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Fair-weather cyclists, donating tweets, and more: dirkmjk.nl/en/newsletter

Selecting neighbourhoods for surveillance @dirkmjk/109638013926006164" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@dirkmjk/10963…

📢 SUPPORT NEEDED 📢 @UCL: Say NO to invasive monitoring of workers! Read & share this 🧵

NEW INVESTIGATION finds that low income neighbourhoods throughout the Netherlands have been singled out and run through secretive algorithms to detect welfare fraud. Netherlands hasn't shaken its addiction to "digital dystopia" experiments lighthousereports.nl/investigation/…

Amsterdam is on Fodor’s Travel ‘No’ list of destinations you maybe shouldn’t visit, for ethical reasons. spacekaren.sucks/awejw #Amsterdam #Schiphol

Newsletter December issue: - Facebook and the government - Cycling data - Python and poetry dirkmjk.nl/en/newsletter

Traffic flow map of the Berlin rail network @dirkmjk/109323876887863900" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@dirkmjk/10932…

Finding Krommenie and Snelrewaard @dirkmjk/109274248178127833" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@dirkmjk/10927… @Kiesraad @iisg_amsterdam #python #history

Wind directions visualised @dirkmjk/109295810152695171" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@dirkmjk/10929… @Reindst

On the Van Vollenhoven / Gekroonde Valk brewery see linnaeusboekhandel.nl/geloof-in-de-b… (although their support for the cycling race isn’t discussed here)

A year later, Van Vollenhoven would close its doors, due to competition from Heineken and Amstel. A couple years ago, Van Vollenhoven’s Stout was re-introduced by Poesiat & Kater

In 1948, the Van Vollenhoven brewery supported the Ronde van de Eilanden criterium. dirkmjk.nl/p/wielerrondes… (The photo shows riders passing the De Gooyer mill, now a location of Brouwerij het IJ)

In 1953, the Ronde van de Indische Buurt ended in a bit of a riot. The winner was accused of having accepted a bottle of lemonade during the race dirkmjk.nl/p/wielerrondes… #amsterdam #cycling

Albert Heijn delivery service unable to keep up with the competition dirkmjk.nl/p/wielerrondes… #cycling #amsterdam

Strike statistics #item_1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dirkmjk.nl/en/newsletter#… @KurtVandaele @iisg_amsterdam @AgnesAkkerman

For background, read this article: dirkmjk.nl/en/445/neighbo…

Around 1950, dozens of neighbourhood criteriums used to be held across Amsterdam. Check the map to find out whether races were held in the street where you live dirkmjk.nl/p/wielerrondes… #cycling #amsterdam

Charts with a shortened y-axis are interpreted differently than charts with a y-axis that starts at zero, a study found #item_7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dirkmjk.nl/en/newsletter#…

How to analyse Garmin or Strava activities using Python dirkmjk.nl/en/443/how-to-… #python #cycling #foss