We cannot aim at Digital Sovereignty or even some degree of digital autonomy if both students and workers are trained to serve the interests of Big Tech. And they are influencing every curricula and capacity building program in private, public and social sector!

‼️New article out "Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The Environmental Impacts of Data Centers in Latin America" where we investigate the feral effects of cloud industry's compensatory projects to mitigate environmental impacts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm. We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates. support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

Dear @okfn.bsky.social community, our discussion infrastructure is back discuss.okfn.org. It was down while we moved to a self-hosted option to keep our conversations truly ours. Please check all is working fine, and, why not? Start the year discussing new topics or responding to old ones!

Back in Europe after six weeks in Guatemala. I left a bit heartbroken after the ongoing security situation over there. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/... Worried about family, friends...

Swiss Government Agencies Transition to Open Source Cloud Solutions. This recent article by the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR) explores this development in depth. interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/o...

L’enquête #IsraelFiles, menée par @mediapart.fr en collaboration avec @eicnetwork.bsky.social, révèle les efforts déployés par l’État d’Israël pour accentuer la répression judiciaire du mouvement BDS (Boycott, désinvestissement, sanctions) en France. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Trabajo de Project Manager en @okfn.bsky.social, de especial interés para para centroamericanos! okfn.org/en/jobs/proj... es un rol que perfectamente se puede combinar con estudios o trabajo independiente y es una excelente oportunidad para su portafolio profesional. Es imprescindible saber inglés

We need more, much more of this. Awareness everywhere.

This 2006 #Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable discusses the Venezuelan government's #opensource law during Chavez's time. wikileaks.org/plusd/cables... Almost twenty years ago, Latin American governments had a clear route and were working towards sovereignty, including digital sovereignty.

Very happy about this. We will also bridge the world of open technology research with the tooling and standards our communities have created to make data and research reproducible and knowledge accessible. #openscience #dataquality

An immediate collective goal should be to take advantage of whatever we can grab for the digital commons after the AI bubble bursts. The imminent crisis coming must not go to waste. Ideas?

Missing the people who have actually advocated for digital commons for decades at the stage of whatever is happening in Berlin.

As industrial operations move to Texas, residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/s_zeKn

Meanwhile OpenAI plans to open datacenters that will use more energy than the entire country of India and emit more pollution than ExxonMobil

Taiwan faced a drought that caused chipmaker TSMC to compete with local farmers for water. Nvidia’s carbon emissions rose 87% in 2024 alone. Workers face grueling schedules to keep up, and factory emissions are worse for global warming than CO2.

This is a fantastic deep dive with a ton of great info that debunks all the shallow arguments against how AI destroys the environment.

I discovered @penpot.app at Decidim Fest and I am LOVING IT!

Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

NEW: A group of Senators and Congresspeople are warning Governors that their states are providing ICE “with frictionless, self-service access to the personal data of all of your residents.” The data sharing is managed by a nonprofit called Nlets, which is managed by state police agencies.

New: a judge has ruled that Flock surveillance images are public records that can be requested by anyone. Shows that at least in some cases, police cannot withhold the data collected by its surveillance systems. www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social

Unsere Privatsphäre ist natürlich wichtig. Aber die Geschäftsmodelle der KI-Unternehmen sind leider wichtiger.

Must read @begopramirez.bsky.social @publico.es and thank you, @wereontheditch.bsky.social ! x.com/publico_es/s...

If Municipalities were adopting a commons-based stack for their functions, it would not only be twice as cheap. This could result in a 50–70% lower carbon footprint for a shared, open digital commons stack. And more accountability!

If Municipalities were adopting a commons-based stack for their functions, it would not only be twice as cheap. This could result in a 50–70% lower carbon footprint for a shared, open digital commons stack. And more accountability!

De los mismos que creían que las cámaras de vigilancia resolverían el problema de la seguridad ciudadana, ahora en #Guatemala viene cómo la IA va a resolver la calidad de los maestros de primaria.

Mazón dimite sin dignidad. Lo hace a pesar de la infame lógica partidista y solo gracias a la lucha y dignidad de las víctimas y del pueblo valenciano. Gracias a toda la gente que ha luchado para obligarlo a dimitir y que no le quedara otro remedio. #MazonDimision

"There are many challenges to transforming the AI ecosystem and strong interests resisting change. But we know change is possible, and we believe we have more allies in this effort than it may seem. There is a rebel in every Death Star." 🗣️ @b-cavello.bsky.social in our #4DCongress

Our @okfn.bsky.social statement reacting to the DC-EDIC announcement blog.okfn.org/2025/10/30/w... #digitalcommons

The future of tech is commons-based, open by design & built with people at its heart. With #DCEDIC, Europe leads a new way, creating digital infrastructure that others can adapt, reuse & grow globally. This is our @okfn.bsky.social vision in action. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

👁️‍🗨️Las grandes empresas tecnológicas –como Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.– han proporcionado infraestructura y servicios al ejército israelí 🗣️Simona Levi habla con Rasha Abdul Rahim sobre el uso de la tecnología en el exterminio de Palestina y en el entorno digital europeo🇪🇺 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...

“Lo importante sobre la degradación de la red es que, por debajo de todo, sigue corriendo el viejo y querido internet" Simona levi habla con Francesc Bracero en La Vanguardia sobre la #Conferencia4D que empieza a las 9h ¡Te esperamos! www.lavanguardia.com...#Conferencia4D

🎉 Arrenca la #Conferència4D organitzada per @accentobert.cat i Xnet , el punt de trobada europeu per parlar de #digitalitzaciódemocràtica i #dretsdigitals. 📍 COAC, Barcelona ⏰ De 9.15 h a 21.30 h

Very worried about the movements in Latin America, a generally peaceful region for a while, towards a senseless war on a noun, with the not-so-hidden motives of "restoring a version of democracy" by drones, extrajudicial executions, grabbing of whatever resources are left, and splitting a region.

The private detention centers ICE contracts with to hold thousands of people — including journalists it arrests — shouldn’t be off-limits to FOIA requests. Use our action center to tell your member of Congress: FOIA should apply to private facilities.

Just as it's important to set boundaries in your daily life, the same can be true for your digital identity. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Com esse título, não parece exatamente um mistério, né? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

With plummeting lithium prices and slowing demand for EVs, the once-booming mining towns of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia are going bust New: restofworld.org/2025/lithium...

Imagine if we ditch the apps. Ditch the platforms. And the browsers are the future again. But better.

Oh, wow! www.euractiv.com/news/eu-scie...

AI is an incredibly useful tool to pave the way towards fascism, and nowhere this is as clear as in "immigration enforcement" www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

El Guggenheim de Bilbao y su exposición de Barbara Kruger.

This case must not be forgotten.

Buongiorno, John Elkann &Co porteranno a Torino #ItalianTechWeek: la tecnologia che sta rivoluzionando il mondo secondo piani e interessi dei signori della #Guerra,#Sorveglianza,#Capitalismo. Noi porteremo la #Resistenza, grazie #SerenaDoe per #ItalianTechResistance

Take this opportunity to reread 'The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons' by @avilarenata.bsky.social and Scott Griffen. The text explores a joint project to open the #IPI archive and makes a call for reflection on #AI infrastructures for the public good. buff.ly/6aDf8hS

“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. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