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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

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It was such a great experience to join the open source conference in luxembourg! Huge thanks to the amazing @_elena@mastodon.social and @Gina@fosstodon.org for organising and curating the Decentralised Technologies for Digital Sovereignty track, It brought together lots of the people and […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Today prof Mariana Mazzucato presents her latest book, The Common Good Economy, at CIDOB in Barcelona. She proposes to anchor common good objectives in the missions of pubçic services and the economy in general. The government should regulate re-distrivutive […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture of prof Mariana Mazzucato on stage in the plenary room at CIDOB in Barcelona. The room is packed.

Picture of Mariana Mazzucato's latest book, The Common Good Economy.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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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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Henri Horn @henrihorn.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The new #Mispel law in Germany provides clear pathway for home batteries including bidirectional EV chargers to feed into the grid and avoid double grid charges. The existing EVs on German roads already have enough battery capacity to cover the entire national electricity demand for two hours […]

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

De afgelopen weken liet ik me afleiden van het opzetten van de server doordat ik dit verhaal wilde maken, over de vraag of de VS de .nl-domeinen uit zouden kunnen zetten […]

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Loops also blocks AI code contributions. I should have made this policy much sooner, my apologies ❤️ github.com/joinloops/loops-server#a…

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

"...we can’t have a set-up that is “technically decentralized” but “socially centralized”. The #CoopCloud recipes are a lot easier to maintain, which makes it easier to share the moderation among ourselves.". New post: opentech-auc.org/posts/2026-09-27-c… With a shoutout to […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

"Solidarity Funding for Technology in the Commons" Coming Tuesday the Bread.coop solidarity fund has a webinar with us to explain the launch of Democratic Tech crowd fund platform and explore possible relationships between us. -> Tuesday 29th September -> 17h […] [Original post on social.coop]

Banner image inviting for the Bread.coop webinar with Free Knowledge Institute and Democratic Tech Fund

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Audun @audunmb.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

_AI is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks._ The "AI is theft" argument is weak. It assumes that copyright is property that can be stolen, like in "you wouldn't steal a car". And it claims […] [Original post on todon.nl]

AI-generated image of Karl Marx, added for irony, but mostly to get your attention to this wall of text. (Yeah, I know it's horrible, but somehow someone on "philosophes.org" felt that this was better than an actual photo of him.)

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

🔍 Switch to a European search engine: 👉️️ Qwantt 👉️️ Ecosia 👉️️ Startpage What European search engine are you using? Maybe it should be on the list? #Marginalia? #Mojeek? #digitalSovereignty #DSCAdvice 🔗 folkdata.se/en/digital-sovereignty

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🌍🌾 ViaCampesinaEU ⁂ :mastodon: @viacampesinaeu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

#LaViaCampesina ✊🏽🚜👨🏽‍🌾 Campaign Against Agrotoxics and For Life : viacampesina.org/en/campaigns/campa… 💢 It is possible to produce food without agrotoxics ! 🌱 Peasant Agroecology is the way to protect our health, soil, air, water […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#LaViaCampesina Campaign Against Agrotoxics and For Life
https://viacampesina.org/en/campaigns/campaign-against-agrotoxics

💢 It is possible to produce food
without agrotoxics !
🌱 Peasant Agroecology is the way to protect our health, soil, air, water and biodiversity !
➡️ https://viacampesina.org/en/2019/12/it-is-possible-to-produce-food-without-agrotoxics-peasant-agroecology-is-the-way

#AgroecologyNurturesLIFE #AgrotoxicsKILL #StopAgrotoxics #StopToxicTrade

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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@Wtebbens/1173143018409… “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” [Meta]

Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This theatre work in Barcelona is being banned by Meta for covering Virginia Wolf and/or "social topics". How clear evidence of the censoring of social issues, by the #MassiveManipulationMachine […]

OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

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We have some exciting news for the upcoming weeks. New projects, new success! For today we want to start with the official launch of the new design of our website: opentech-auc.org Come and have a look! #fediwall

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OpenTech(AUC) — There are alternatives. Let's explore them together.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"Waarom boeren ontkennen dat hun koeien het klimaat veranderen" Minder koeien, minder methaan, daar moeten we aan: hier komt Thomas Oudman @decorrespondent met een duidelijk verhaal op weg naar een gedeelde werkelijkheid […]

Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

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A serious threat to our sovereignty: many communication infrastructures use Let's Encrypt for their SSL certificates. It's the open source way to have free certificates and secure communications. But what if the Trump regime puts your organisation on the list of the undesired, i.e. sanctions you […]

