Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Em cada canto e esquina de #Coimbra me encontrei hoje com docentes de jovens do Brasil celebrando que votaram por Lula, contra o fascismo, por um futuro. #BoraLula 021
Reposted by Renata Avilatante @tante.cc · 15/09/2026"As soon as you stop believing that you need to take Anthropic rationalists or weird freaks working at Meta seriously you have to challenge the dominant narrative of tech being the well of progress and future." Rediscovering The Spark 14111
Reposted by Renata AvilaRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 13/09/2026Perhaps “pace the frontier” means “track dissenters” 072
Reposted by Renata AvilaNieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 09/09/2026Apple launches a new way to prove a photo was shot with an iPhone (not generated by AI) www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/appl...niemanlab.orgApple launches a new way to prove a photo was shot with an iPhone (not generated by AI)At its annual iPhonepalooza today, Apple announced a new feature aimed at making it easier to know where an image came from or whether it's been edited — the sort of provenance data that could be… 099
Reposted by Renata AvilaOpen Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026🗣️ In a long-form interview with the Green European Journal, @okfn.bsky.social's CEO @avilarenata.bsky.social discusses #digitalcolonialism through the lens of AI and the digital transition. Many thanks to journalist Amir Hashemi for facilitating such a fruitful discussion. 📄→ buff.ly/9aQ7CKk 064
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 16/08/2026At @okfn.bsky.social we launched a prototype to monitor LEO satellite expansion. As we plan to release it soon as a more stable resource, we welcome your comments! skycommons.okfn.org 1133
Reposted by Renata AvilaDaniel Ollé @danielollecto.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026Japan launches sovereign satellite navigation network named QZSS to complement GPS www.techradar.com/pro/japan-la...techradar.comJapan just completed another step toward independent satellite navigationJapan's newest satellite has finally reached orbit after a failed launch exposed serious problems with its H3 rocket 021
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Train services in Italy (if you book in advance) are extremely affordable for non-EU families. 020
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Hoy, en esta casa, se apaga la luz para ver lo que nos queda de la luna y las estrellas. 011
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026¡Que calor, por Dios santo! Europa con clima de Zacapa. Pero sin el ron. 000
Reposted by Renata AvilaJoanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I posted last week that this was a better than average podcast when google alerts served me the youtube. Now in the official pitch I found out Andrew agreed. Nice to be side-by-side with philosophers like @svennyholm.bsky.social @denkwerkstatt.bsky.social & Robert Sparrow & some great practioners.podcasts.apple.comProfessor Joanna Bryson: "You Don't Have a Relationship With AI, You Have One With YourselfPodcast Episode · Empathy Unbound: Embrace Your Superpower · August 4 · 53m 1105
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026El nombre de las libélulas en yugoslavo es caballito de las hadas. Me encanta. 120
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The Adriatic is really hot this year; the usual sea life is almost gone. 130
Reposted by Renata AvilaCommonly @commonly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026In this provocative conversation, @avilarenata.bsky.social reflects on the transformations, challenges and potentials of the digital commons movement. journal.platoniq.net/en/wilder-jo...journal.platoniq.netGovernance needs fiesta: Joyfully reconnecting the open movement with grassroots movementsIn 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... 252
Reposted by Renata AvilaReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/07/2026New 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.reut.rsNew York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratoriumNew 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. 310538
Reposted by Renata AvilaThe Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The 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 043
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Together 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 385
Reposted by Renata Aviladell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026NEW: 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.wired.comLeak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ SocietyMore 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. 26761762670
Reposted by Renata AvilaElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/06/2026Nominations 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...eff.orgNominations 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 13717
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"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. 174
Reposted by Renata AvilaHeather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Official 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."gov.ukSocial media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood backSocial 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. 87013
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 13/06/2026NGOs 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. 141
Reposted by Renata AvilaThe Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Using 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/V4PNsgInber.orgCalifornia Billionaires: Wealth, Taxes, and Wealth Tax Revenue EstimatesFounded 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,… 113
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 05/06/2026And 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. 010
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Hope, supported by evidence. We need more of this. We need positive agendas and a blueprint to work together. 031
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 02/06/2026We 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! 041
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 29/05/2026The 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 . 030
Reposted by Renata AvilaNick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026This is very important and much needed research 052
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Toda la gente publicando sobre la encíclica: cómo leyó y procesó tantas ideas tan rápido. En un lunes. Misterios de la señora AI. Amén. 021
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 23/05/2026How 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? 012
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Have any of you used @penpot.app for collaborative slides? 000
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Buena la música de Nicolás Jaar para el viernes. 120
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I 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. 294
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Tan feliz de volver siempre a #Barcelona para las conversaciones necesarias. Y con Toret! 020
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Ban cruises. Really. Nothing good comes out of them. Sea pollution. Sound pollution. Light pollution. And all the health and safety issues they lead to. 010
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Can 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? 000
Reposted by Renata AvilaCCC @ccc.de · 30/04/2026No 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... 04017
Reposted by Renata AvilaLilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 29/04/2026No 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...proofnews.orgWoman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in courtTalkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges. 1156
Reposted by Renata AvilaCCC @ccc.de · 29/04/2026The #Volkswagen Group: „Corporate Snoop“ award for misusing sensitive data (VW, Audi, Seat, Škoda brands) through #Cariad edri.org/our-work/cze...edri.orgCzech 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... 05116
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Someone should FOIA the US State Dep to understand a bit what really happened with RightsCon in Lusaka. 2100
Reposted by Renata AvilaTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/04/2026No 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.buff.lyPalantir’s ‘Manifesto’ and the Digital Sovereignty of Other NationsOther nations have good reason to be suspicious of Palantir given its declared allegiance to the United States government, says James Görgen. 116662
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Are mobile phones replaceable devices? Can we imagine a future without them? What would a different tech architecture look like for people, one that is not controlled by two companies and is based on surveillance, data extraction and control disguised as convenience? 092
Reposted by Renata AvilaXnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 16/04/2026Valiosísimo e imprescindible proyecto de las compañeras La Mar de Citas para acabar con la mafia de las citas de extranjería. ➡️ Una app que te notifica cuando hay citas disponibles para tu trámite de extranjería:lamardecitas.netLa Mar de CitasLa Mar de Citas — Get alerted when a cita becomes available 014
Reposted by Renata AvilaOpen Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026We’ve been learning a lot about #AI lately, along with our communities. 👇🏾 In this text, @okfn.bsky.social's Tech Lead @pdelboca.me consolidates some of these thoughts and offers his sharp views on one of today's most pressing challenges. #TheTechWeWant #TheAIWeWant buff.ly/MUH9FjBbuff.lyAn Honest Reflection on the Integration of LLMs into Open Data Portals - Open Knowledge Blog‘We don’t trust AI,’ claims OKFN's Tech Lead in this text, in which he offers his sharp views on one of today's most pressing challenges 032
