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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

It would be a blessing is science/tech journalism would imprint on the general public a very clear distinction between genuine new technologies like #quantumcomputing or #nuclearfusion and the "tech" as used in #bigtech which is basically a combination of software ideas and *social engineering* […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The unhinged lawlessness of the "AI" era will implode at some point. The important question is whether the collapsing house of cards will also reach the foundation of #surveillancecapitalism that supports the dystopic digital edifice. And whether a rebel digital alliance will be in a position to […]

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Interledger Foundation @interledger.org · 20h

This week we are celebrating Financial Inclusion Week, bringing the global community together to explore how innovation can help build financial systems that work for everyone. Ayden Férdeline, our Lead for Public Policy and Government Affairs, will […] [Original post on interledger.social]

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 07/10/2026

👇 we need a different digital timeline folks. its not a drill. bad stuff happens to societies that don't pay attention.

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Upcoming SEMIC conference Nov 30 #semanticweb #interoperability #digitalsovereignty

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Ik was naar de #OneConference omdat ik Osvaldo Zavala Giler wilde horen spreken. Hij is bij het Internationaal Strafhof, het #ICC verantwoordelijk voor de praktische zaken, zoals de ICT. Hij deed een urgente oproep aan EU-landen om het zg 'blocking statue' te gebruiken. Dit kan Europese […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The unhinged lawlessness of the "AI" era will implode at some point. The important question is whether the collapsing house of cards will also reach the foundation of #surveillancecapitalism that supports the dystopic digital edifice. And whether a rebel digital alliance will be in a position to […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The lack of (financial) #sustainability of #opensource initiatives when some projects are famously holding the entire digital system on their shoulders is not a freak of human nature: The formal quid-pro-quo economy, built on top of monetary systems and legal contracts is 1) a flailing […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Transforming Finance for Society. Join Academics, Practitioners and professionals on 10 November, 13.00-18.00, Erasmus University Rotterdam. "Finance stands at a crossroads. As our economies confront #climatechange, widening #inequalities and the risks of technological innovation, this […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 05/10/2026

If Europe and other "middle powers" want to see what striving for digital sovereignty really means look no further than the frantic efforts of Zuck / Meta to put some device - any device - on the hands of "consumers". All the cloud and "AI" in the world will not help if a screen gatekeeper says no.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 05/10/2026

Organizing the world's information has been a latent requirement and possibility for decades, starting with Tim Berner-Lee's semantic web (1994). But the world's digital society stewards are fast asleep, so this vital task was outsourced to the adtech bros which have now mutated into the "AI" bros.

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It seems it is no longer possible to have a desktop #linux system (#ubuntu #kde) that stays "up-to-date" even for the duration of a single day. I.e. you apply updates from the previous day and before long you are prompted to update again (and almost always it suggests a restart). Does anybody […]

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#openbb was an effort for an open source version of the Bloomberg terminal, the age-old network / infrastructure for finance professionals (it predates the internet 🤣) that is still part of a duopoly in this space. After years of development, they had to shutdown. Points to how difficult to […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Is it a coincidence that one hardware company building proprietary special purpose compute engines is behind both bizarre "tech" bubbles of our era (crypto and "AI")?. Probably not. Giant wheels are motion in digital land, but they are moving slowly. General purpose computing (CPU's) was […]

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Wat leggen Maarten Schinkel en Marike Stellinga het weer lekker uit: Worden de waardes van AI-bedrijven kunstmatig opgeblazen? Ik luister naar 'Worden de waardes van AI-bedrijven kunstmatig opgeblazen?' (Zo simpel is het niet – Stellinga & Schinkel over economie) in de NRC Audio app […]

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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.

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@targetdrone/117348… one boost, one vote #techsploitation

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Nicholas_2025/1173… #enshittification struck a chord and became word of the year. But it doesn't quite capture all the dystopy unleashed by "digital tech". It means a concrete pattern in a concrete context. What is happening as society becomes more […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 conceptual competence framework can be integrated into the #Moodle LMS […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Snapshot of a Moodle competence framework in action. It illustrates a hierarchy of competencies, with progressively more detailed specifications

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117340789… We frequently talk about the ever-worsening digital dystopia, but this is one of the dark benchmarks that measures how much we are drifting. A small number of vigilant technical people have of course been warning about the downward […]

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

FediForum, the online unconference for the people who move the Open Social Web forward, is coming up again in a few days. Consider joining your peers in exploring, creating, and collaborating on better ways of interacting online than what the closed platforms give us. fediforum.org […]

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fnord @fnrd.toots.nu.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Best thing I heard this week: Don't think of technology as technology: think of it as democracy and you start seeing what's wrong with tech.

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I will be joining and speaking at the European Digital Sustainability Skills Conference on 30 September 2026 in Brussels, organised by the #Digital4Sustainability project. We’ll discuss the Digital4Sustainability Alliance Community, how it can empower […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Brochure of the European Sustainability Skills conference, the Voices from the Alliance session, engaging stakeholders and opportunities.

