Sonia Chabane (she/her)
@soniachabane.bsky.social
PhD candidate, ULB & Brown University Fellow | 🔎 humanitarian organisations in the Anthropocene, disaster management | 👀 on Turkey, the Mashreq, Maghreb & EU-Med relations | nerd fascinated by sci-fi in exile from twitter
📍 Brussels, Istanbul, Beirut
📍 Brussels, Istanbul, Beirut
(...) and I recognize -- thanks to capitalism and neoliberalism and imperialism and racism -- we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on."
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
(...) and I recognize -- thanks to capitalism and neoliberalism and imperialism and racism -- we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on."
"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, (...)
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, (...)
"When I talk to teachers and students alike, I hear such grief as well: grief about what AI threatens to do education, what it's already done to the work of teaching and the work of learning, the work of research and reading and writing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"When I talk to teachers and students alike, I hear such grief as well: grief about what AI threatens to do education, what it's already done to the work of teaching and the work of learning, the work of research and reading and writing."
"The tech industry's allegiance is to surveillance capitalism, to profit and power, not to knowledge and certainly not to people."
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"The tech industry's allegiance is to surveillance capitalism, to profit and power, not to knowledge and certainly not to people."
"Generative AI is, with or without Trump's executive orders, a backlash to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a reinscription of the words and images of white supremacist, heteronormative, Western, English-speaking capitalist patriarchy."
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"Generative AI is, with or without Trump's executive orders, a backlash to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a reinscription of the words and images of white supremacist, heteronormative, Western, English-speaking capitalist patriarchy."
"I think it matters that AI -- so utterly opaque in its algorithmic predictions and decision-making -- is the ultimate unaccountability machine."
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"I think it matters that AI -- so utterly opaque in its algorithmic predictions and decision-making -- is the ultimate unaccountability machine."
"I think it matters that all this talk about the potential for "AI" to do our jobs comes after labor made some important (albeit tentative) gains during this period"
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"I think it matters that all this talk about the potential for "AI" to do our jobs comes after labor made some important (albeit tentative) gains during this period"
"I think it matters that GPT was released during the COVID pandemic (and ChatGPT shortly "after"), when many of us were stuck at home, isolated and interacting with one another almost entirely through screens."
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"I think it matters that GPT was released during the COVID pandemic (and ChatGPT shortly "after"), when many of us were stuck at home, isolated and interacting with one another almost entirely through screens."
Avec une disparité genrée tout de même ? Je pense à la série docu d'Arte Les femmes riches ne courent pas les rues"
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Avec une disparité genrée tout de même ? Je pense à la série docu d'Arte Les femmes riches ne courent pas les rues"
"Rightsholders are likely to be eligible for around $3000 per title, and can search their books on the eligible works list and file a claim."
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Rightsholders are likely to be eligible for around $3000 per title, and can search their books on the eligible works list and file a claim."
"That’s because their titles meet the criteria of being downloaded by LibGen or PiLiMi, having valid ISSN or ASIN numbers, and having been registered with the US Copyright Office within three months of publication or before they were downloaded by Anthropic."
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"That’s because their titles meet the criteria of being downloaded by LibGen or PiLiMi, having valid ISSN or ASIN numbers, and having been registered with the US Copyright Office within three months of publication or before they were downloaded by Anthropic."
(...) "authors of only around half a million books will be compensated." How many books in circulation 🫨
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
(...) "authors of only around half a million books will be compensated." How many books in circulation 🫨
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Alright, then not an editorial choice, but a classic verbatim from the police. Still odd it comes halway through the article and not upfront, and only applies there
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Alright, then not an editorial choice, but a classic verbatim from the police. Still odd it comes halway through the article and not upfront, and only applies there
I was also considering this, although the journalist introduces the charges very differently from the onset. Plus, the term is only used in relation to the 17-18 years-old. It must be an editorial choice.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I was also considering this, although the journalist introduces the charges very differently from the onset. Plus, the term is only used in relation to the 17-18 years-old. It must be an editorial choice.
Je re-demande au cas-où : Est ce qu'on peut la trouver en Belgique ou la commander ? Merci !
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Je re-demande au cas-où : Est ce qu'on peut la trouver en Belgique ou la commander ? Merci !
Why do you write "a female aged between 17 and 18", instead of a girl, a teenager or a (young) woman? Why use this formulation "female aged"? This is so incredibly odd and disturbing.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Why do you write "a female aged between 17 and 18", instead of a girl, a teenager or a (young) woman? Why use this formulation "female aged"? This is so incredibly odd and disturbing.
carep-paris.org/annonce/comm... Pression ministérielle et un article diffamatoire de Le Point ont conduit à l'annulation
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
carep-paris.org/annonce/comm... Pression ministérielle et un article diffamatoire de Le Point ont conduit à l'annulation
Yesterday I watched "Ali" - an opera about the true story of Ali Abdi Omar. To escape the terror ravaging his homeland of Somalia, there is only one way: a trek along the deadly Libyan migration route from the Horn of Africa to the heart of Europe.
www.lamonnaiedemunt.be/en/program/2...
www.lamonnaiedemunt.be/en/program/2...
Ali | Grey Filastine, Walid Ben Selim, Brent Arnold, Ricard Soler Mallol
No one flees their homeland for pleasure
www.lamonnaiedemunt.be
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yesterday I watched "Ali" - an opera about the true story of Ali Abdi Omar. To escape the terror ravaging his homeland of Somalia, there is only one way: a trek along the deadly Libyan migration route from the Horn of Africa to the heart of Europe.
www.lamonnaiedemunt.be/en/program/2...
www.lamonnaiedemunt.be/en/program/2...