebben, de politiek let op mij? De overheid zorgt voor mij? Dat de basis op orde is?

nos.nl/l/2582645

16.09.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Important info

16.09.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Erg goed stuk van @tomjanmeeus.bsky.social vandaag in de @nrc.nl, met o.a. aandacht voor de demonisering van asielzoekers en daarmee de obsessieve aandacht voor migratie als bliksemafleider voor de echte problemen.

15.09.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bananas for thought 🍌

15.09.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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22.04.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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