I've finally read @mrnikli.bsky.social 's "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making" and my favourite part is the tips at the end. Real wisdom there folks, we all need to shift gears if we care about keeping our sanity and helping our peers. Go read it.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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Dutch Universities are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands. Exciting, and hopefully just the start of a much bigger trend! (that ofc also includes #atscience!)

Mastodon pilot for research and education

SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands.

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For a long time a key sustainability challenge was greenwashing: absolving *existing*, stable economic activities from their externalities. The ferocity of the "AI" footprint expansion reveals something important: The mere promise of exorbitant *new* profits casts aside any sustainability concern🥶

Tony Roberts@phatcontroller.bsky.social · yesterday

UN report documents how generative AI companies have reversed the climate gains made before its launch. AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure. unu.edu/inweh/collec...

Go to https://www.esa.int/solareclipse to check if the eclipse is visible from your location. And if not, join our live broadcast to witness it from the comfort of your home. 2/3 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

European solar eclipses

Europe has no less than three solar eclipses coming up: 12 August 2026 – total solar eclipse in Greenland, Iceland, Spain & Portugal.  2 August 2027 – total solar eclipse in Spain.  26 January 2028 – annular solar eclipse in Portugal & Spain. Other parts of Europe will experience partial solar eclipses. The European Space Agency (ESA) is getting ready for these three European eclipses. Follow this page to keep up to date with our planned activities! See the related links below. 

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🤝💚 Interested in corporate volunteering? Community energy projects need skilled volunteers to help deliver local impact and accelerate the clean energy transition. Find out how your organisation can get involved by becoming a partner through Community Energy Connect.

Very happy to announce that Open Risk joined the #Digital4Sustainability Community, a European initiative dedicated to advancing digital and sustainability skills required to accelerate the twin transition. More about D4S and the rationale for joining 👇 www.openriskmanagement.com/joining-digi...

Weaponized migration or "Refugees as weapons" is a term used to describe a hostile government organizing, or threatening to organize, a sudden influx of refugees into another country or political entity with the intent of causing political disturbances in that entity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaponi...

Weaponized migration - Wikipedia

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It is telling that the #aibros shrug off - and even celebrate - dramatic societal disruption, like entire sectors going obsolete and are rewarded insane resources by "markets". [Whether it actually happens is not so relevant] But when one suggests required behavioral changes (e.g., less wanton […]

Can we dare imagine a "desktop" that is 100% focused on helping people cope with information overload, worships privacy, and is augmenting - not removing and abusing - their agency? Utopic? This is what computing was supposed to be before it got highjacked. ... but Scott has some ideas 🖖

Scott Jenson@jenson.org · 5d ago

My LocalFirst talk is up! How the Desktop UX needs to evolve This is a "part 2" of my #ubuntu talk last year. This time with more demos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOL...

Very happy to announce that Open Risk joined the #Digital4Sustainability Community, a European initiative dedicated to advancing digital and sustainability skills required to accelerate the twin transition. More about D4S and the rationale for joining 👇 www.openriskmanagement.com/joining-digi...

Earth Overshoot Day is not something that happens to an imaginary greedy, stupid, ignorant species in a galaxy far, far away. It is happening to us, here and now and it keeps getting worse. While our political, economic, cultural, moral conventions refuse to internalize the dire implications 😬

European Environment Agency@eea.europa.eu · 6d ago

Today is Earth Overshoot Day 🌍, a date that changes each year and which marks the point when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what the Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate in that year. More info👇

“Jean-Baptiste Filippi, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), said the Fontainebleau fire makes a long-anticipated trend more visible. "What science has been saying for several years is that wildfire risk is moving north," www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ho...

How climate change is reshaping Europe’s wildfire geography

Fontainebleau wildfire near Paris adds to evidence that dangerous fire weather is spreading beyond Europe's traditional fire-prone regions, say experts | Anadolu

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Your Bluesky account is a lot more than just a Bluesky profile. For instance, I also use @leaflet.pub (website/newsletter), @grain.social (pictures), @popfeed.social (movies, TV shows), @bookhive.buzz (books), @tangled.org (code), @margin.at and @semble.so (social bookmarks). #EconSky

Leaflet@leaflet.pub · last wk.

