In this provocative conversation, @avilarenata.bsky.social reflects on the transformations, challenges and potentials of the digital commons movement. journal.platoniq.net/en/wilder-jo...

Governance needs fiesta: Joyfully reconnecting the open movement with grassroots movements

In this provocative conversation, Guatemalan technology and intellectual property lawyer and activist Renata Avila, who works at the intersection of human rights and technology, reflects on the transf...

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New York became the first U.S. state on Tuesday to halt construction of large new data centers, imposing a one-year moratorium as concerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence boom are raising power costs, straining water supplies and burdening local communities.

New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

New York became the first U.S. state on Tuesday to halt construction of large new data centers, imposing ‌a one-year moratorium as concerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence boom are raising power costs, straining water supplies and burdening local communities.

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The US-Israeli war on Iran exposed the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point not only for oil but for fertilizers, helium, and seafarers trapped in opaque supply chains. Our podcast of the week analyzes the logistics of warfare. W/ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on @macrodosepod.bsky.social buff.ly/eAI8NVi

Together with @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social and @okfn.bsky.social we aim to build a positive agenda for recognising and supporting open knowledge systems as critical infrastructure within the current digital public infrastructure, digital commons and "digital sovereignty" initiatives

Open Knowledge Foundation@okfn.bsky.social · last mo.

We organised a regional assembly in 🇫🇮 Oulu on open knowledge as critical infrastructure. Participants argued that knowledge systems should no longer be viewed as cultural accessories or optional public goods. 👉🏾 Read the full reflection by @avilarenata.bsky.social: buff.ly/AqUyVTm

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

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Nominations are now open for the 2026 EFF Awards! Let us know whose work should be in the spotlight by Wednesday, June 24th at 2:00 PM Pacific Time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Nominations Open for 2026 EFF Awards!

Nominations are now open for the 2026 EFF Awards! The nomination window will be open until Wednesday, June 24th at 2:00 PM Pacific time. You could nominate the next winner today!For over thirty

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"Digital transformation" was the political buzzword through which strategic public functions were transferred to closed, private technological infrastructures in one or two jurisdictions. A de facto privatisation and abdication of sovereignty. With AI, it will get worse than that.

Official gov statement with details is now up www.gov.uk/government/n... "We do not intend for messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal to be included in the social media ban."

Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back

Social media platforms to be blocked from offering services to under-16s, marking a line in the sand and setting a new normal for future generations.

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NGOs and activists are building public interest AI projects on the assumption that the underlying systems will always be available and somehow affordable for all, everywhere. Restricting Claude products based on users' nationality will affect the design and choices for such projects.

Using public data to identify who qualifies as a state billionaire and how mobile that tax base is, this paper estimates the size, composition, and tax exposure of billionaire wealth in California. By @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al. at @nber.org buff.ly/V4PNsgI

California Billionaires: Wealth, Taxes, and Wealth Tax Revenue Estimates

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers,…

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And when public, open, real-time data is needed the most / its collection is being defunded, globally. No AI magic will help us overcome this crisis without sensors and accessible datasets helping shape policy and actions. Today, some forms of knowledge are critical infrastructure.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo ago

It’s been a cool start to June, but that’s about to change. A heat wave will bring record-breaking temperatures from New England to the Mid-Atlantic, with highs reaching the 90s. A super El Niño could lead to a record warm year in 2027, scientists say. https://wapo.st/4ujfP69

Hope, supported by evidence. We need more of this. We need positive agendas and a blueprint to work together.

World Inequality Lab@wid.world · 2mo ago

Today we are launching the Global Justice Project. This is the result of two years of research involving more than 40 contributors from around the world. We propose a path to €5,000-a-month average incomes for all countries within +1.8°C of warming. 👇👇👇 globaljusticeproject.wid.world

We need to make and shape our own AI systems, and they will only be ours if they are shaped by the data of social movements, of our historical struggles, and of the bits of knowledge not captured by the mainstream narrative. Join us! Help us! Let´s knit the future of our past, together!