Renewed Resistance @renewedresistance.channel.org · 12/06/2025

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🔥 Welcome to Renewed Resistance — News & Organizing Hub This is a Newsmast-powered group account focused on peaceful organizing against Trump and Trumpism across the U.S. We’ve recently refocused from the former Kamala Harris News Group to support broader, pro-democracy action. How it works: ✅ […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The EU's Blocking Statute should protect EU citizens for lawful operation when "third countries" - such as the US - apply sanctions to them. Example 1: ICC judges being sanctioned by the Trump regime. They cannot be served by US companies (most dominant digital platforms + all credit cards) […]

Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

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Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos. We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection. Built around open Fediverse […]

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padeluun ⁂ @padeluun.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

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Peter Thiel bekommt am 24. September den Axel-Springer-Award. Drei Tage vorher schaut der Chaos Computer Club Berlin genauer hin, wer da eigentlich geehrt wird. Thiel ist kein bloß exzentrischer Tech-Milliardär. Er ist ein antidemokratischer Vordenker der radikalen Rechten: Er erklärte Freiheit […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in five years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal and gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the scorching days, batteries release stored sun through the evening, and wind picks up after dark. The […]

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 26/08/2026

"The Nerd Reich" by @gilduran.com Urgent and highly readable. Even if you know things are bad with tech billionaires they're worse than you think. Read it, get it for your friends who still don't understand what's going on and happily post on X. Great Christmas gift.

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Oproep: kunnen jullie voorbeelden met me delen van interessante vormgeving op servers op #ActivityPub? Wat zijn de mogelijkheden om een NRC-server een beetje mooi te maken? Wat kan wel en wat kan niet? #NRCServer

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Tobias Eigen @tobias.social.tobiaseigen.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@ente Ente gut, alles gut! 🦆 Just learned about this wonderful #selfhost #opensource app suite! 1) securely store and share photos, 2) same for important docs, and 3) 2fa authenticator. Super keen to try it out! #digitallysovereign #digitalsovereignty #rabt

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Het is tijd om wat concreter te worden met mijn plannen voor een @nrc_nl Nu vraag ik me af: vinden jullie het minder autonoom / soeverein en dus 'goed' als een toekomstige NRC-server niet op eigen hardware draait, maar in een (verantwoord en lokaal) datacenter? Daar neig ik nu namelijk wel naar […]

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Björn Staschen @bjoernsta.eimsbuettel.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Wir wollen mit Dir das Internet retten! Nach einem heissen Aufbauhalbjahr sucht #SaveSocial einen TEAMPLAYER für die digitale Rebellion: eine*n Kommunikations- & Community-Expert*in. Alles weitere findest Du in unserer Stellenausschreibung […]

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panos @panos.catodon.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Thinking of fully federating Discourse #Discourse #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Forums

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@BjornW@mastodon.social @bjornw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Vandaag is het weer #Doeidag! Ivm vakantie ben ik lekker veel offline buiten in de weer. Daarbij maak ik gebruik van een paar #opensource apps geïnstalleerd via @fdroidorg - #Gadgetbridge voor het uitlezen van mn #Garmin sporthorloge - #CoMaps voor eenvoudig route bepaling & navigatie - […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

RE: social.coop/@Wtebbens/1169926738822… Bonfire has evolved into an incredible toolset to build your own Connected Community Space. What long has been a promise is now showing off in three new communities: * Jacobin.de a socialist magazine where the subscribers connect backstage […]

Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

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RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116969361… the fines are still too small, but at least they're enforcing the DMA a bit.... hopefully more to come.

Diana Barbosa :cravo:🇺🇦🇵🇸 @diraquel.masto.pt.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

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"If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models." - @pluralistic Trump’s America […]

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Joaquim Puig @joaquimpuig.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

@Wtebbens Crec que vam parlar de la comparativa entre models propietaris i open source (tot i que aquests models no serien 100% oberts segons algunes definicions). Salut! Kimi K3, la IA china que ha puesto en guardia a Silicon Valley […]

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 15/07/2026

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RE: social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/11… The EU has refused to allow "OpenAI" to openwash their company. Bravo. #OpenSource means freedom first, and the EU courts agree. And thanks for the nod to @osi Jan, it's gratefully received!

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

If the EU commission really cared one bit about not having access to proprietary US-owned LLMs that are only available via an API or with heavily restricted weights, it would start the process of blocking those services Union-wide so that open alternatives have a way to grow with the limited […]