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In a new post we start exploring how the #digital4sustainability competence framework can be expressed as a #semanticweb ontology. www.openriskmanagement.com/towards-… We review various relevant taxonomies […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An ontology diagram of the digital4sustainability competence framework ontology. Lots of connected dots!

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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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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: social.ftm.nl/@FTM_nl/1173254312240… Goed werk van Jan Daalder! Zit je ook op Mastodon Jan?

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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/

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

"Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens waarschuwt gebruikers camerabrillen dat filmen van anderen vrijwel altijd verboden is." The Dutch data protection authority warns users of "smartglasses" that taking photos or video of others is almost always prohibited. #dataprivacy #pervertglasses […]

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I made my plea for such a setup in the #fediverse three years ago, but since then most of the innovation in this space has happened in and around the AT protocol, which consequently pulled my attention towards that space. However what's emerging here isn't specific to any one protocol, and […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

With "AI" now officially renamed into "SI" (super-intelligence) does this mean that "#AGI" and the #Singularity must be renamed into "#SGI" (super general intelligence, not the workstation) and SuperSingularity? 🤣 Who would have thought that the dissolution of an established world order has an […]

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Cristina Caffarra @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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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...

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: fediscience.org/@seanfobbe/11727598… We cannot cede the concept of an open information ecosystem (that benefits everybody) to the despicable breed of rent extracting techbros that has come to dominate all things digital. But the longer a cancer ravages a body, the fewer […]

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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...

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

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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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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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 14/09/2026

The farcical quality of the public "AI" debates is but a symptom of a deeper and dangerous malaise: widespread digital illiteracy, adroidly exploited by unscrupulus industry insiders. There are simply no institutions or mechanisms to provide "checks-and-balances" around tech development. 1/

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/11… Important read. Beyond the current "AI" debacle, the so-called "digital economy" seems to still have deep unresolved issues: how to protect and nurture finite human effort and creativity when anything digital can be copied […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Letten jullie op, Nederlandse journalisten en talkshow redacteurs? Vandaag uitgebreid NRC voorpagina artikel van Juurd Eijsvoogel, Wouter van Noort en Jorit Verkerk, en eerder deze week een nog sensationeler item van 's lands techknuffelbeer Alexander Killing bij Eva. Voor beide geldt: Weinig […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 09/09/2026

The #PISA2025 survey results are out and they make for depressing reading: ongoing decline across the board. The historians of the future (assuming they exist) will identify the first decade of the 21st century as "peak civilization". Yet its all endogenous, a malfunctioning political economy.

Diagram from PISA 2025 results showing that the average trend across OECD countries is negative (Figure I.1.5). Performance in PISA 2025 was the lowest in all subjects, significantly below the mean performance observed in any earlier assessment (except PISA 2022, in science). In mathematics, performance remained close to the 2003 level through all assessments up to 2018, then dropped sharply between 2018 and 2025. In reading and science, the strongest performance was observed in 2012
and 2009, respectively, then the trajectory turned negative. See Chapter 2 for further details about PISA trends over time.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 08/09/2026

#LiteracyDay marks today its 60th anniversary Widespread literacy is the miracle that enabled the unfathomable complexity of modern life (and a modicum of equity). Yet even as millions worldwide still lack it, the onslaught of the digital era creates new challenges www.unesco.org/en/days/lite...

International Literacy Day

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

'Bert Hubert heeft een andere metafoor: volgens hem zitten we in een trein, bestuurd door Amerika. Europese programmeurs zijn volgens Hubert overgeleverd aan een steeds kleiner wordende groep Amerikaanse Big Tech-bedrijven, die gezamenlijk zo’n drieduizend […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Bert houdt een praatje, staat voor een katheder met zijn favoriete colBERTje. Op de achtergrond publiek.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 07/09/2026

"You are either making the software, or you are the software" If we want a humane, peaceful, equitable, sustainable future, we need to write the software for this, "we" being the broadest practical subset of people, and "software" being our entire information processing infrastructure #opensource

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The concept of a European #twintransition (digital and green) was spot on when introduced circa 2020. But as the decade wears on, the continent is still trapped in US #digitaldystopia, while China is actually the only "twin transitioning" entity The inability to turn vision into reality does […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

In a new white paper we develop graph representations of decentralized (heterogeneous) Social Web networks. We build primarily on the machinery of multilayer networks with their associated tensor representations. We expand on the specialized subclass of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Visual representation of layer-disjoint multilayer framework that models a decentralized Social Web framework where Actors form distinct interacting Communities. Four layers are presented (four communities) as overlaping grids. Actors are represented as colored dots. Connections between Actors are directed edges (arrows).

Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

In a new white paper we develop graph representations of decentralized (heterogeneous) Social Web networks. We build primarily on the machinery of multilayer networks with their associated tensor representations. We expand on the specialized subclass of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Visual representation of layer-disjoint multilayer framework that models a decentralized Social Web framework where Actors form distinct interacting Communities. Four layers are presented (four communities) as overlaping grids. Actors are represented as colored dots. Connections between Actors are directed edges (arrows).