Nathan de Vries
@nvreez.bsky.social
Bass player. In love with music, tech, art and the world. Pushing for progress. Frontend dev, concepts & design
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Alternative headline: Big Tech successfully lobbied the European Commission into deregulation.
Including rules to contain AI risk and privacy violations.
Including rules to contain AI risk and privacy violations.
Doing business online in Europe just got easier.
We’re making digital rules simpler, clearer and faster – while safeguarding privacy, fairness and security.
Our new Digital Package will save up to €5 billion in administrative costs by 2029 and unleash AI-driven innovation ↓
We’re making digital rules simpler, clearer and faster – while safeguarding privacy, fairness and security.
Our new Digital Package will save up to €5 billion in administrative costs by 2029 and unleash AI-driven innovation ↓
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Alternative headline: Big Tech successfully lobbied the European Commission into deregulation.
Including rules to contain AI risk and privacy violations.
Including rules to contain AI risk and privacy violations.
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if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
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“But when half your field says its burned out, it’s disingenuous at best—and malicious at worst—to call for more personal fortitude. Instead, we need to be honest about where all this burnout is really coming from—and what we can, and can’t, do about it”
newsletter.activevoicehq.com/p/it-s-not-j...
newsletter.activevoicehq.com/p/it-s-not-j...
It’s not just burnout
A new study says nearly half of tech workers are significantly burned out. But we don't need more grit. We need to name the forces that are actually breaking us—so we can get real about what we can do...
newsletter.activevoicehq.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“But when half your field says its burned out, it’s disingenuous at best—and malicious at worst—to call for more personal fortitude. Instead, we need to be honest about where all this burnout is really coming from—and what we can, and can’t, do about it”
newsletter.activevoicehq.com/p/it-s-not-j...
newsletter.activevoicehq.com/p/it-s-not-j...
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I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article.
All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.
All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.
Why Women in Tech isn't enough
Women in Tech spaces help, but fall short in the long run. Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.
whitep4nth3r.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article.
All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.
All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.
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🔗 “AI for Good” forced Abeba Birhane to remove any mention of Gaza and genocide.
“what ‘good’ means [gets to be] shaped, defined, and actively curated by the tech industry that inherently holds invested interest in societal uptake of AI regardless of its risk or harm” aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...
“what ‘good’ means [gets to be] shaped, defined, and actively curated by the tech industry that inherently holds invested interest in societal uptake of AI regardless of its risk or harm” aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...
AI for Good [Appearance?]
Reflections on the last minute censorship of my keynote at the AI for Good Summit 2025
aial.ie
July 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
🔗 “AI for Good” forced Abeba Birhane to remove any mention of Gaza and genocide.
“what ‘good’ means [gets to be] shaped, defined, and actively curated by the tech industry that inherently holds invested interest in societal uptake of AI regardless of its risk or harm” aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...
“what ‘good’ means [gets to be] shaped, defined, and actively curated by the tech industry that inherently holds invested interest in societal uptake of AI regardless of its risk or harm” aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...
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It's like every website, app and piece of software has developed its own Clippy. Clippy is following me around every day from Google to Zoom to Adobe Acrobat, telling me it looks like I'm trying to exist and would I like help with that
May 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It's like every website, app and piece of software has developed its own Clippy. Clippy is following me around every day from Google to Zoom to Adobe Acrobat, telling me it looks like I'm trying to exist and would I like help with that
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Of which name do you think, when you think of “invention of the web”?
If it's a man, this site is for you to study: nowebwithoutwomen.com
Or this book Broad Band www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545427...
If you give talks, these are especially great resources for getting history straight.
If it's a man, this site is for you to study: nowebwithoutwomen.com
Or this book Broad Band www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545427...
If you give talks, these are especially great resources for getting history straight.
No Web Without Women
An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.
nowebwithoutwomen.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Of which name do you think, when you think of “invention of the web”?
If it's a man, this site is for you to study: nowebwithoutwomen.com
Or this book Broad Band www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545427...
If you give talks, these are especially great resources for getting history straight.
If it's a man, this site is for you to study: nowebwithoutwomen.com
Or this book Broad Band www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545427...
If you give talks, these are especially great resources for getting history straight.
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loved hearing Michael Mayo's awesome creativity with @nvreez.bsky.social yesterday!
March 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
loved hearing Michael Mayo's awesome creativity with @nvreez.bsky.social yesterday!
Woke up to some magic yesterday 🦌✨
March 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Woke up to some magic yesterday 🦌✨
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Tomorrow is election day in Germany. The current parliament almost unanimously supports genocide against Palestinians. The next parliament will as well. The chancellor and his contenders are fighting over who will kick more migrants out. The far right, as a matter of content, already won a while ago
February 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Tomorrow is election day in Germany. The current parliament almost unanimously supports genocide against Palestinians. The next parliament will as well. The chancellor and his contenders are fighting over who will kick more migrants out. The far right, as a matter of content, already won a while ago
Europe (and US just as much) needs migration to sustain itself. I find this a great presentation of the statistics of the long term effects of being tough on immigration by @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised
How anti-immigration politics across the EU clashes with demographic reality
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Europe (and US just as much) needs migration to sustain itself. I find this a great presentation of the statistics of the long term effects of being tough on immigration by @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Learned something new! HTML hidden="until-found" attribute that's already working in Chromium browsers and coming up for others later in the year. Love this functionality, it's so elegantly simple and useful!
Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone
schepp.dev/posts/rethin...
schepp.dev/posts/rethin...
Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone
Discover how to enhance accessibility and improve find-in-page search functionality using hidden="until-found" for icon-only buttons and hidden text labels.
schepp.dev
February 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Learned something new! HTML hidden="until-found" attribute that's already working in Chromium browsers and coming up for others later in the year. Love this functionality, it's so elegantly simple and useful!
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I don't feel great about working in tech. It's always been capitalist, but the field now actively and shamelessly contributes to wars, environmental harms and a wide range of human rights violations.
We desperately need better leaders, and really think individually what we're ok contributing to
We desperately need better leaders, and really think individually what we're ok contributing to
Tech continues to be political
And the politics aren't looking great
www.miriamsuzanne.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I don't feel great about working in tech. It's always been capitalist, but the field now actively and shamelessly contributes to wars, environmental harms and a wide range of human rights violations.
We desperately need better leaders, and really think individually what we're ok contributing to
We desperately need better leaders, and really think individually what we're ok contributing to
With the München attack, rather than blindly yearning for stricter measures, I feel the question we should ask is how can we treat humans in such a way that they don't feel so dehumanised that they'll resort to dehumanising others. Poverty and lack of perspective are the biggest precursors to crime.
February 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
With the München attack, rather than blindly yearning for stricter measures, I feel the question we should ask is how can we treat humans in such a way that they don't feel so dehumanised that they'll resort to dehumanising others. Poverty and lack of perspective are the biggest precursors to crime.
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Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Listen, it's ok if you already need an escape from all of it. Any night, you can go outside, look up at the stars, and remember that we are so small in the grand scheme of -- damnit is that one of his rockets blowing up
January 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Listen, it's ok if you already need an escape from all of it. Any night, you can go outside, look up at the stars, and remember that we are so small in the grand scheme of -- damnit is that one of his rockets blowing up
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"Smart" does so much work in American culture. For example, another myth we don't talk about is how people who are intelligent and have technically marketable skills are also too "smart" to get duped by con artists. They are not. Nerds are huge marks tbh.
the foundational myth of the tech industry is that smart people can't be evil
December 23, 2024 at 9:49 PM
"Smart" does so much work in American culture. For example, another myth we don't talk about is how people who are intelligent and have technically marketable skills are also too "smart" to get duped by con artists. They are not. Nerds are huge marks tbh.
I designed a logo for the orchestra I play in 🎻
December 23, 2024 at 11:50 AM
I designed a logo for the orchestra I play in 🎻
Big topic in my communities here in Berlin these past weeks is major culture budget cuts. There are austerity tendencies, but culture is disproportionately affected, with a focus especially on diversity related projects and institutions, many cancelled fully. Absolutely disgusting...
December 2, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Big topic in my communities here in Berlin these past weeks is major culture budget cuts. There are austerity tendencies, but culture is disproportionately affected, with a focus especially on diversity related projects and institutions, many cancelled fully. Absolutely disgusting...
First (wet) snow today in Berlin! ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 9:26 AM
First (wet) snow today in Berlin! ❄️
Will have to figure out how I'll use this since historically my tweeting was very seasonal, yet I do like this kind of platform for discourse. Also trying to be less on screens these days so let's see.
Currently busy practising for a concert I have next Saturday and it's still a lot to learn 🙈
Currently busy practising for a concert I have next Saturday and it's still a lot to learn 🙈
November 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Will have to figure out how I'll use this since historically my tweeting was very seasonal, yet I do like this kind of platform for discourse. Also trying to be less on screens these days so let's see.
Currently busy practising for a concert I have next Saturday and it's still a lot to learn 🙈
Currently busy practising for a concert I have next Saturday and it's still a lot to learn 🙈
The @btconf.bsky.social live tweeting last week ended very early cause the people there were just too fun. Still grateful for the wonderful conf and beautiful people I met, new and old buddies ✨
November 16, 2024 at 4:33 PM
The @btconf.bsky.social live tweeting last week ended very early cause the people there were just too fun. Still grateful for the wonderful conf and beautiful people I met, new and old buddies ✨
Jan de Coster sharing an overview of his body of creative work, or as he calls it the dragon he raised. And oh my is it adorable! By chance he started building humanoid robots that travelled the world, presented conferences better than Tesla could hope for, connecting with adorable humanity #btconf
November 7, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Jan de Coster sharing an overview of his body of creative work, or as he calls it the dragon he raised. And oh my is it adorable! By chance he started building humanoid robots that travelled the world, presented conferences better than Tesla could hope for, connecting with adorable humanity #btconf
The opening talk is by Linda Liukas, on play and code. I like how she started with the benefit of play when learning to understand code, to then turn it around by sharing how she designed an actual playground in Helsinki inspired by coding and computers. And it looks incredible!
@btconf.bsky.social
@btconf.bsky.social
November 7, 2024 at 10:52 AM
The opening talk is by Linda Liukas, on play and code. I like how she started with the benefit of play when learning to understand code, to then turn it around by sharing how she designed an actual playground in Helsinki inspired by coding and computers. And it looks incredible!
@btconf.bsky.social
@btconf.bsky.social