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Simon Vandevelde 1d ago

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💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform!

🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons.

https://element.io/blog/governments-need-to-adopt-matrix-responsibly/

Governments need to adopt Matrix responsibly

It’s great to see another European government, this time Belgium, using the Matrix open standard as the foundation for digitally sovereign communications. Matrix enables digital sovereignty through decentralisation, self-hosting and interoperability. As a result, it gives governments full control over their data and operations. By choosing Matrix, Belgium ensures

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Simon Vandevelde Feb 24

It still does it, at least some of the time. :-)

Simon Vandevelde Feb 19

How to teach the differences between linear and binary search without computers? Just use the students! B)

Simon Vandevelde Feb 19

Honestly, at this point I prefer typos and ugly sentences in my student emails over the LLM slop I'm getting now. This is killing me.

Simon Vandevelde Oct 24

Jan Walraven ⁂Oct 24

“Universities that encourage students to use #ChatGPT? I’m stunned to hear something like that.”

Luc Steels – the “godfather of #AI research in Belgium” –is one of the Belgian signatories of a recent open letter to “stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia”, initiated by @olivia and @Iris.

I spoke with Steels, computational linguist Katrien Beuls, and computer scientist @wim_v12e, and others, about their resistance against #genAI in academia.

https://apache.be/2025/10/24/belgian-ai-scientists-resist-use-ai-academia?cdlnk=a04yMGFEUks1WEI2Y0lFT2lUR0x3MHBKNjZuSVY0WUxJN2JwNENOamNsM2ZzZWlrdnlEQmpUU2dqV3ZiKzhBaE5UdXh2MTVYSjYycmMwSG0yOVhpdzBEb2k4bVFOS0xHWEE9PTo6NTFkZTFjYWZkMjUwOGNmNDA2ZjA2NDVkOTcwNzA4Zjk%3D