From #tiktok to #nvidia and now Dutch chipmaker #nexperia the illusion of digital technology as a gravity defying "global digital Pangea" is increasingly being dismantled. New digital "supercontinents" are forming and the tectonic shifts will be dramatic and impactful. Digital technology is […]

The ActivityPub Fuzzer. Probably important if you're a fediverse app dev or other redirect person. It seems interesting. #activitypub #fediverse #fuzzer https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/10/01/introducing-the-asml-activitypub-fuzzer-improving-testing-in-the-fediverse/

@pluralistic just wrote me a personal manifesto: how climate activism and tech activism go hand in hand: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/11/cyber-rights-now/#better-late-than-never 💖💥🌤️🌈🔥🌐

A new white paper in the series on Sustainable Public Procurement: Making Use Of Environmentally Extended Input-Output Data #sustainablefinance #greenpublicprocurement https://www.openriskmanagement.com/sustainable_public_procurement_making_use_of_eeio/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/115348635979871099 Europe should summon the courage to enforce its laws (which are not random but reflect the values of millions of people) and dedicate the resources to develop alternative forms of digital technology ( #opensource, #dataprivacy respecting […]

Good news but also deeply worrisome that European countries can't unite behind a set of principles and guardrails that will guarantee a human-centric, democratic digital era, the way constitutions shaped the transition away from feudalism and autocracies in the past (looking esp. at you dear France)

During this Nobel Prize season we can once again marvel at the glaring discrepancy between the deep knowledge and expertise of individuals in specific domains and the almost idiotic behavior of society at large. Bridging that gap, diffusing knowledge so that no brain is left behind and the […]

Chips are not just another product to trade. They are the physical substrate on which a society's infosphere unfolds. This extreme dependence is not yet internalized as the new reality. The Nvidia/China story merely a precursor of geopolitics in the fully digital era.

In this post I discuss a simple, generic and portable format for disseminating Input-Output data, inspired from the graph representation of economic Input-Output matrices. It allows for a flexible and unified description which can be serialized into csv or an […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Irreversible damage from pursuing indiscriminate, unequal economic "growth" without regard to environmental and social dimensions has two key components: The permanent deterioration of the natural world: biodiversity loss, desertification, salinization... The permanent waste of human potential […]

Irreversible damage from pursuing indiscriminate, unequal economic "growth" without regard to environmental and social dimensions has two key components: The permanent deterioration of the natural world: biodiversity loss, desertification, salinization... The permanent waste of human potential […]

Mushrooms as the true architects of this planet 💚 https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2025/10/2/fungi-set-stage-life-land-hundreds-millions-years-earlier-thought

Mushrooms as the true architects of this planet 💚 https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2025/10/2/fungi-set-stage-life-land-hundreds-millions-years-earlier-thought

Reminding us that reality is weirder than anything we have ever imagined 🤓 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

🤖 AI reminds me of some people on the Torrent network: it leeches from the web at full speed, seeds back at 1kb/s, and only spreads malware torrents (AI content ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Downloading_and_sharing #ai #bittorrent #torrent #web #internet #tech #humor #it […]

...predicated on business models that inject algorithmic processes into human affairs explicitly monetising behavior. What can go possibly go wrong? If you think we are already living a digital dystopia you ain't seen nothing yet. Those AI datacenters wont turn a profit as stochastic parrots 2/2

A key difference between the dot com bubble and the AI datacenter bubble is the general purpose compute and network nature of the first versus the narrow algorithmic scope of the second: Its quite literally boiling down to matrix multiplication at planetary scale. A specific and dangerous path... 1/

Andrew L. Fanning & Kate Raworth present a renewed Doughnut framework with a revised set of 35 indicators that monitor trends in social deprivation and ecological overshoot over the 2000–2022 period. #sustainability #sustainablefinance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The city of #amsterdam Vision for #ai Alas more a statement of principles and values than a concrete vision. It highlights also how "AI" has in practice come to mean anything #algorithmic. A dangerous conflation, which is one the one hand thriving on people's limited digital literacy and on […]

Check out TildeOpen LLM: Europe’s Sovereign Multilingual AI An open-source, foundational LLM (Large Language Model) for European languages – secure, adaptable, and ready for governments, institutions, and enterprises. tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/

At some point in its development the digital tech business switched from "how can we make something useful for users for them to buy" to "how can we turn users into money making machines". The speed and degree of this switch is astonishing and has hardly been explained. How much is […]

we never had a just and livable past. It was only livable to the extend our numbers were small vs bioregional capacities. As for justice, slavery was till recent a legal practice We still need to invent the most important sustainability adaptations (while fighting our demons of self-destruction)

The fastest (maybe the only) way to achieve equitable and sustainability societies is to invent and adopt en-masse human-centered, decentral, empowering digital platforms. For as long as our very means of communication are controlled by abusive evil forces there is little hope. #bluesky #fediverse

All the supporting code for the Academy courses is available in the Open Risk Academy organization at GitHub. These projects can be used as standalone learning resources, though the documentation might be somewhat cryptic. github.com/Open-Risk-Ac...

