Little things that give me joy: 🌶️ our chili plants already blossoming 🍱 prepping healthy, fun-looking meals 📚 reading books that have me thinking for days 🌱 propagating plants to gift to others

Is AI profitable yet? No. Everyone’s broke. isaiprofitable.com

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?

The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit will focus on incentives and power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence and information campaigns. 4 primary interactive incentives: Power Financial Physical gratification or control Social-psychological More info later this summer.

Sehenswerter #rp26 Vortrag: Ganz normale Medien und ihr Beitrag zum Comeback des Faschismus youtu.be/-dgKKrGmbkM

Pondering: As newsrooms adopt AI into their editorial processes—how do they protect public interest, their independence when most models come from big tech which they struggle to detach from? 📖 Reading “Capturing news, capturing democracy” by K. Wright this weekend Additional recommendations?

June seems to be event and meetup month. Wish I could fit more into my schedule. Any of my connections attending these public ones? 🛜 4th @wzb.bsky.social 🤖 6th KI-Mythen w/ @superrrnetwork.bsky.social @Stadtbibliothek Berlin 🗞️ 20th Hertie Summit @Hertie Stiftung

Co-working outside in sunny weather (but sufficient shade to be able to see the screen), with a piece of cake. Fantastic fuel to keep a stimulating and productive conversation flowing. ✨ #worklifegoals #goodthingsintheworks #policypapercoming

Unfassbar!

Dr. Carsten Brosda, Senator Hamburg: Die Regeln unserer digitalen Kommunikation und Öffentlichkeit setzen Demokratien, nicht wirtschaftliche Machtinteressen. Deshalb: im Fediverse engagieren. Auftakt bei #2mr 👏 — EuroSky wird hier aktuell eher kritisch betrachtet re BlueSky Governance

Besser spät als nie. Politische Parteien verlassen endlich X. Hoffen wir, dass viele Vertreter*innen heute auf der #2mr den Ideen für dezentrale Alternativen folgen! #xit

Folks here might miss the good news over on the #Fediverse: German foundations are joining the newly established stiftungen.social — kudos to @bjoernsta.eimsbuettel.social.ap.brid.gy & Save Social #2mr www.turi2.de/aktuell/die-...

Die #2mr Konferenz zu “demokratiestärkenden sozialen Medien” könnt ihr übrigens auch im #Livestream verfolgen: 2mr.social/livestream/

On my way to #2mr — way early for me but looking forward to engaging!

This is a serious blow to the digital rights community. Lots to unpack. And new mobilisation and activation strategies to be considered. Sending strength and solidarity to everyone involved in shaping the @rightscon.org community!

Ein neues Meme hat die Bühne betreten

Chinesische Auslandsmedien erscheinen zunächst wie unabhängige Nachrichtenseiten, werden jedoch von der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (KPCh) kontrolliert. Unser neuer Artikel zeigt, wie diese versucht, die internationale Wahrnehmung Chinas in ihrem Sinne zu beeinflussen:

Last week’s BlueSky outage also took down instances working towards independent infrastructures, incl @eurosky.social It highlighted how urgently investments in open infrastructures are needed. The team is responding with a crowdfunding campaign to accelerate the process, details: fund.eurosky.tech

Successfully migrated to @eurosky.social 🎉

Yet another example why the hype around AI gigafactories and the push for European hyper scalers under the “digital sovereignty” header is a short-sighted investment: restofworld.org/2026/gulf-wa...

#Serendipity. Absolutely love chance encounters on a random train that lead to hours of conversation. And an energy boost of inspiration. Happy weekend y’all!

Another pet peeve: The intention of this panel is to have a constructive, open discussion. Speaker 1: So can I have 10min at the beginning for my presentation? Speaker 2: The same would work for me. Speaker 3: Here are all the things I can speak to. Just. Why?

So tired of the “Here’s your solution!”-pitches today. Notably those that fail to tell me which problem they are solving in the here and now.

We enable the publishing and curating of the entire research process. Publish all steps of your work as primary outputs, whether it's text, data, or code. Curate anything on the web into a collection for discoverability. researchequals.com

ResearchEquals got reviewed in Katina Mag! > its flexibility across disciplines and its inclusive concept of research outputs make it easy to share one’s work at any stage, and its user-curated collections effectively surface high-quality content. I recommend it. katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Am Montag durfte ich mit Frederieke Hildebrandt und Marielle Düh über „Hype oder Hitze? Was KI und Klima verbindet“ in der Bibliothek Lichtenberg diskutieren. Ein tolles Format, das zu einem offenen Austausch einlädt und wirklich viele spannende Fragen hervorgebracht hat. @superrrnetwork.bsky.social

Good news from the U.S. are so rare these days, this is striking: #Meta was held accountable for addictive design. In a landmark ruling, the platform has to pay 3 million USD to one individual for damages to their wellbeing and mental health. - amp.dw.com/en/meta-yout...

