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Nina

I build and maintain useful systems, write about whatever refuses to leave me alone, and practise making things — digital and physical — with care.

Portrait of Nina

About

I am a software / ML / AI engineer based in Eindhoven, working in industrial automation and increasingly preoccupied with responsible AI, technology governance, and digital sovereignty.

Outside work, I maintain a self-hosted Matrix server, make websites for nonprofits I care about, and experiment with independent public-interest infrastructure.

I practise Urasenke tea ceremony, organise small salons, and dabble with bookbinding, papermaking, kintsugi, and the preservation of neglected texts. The common thread is probably stewardship: of systems, knowledge, objects, and rituals.

Selected writing

Three texts from a fairly wide orbit.

01 AI essay If Anyone Builds It, Everyone… Probably suffers some very expensive cringe Why the bizarre, brittle failure modes of powerful AI may provide humanity with a warning shot—and why that is only a sliver of hope. 02 Technical manual How to unite Signal and WhatsApp groups using Matrix A practical guide to double-bridging two otherwise incompatible chat ecosystems through a self-hosted Matrix server. 03 Cultural essay On the Flaming Bear A Russian absurdist joke, unpacked through folklore, mythic archetypes, melancholy, and collective trauma.

Contact me

@Liarra [email protected] @nina:ninasstuff.xyz

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