The challenge to Western-centric notions of commons is the foundation. If commons are only legible through English property law, then every non-Western form of collective stewardship becomes invisible or illegal. The research decolonizes the concept before applying it.

"El río tiene raíces" acaba de ganar un Locus 🥳 En español podéis encontrar esta preciosidad de novela corta en el catálogo de @obscuraed.bsky.social, traducida por servidora.

This exactly is why we wrote our text: there are important things that the space given by pause allows. Understanding of what is different and yet common is one of them.

Happy Mayday everyone! It was my pleasure last evening to hear Peter Linebaugh speak about “Mayday and the Commons” at Cooper Union in NYC. On the screen behind him are early 19c gleaners, women commoners who collected leftover crops after the main harvest.

Sigamos firmando para exigir a la UE romper relaciones con Israel

Spain will formally propose to the EU to terminate the Association Agreement with Israel at the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Tuesday 21st April, Spanish Prime Minister announced today.

what if we got a 100% blockrate on it. what if they designed an AI and we unanimously said "nope"

Lo que más anima de leer a Doctorow, por encima de su tonelada de ideas y su forma de desentrañar el presente explicando con claridad los abusos de los poderosos, es que es un optimista creíble. www.elsaltodiario.com/internet/ent...

The minimum threshold in seven countries was reached, but now it is progressing slowly. We need to reach 1 million signatures !

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman died today at age 96. "At a moment when many of the institutions he documented are being decimated and our attention is divided," Natasha Lewis wrote last year, "Wiseman’s films are out of time and completely timely." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The Untold History of Women.

Sobre - como los chicos ocupan la centralidad del espacio cuando jugan a - el fútbol - y las chicas se quedan en los márgenes - en los patios.

Sobre el fútbol en los patios. www.linkedin.com/posts/honora...

Se necesitan un millón de firmas: suspensión total del Acuerdo de Asociación UE-Israel. La inmensa mayoría de la ciudadanía europea no quiere ser cómplice del genocidio como lo están siendo nuestros gobernantes. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Una investigación de la economista Francesca Bria debería llevar a Europa a revisar los contratos de sus ejércitos con empresas como Palantir o SpaceX para evitar que su soberanía dependa de una red de vigilancia y control nunca vista hasta ahora. Por Ekaitz Cancela www.lamarea.com/2026/01/01/t...

We created #CKAN over 20 years ago, and it's become the industry standard for #opendata portals. It's used in over 50 countries – UK, US, India, Brazil, EU, as well as by many UN agencies, universities and research institutions worldwide. Learn why 🎥 👇🏾 buff.ly/CBTVdXx

A collective paper by the Urban Commons Collective on embracing hesitation, stirring up stories and staying in the gaps. Or how the impossibility of translating non-English commoning practices into our one shared language creates the spaces where our understanding of commoning practices can expand.

BREAKING: Reports of spontaneous protests erupting in European cities tonight in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was illegally attacked by Israel an hour ago. Demonstrations have been seen in Berlin🇩🇪 & Rome🇮🇹 - and these are the current scenes in Brussels🇧🇪 👇

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Países como Alemania ni siquiera han firmado esta declaración inconsecuente que se limita a mendigar unos mínimos insultantes frente a un genocidio. Europa es un pozo oscuro.

La UE es el MAYOR socio comercial de Israel. Decir “no al genocidio” pero no sancionar ni suspender relaciones y acuerdos preferenciales es cosmética. Es urgente poner fin a la complicidad europea⬇️

Nos ha dejado Osfa Veladoz, aka José Pérez de Lama, y el mundo es un poco menos luminoso. Rest in power, Osfa, las máquinas rebeldes te echarán de menos.

👩🏾‍💻🌱 Join us for #TheTechPeopleWant Summit! @okfn.bsky.social + The Tor Project are teaming up to rethink who current tech is really for and against. Will you be there? 🗓️ 8–9 July 🔗 forms.gle/uJEu5CYGCuVj...

🔴 #TheTechPeopleWant is on! We are discussing why people want #OpenData with the authors of Towards a Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystem. It's key to keep in mind that "Without sustainability there is no sovereignty" says @anamandes.bsky.social Join the discussion today and tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we are presenting some insights from the study on Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystems Semra Sonmez and I have done for @okfn.bsky.social The commons are the perfect framework to rethink openness: communities, co-governance and care will make sharing data and content sustainable again :)

Open Call from the Urban Commons Research Collective. An initiative to broaden our understanding of communal living and stewardship by challenging the Western-centric notion of “the commons.” Join us in this initiative by submitting an Expression of Interest until 20 June 2025.

A las 19h estaremos @xanlopez.xyz @anamandes.bsky.social y yo hablando de redes sociales, comunicación y tecnológica en una mesa redonda que monta @movimientosumar.es Con una idea fuerte en la cabeza: "Mundus sine cesaribus".

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Arquitecta urbanista, me flipan los mapas, adoro la ficción especulativa y hago investigación sobre comunes urbanos, escenarios de futuro y planificación disruptiva. Me mudo a Bluesky porque si podemos ir de las plazas a la nube (como decía Bookcamping), también del cielo azul a las calles.