“Water demand from AI could become a huge issue by 2027 — AI data centers may use more water than entire countries like Denmark, and more energy than countries like France.” restofworld.org/2025/gulf-ai...

An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER

"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

the Huxley bot at World Press Freedom Day: they talked about the importance of science fiction, then instead of inviting a real writer with real opinions to speak, put up a puppet that "said" nothing meaningful at all. It is next level falsity. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

something which is not a person, and does not have feelings or intelligence, being designed visually in an aspirational, rich- and status-coded way and programmed to say it is hurt, while ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS who don't look or speak nicely are not treated as human. COMEMIERDERÍA

Nós avisámos. E era previsível. Em 2021/22, criticámos o sistema em que o Estado mantinha a propriedade dos PCs da Escola Digital. PCs de baixa gama, que pouco duram, e escolas sem meios para reparação. 2025: «Centenas de computadores "encostados" à espera de arranjo» observador.pt/especiais/es...

Sadly, the corporate capture is everywhere. Not only aviation. Policies are often dictated or heavily influenced by Big Tech/Cloud Giants. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ODEIO esse papo de não pode "politizar" isto ou aquilo. DADOS SÃO POLÍTICOS! o que não se pode é DISTORCER os dados deliberadamente! a tara da objetividade que iguala "político" a "partidário" e a "desonesto" é um perigo! é ela que faz um LLM fuleiro como o chatGPT ser visto como "inteligente".

Heading to @osfair.bsky.social! Open Science or 404 Future

our investigation on #IDFSoldiers who have been touring the Marche region for #PsychologicalDecompression,disguised as tourists and protected by the Italian #police is now available in #English and free from paywall in our newspaper #IlFattoQuotidiano: www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/09/i...

Have you booked your trip to Brazil? Join the OpenForum Academy Symposium 2025 in Rio, Nov 18–19, for two-days of inspiring keynotes & expert speakers. Limited spots available – register now: symposium.openforumeurope.org#register

ECCHR has filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Public Prosecutor's Office. The complaint names a member of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) who is suspected of having been involved in the targeted killing of unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza. www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...

Loving the Metagov/PublicAI community. Refreshing.

Experiment over. I closed my Instagram account after trying it for a few months. The app is plagued with disinformation, a terrible vehicle for accessing news or forming meaningful connections. (On top of all the privacy and security concerns).

Revealed: over the last year, #IDF soldiers have come to the beautiful #Italian region of #Marche disguised as tourists and protected by the special unit of the #ItalianPolice #DIGOS, for "psychological decompression" Here is our investigation [Italian] www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/a...

it is an absolute scandal that over the last year Italian authorities have allowed #IDF soldiers to come to Italy disguised as tourists, protected by the #ItalianPolice,#DIGOS, for "psychological decompression", as our investigation reveals: [Italian] www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/a...

Whistleblowers risk much to bring truth to light – often without recognition. Time to make their voices heard! Nominations are open. Sharing or donating is appreciated 😉 💡 Who would you suggest? 👉 ellsberg-award.org/nominate-for... #Whistleblower #EWA

If you're an R programmer with some expertise on Data Validation and want to work in a short mission-driven project this is a cool chance to work with us! 👇

#RStats friend, this can be of interest. 👇

We’ll do everything but pass common sense gun legislation.

Dear @rladies.org, here is an opportunity (or two) for one of you: okfn.org/en/jobs/

At @okfn.bsky.social we are looking for a short-term R Developer. The work is exciting and important, advancing a humanitarian mission! Apply or share with others!

What happens to your old electronics when you get rid of them? They might end up inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

New, by me: A security researcher has found and mapped over 1,300+ publicly exposed TeslaMate servers, which Tesla owners self-host to view and analyze their vehicle's data. The exposed dashboards are spilling sensitive data about their Teslas, including their granular location histories.

Powerful piece on #Bolton & how “silence, enforced by fear & secrecy, is the deadliest nat’l security threat of all.” By our client Tom Drake @witnessblower.net ⚖️ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake (@witnessblower.net) for @thenation.com: "What was witnessed with me under Bush & Obama was resurrection of the World War I–era Espionage Act...What we are now seeing with Bolton under Trump represents something even more sinister..." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We are testing an AI integration in Open Data Editor. blog.okfn.org/2025/08/12/a... We still need to improve the output quality. Are you an AI dev-expert working on similar projects who could guide us on our remaining tech questions? github.com/okfn/opendat...

A Data Commons to fight back, protect and defend freedom of speech!

So fed up with receiving AI-generated stuff from everyone. Deviceless, face-to-face meetings will regain importance to distinguish substance from machine-powered blah.

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Writing about frontier technologies and the role openness could play in keeping democratic oversight over them. Updating the open definition is an urgent, delicate pending task.

📘 #QuéLeer #AnálisisCarolina: "Tecno-plutocracia, democracia y concentración de poder en América Latina", ✍️ @BenedicteBull ¿Nueva élite digital o profundización de desigualdades históricas? Un tema que conecta con el curso que celebramos en @UIMP 🔗 http://bit.ly/4lBXqxU

🌍 Today, the ICJ issues its opinion on states’ legal duties in the climate crisis. Read PI Council member Julian Aguon — a lawyer in the case — tell the story of rising island youth, Vanuatu 🇻🇺 and the movement for climate justice in Rolling Stone.

AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it

Communities share data and research in different ways today. Our researchers interviewed 27 people all over the World and are now sharing their findings at #TheTechPeopleWant Summit Join us! 🔗 Registration required: forms.gle/uJEu5CYGCuVj...

The High Court says it lacks authority to stop Keir Starmer's Labour government from continuing to supply materials used for genocidal attacks on a besieged, starving people in Gaza. Nothing is mandating this Labour government to do it. Nothing would stop it from not doing it. They choose to do it.

Can´t miss this!

The bipartisan American Science Acceleration Project sounds promising, but "move fast and break things" isn't a strategy for trustworthy research. I write in @science.org about why we need acceleration that opens doors to participation and accountability. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nuclear and Palantir now go hand in hand! Scary times! www.reuters.com/business/ene...

At @okfn.bsky.social, we are looking for AI Literacy experts who can explain to social organisations all about AI, from how it works to the rights it impacts, the harms it causes to people and the planet, and the pros and cons for social organisations of adopting it for their workflows. Share names!

The Global Data Barometer - Data Visualization Challenge 2025 is open! We’re inviting you to use the second edition dataset to create powerful stories about data for the public good. Register by July 1 Submission deadline: July 16 Explore the guidelines: globaldatabarometer.org/2025/06/glob...

NEW: The internet has collapsed in Iran on Wednesday, with one web monitoring firm saying the country is “now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout.” “We can only see that the traffic dropped — the data doesn’t tell us why it dropped,” said CloudFlare's David Belson.

Submit an Abstract for your paper or presentation at the OFA Symposium 2025 🇧🇷 TODAY! Last chance! symposium.openforumeurope.org

On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

At @okfn.bsky.social , we want to provide a simple, affordable, and sustainable way to build AI-ready open data portals — a 🚲 where others offer ✈️ . Publishing a few thousand datasets shouldn’t require setting up a complex architecture. Please get in touch if you want to support the effort!

Do you know anyone deploying simple offline large language models (LLMs)? We are looking for someone who has already tested such an approach at @okfn.bsky.social for the Open Data Editor.

Weekend read.

Across @okfn.bsky.social projects and services, we are currently facing this problem. AI crawlers are killing openness as a design principle, forcing walls, checkpoints, and control to defend against resource drain and exploitation.

Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila provides an update from the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social.