Catching up on some corporate hatereading, Alphabet Q3 Earnings Call > Q: About 20% of Google's search queries are commercial historically, and you've talked a bunch on this call about how AI Overviews are kind of expanding the breadth of queries. Could you talk about how new products from the […]

A beautiful old church in Amsterdam, burning down exactly on New Years Eve 😱 #vondelkerk https://nos.nl/artikel/2596645-brand-verwoest-vondelkerk-in-amsterdam-huizen-ontruimd-vanwege-vonkenregen

"Faced with an ever-increasing information flood in a complex and interconnected world, individual knowledge workers are in dire need for support in structuring their personal information space and maintaining fruitful communication and exchange within social networks across organizational […]

Every once in a while the #python hashtag features an actual python🐍 and that is quite ok 🤓

When the core of the Death Star itself starts glowing white red you know something non-trivial is brewing. Prediction is hard, esp. about the future, but 2026 will very likely see a major inflection point in how digital technology gets further adopted and embedded in society. Evil overfloweth.

"Faced with an ever-increasing information flood in a complex and interconnected world, individual knowledge workers are in dire need for support in structuring their personal information space and maintaining fruitful communication and exchange within social networks across organizational […]

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/115770960734544560 Make no mistake, this maliciousness toward Europe is not gratuitous. It reveals the deep vulnerability of a industrial-political complex that shaped the world for decades but now reaches expiry. If Europe gets its act together (and it […]

As this amazing planet inflects once again along its eternal elliptical curve, to all fellow #bluesky and #fediverse travellers, best wishes for perceptiveness, inspiration, courage, strength, connectedness, and a bucketload of luck 💚.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115762325563043978 People before algorithms ❤️

Every day we fail to find a way out of the bigtech black hole another oligopolistic billion flows into their coffers, used to further speculate, invent, test, influence, suppress, buyout, cajole, silence, entrench, bribe, capture, make the task of us escaping ever harder. Will the realisation […]

Standard financial statements can be expressed concisely using the incidence matrix of an underlying accounting graph to build the necessary aggregations and stock/flow representations. This post explains the how and why. #sustainablefinance #econsky www.openriskmanagement.com/mathematical...

What people *choose* to do with the now ubiquitous interconnected silicon contraptions versus what is in-principle possible are two vastly different sets The prevalent conflation of these two concepts is a social construct in itself: a projection of uniqueness and thus inevitability of choices 2/2

I know that ship has sailed, but we really, really should not be thinking and talking of software (=collections of computer commands put together by humans) as "technology". Code is foremost a cultural construct while technologies are more directly shaped by properties of the natural world. 1/2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500918701463 In fairness #mozilla is suffering more acutely(*) from something affecting many #opensource projects: A difficulty imagining a digital world different from what the tech bros of silicon valley can dream up. We are now beyond the […]

Eyes wide-shut. The burden of sustainability reporting can be substantially relieved through the systematic development of an #opensource, #opendata infrastructure. Rent-seeking intermediaries that keep costs high create an easy excuse for those who oppose any change - to our collective detriment

#enshAItification is already a word, but instead of a simple rant against all things "AI" we can attach a testable hypothesis to it: that "AI" will be embedded most deeply in the more oligopolistic segments of the economy. Where competing on quality of service provision exerts the least pressure.

From our homes, to organizations, to countries and the planet, historical neglect, lack of care starts throwing emergencies which consume our attention and hinder actions that secure the long term. Permanent firefighting instead of designing, building, retrofitting. #riskmanagememt challenges

In this post I express standard financial statements concisely using symbolic mathematical notation that substantially captures their numerical information content and the constraints being satisfied. The incidence matrix of an accounting graph helps derive […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In a finite world, "growth" becomes a zero sum game. My space against yours. My right to consume, pollute, hoard etc. We have barely begun establishing social contracts that will allow harmonious societies living within #planetaryboundaries Denial, hypocrisy, kicking cans down congested roads...

I got the The Archer archetype, whatever that means. https://mastodon.social/@openrisk/wrapstodon/2025/ac0ce55c141a450c #wrapstodon2025

Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design. In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#mastodon mentioned 🎉🍾 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/115701295028089179 Not to exaggerate but this should be engraved in all democratic countries' constitutions and politicians should swear oath to it. Neglecting, for the entire first quarter of the 21st century, the fundamental role of the digital realm […]

Should European municipalities be on #tiktok because "thats where the young people are"? This type of argument is what has led countless European accounts financing and endorsing "X/Twitter" even while its owner is now calling for the abolition of the EU. The implication of "being pragmatic" […]

Henri Verdier, "founding father" of the DC-EDIC, former digital ambassador of France. He's happy that the EDIC is launched in The Hague, also seat of the International Criminal Court. The ICC judge lost access to his credit cards and all US platforms after sanctions imposed bij Trump.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/115699483801550445 Lets hope this fares better than, what was it? Gaia-X? At some point delivering rather than launching initiatives with fanfare becomes an existential question

"Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco

If you are interested in the current technical discussions, challenges and proposals of the Digital Euro, you might want to read this PDF. https://www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/support-pool-experts-projects/digital-euro-and-its-token-based-offline_en #europe #digitaleuro […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/115684667380191098 Everyone: Its unfair you bought all the voids, we'll go to our political representatives to complain. Billionaires. Don't waste your time. Those voids were the first and easiest to buy.

