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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

The failure to harness and control digital technologies is getting harder to hide. #cybersecurity incidents on vital infrastructure, near daily data leaks by all sorts of organizations and businesses compromising the #dataprivacy of millions of individuals. While the well-known #techbros […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I try to suppress my contempt for the "news" organizations that fell for Musk's "flying car" con. But I fail. Almost everything that is wrong with journalism is embedded in that coverage of nothing real.

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

If the first repetition of history is tragedy and the second is farce, what happens on the third and fourth iterations? #mastosophy #askfedi

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@timbray Actually one could make a case that if it kept evolving it would have been perfect fit for today's "algorithmic" era. No present language fills the same "readable but performant number crunching" space (except maybe #julia but it's not seeing much adoption).

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

And of course, while billions don't come easy if you are not a surveillance capitalist / "AI" bro, it is worth asking what is the price of freedom...

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

In a new report sponsored by #bigtech they advance the argument that #digitalsovereignty will cost Europe €115 billion over ten years. Leaving aside i) their obvious incentive to overinflate / scare and ii) this "cost" is also an investment / bootstrap of a new digital economy, it is funny to […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The Guardian reports that rapid "AI" adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work 🤔 Who would have thought that low quality groupthink, shortermism and unaccountability are the principles driving the modern economy? 🥶 […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

An emotional rollercoaster at the #knaw evening of the #Nobelprizes ... The exhilaration of discovery in the natural sciences, the endless journey probing the mysteries of the universe, but ending with the sober message of the Peace Nobel prize: that we live in a precarious moment in history […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Years ago Zuck said something to the effect "#dataprivacy is finished". His amoral and dystopic self-interest aside, he did have a valid point: with digital sensors, networks, chips and devices forming a dense blanket over the planet, the information universe is turning intrinsically hostile to […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

"Will #Linux phones become a viable alternative to the #Android / iOS duopoly?" Good review of the state of play. No tl;dr but interesting to observe that here too, China is pushing ahead with its own mobile OS, whereas Europe's entire digital economy can literally be switched off on a whim […]

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

@glyph @darius @jalefkowit My take is llms will change software engineering, not unlike how open source repos, stackoverflow etc. had already changed it in the past. They are after all just condensed collective knowhow that people made public, in a novel, queryable form. But we are entirely […]

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

The pandemic period (remember that?) was a deep probe into the universe of options that shape a digital society and economy. Not is some distant future, but with current technologies, right here and now. For a brief moment every conference, every art venue, every classroom was online […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#NRC is among the most respected Dutch newspapers and their setting up a #mastodon server is a beacon on the path to a democratic #DigitalCommons Short term it shows it is indeed possible for any modest organization not to be hostage to remote techbro overlords. Longer term it means probing […]

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Vraag: Wat is nrc.social? Nrc.social is de Mastodon-server van NRC. Hier kunnen NRC-redacteuren berichten plaatsen. Die kunnen mensen lezen en ze kunnen erop reageren. Vraag: Kan ik hier ook een account krijgen? Nee. Alleen NRC-redacteuren krijgen een account op de nrc-server. Zo zijn ze […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The answer is that, alas, our political systems have proven to be performative. The blind spot in informing, educating and empowering society to decide with agency about the role and impact of digital technologies is just staggering. Keep in mind the "AI" craze is but the latest symptom of a […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@timtfj it's useful when working with spherical geometries and shapes. Together with the barred eth operator (now how do you pronounce a barred letter 😆) they replace partial theta, partial phi. Maybe Penrose had a distaste for the Greek alphabet, I vaguely remember he had more transgressions […]

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@timtfj the problem is that for some of us eth is now a derivative operator (ever since Penrose thought it's too cool a letter to waste). Kinda awkward to think of it differentiating the next letter in a word 😅

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The Financial Competences Ontology (FCO) is a #semanticweb framework that represents and categorizes financial competences. It lifts and extends the EU/OECD-INFE #financialcompetence framework. Description […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Snapshot of the Financial Competences Ontology as visualized by WebVOWL. It shows the nodes of the ontology (classes) connected by links (relations between classes)

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Open Risk @openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

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 · 07/10/2026

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.

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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

@dos it's bittersweet, because the Linux phone will come and together with the ever more sublime Linux desktop they will put personal computing where it should have been all along. But decades will have been lost under the duopoly malaise, for billions of people. Like the world for ever […]

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

The strange economic role of software (economists call it fancy names like non-rivalrus, zero marginal reproduction costs etc.) and in particular the radical nature of open source software is not really internalized. This has some bizarre implications. Case in point: coding "AI" that is […]

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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.

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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

But such a grassroots liberation of digital information tech from gatekeepers would be awkward for the financialization / speculation game (bigtech is like 30% of stock market value). Pushing the specialized compute engine angle is a way to push back the inevitable, but its a strange one […]

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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.

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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 · 28/09/2026

@fusion any feedback if you try it out is welcome! (tested with moodle 4.5)

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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

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

@fnrd even more unsettling, think of tech as the means to language and communication. We have literally relinguished the right of communicating with each other to a tiny controlling techbro class. Ultimately this is what the destruction of privacy, the algorithmic manipulation etc. reflect. A […]

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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.

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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.

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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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