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Mostly about #OpenSource #SustainableFinance and #RiskManagement. * Open Risk Academy: www.openriskacademy.com * Open Risk Manual: www.openriskmanual.org * Blog: www.openriskmanagement.com * Code: github.com/open-risk

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 9h
Nowadays 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 🌱
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Aster ID @aster.id · 14h
The 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.place
Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 22h
I 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 🤣
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 29/09/2026
There 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
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ECOS @ecos.ngo · 29/09/2026
A 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.org
Developing timely standards, but not at the expense of quality - ECOS
Standards 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.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 28/09/2026
"Against Money" by @jwmason.bsky.social & @arjunjayadev.bsky.social Very interesting overview of money. (Challenging at times.)
Against Money
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 29/09/2026
There 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.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 29/09/2026
The 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.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 28/09/2026
Self-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.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 28/09/2026
These 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 🖖
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 28/09/2026
With @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social participating the conversation is *guaranteed* not to beat around the bush (which in these tumultuous times should actually be the norm 😔). 👇
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European Central Bank @ecb.europa.eu · 28/09/2026
We’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
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 27/09/2026
The #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...
Snapshot of a Moodle competence framework in action. It illustrates a hierarchy of competencies, with progressively more detailed specifications
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Lia Belle @liabelle.me · 26/09/2026
Congrats & 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):
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 27/09/2026
Our "AI" overlords need a warm abode to flurish: Water, electricity, air-conditioning, connectivity. Most of us humans can't afford all these luxuries anyway 🥶
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European 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. 🇪🇺
Colourful speech bubbles arranged on a light background, with the text “Celebrating linguistic diversity” and the EU flag in the bottom-right corner.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 26/09/2026
Will 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!
Brochure of the european digital sustainability skills conference
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026
This 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.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026
In 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...
Diagram of a new ontology that encodes digital4sustainability profiles, competences and learning units
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026
We 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 🙄
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026
seems it was a temporary glitch
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 25/09/2026
The hug of atproto? 🤣
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026
New AT Proto architectural diagram just dropped 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2609.21608
Schematic diagram of the AT Protocol architecture, with modifiable components and data access
infrastructure highlighted. This representation is a simplified adaptation of the architecture presented in
the original paper [78]. We refer readers to that work for more comprehensive technical details. Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design
Space of Experimental Research on Social Media
JORDI GUILLEM CONDOM-TIBAU∗, University of Pisa, Italy and Institute for Informatics and
Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
GIOVANNI PUCCETTI, Institute of Science and Technologies of Information “A. Faedo”, National
Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Italy
CLARA BACCIU, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
MATTEO ABRATE, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
STEFANO CRESCI, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
Despite a growing demand for causal evidence about social media, independent researchers remain severely
constrained in their ability to conduct experiments directly on online platforms. To cope, multiple method-
ological workarounds have emerged—from controlled surveys and simulations to client-side overlays and
platform partnerships—each requiring distinct trade-offs between desirable experimental properties. The
recent emergence of open social media platforms offers a qualitatively different methodological opportunity.
Here we propose a design space of social media experimentation and discuss Open Platform Field Experiments
(OPFEs). OPFEs represent a distinct class of experimental approaches that enable independent researchers
to directly intervene on functional platform components—such as clients, recommendation systems, and
moderation services—within live social media environments. Through a comparative analysis of experimental
archetypes, we show that OPFEs occupy a previously unexplored region of the design space. We then bridge
theory and practice by characterizing the architectural and governance elements that enable OPFEs, mapping
them onto Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and illustrating the end-to-end lifecycle of a complete OPFE design.
Overall, this work establishes OPFEs as a practical methodol…
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026
Imagine 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
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026
A 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
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026
A 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/
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026
A 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/
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026
The 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/
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 24/09/2026
Probing 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/
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 23/09/2026
The 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 #sustainablefinance
foodlandmoney.org
Food, 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.
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noyb – 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.eu
AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In 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.
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Nicolò Ribaudo @nicr.dev · 21/09/2026
Today is Igalia's 25th birthday! 🎂 www.igalia.com/2026/09/21/T...
igalia.com
Twenty-Five Years Upstream | Igalia
Igalia 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...
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Cristina Caffarra @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
substack.com/@ccaffarra/n...
substack.com
European Regulators Want a Say on “Pacing the Frontier” – Do We Understand the Game? Let’s Stay Focused on Building
The 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...
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Teresa 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.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 21/09/2026
The 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
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Erik Fossing Nielsen @erikfossingnielsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The 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.com
Europe 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.
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European Central Bank @ecb.europa.eu · 19/09/2026
There’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/
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
This 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.
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 18/09/2026
The 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
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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.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 17/09/2026
Huge 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...
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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.com
Anthropic’s mother of all risk factors
What to say in your S-1 when your product has a >10% possibility of causing the extinction of humankind
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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New 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.org
Nature Futures Framework - Stockholm Resilience Centre
Advances the understanding of complex social-ecological systems with new insights into ecosystem management practices and long-term sustainability
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IngerAndersen.bsky.social @ingerandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As 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...
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 16/09/2026
This is great news. Hot take: practical decentralization at the protocol level → globalization at the resource-sharing layer? Sign me up.
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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
The 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 […]
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Original post on mastodon.social
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 16/09/2026
👇 this is the good stuff
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 15/09/2026
Finally figured out what the mu in @mu.social stands for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(myt...
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Mu (mythical lost continent) - Wikipedia
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Younity @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.eu
Setting up an energy community
Setting up an energy community
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 14/09/2026
Technical 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
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