Open Knowledge Foundation@okfn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🗄️ ✨ Many documentation centres are barely surviving these days. Digitisation 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 be an answer. But where to start? How to take advantage of the inevitable AI? That's the #AILearningLabs discussion next week with AVANCSO. Join us! 👉🏾 buff.ly/E6Crbx7

The future of our knowledge is at stake. Designing a public digital architecture to shift its accelerated enclosure course is our top priority at @okfn.bsky.social .

This is very important and much needed research

Giovanna Mascheroni@giovannamas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The role of #GenAI in children’s development is ambivalent, and their opportunities (scaffolding learning) can easily turn into harmful consequences (deskilling and disempowerment). Read more here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... #SaferInternetDay

Ya merito nos vemos!

Nick Couldry@couldrynick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tengo ganas de regresarme a Barcelona el viernes para este impresionante congreso

Toda la gente publicando sobre la encíclica: cómo leyó y procesó tantas ideas tan rápido. En un lunes. Misterios de la señora AI. Amén.

Nos vemos pronto!

Canòdrom - Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica@canodrombcn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PARADA 3️⃣ Una jornada per entendre com es disputa el poder global. 🗓️ 28 maig, 10 a 20 h: Amb @couldrynick.bsky.social, @avilarenata.bsky.social, @rochaisabela.bsky.social i molts més. ℹ️ ja.cat/geopol%C3%AD... Organitza: Javier Toret, TRANSIC/ @uocuniversitat.bsky.social, Ajuntament BCN i Canòdrom.

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?

Have any of you used @penpot.app for collaborative slides?

Buena la música de Nicolás Jaar para el viernes.

I love @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/03/07/g... and @apc.org AI policies. www.apc.org/en/apc-polic... Currently working on a policy to guide @okfn.bsky.social and I am learning a lot from them.

Tan feliz de volver siempre a #Barcelona para las conversaciones necesarias. Y con Toret!

Canòdrom - Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica@canodrombcn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PARADA 3️⃣ Una jornada per entendre com es disputa el poder global. 🗓️ 28 maig, 10 a 20 h: Amb @couldrynick.bsky.social, @avilarenata.bsky.social, @rochaisabela.bsky.social i molts més. ℹ️ ja.cat/geopol%C3%AD... Organitza: Javier Toret, TRANSIC/ @uocuniversitat.bsky.social, Ajuntament BCN i Canòdrom.

Ban cruises. Really. Nothing good comes out of them. Sea pollution. Sound pollution. Light pollution. And all the health and safety issues they lead to.

Can we protect our brainwaves through openness? Can it serve as a governance tool to help guarantee and ‘future-proof’ rights in neurotech, through open technical standards, open modular hardware components, transparent system design, auditability, portability, and user control?

Open Knowledge Foundation@okfn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

⚠️ What testing 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 has taught us, and why these technologies require informed engagement now. Article by Burcu Kilic, @avilarenata.bsky.social and Solana Larsen. buff.ly/rvZVLum (Today was supposed to be the day of our neurotech booth at @rightscon.org)

No tolerance for biometric mass surveillance! Hamburg’s DPA has been sitting on a complaint against #PimEyes for five years www.ccc.de/en/updates/2...

No therapist should be working online for a company that saves those transcripts to a model ; if they do they should be at least suspended from any professional association they belong to. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.

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The #Volkswagen Group: „Corporate Snoop“ award for misusing sensitive data (VW, Audi, Seat, Škoda brands) through #Cariad edri.org/our-work/cze...

Czech Big Brother Awards 2025: Volkswagen, Meta and the Czech authorities noted as Snoopers of the Year - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium organised the 21st annual Big Brother Awards in Czech Republic, with Volkswagen, Meta, and the Czech Ministries of the Interior and Industry and Trade highlighted as som...

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Someone should FOIA the US State Dep to understand a bit what really happened with RightsCon in Lusaka.

No government genuinely committed to national sovereignty would tolerate a foreign company operating within sensitive public systems while declaring explicit allegiance to another nation, writes James Görgen, who queries what Palantir is doing inside Brazil.

Palantir’s ‘Manifesto’ and the Digital Sovereignty of Other Nations

Other nations have good reason to be suspicious of Palantir given its declared allegiance to the United States government, says James Görgen.

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