Category: random
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Where Does Power Consolidate on Bluesky?
This piece appeared on Tech Policy Press and in Dutch on SamPol. In a matter of weeks, millions of X (formerly Twitter) users moved out of Elon Musk’s dark cave and sought the ‘blue sky,’ writes Nathalie Van Raemdonck. Since the US election and the appointment of Elon Musk to a position advising President-elect Trump,…
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Anti-vaccination and the Tragedy of the Commons
For almost a year now I have been diving in, and have been kicked out of several anti-vaccination Facebook groups. There is an ever growing community of people who refuse to vaccinate against diseases like Measles, Chicken Pox, Tetanus, Polio, HPV,… It’s become so big that the World Health Organization even named vaccine hesitancy one…
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ALL THE FEELS; Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s WWI commemoration set went deep
Godspeed you!Black Emperor played one of the most powerful performances a music collective can bring on Saturday 10th of June, and I am very grateful to have been able to witness it. Let me set the scene; it’s the 100 year commemoration of the Battle of Messines, significant for being the heaviest non-nuclear detonation ever recorded…
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NetMundial and Marco Civil: Brazil’s attempt at protecting Privacy and Human Rights on the Internet
Following the revelation of Edward Snowden of the global mass surveillance by the NSA, Brazil is the first to undertake great measures to govern their citizens’ rights on the Internet. NET Mundial, The two-day conference on global Internet governance has just taken place in Sao Paulo Brazil. It opened with the historic signing of the…
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UN Internships: a splash of cynicism with a dollop of disillusion
(This piece appeared previously in Student magazine De Moeial in Dutch) As a former Political Science student at the VUB, I had the opportunity to intern at the United Nations headquarters in New York between January-July 2014. It would be the pinnacle of the internship experience and the wet dream of many political scientists with…
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Bolivia: Death road
After hearing so many backpackers rave about it in La Paz, me and my travel companions decided to cycle the Death Road. The death road used to be the “Most Dangerous Road In The World”. Several hundreds of people die every year falling into the ravine from the narrow road that is really not made…
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Bolivia: La Paz
It was time to go to La Paz, at 3.600m the highest located capital in the world. They say La Paz is a bowl, you could almost say it’s located in a very wide canyon, and driving into the city from the top gave an incredible view that immediately woke you up. I took the…
Nathalie Van Raemdonck 