The US-Israeli war on Iran exposed the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point not only for oil but for fertilizers, helium, and seafarers trapped in opaque supply chains. Our podcast of the week analyzes the logistics of warfare. W/ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on @macrodosepod.bsky.social buff.ly/eAI8NVi

Together with @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social and @okfn.bsky.social we aim to build a positive agenda for recognising and supporting open knowledge systems as critical infrastructure within the current digital public infrastructure, digital commons and "digital sovereignty" initiatives

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 EFF Awards! Let us know whose work should be in the spotlight by Wednesday, June 24th at 2:00 PM Pacific Time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"Digital transformation" was the political buzzword through which strategic public functions were transferred to closed, private technological infrastructures in one or two jurisdictions. A de facto privatisation and abdication of sovereignty. With AI, it will get worse than that.

Official gov statement with details is now up www.gov.uk/government/n... "We do not intend for messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal to be included in the social media ban."

NGOs and activists are building public interest AI projects on the assumption that the underlying systems will always be available and somehow affordable for all, everywhere. Restricting Claude products based on users' nationality will affect the design and choices for such projects.

Using public data to identify who qualifies as a state billionaire and how mobile that tax base is, this paper estimates the size, composition, and tax exposure of billionaire wealth in California. By @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al. at @nber.org buff.ly/V4PNsgI

And when public, open, real-time data is needed the most / its collection is being defunded, globally. No AI magic will help us overcome this crisis without sensors and accessible datasets helping shape policy and actions. Today, some forms of knowledge are critical infrastructure.

Hope, supported by evidence. We need more of this. We need positive agendas and a blueprint to work together.

We need to make and shape our own AI systems, and they will only be ours if they are shaped by the data of social movements, of our historical struggles, and of the bits of knowledge not captured by the mainstream narrative. Join us! Help us! Let´s knit the future of our past, together!

The future of our knowledge is at stake. Designing a public digital architecture to shift its accelerated enclosure course is our top priority at @okfn.bsky.social .

This is very important and much needed research

Ya merito nos vemos!

Toda la gente publicando sobre la encíclica: cómo leyó y procesó tantas ideas tan rápido. En un lunes. Misterios de la señora AI. Amén.

Nos vemos pronto!

How would you be able to access knowledge in the future if you are not able to power your devices? How resilient is our collective history and the knowledge we need to survive?

Have any of you used @penpot.app for collaborative slides?

Buena la música de Nicolás Jaar para el viernes.

I love @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/03/07/g... and @apc.org AI policies. www.apc.org/en/apc-polic... Currently working on a policy to guide @okfn.bsky.social and I am learning a lot from them.

Tan feliz de volver siempre a #Barcelona para las conversaciones necesarias. Y con Toret!

Ban cruises. Really. Nothing good comes out of them. Sea pollution. Sound pollution. Light pollution. And all the health and safety issues they lead to.

Can we protect our brainwaves through openness? Can it serve as a governance tool to help guarantee and ‘future-proof’ rights in neurotech, through open technical standards, open modular hardware components, transparent system design, auditability, portability, and user control?

No tolerance for biometric mass surveillance! Hamburg’s DPA has been sitting on a complaint against #PimEyes for five years www.ccc.de/en/updates/2...

No therapist should be working online for a company that saves those transcripts to a model ; if they do they should be at least suspended from any professional association they belong to. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

The #Volkswagen Group: „Corporate Snoop“ award for misusing sensitive data (VW, Audi, Seat, Škoda brands) through #Cariad edri.org/our-work/cze...

Someone should FOIA the US State Dep to understand a bit what really happened with RightsCon in Lusaka.

No government genuinely committed to national sovereignty would tolerate a foreign company operating within sensitive public systems while declaring explicit allegiance to another nation, writes James Görgen, who queries what Palantir is doing inside Brazil.

The plug for #RightsCon.

Are mobile phones replaceable devices? Can we imagine a future without them? What would a different tech architecture look like for people, one that is not controlled by two companies and is based on surveillance, data extraction and control disguised as convenience?

Good morning, #Brussels!

Valiosísimo e imprescindible proyecto de las compañeras La Mar de Citas para acabar con la mafia de las citas de extranjería. ➡️ Una app que te notifica cuando hay citas disponibles para tu trámite de extranjería:

We’ve been learning a lot about #AI lately, along with our communities. 👇🏾 In this text, @okfn.bsky.social's Tech Lead @pdelboca.me consolidates some of these thoughts and offers his sharp views on one of today's most pressing challenges. #TheTechWeWant #TheAIWeWant buff.ly/MUH9FjB

Which corporations will have to comply with the CSDDD following Omnibus I? 📢 The updated SOMO CSDDD Datahub is out today and reveals: - the 1,450 corporate groups covered by the CSDDD - the companies meeting the thresholds - their sectors - their HQ countries (1/2)

📚🌱 Estamos anunciando um projeto em parceria com a @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social para proteger o futuro do nosso conhecimento comum. Junte-se a nós: buff.ly/xOi2IlC

📚🌱 Anunciamos un proyecto conjunto con @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social para salvaguardar el futuro de nuestro conocimiento común. Únete a nosotras: buff.ly/Sd5YNUU

📚🌱 We are announcing a joint project with @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social to safeguard the future of our global knowledge commons. Join us: buff.ly/9VZbWHD

A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Knowledge IS infrastructure. Thrilled of starting the discussion with the fantastic team and community around @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: “It Seems Like Blind American Ignorance”: The New US War on Iraq In the shadow of its wars in Iran and Lebanon, the US has conducted devastating attacks on the security forces of its Iraqi ally. Story by Nir Rosen & Hajar al Obeidi www.dropsitenews.com/p/iraq-us-wa...

Our statement.

El mejor regalo.

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Do not take access to information and public data for granted. Keep access to public information and knowledge a priority in our public agendas. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

Almost exactly four months ago, I wrote about how the Trump administration was preparing to ban TP-Link routers, citing the company's alleged links to China. Now, the FCC has decided to ban *all* new models of foreign-made routers, even though many U.S.-made routers are also full of security flaws.

NEW | Hundreds of companies are pitching shady surveillance tech to EU migration agencies through industry events that evade lobbying transparency rules. See the 450+ companies involved ⬇️ www.accessnow.org/companies-po...

We are starting our #OpenDataDay event at @okfn.bsky.social Join us! okfn.org/en/events/th...

A Berlin court has ordered X to grant researchers API access under the Digital Services Act. Daniela Alvarado Rincón, Simone Ruf and Jürgen Bering explain how they won the case, and why it’s a major step for researcher data access.

Do we really have full, free, open access to knowledge without anonymity? I do not think so. I will tell you why at the very inspiring gathering in Lisbon ps.logos.co#day-1-agenda together with Harry Halpin and Iness Ben Guirat. See you soon!

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online. Full stop. "Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name We have to stop this. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...