📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

I'll be working more on Web Security and Privacy thanks to an investment from the Sovereign Tech Agency! 🎉

I really enjoyed yesterday's colab with @tante.cc about" Fascist AI". If you want to know how we got, why we have technologies like "AI" and how both are a very fertile soil for fascism: We got you covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMl-...

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel 🔗 www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...

Does your organization rely on MDN for reference docs? Do you often check browser compat on MDN or caniuse.com? Do you use tools like browser DevTools or VSCode in your work? If so, you rely directly on the work that Open Web Docs does and should consider sponsoring. To convince your boss.

What a headline 😂 www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

> our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull. Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making. André out here just beating out billion dollar corps

Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus -- re:publika Vortrag von @bildoperationen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpi...

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

The new Expectation Fail foundation is offering 10 grants (1500-7000 EUR) for artists to work on strategies against the growing tech fascism. https://error417.expectation.fail/

the United Nations Open Source Principles unite.un.org/news/open-so...

I wondered if "AI" systems are "tools" and realized that structurally they are not. They are makeshifts. https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/

Went home to my parents for Easter to fix their computers AND to tell them what happens to the photos they've uploaded to ChatGPT.

Ghibli, miniature dolls, or whatever trend is on right now: it is a giant viral privacy trick to get fresh personal images into OpenAI's models. People are giving their data away for free carelessly. www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/openais-vi...

After the community feedback Servo TSC would like to share that we have decided to not modify the AI policy and keep it as is. Future discussions on this topic (if any) will happen on public channels. More details: github.com/servo/servo/...

After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week. I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky and atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more fediversereport.com/bluesky-cens...

ich bin schon länger dazu übergegangen, die vielen datacenter, die die ki-bros in die welt bauen, als waffen zu sehen. ihre anschlussnutzung nach dem crash werden mit großer sicherheit überwachungs- und militär-ki bereitstellen. also alles, was ein zunehmend autoritärer staat halt so braucht.

Cloud-Dienste und Plattformen kommen aus den USA, Mikrochips aus Taiwan, Seltene Erden aus China. Die Digitalisierung hat zu massiven Abhängigkeiten geführt, von denen Europa sich spätestens seit Donald Trumps Amtsantritt lösen will. Welche Konzepte gibt es dafür? netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...

Carole Cadwalladr: "We now have to start acting as if we live in East Germany and Instagram is the Stasi" www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

Ich habe einen Artikel über meine Reise nach Athen und zur griechischen synth/wave Szene geschrieben www.spontis.de/schwarze-sze... Vielen Dank an @wizardofgoth.bsky.social fürs Veröffentlichen!

"We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-cap...

"We have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%.This increase is not coming from human readers,but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models" diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h...

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Sehr treffend, dass die taz "Souveränität" in ihrer Liste rechter Chiffren aufführt. #digitaleSouveränität und so Rechte Codes und Chiffren: So erkennst du rechte Sprache

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff.com) – the mindset of tech billionaires www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU0e...

In Sonntagsreden von "digitaler Souveränität" schwafeln und unter der Woche beim rechten Milliardär und autoritären Strippenzieher Peter Thiel Software kaufen wollen. Also manchmal kommt man aus dem Kopfschütteln nicht mehr raus. #Palantir netzpolitik.org/2025/palanti...

Die Musikindustrie geht mit horrenden Schadensersatzforderungen gegen @archive.org vor, weil dieses Schellackplatten digitalisiert und veröffentlicht hat. Musiker:innen und das Archiv wehren sich gegen die Klage. netzpolitik.org/2025/urheber...

Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty A roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub... by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @parismarx.com and many more

Bloomberg is now sponsoring @openwebdocs.org ! www.bloomberg.com/company/stor...

@florianscholz.com is director of Open Web Docs, a project documenting accurate compatibility data for web technologies and maintaining related tools that was selected for the #ContributeBackChallenges: www.sovereign.tech/tech/open-we... 7/

Collective co-working space in Bremen Woltmershausen is looking for new members! 166€/month. 128qm. 4-6 people. Gym, kickboxing and ceramic workshop in the same building. DM me if interested!

Let’s build our own timeline algorithms!! By Davide Eynard @aittalam.bsky.social fosdem.org/2025/events/...

On my way to Brussels. Let’s open source all the things and let‘s fight fascism. #fosdem

It’s all in the open: what we work on, who partners with us, why we are caring, and what it all costs to run the Open Web Docs collective. 4 years now. Happy Birthday, @openwebdocs.org.

New book in my shelf: Roentgenizdat: Vinyl records made on x-rays Titled „Bone Music“, written by Stephen Coates, tells the story of x-ray plates illegally created and distributed in the USSR to resist Soviet censorship. www.x-rayaudio.com TED talk: youtube.com/watch?v=49aW... #booksky #vinyl