The stench of an industry built on rotten foundations. The original sin of silicon valley was helping themselves to profiling and selling human behavior for profit. It was then compounded by "AI" appropriating all public works. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🆕 Europe has the talent. Now we’re scaling the capital. Proud to launch Phase II of the @eib.org Group European Tech Champions Initiative with the 27 EU governments & private investors: €80bn mobilised to scale up Europe’s tech pioneers into global leaders 🌍 Investing with purpose 💪🏻

The ECB is now addressing potential financial losses linked to climate-related uncertainties in its collateral framework. New climate factors incorporate assets' vulnerability to transition shocks into collateral valuations link.europa.eu/JNYqWG

We're building @eurosky.social to serve people's interests over corporate greed. But we can't do it alone. Will you help, with a donation? Join us in creating the next generation of social tech. whydonate.com/fundraising/...

Requiem for the digital social graph (that actually never was except as a simulacra). Coupled with the fact that for vast numbers of people "social media" equals the "internet", algorithmic broadcasting platforms are the next degeneration, one further step towards a fully asocial digital plane.

The EU wants digital sovereignty built on open source AI, but its own copyright rules stand in the way. A new study by @communia.bsky.social with Maria Drabczyk (Centrum Cyfrowe) & @alek.eurosky.social maps the legal friction and how to fix it. openfuture.eu/publication/...

The US Supreme Court just put the European Commission in a devilishly difficult position. If the FTC is no longer independent, bang goes the legal basis for US companies handling the personal data of European users. And @maxschrems.bsky.social is going in for the kill. youtu.be/0aBaTkSAJRM

What does corruption look like in natural resources governance and energy transition processes? 🌱 🌐 Join us for a webinar co-organized by @RJNglobal and the ECC Working Group 📅 9 July 2026 🕐 1PM UTC / 3PM CEST Register to join 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ING's little joke about Europe's deadly heatwave has to be the most jawdropping social media blunder we've seen from a #fossilbank. We'd love to know if you've seen worse. www.instagram.com/reels/DaNBeG...

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There is a reason "Scope 3" accounting is fought against so hard: it forces a fundamental rewiring of information flows between agents, taking the whole system into account In some ways sustainability accounting is as revolutionary, if not more, than financial accounting invented in the Renaissance

The BIS Annual Report dedicates a lot of digital ink to the risks from the "AI" boom. #econsky www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/a...

Imagine what a wonderful world if this incredible supercomputing power was widely available to everyone 🙄

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💡 @lizsweig.bsky.social is coming to DWeb Camp with a vision: “Reimagining the Open Social Web from the Edge: Freedom Tech Across Mesh, Mobile, and Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure” ➡️ Full schedule here.

SpaceX launched a $25bn bond after the $86bn IPO. All three (US) rating agencies think its investment grade, so less than 1.5% chance of "key person risk" manifesting over the next 5 years. Fitch: www.fitchratings.com/research/cor... S&P: www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/r... #econsky #riskmanagement

Executive Board member @isabelschnabel.bsky.social: Is inflation back? (slides)   English: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da... German: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da...

Atproto people are dismissing mastodon and activitypub for "not scaling", but (anecdotally) I have never seen in the fediverse this level of fakeness and emotional manipulation. Not remotely. The question of how to organize decent "social networks" is still wide open as far as I am concerned.

"For almost every mass extinction event in the last 450 million years, there was a mismatch in the rates at which the environment changed and at which animals could adapt" news.mit.edu/2026/when-en...

Preprint here arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20897 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A major project with a holistic vision on how to structure a fair and (therefore) sustainable global economy. #sustainablefinance

Will an IPO relieve us from "AI" hallucinations or make them worse?

Executive Board member Piero Cipollone: Central bank money for the digital era (slides) www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da...

