Michiel de Lange

@mdelange@sciences.social
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Assistant Professor New Media at Utrecht University | mobile media, urban culture | cofounder [urban interfaces] & @themobilecity
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🤓Goed nieuws voor alle nerds (zoals ik) die erfgoedcollecties met elkaar willen verbinden: Hack-a-LOD, de geweldige 24uurs hackathon van @NetwerkDigitaalErfgoed is dit jaar in het Openluchtmuseum en de inschrijving is nu geopend 👉https://netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl/hackalod/
California ban on algorithmic rental pricing

(This one was in Drafts for a while) The Markup reports on a state ban on algorithmic pricing of rental homes. Easy to view this from a classical Marxist perspective as a question of ownership of c…

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Chinese tech company plans robotaxi service in Europe

According to Dutch tech website Tweakers, Chinese company Baidu plans to enter the European market with robotaxis. Swiss would be the first country to launch the service. I would assume that it bec…

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Fediversians. I just spent three weeks blogging EVERY SINGLE NIGHT to give you a COMPLETE list of instructions to RECLAIM YOUR DATA. Go dark, scatter your traces, stay secure, erase your data footprint. Accessible to all.

Just in time too. Data sovereignty and protection are no longer a luxury but a MUST.

Data traces are political traces. History teaches us that data by you and about you can and will be used against you and those you love.

For you, your neighbors, your families. #optout NOW, and help others to do so too.

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/

The Cyber-Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint - The Opt Out Project

New Year, New Digital You! New Years are an opportunity for committing to resolutions, starting new habits, discarding what no…

Interested in #newmedia and #digitalculture?

Come find us at the @utrechtuniversity Master Open Day on Feb. 7 2025.

Sessions about our program New Media & Digital Culture 16:00 - 17:00 & 17:30-18:30.
Location: Drift 25, Utrecht, room 102.

Register here: https://www.uu.nl/en/node/118908/general-information/choosing-a-masters-programme/masters-open-day

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"Ik wil zelf kiezen met wie ik mijn bestanden deel."

José van Dijck en Wladimir Mufty praten in een interview in NRC over het belang van publieke waarden en het inrichten van een pilot voor Nextcloud. Een opensource alternatief voor dataopslag en samenwerken in de cloud. Zodat je zelf controle hebt over met wie je bestanden deelt.

Weten hoe deze beweging tot een alternatieve cloud tot stand is gekomen? 👉 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/12/31/onderzoekers-kiezen-voor-een-alternatieve-cloud-ik-wil-zelf-kunnen-kiezen-met-wie-ik-mijn-bestanden-deel-a4878192

Onderzoekers kiezen voor een alternatieve cloud: ‘Ik wil zelf kunnen kiezen met wie ik mijn bestanden deel’

Technologie: Onderzoekers van vijf universiteiten gaan experimenteren. Ze willen hun onlinesamenwerking onafhankelijk van de grote techbedrijven regelen en stappen over op een opensourcesysteem. „IT moet mij helpen, niet dwingen.”

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Dutch supermarket Jumbo ends AI surveillance

Meanwhile, more uplifting news from the Netherlands. National Dutch newspaper Telegraaf reports that the Netherlands’ 2nd biggest supermarket chain Jumbo terminates their experiment with AI powered…

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AP wire service article from my birth date, 6/21/1958.

The basic physics of this type of impedance has always been much simpler than the frictions of human nature.

Huh. I just realized how truly terrible the whole "self-driving cars are programmed to largely ignore crosswalks" is for me personally, a person who mostly manages to get cars to stop and allow me to cross by staring the driver right in the eyes. After all, people are capable of shame.