Bluesky and Leaflet are in the Atmosphere!!! ...wtf does does that mean? Here's a little explainer, written for everyone. No tech experience or prior knowledge required. All you need is 4 minutes or less :D

The difference between centralized, decentralized and distributed communication networks, visualized beautifully by Paul Baran, in a 1962 paper prepared for presentation at the First Congress of Information Systems Sciences (Title: On Distributed Communication Networks)

👇 WUI, an important metric when one tries to imagine a sustainable coexistence of our lot with the rest of nature

Attracta Mooney@attractamooney.bsky.social · last wk.

One of the reasons why wildfires are such a big deal in Europe is because people often live close to vegetation. Europe has the most widespread wildland-urban interface, where population centres meet with vegetation, with the WUI covering 15% of its land area (global average is just 4.7%)

"begging to go back to the time when the worst thing that could happen to us at the hands of the techlords was just some democracy-subversion, or childhood destruction, usually followed by Mark Zuckerberg putting on a suit and claiming: “We will learn from this”🤣 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When is an apology not an apology? When it comes from an AI boss with an out-of-control chatbot | Marina Hyde

An incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked a startup either confirms that the end is nigh – or that the product is just amazingly sophisticated, says the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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"AI" (as in LLM's) is a milestone of sorts in data science: the compression of vast corpora into massive neural nets is new and clearly useful under conditions. But the delirium this has unleashed is (maybe) the final metastasis of political and financial systems that are not fit-for-purpose. 👇

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

Getting spicier. 🌶️ @nikkei.com $META $ORCL asia.nikkei.com/business/tec...

Europe's economy relies heavily on private banks, but the sector has been in limbo since the GFC / Brexit. Age-old bonds between governments and banks still the core design. With digitalization advancing furiously, this stasis is no longer tenable. What can / will replace it? #sustainablefinance

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 2w ago

We want to create a single, more competitive market in banking. Our new report shows the way ahead for a more integrated banking sector that can unlock the capital to power Europe's strategic priorities, including innovation, the clean transition, and defence ↓

"Writing is the way people figure out what they think, and how to convey those thoughts to someone who doesn’t already share them" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

A call for public input is open through 24 July. Please consider submitting comments — they really do make a difference.

Key themes that shape open knowledge and Wikimedia—the future of the commons, digital sovereignty, and the strain that large-scale AI crawling places on open platforms—are intertwined with our work. From July 21 to 25, we will lead 4 sessions at #Wikimania2026 dedicated to discussing these topics.

"We’re not quite there yet, but the thrust of what’s happening now is broader, deeper, and more reckless than it was in the years leading up to the 2008 crash"

Karen Monroy@karenmonroy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Truly appreciate the plain language quantitative analysis of why we, as consumers keep undermining our power-so we get ‘the trumps”. We DON’T understand capitalism-and therefore don’t hold the RIGHT people accountable. If first 3 minutes blow your mind- you’ll know what to change. #Econsky

The stench of an industry built on rotten foundations. The original sin of silicon valley was helping themselves to profiling and selling human behavior for profit. It was then compounded by "AI" appropriating all public works. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Apple sues OpenAI, its employees claiming theft of trade secrets

Apple said in a Friday lawsuit that OpenAI’s nascent hardware business is “rotten to its core.”

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🆕 Europe has the talent. Now we’re scaling the capital. Proud to launch Phase II of the @eib.org Group European Tech Champions Initiative with the 27 EU governments & private investors: €80bn mobilised to scale up Europe’s tech pioneers into global leaders 🌍 Investing with purpose 💪🏻

The ECB is now addressing potential financial losses linked to climate-related uncertainties in its collateral framework. New climate factors incorporate assets' vulnerability to transition shocks into collateral valuations link.europa.eu/JNYqWG

We're building @eurosky.social to serve people's interests over corporate greed. But we can't do it alone. Will you help, with a donation? Join us in creating the next generation of social tech. whydonate.com/fundraising/...

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