Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 9hNowadays we tend to assume "social media" is the addiction, polarisation and misinformation cauldrons that surveillance adtech cartel managed to turn them into, but in reality its a technology that can be whatever we want it to be. The sky (aka the atmosphere) is the only limit 🌱 152
Reposted by Open RiskAster ID @aster.id · 14hThe modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web 13571121
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 22hI was looking forward to "AGI", I guess the 10% risk of terminating humanity is just the price of progress. But not quite sure what to expect from "SGI"? Same, higher or lower risk? These were really nice graphics workstations back in the day, though 🤣 011
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 29/09/2026There is a cultural element to it. There are some cultures where women spit as well (no need to name names, blessed is cultural diversity) and if you visit there coming from a culture where only real men spit, it definitely feels like something is wrong 🤣, a disturbance in the spitting force 000
Reposted by Open RiskECOS @ecos.ngo · 29/09/2026A climate neutral, resilient, and circular economy will not happen without standards - and environmental expertise is a key part of that process. How can the EU develop standards that are timely and of high quality? Read our blog for some answers: ecostandard.org/news_events/...ecostandard.orgDeveloping timely standards, but not at the expense of quality - ECOSStandards underpin public policies – and can make or break their environmental ambition. Read why speeding up the development of standards should not come at the expense of quality. 032
Reposted by Open RiskRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 28/09/2026"Against Money" by @jwmason.bsky.social & @arjunjayadev.bsky.social Very interesting overview of money. (Challenging at times.) 2103
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 29/09/2026There are no longer any adults in the room. The collective descent into feverish speculation, techbros serially violating social contracts with impunity, absence of any repercussions, this degeneration will eventually undermine itself, but the worst damage will as always be collateral. 000
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 29/09/2026The only "software" that is an existential threat to humanity is the financial system itself. Malfunctioning conventions and behaviors, manifestly decoupled from reality, diverting attention and resources. Yet treated as eternal gospel, socializing the costs of each self-generated crisis. 021
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 28/09/2026Self-regulation doesn't work for companies and doesn't work for individuals🤣 By now its baked-in that people treat "social" as some sort of game where verbal violence towards complete strangers is not just acceptable but rewarding. It will take some shrewd platform tweaks to get us out of this hole. 010
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 28/09/2026These are difficult topics for non-experts / non-insiders (but critical for how Europe shapes its future) and I think your approach (direct, non-patronizing) helps remove some barriers for broader audiences 🖖 110
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 28/09/2026With @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social participating the conversation is *guaranteed* not to beat around the bush (which in these tumultuous times should actually be the norm 😔). 👇 120
Reposted by Open RiskEuropean Central Bank @ecb.europa.eu · 28/09/2026We’re inviting payment sector stakeholders to join a new wave of digital euro innovation platform activities in 2027. Participants will experiment with testing and developing features and services, or explore how the digital euro can support innovation link.europa.eu/r4cYRW 092
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 27/09/2026The #Digital4Sustainability project created a framework to integrate digital and sustainability competences into fully-fledged educational programmes. In this post we explore how this competence framework can be integrated into the Moodle LMS www.openriskmanagement.com/moodle-digit... 000
Reposted by Open RiskLia Belle @liabelle.me · 26/09/2026Congrats & welcome to @eurosky.social 🥳💐 You’re also welcome to try Eurosky’s own app @mu.social— also built & hosted in Europe. Seamlessly interoperable with Bsky, you can log into mu.social using your Eurosky or any ATProto account. MU has Post Editing, Companion Pet & more (link): 0102
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 27/09/2026Our "AI" overlords need a warm abode to flurish: Water, electricity, air-conditioning, connectivity. Most of us humans can't afford all these luxuries anyway 🥶 000
Reposted by Open RiskEuropean Commission @ec.europa.eu · 26/09/2026🇪🇺 How many languages do you speak? Languages give us different ways to express ideas, feelings and experiences, while helping us connect with people and cultures across Europe. Today, we celebrate Europe’s linguistic diversity and its 24 official EU languages. 🇪🇺 3424960
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 26/09/2026Will be joining and speaking at the European Digital Sustainability Skills Conference on 30 September 2026 in Brussels, organised by the #Digital4Sustainability project. Looking forward to the exchange with experts and stakeholders from across Europe! 000