🚨 BIG DECISION. Court tells oil firm to include Scope 3 emission in its climate plans. “The extraction, refining, and sale of a barrel of oil inevitably lead to its combustion, regardless of the location or time and are part of the negative impacts resulting.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The butterfly effect is when a tiny perturbation leads to large changes in a complex dynamical system. The reverse butterfly effect is when the ecosystem relies on many little butterflies flapping their wings but instead they start dissapearing... 🥶 www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

From today’s perspective the ECB will need to raise interest rates further to bring inflation back to 2%, Executive Board member @isabelschnabel.bsky.social tells @zeit.de The extent and timing will depend on how the conflict, the economy and inflation evolve. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/inter/...

"A technological revolution is not being allowed to take place in the west, or at least in the US -- and that's because of politics" @70sbachchan.bsky.social in our new bonus podcast episode pod.link/1884213852/e...

Water is not a weapon. Yet, it’s increasingly being used as a tool for political pressure and conflict generation. Parliament calls to strengthen water diplomacy and cooperation and ensure accountability. Find out more: link.europa.eu/QJmCVt

Open source is not a magic wand to zap ourselves out of big tech dystopia, but it does point to a vast space of alternative digital universes. techstrong.ai/articles/for...

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The scariest part is not the never ending sequential episodes of self-inflicted social harm, but that there is scarcely any evidence of "lessons learned". Social, political, economic systems in stasis, on flawed autopilots, as if hope, wisdom, creativity, invention have dried up 🤔

github.com/ccomb/volca We welcome a new project to OpenSustain.tech #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain #openscience

The Democratic Technology Alliance is a group bringing together four European Parliament political groups — EPP, Renew, S&D, Greens/EFA — and civil society actors to help bring democracy to technology. We're delighted to host them on Eurosky! 💞🇪🇺 Give them a follow at @democratic.technology!

The feeling when you discover creative minds of long gone eras being strikingly "modern". Like this architectural design by Boullai from 1784. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89t...

How do you think your profile page could be improved?

Any thoughts about c2pa.org ? Is there an EU alternative coalition for content provenance?

The near zero marginal cost of software will reassert itself once the hastily dug artificial moats around "artificial intelligence" have been bridged. The age of software monopolies is over. Societies and digital economies building with this core truth internalized will thrive and own the future.

Somehow Rick Beato is more enjoyable ranting about the out-of-control "AI" craziness than Ed Zitron 😆 (and he knows it, that's why a sequel) youtu.be/aXy8mQeuObk?...

Was greed always so naked and dehumanizing or did we just not pay sufficient attention?

Happy Solstice!

What is your take on eyou.social ? @sebastian.eurosky.social @laurenshof.online @robin.berjon.com

Climate alarm! This is NOT within normal bounds for the Netherlands: the second half of June is now forecasted to become the warmest in 126 years, beating June 2023 by a margin of over 3°C! 24-hour average of 23.4°C, in this forecast.

79% of Global Data Center Capacity Faces Elevated Climate Risk apnews.com/press-releas...

Open source is the new normal. Its the social contract that rebinds the digital plane to the interests of society at large. If its not dominant yet in "social" its because the techbros have engineered one of the most consequential political coups of recent times. But times are a changing.

The astronomical valuations of "tech" are not unrelated to the fact that they are effectively exercising sovereign power over vast swaths of society and economy.

It seems we finally have fully developed, inter-protocol wars between atproto and activitypub fans *and* intra-protocol strife within each😵‍💫 Offers enough data points for a fractal theory of alternative social network development patterns😜 Anyway, easy to be philosophical when not at the coalface☺️

Mastodon 4.6 is officially out, with collections (Mastodon's safety-focused take on starter packs) and overall user experience improvements! blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mast... #fediverse

We are building a Solarpunk world, will you support us? From today you can discover and support our projects on Idonate. www.idonate.ie/cause/solarp...

Want to dig into how @mu.social features are implemented? The source code is in the Eurosky repo github.com/eurosky-soci...

Who will lead the transformation to save the planet? You will. Not only scientists or political leaders, but also economists, engineers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and data specialists. Everyone has a role to play. 🎙️ President @nadiacalvino.eib.org at #LSEFestival