Here is an European Citizen Initiative asking the @EUCommission to block certain imports from Russia (like steel and fertilizers) that are simple to replace with imports from countries that are not waging war on European soil. Makes sense to me. Collection of signatures just started a few days […]

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGreens/116108992515272064 This seems an idea whose time has come. What I like is the simplicity of it: you are the bus company. Your job is to get people around. The baroque pricing structures that some operators maintain are difficult to read for passengers […]

Actions speak louder than words. I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android. Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google. Stupid, no? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hello @Jim_Rutt__ , heads up: your profile on santafe.edu returns a 404.

FWIW I really disagree with Cory Doctorow on the "purity culture" thing but I'm not going to get mad about it. The man's job is having takes. He has like fifty takes a day. He is Takes Georg. The vast majority of the takes are fine, and many are actually pretty great. If I had to have that many […]

A budget is a moral document.

The housing crisis in one graph. Source: https://www.metabolic.nl/publications/fertile-ground/, full report, p. 22 #eu #housing #financialization #capitalism

Loving this passive-aggressive response from Bedford Borough Council. #islamophobia

RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116102741102212629 "It's effort worth doing. But it's effort." On building a digital startup based entirely (or, as much as possible) on European tech. #digitalsovereignty #eu

The @EUCommission launches a pool of experts on digital sovereignty. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sara-thabit-gonzalez_academic-digitalsovereignty-jrc-activity-7430136581975597056-r-vZ

Prediction markets warp reality by manufacturing false narratives of consensus. When these fake indicators spread through media, they can influence public opinion (undecided people tend to favor what they think is popular, see "social proof.") A dangerous tool, and CNN has a partnership, too.

Interesting and problematic: in a town in Normandy, citizens underwrite a loan to the local hospital so it does not have to downsize (French) https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/normandie-citoyens-remplacent-letat-financer-lhopital/0011715 #economics #publicservices

Brussels, now. #silentsunday #bruxellesmabelle

Heads up, #eu citizens: there is a European Citizen Initiative for @EUCommission to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, "the cornerstone of EU-Israel bilateral trade, economic, and political cooperation". Looking good, too. It started collecting signatures on the 13th of Jan, and it […]

A major victory for #HumanRights in the #uk 🎉 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116053354839102261 If Mastodon is chronically underfunded, shouldn't we discuss serious public investment in its development, including its usability and design? Twitter was purchased for $43 billion and is now widely used to amplify disinformation and […]

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116052566904503374 Wait until the billionaires arrive...

RE: https://wandering.shop/@SFRuminations/116047196458799327 Wow, would you look at that!

This post by @pluralistic makes an important point: the wealthy ("the Epstein class") benefit from economic crashes, because, when ordinary people are in debt and distress, they are the only ones with the cash to scoop up their assets for pennies on the dollar. 1/2

Question for all Fediverse sages out there. Is there a way to access a list of the accounts of a given instance? Use case: an organization decides to run its own Masto instance. This takes care of verification: if my account is `@[email protected]`, it means I am actually affiliated to […]

This post by @pluralistic makes an important point: the wealthy ("the Epstein class") benefit from economic crashes, because, when ordinary people are in debt and distress, they are the only ones with the cash to scoop up their assets for pennies on the dollar. 1/2

"Optimising too early can lock systems into assumptions that no longer hold. It can formalise work that is still evolving. It can turn provisional solutions into permanent constraints." Digging Nadia Alter's thoughts on leadership under acceleration. It reads like something from William […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@ilpost/news-6pgniha4z/-/a-VgqNwT-2SyKqZUyShFOuSw%3Aa%3A2183656918-%2F0 Insider trading e recursione.

@angelodimambro , are you already following @HennaVirkkunen ?