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026This has been my opinion for years (in activitypub context). This is not a mere (decentralization) technology challenge. A creative genious must pull a disillusioned user base into genuinely new experiences that mix decentralization, *not* being adtech etc. into a new paradigm, new utility. 010
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026In this post we start exploring how the #digital4sustainability competence framework can be expressed as a semantic ontology. www.openriskmanagement.com/towards-digi... A first version of the ontology is online here www.openriskmanual.org/ns/d4s/index... 000
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026We are heading almost surely towards a digital universe where digital "borders" are aligned with jurisdictions. We lived through a long period of a feel-good borderless internet based on unwritten social contracts. Like so many other examples this has been abused and exploited and thus will vanish 🙄 000
Reposted by Open RiskRonen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026New AT Proto architectural diagram just dropped 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2609.21608 4379
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026Imagine any normal company going on a hacking spree of other companies / foreign government systems on the way to... an "IPO". We truly live in a period of terminal societal decline, where lawlessnes is celebrated and rewarded. As Nolan alluded in Odyssey, this can only be the prelude of a dark age 074
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026A common thread in these factors is their vicious feedback loops, one governance failure feeding into the next one, one hideous pattern enabling the next one, at an accelerated pace (pun). The result is a dystopic digital landscape that feels totally out of sync with most societal norms. 5/5 001
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026A third factor concerns the "demand" side. "AI" adoption by large numbers of people is real, and the utility to them is undeniable. But where does that utility derive from? It derives from existing knowledge management tools stagnating for decades - in the hands of the very same monopolies 4/ 101
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026A second driver is the absence of any meaningful pushback to claims and marketing / manipulation ploys ("AGI" etc.) that have reached grotesque levels. That is because our infosphere is already decimated and defanged in the hands of the adtech addiction peddlers and the independent press is dying 3/ 101
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026The first driver is the financial system being chronically addicted to the abnormal financial returns accruing to digital monopolies. Anything digital that promises a renewal / perpetuation of the "winner takes all" model is a sure bet. "Investors" love sure bets. Ditto the captured regulators. 2/ 111
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026Probing the underlying factors and structural causes that led to the current "AI" psychosis, mega bubble and wholesale destruction of the internet as we knew it, is important if we ever are going to build a different digital universe. Its not a simple task but three drivers stand out as important 1/ 131
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 23/09/2026The Food, Land & Money report by Friends of the Earth follows the money to reveal who benefits most and why so much investment continues to support a model that is harming people and the planet. foodlandmoney.org @banktrack.bsky.social #sustainablefinancefoodlandmoney.orgFood, Land & Money: Who Profits From the Global Food System?Follow the money behind the global food system. Food, Land & Money reveals how Big Agribusiness and Big Finance shape what gets funded, who profits and who holds power. 034
Reposted by Open Risknoyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 21/09/2026🤖 Will the profits of #AI companies trump data protection? In a #leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to #EU Member States that, if they train or use an AI product, companies should automatically be assumed to have an overriding “legitimate interest”. 👉 Read more: noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...noyb.euAI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companiesIn a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans. 12316
Reposted by Open RiskNicolò Ribaudo @nicr.dev · 21/09/2026Today is Igalia's 25th birthday! 🎂 www.igalia.com/2026/09/21/T...igalia.comTwenty-Five Years Upstream | IgaliaIgalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an... 28212
Reposted by Open RiskCristina Caffarra @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026substack.com/@ccaffarra/n...substack.comEuropean Regulators Want a Say on “Pacing the Frontier” – Do We Understand the Game? Let’s Stay Focused on BuildingThe mission Europe must be focused on, aggressively, right now, is to rescue itself from the 20-year incantation in which we did not build the proverbial bean but tried instead to regulate digital pla... 053
Reposted by Open RiskTeresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 21/09/2026💻 That is why today the Commission is introducing a common EU rating scheme for data centres. We are strengthening transparency: making their actual use of energy and water visible, so we can compare performance, learn from the most efficient solutions and better understand the sector’s impact. 174