Regulation works, if you enforce it: ➡️ Netherlands: Meta must now offer a chronological, non-algorithmic feed to Dutch users ➡️ Germany: X ordered by Court to provide data access for researchers ➡️ France: investigations into fake outlets and accounts opened that targeted municipal elections

Heute um 15:30 startet im Bundestag die öffentliche Anhörung zum Politische-Werbung-Transparenz-Gesetz (PWTG). Alle Statements der Sachverständigen sowie den Link zum Stream findet ihr hier: www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/...

Am 23.3. in der Anna-Seghers-Bibliothek Lichtenberg geht es um KI, Klima und Umwelt — kommt dazu! Ich freue mich auf den Austausch mit euch! Kostenlose Tickets hier: pretix.eu/SUPERRR/kixb... #KIMythen @superrrnetwork.bsky.social

"We can't solve problems, we can't agree exist." What @mariaressa.bsky.social points out in this powerful speech is critical: We can discuss all the crises in the world but we won't be able to solve any of them if our information ecosystem is corrupted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw7u... #FIMI

Solidarity with researchers, NGOs and regulators defending democracy and open, safe online spaces. Almost at 15k signatures within a day. You can sign here: weact.campact.de/petitions/so... #dsa #gdi @counterhate.com @hateaid.org

Merz und von der Leyen müssen jetzt deutliche Worte und eine politische Antwort finden, damit diese Attacke auf die europäische Souveränität nicht unerwidert bleibt. Auch wenn heute Heiligabend ist. Mein Kommentar. netzpolitik.org/2025/sanktio...

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

Full solidarity with @hateaid.org ! Standing up for our rights online is the way to go, and these accusations couldn't be more Orwellian... all the more reason to keep going this way and push for the DSA and transparency from online platforms!

Morgen sprechen wir über Sichtbarkeit und Auffindbarkeit von Journalismus online. Mit dabei: tolle Menschen und inspirierende Lösungen. Schaut doch gern ebenfalls rein 👇

Ein Problem, das ich derzeit beobachte: Die Wissenschaft verweist faktenbasiert auf immer neue Schrecken. Beschreibt damit Ist-Zustand und Zukunft. Aber das überträgt sich nicht in die Politik, weil dort Ignoranz herrscht, Fakten teilweise abgelehnt werden.

Just back from this year’s European Media Summit. Many journalists expressed a sense of urgency, growing threats and pressures. But also: commitment. #Mediengipfel

Unser neuer Bericht zeigt: Illegale Inhalte zu melden, ist oft ein mühsamer Prozess, obwohl der DSA nutzendenfreundliche Wege vorschreibt. Und selbst nach einer Meldung reagieren viele Plattformen kaum. Was die Politik jetzt tun muss, damit der DSA schützt, lest ihr hier: hateaid.org/wp-content/u...

“We, the undersigned Amazon employees, have serious concerns about this aggressive rollout during the global rise of authoritarianism and our most important years to reverse the climate crisis. We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage…

Timeline cleanse.

Like podcasts? Interested in tech? Worried about the climate crisis? Here’s a weekend recommendation for you: podcast.greenio.tech/e/p8lxj3j8-6... Gaël from @greenio-podcast.bsky.social and I go deep on all things emissions & corporate responsibility. With a flavour of digital sovereignty.

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/eurosky.social Eurosky Live from Berlin

We must build our own digital infrastructure, governed in Europe and rooted in our democratic values and fundamental rights. That means: 1.

“I thought we were going to a Summit on European Digital Sovereignty yesterday, instead we got a deregulation fest.” ~ Felix Styma at @eurosky.social 🫳🎤

Attending the #eurosky event in Berlin today. Given that the role of decentralized social media as a critical piece of #DigitalSovereignty was strikingly absent from the #Digitalgipfel yesterday, I do hope more conversations like these will break through the political bubble. And soon.

“Product first, regulation second.” — this morning’s spin around AI and digital technologies at the #EUsummit25 #Digitalgipfel I wonder how the construction or mobility industry feel about that… 🤦‍♀️

Errrm. Alarm bells ringing. 🚨 Let’s not ex-ante regulate the risks but build the products first, says digital minister Wildberger. … I have so many questions. #EUsummit25 #Digitalgipfel

Digitalgipfel-Eröffnung: Während Karsten WIldberger bei der Begrüssung wie ein Motivationstrainer redete, sprach sein französischer Kollege Roland Lescure konkreter, was man tun müsste. Dazu gehöre auch DSA und DMA durchzusetzen. Und Beschaffungswesen einsetzen, aber dafür bräuchte es Geld.

I’m attending the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty today. 1.000 participants, 70 civil society reps. 🤷‍♀️ No doubt, we need to reduce dependencies and ramp up investment. But I’ll definitely listen for the potential pitfalls, given the lack of voices holding up civil rights.