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

THREAD 1/n This report makes a great, if scary point: pension funds are vastly underestimating risk and overblowing returns. Basically, to ensure returns they invest in stuff like fossil fuels, which then go on to make the world inhabitable. If you need to climatize your entire life and buy […]

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹 I'm Thiago Ferrer, a Spanish journalist. I'm a @journa.host user since 2022, and I'm quite happy here, but I'm also concerned with being in a US-based instance. I would like very much a media-friendly pan-European GDPR-compliant European-hosted-and-managed instance. I don't know if that […]

"The honest answer is that Europe will need to reduce aggregate material demand. [...] This means explicit policies for sufficiency: caps on resource-intensive consumption, progressive redistribution to maintain legitimacy under constraint, and industrial policy that prioritises resilience over […]

RE: https://mastodon.uno/@mora/116018685616296699 Non ha torto.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/116018184114926088 "Thou shalt not pass".

Important information. #ai

"Responsibility had begun to migrate. Not upward. Not formally. Laterally — toward those who made decisions intelligible rather than those authorised to make them." My former associate Nadia Alter reflects on leadership, power and accountability in the age of acceleration. From where I stand […]

Heads up, #eu citizens: there is a European Citizen Initiative for @EUCommission to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, "the cornerstone of EU-Israel bilateral trade, economic, and political cooperation". Looking good, too. It started collecting signatures on the 13th of Jan, and it […]

My trip finally begins : Tonight, the :european_sleeper: 453 will bring me in a comfortable wagon-lits to Berlin, the first stop of my #FOSSRail trip from 🇧🇪 Brussels to 🇹🇭 Bangkok connecting the FOSDEM with the FOSSASIA by train. I will spend the next two weeks […] [Original post on zug.network]

Guy in the pizza parlour: you get a free drink with your pizza. Me: Not really a soft drink person, what do you suggest? He:

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[Tries to sign a European Citizen Initiative with his Italian e-id, SPID] "Wrong username or password" => Nope, I saved my credentials on my password managers, they are correct. "Reset your password" => OK, if that solves the problem... done. "Wrong username or password" => Maybe I need to […]

Everyone let's welcome @angelodimambro. journalist extraordinaire, dear friend, #newhere, and not necessarily fully convinced about maintaining a presence on the fediverse. Who should he follow? Any starter pack?

The mighty @gerrymcgovern has a new book out. He takes a hard look at green tech and green transitions, dispelling the rhetoric and confronting the reader with well-documented facts. A perfect gift for the techno-optimist in your life... confronting, but refreshing in its relentless calling […]

"Nature is not alternative to business, it sits at its heart". The alternative speech pronounced by Sandrine DIxson-Declève, Johan Rockström, Paul Polman, Carlos Nobre in Davos brings some sense among madness to #wef2026. https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/wef-alternativespeech-26

An important point is now being raised by Mario Campolargo: the criteria for procurement are broken: we only care about the initial price, but the costs stack up later. Interoperability should be a criteria in procurement! Sebastian agrees: "I sympathise with public authorities who are trying […]

The United Nations-led Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth launches on April 22 in a super-interesting conference: Turk, De Schutter, Stiglitz, Ha-Joon Chang, Hickel, Kallis.... If you are interested in #postgrowth, #degrowth, and growth-agnostic economics and are in a position to […]

RE: https://social.xwiki.com/@CryptPad/115972979917971775 Today you get 50% off at CryptPad! 🥳 If you ever thought in the past year or so that it might be good to become less dependent of ditch US Big Tech, this is the time! 🤩 Nice move to simultaneously get a safe place for your documents […]

Surprise: solar panels maintain most of their efficiency over several decades. #goodnews #solarpunk […]

Great news today the French government have launched their own Visio video conferencing tool #digitalsovereignty But the PR, while explaining it is French built, don't mention it is Open Source and based on LiveKit - so any government can reuse what they have done […]

Is it me, or Mastodon Scheduler no longer works? https://github.com/scidsg/mastodon-scheduler

Wow, Spain is going to give residence permits to all immigrants at 31.12.25 with proof of 5 months living in the country. Will regularise status of some 500,000+ people. Podemos anuncia un pacto con el Gobierno para una regularización extraordinaria de migrantes […]