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 21/09/2026The Linux desktop(s) is our best hope for meaningful personal computing, that is empowering, human-centric, democratic. Hopefully Scott's work will inspire many more to join forces and tap the enormous potential. If we want a different, non-dystopic digital future, the path will be made by walking 061
Reposted by Open RiskErik Fossing Nielsen @erikfossingnielsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The case for urgent changes to European financial regulation and taxation to discourage our continued financing of the US fiscal deficit. The financial risks have become excessive. independenteconomics.substack.com/p/europe-sho...independenteconomics.substack.comEurope should stop financing the American house of cards.Europe should stop financing the unsustainable US budget and overextended oligopolistic private sector. The money should be invested in Europe instead. 02710
Reposted by Open RiskEuropean Central Bank @ecb.europa.eu · 19/09/2026There’s only three days left to share your views on our future banknotes! Tell us what you think and share the survey with someone who might have missed it surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/ecbeuro/ 115722
Reposted by Open RiskMaria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026This is precisely why hundreds of experts demanded that during Ireland's presidency of the EU our country not be allowed to handle tech policy. Ireland is the trojan horse for US Big Tech lawlessness in the EU. It's really as simple as that. 411567
Reposted by Open RiskTeresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 18/09/2026The challenges are immense. But so is our potential when we act together. We need multilateralism more than ever and full respect for the rule of law 💪 6/7 151
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 17/09/2026"The institutions we have inherited are organised by geography. The strategic capabilities we need are organised by function. We can ally by function, if we are bold and deliberate" 👆 A blueprint for a sustainable digital future where geography doesn't go away - but is no longer the only force. 041
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 17/09/2026Huge respect for Carney already from his "tragedy of the horizon" days. Combining technocratic competence with a deep humanistic vision. But whether the leadership of Canada/EU can/will deliver depends also on how the gravity of the moment is internalized by all the rest of us... 010
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 17/09/2026"How do you draft risk factor language to address the possibility that your product destroys human civilisation?"🤣🥶 One thing is certain, as dysfunctional late-stage capitalism becomes ever more farcical, @alphaville.ft.com will be there for light relief #riskmanagement www.ft.com/content/29f0...ft.comAnthropic’s mother of all risk factorsWhat to say in your S-1 when your product has a >10% possibility of causing the extinction of humankind 011
Reposted by Open RiskGarry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New website for IPBES Nature Futures Framework www.naturefuturesframework.org "A flexible tool designed to support the development of scenarios and models of desirable futures for people, nature and Mother Earth"naturefuturesframework.orgNature Futures Framework - Stockholm Resilience CentreAdvances the understanding of complex social-ecological systems with new insights into ecosystem management practices and long-term sustainability 11412
Reposted by Open RiskIngerAndersen.bsky.social @ingerandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As global temperature rise is likely to cross 1.5°C within the next few years, we need #ClimateAction solutions that deliver real results. On #WorldOzoneDay we celebrate one of these solutions - the #MontrealProtocol. Follow @unepozone.bsky.social to learn more: ozone.unep.org/ozone-day/gl... 0159
Reposted by Open RiskXan López @xanlopez.net · 16/09/2026This is great news. Hot take: practical decentralization at the protocol level → globalization at the resource-sharing layer? Sign me up. 0245
Reposted by Open RiskOpen Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026The PageRank algorithm changed online search, but it did not have to lead to #adtech and #surveillancecapitalism. New algorithms are never business models themselves. What new business models they enable depends entirely on the society that adopts them. In other words, digital algorithms fuse […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 101
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 15/09/2026Finally figured out what the mu in @mu.social stands for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(myt...en.wikipedia.orgMu (mythical lost continent) - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by Open RiskYounity @younityuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026⚡🇪🇺 Want to get involved in renewable energy? You can start an energy community. EU law gives citizens the right to join together to produce, share, sell and consume renewable energy. From solar panels to wind turbines, energy communities let people help shape their energy future. 🌱🏘energy.ec.europa.euSetting up an energy communitySetting up an energy community 022
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 14/09/2026Technical journalism long been a marketing branch of the industry. "Digital literacy" in education for the longest time meant learning the software of a particular monopoly. "AI" mania, crypto mania, social media / adtech / surveillance capitalism onslaught, all symptoms of a defenseless society 2/2 043