The online training material at the Open Risk Academy spans a range of topics from #datascience, #riskmanagement and #sustainablefinance, always with a focus on #opensource tools and #opendata 🐧 Access is free, a request by a human is required to combat spammers and bots 🤦 www.openriskacademy.com

On the relation of software to culture and art: Software developers like to call themselves "engineers". This conveys an air of objectivity, technical expertise and hard science credibility (and salary?). And ofcourse there *is* a basis to that claim. Lots of "rules" to follow before something […]

"So far, #meta has largely given away its #ai products for free, but now the company can improve its valuable ad products based on the data it collects" "Meta may use data from AI features in its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses - including voice recordings, pictures, and videos - to further target […]

Europe doesn't have a good solution yet about how to condition the payment of public funds to industry (like startups) to ethical behaviour (like building #opensource, #privacy-preserving, or decentralised tech), says @alexandrageese. #privacycamp25

nothing like a strong covfefe to get you out the medbed in the morning 🙂

What will be the effect on the #opensource universe of the AI bubble (and its eventual bursting?). The first fundamental question is the future role of the #gpu #linux and all its goodies are a cpu thing. Will the vector/tensor kind of processing that is the hallmark of "AI" (but really any […]

What will be the effect on the #opensource universe of the AI bubble (and its eventual bursting?). The first fundamental question is the future role of the #gpu #linux and all its goodies are a cpu thing. Will the vector/tensor kind of processing that is the hallmark of "AI" (but really any […]

The Math of Catastrophe www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-... popular mathematics article on catastrophe theory, ecological regime shifts, and climate tipping points

libxml2's sole maintainer Nick Wellnhofer steps down, meaning libxml2 is now no longer maintained. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398 It's hard to estimate just how many companies depend on this software and critical security updates to the library, so I'm […]

🎥 I've published a video based on my #geomobnl talk in Eindhoven on 18 Sept on #digitalsovereignty & #opensource for geo, covering procurement, policy, and community-driven development. Watch here: https://youtu.be/0u6tPM-USHY 💬 Feel free to share your comments. #qgis #osgeo #ogc

open social means all humans are first class citizens with agency, not a stratified society of manipulators and manipulated. We are still some way from this being a universal reality but its the only humanistic design for the digital age.

2026 will definitely see accelerated developments in new #digitalpayments infastructure (which will have long lasting and deep impact on the shape of the digital economy and society). While the #digitaleuro and #cbdc type sovereign money are seemingly continually pushed back, nine private […]

A perennial challenge of the #opensource universe which now is inherited by the #fediverse too, is the lack of good user interfaces. At best they are poor imitations of some proprietary original. This hinders adoption and differentiation, as the majority of people are used by now to slick […]

"The proposed European Competitiveness Fund– one of the EU’s main financial tools under its new budget – does not prioritise #opensource as a strategic investment area, either at the high level or in detailed actions like #digitalisation. This is a serious omission. As the fund is designed to […]

Its not #dataprivacy per se that is the real issue with #surveillancecapitalism The issue is that the prevailing business model, on which basically the overwhelming economic dominance of #bigtech now relies, is fundamentally anti-human, is fundamentally immoral. People's characteristics and […]

In a world where people lend towards the idea of attributing agency to a system, @bret rectifies our expectations by reminding us of ourselves in the game: "We are also uncomfortable with the mindset that accompanies owning servants." See this and more […] [Original post on degrowth.social]

This should have been front page news www.ft.com/content/6596...

What Carney probably did not anticipate in his famous "tragedy of the (risk) horizon" phrase is that it will not be pure "tragedy" in the classic sense. There is a grotesque comical aspect to idiocracy and the gross failure at informed #riskmanagement

The US and Europe have been compared to Mars and Venus but is more like a parent / child relation. Adult Europe committed suicide in WW II and has retreated into a happy childhood ever since, outsourcing the difficult and ugly stuff. But now the parent has gone mad, the child is dazed and confused.

#opensource is to software what the Sun is to renewable energy: Zero marginal cost, global availability, removal of gatekeepers that can choke the flow energy and information, promoting decentralized, resilient grids and networks. Its not something that can happen overnight, but there is a […]

#opensource is to software what the Sun is to renewable energy: Zero marginal cost, global availability, removal of gatekeepers that can choke the flow energy and information, promoting decentralized, resilient grids and networks. Its not something that can happen overnight, but there is a […]

LinkedIn is giving it another go: After they reversed this last year, they are going to use user content to train AI again in the EU and UK from November. And again, it's opt out. #ai #dataprivacy

Some Europeans are agitating about #digitalsovereignty, being puzzled about the continent's total dependency on US #bigtech (which is increasingly mostly #adtech and #surveillancecapitalism) etc. But other European's are "intensely relaxed" about the situation and actually fully invested in it […]

What can Inka Quipus teach us about data management? A blog post about the ingenious methods used by the ancient Inca culture to encode information and what insights we might draw from them today for #datascience The value of metadata, human readibility […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

What can Inka Quipus teach us about data management A blog post about the ingenious methods used by the ancient Inca culture to encode information and what insights we might draw from them today for #datascience www.openriskmanagement.com/what-inka-qu...

the rise of open source software (including the platform we are using here) is imho the main thing that has gotten better in the past decade. Because its not a "thing", its a catalyst of many things, starting with how we communicate, which is the foundation of society...