Vesna Manojlovic @becha@v.st

I just finished the 2024 AA-ISA #Advocacy Assembly #Internet #shutdown, was chido, I did it while doing my chores and meals. https://advocacyassembly.org/en

Op het dorpsplein in Renkum werden vandaag 17 emmers van 10 liter water leeg gestort. Zonde van al dat water? Ja, zeker. Maar dit is precies wat papierfabriek Parenco iedere seconde (!) oppompt uit de grond: 170 liter schoon bronwater en dat vlakbij Natura 2000 gebieden. [1/5]

“The perfect postapocalyptic vehicle isn't a big ugly truck. It's a bicycle — light, reliable, easy to fix and scavenge parts for, able to move cargo, doesn't need any power except you and calories. And the thing that will actually get us through an apocalypse — or, preferably, prevent one — isn't driving a steel-plated War Rig. It's working together.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-cybertruck-apocalypse-inequality-2023-12

This year there will be a new ETC in Berlin and the CFP is out https://eclectictechcarnival.org/etc/call/ #etc #feminism #technology

#AcademicVenting ❤️ (on the office door of Andrew Douglas - spotted on X)

Vandaag protesteerden we, tijdens de opening van de Keukenhof, tegen het grootschalige gebruik van gevaarlijke pesticiden in de bollenteelt. Wij eisen een gifvrije bollenteelt en maakten het gebruik van gif zichtbaar door “gif” over Spicey Rebels heen te gieten. [1/5]

🚨 Help needed: Are there here any (former) PhD students or their supervisors who did a cotutelle between the Netherlands and Germany (specifically these two countries) and could help me finalize a contract for my PhD student?

Many thanks! 🙏

#AcademicChatter #Academia #PhD #Cotutelle #Germany #Netherlands

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/15/poetin-komt-tanken-bij-vlissingen-a4193179

Last week the NRC reported about a little-known refueling (bunkering) point in the south-west of the #Netherlands, at the entrance of the Schelde near #vlissingen. The newspaper uncovered that it is being used by a #shadow #fleet of often badly maintained and very old tanker vessels which play a pivotal role in turning sanctioned Russian #oil in to not sanctioned oil. The vessels make their way from Baltic ports along the North Sea, either to India or Turkey. The newspaper called this bunkering point "Putin's petrol station", because on the way back the sanctioned vessels stock up on fuel. The ships all fly under several different "flags of convenience" and as their companies get put on sanction lists, the ships move to other owners.

It is not often that international politics, global capital, supply chains, the news and infrastructure congeal the way it does at Putin's Pitstop so I had to go take a look #infrastructours.

infra thread!

How to keep internet open? What should the EU’s role be in internet standard-setting? – read this recap of a conversation between Clément Perarnaud, Mallory Knodel, @olaf, and Geoff Huston 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/how-can-the-eus-approach-towards-internet-standards-be-improved/ #OpenInternet #InternetStandards #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

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