Please remember: these are not "tech monopolies". They are conglomerates commingling diverse business models (adtech, e-commerce, hardware, software services etc.), harboring vast conflicts of interest. These entities should not be allowed to exist, let alone determine what all education looks like

The old "game" is over 💥. This era feels so absurd because it is actually brain-dead (🧠💀): We live through the dying spasms of social adaptations, worldviews, behaviors that are no longer viable, but keep going on reflex autopilots 🤖 A new "game" will be born 🌱- because it must. But it *is* messy🌀

The space of possibilities to organize digital society is vast. The versatility of the new medium (silicon, networks, software) is monumental, can be reshaped and configured in so many ways. The pace at which this is explored, the uncovering of different sides, is largely beholden to […]

Python, C++ or maybe awk? When problem solving, "the right tool for the right job" is the winning rule. For diverse tasks in #riskmanagement and #sustainablefinance technical skill is key. The Open Risk Academy collection of courses is the #opensource way of learning. github.com/Open-Risk-Ac...

The Fabulous History of Money is a great new documentary series by #arte. From ancient cowrie shells to the rise of the first banknotes and cryptocurrencies, tracing the story of this most consequential of social inventions which is as poorly understood as it is ubiquitous. #financialliteracy […]

The Fabulous History of Money is a great new documentary series by #arte. From ancient cowrie shells to the rise of the first banknotes and cryptocurrencies, tracing the story of this most consequential of social inventions which is as poorly understood as it is ubiquitous. #financialliteracy […]

#fosdem being one of the largest #foss conferences worldwide is like a mirror of the ever changing state of the #opensource universe. Interesting both for the stuff being talked about, the projects that are alive and see love, and the stuff *not* being talked about, the projects that died as […]

#google #chrome seems permanently a "top read" on the mobile #wikipedia app (for English language) Anybody have a clue why this might be happening? Everything else is typically current events. #askfedi

#google #chrome seems permanently a "top read" on the mobile #wikipedia app (for English language) Anybody have a clue why this might be happening? Everything else is typically current events. #askfedi

#mozilla recommends not turning off automatic updates but as they now push daily updates(!) it gets beyond annoying. On the #firefox bar type about:config, search for app.update.auto, change the setting and get some peace. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1448482

RE: https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/115608751447843564 its not a secret that the #linux desktop is a developer powerhouse and this prioritization simply reflects that reality. But we can hope that what is good for #machinelearning and other #datascience experts will gradually also become good […]

Centralised platforms shape the conversation to serve their interests. Mastodon returns power to you. Here connections are authentic, communities set their own rules, and your voice isn’t for sale. Help to power the servers, tools, and communities making […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

All Dutch media united in urgent plea for information security and an integrated media and tech policy in the name of democracy. US tech companies will not do this they argue. Rare, sector-wide, strongly worded call to prioritize this in new government negotiations. sdm.nl/brief-aan-de...

Also worth reading this cautionary tale of an European initiative (Gaia-X) that has not exactly delivered what was expected, both through misalignment of expectations, and external (US and China) lobbying. https://www.politico.eu/article/anatomy-franco-german-tech-misfire-american-dependence/ […]

APELL and 100+ partners declare: digital sovereignty is possible with Open Source. One day before the European Summit on Digital Sovereignty they are publishing their "Declaration of Digital Independence", underlining control over digital technology is needed for resilience. The signatories call […]

Make a joke map. #fake #30DayMapChallenge #rstats

When you move a wiki behind #cloudflare to avoid being hammered by AI bots, only for cloudflare to fold itself 🤦 #cloudflaredown

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @[email protected] as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]

European Network for Technological Resilience and Sovereignty (ETRS) - Expression of Interest Form https://umfrageupdate.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/index.php/326774?lang=en

There is a saying in French: "good accounts make good friends". Contemporary #accounting is very far from being good, ignoring vital aspects of life in favor of stylized monetary figures. Alternatives are a long but worthwhile road to travel. In a new piece […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"it is not really a matter of optimism; the continued involvement of the financial sector is a necessity. This is why climate finance is not another fad that will pass, to be replaced by the next fad. It is here to stay, can only grow because it must" #sustainablefinance www.rsm.nl/discovery/20...