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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The illustration, even if in Dutch, and generated, says more than a 1000 words. Different community islands (all different mental health networks) choose to connect with each other and brdige to the wider Fediverse, but see the gate is closed on the right side […] [Original post on social.coop]

illustration showing various island in colour that are connected with each other. They have various mental health related names, like ADHD, youth, the borderline foundation, etc. There's a bridge to the fedeiverse island and the gate to a burning island on the right is up. On the left is a very big island city full of skyscrapers, and the gate to it is burning.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Consul started in 2015 at Madrid City Council and is now used by 140+ cities and organisations. The question we worked on: how do you turn a widely used piece of #civictech into a true #commons, where more of the people who benefit also contribute and help steer? […] [Original post on social.coop]

Diagram of the Five Pillar model with quite a few (unreadable) details. The five pillars: in the centre 1) the shared resources (What) and community (Who), 2) Sharing knowledge, 3) Co-governance, 4) Co-production and 5) Mobilisation of resources, i,.e. diverse revenue strategies. Towards the outside of the circle encompassing the 5 pillars it says Social and ecological environment.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

This summer I had the pleasure of accompanying the Consul Democracy Foundation (CDF) team in a reflection on their governance and sustainability model. They’ve now published the story of that journey, and I’m honoured by how thoughtfully they’ve documented it […] [Original post on social.coop]

part of a diagram showing the five pillars for modelling commons sustainability. Not completely readable here through (see next toot)

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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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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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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

We'll be gathering at the @dweb camp in Alte Holle/Berlin from 8-12 July, together with people working on the crossroads of #opensource #decentralisation #cooperative #SSE Social and Solidarity Economy and #commoning I'm really happy that we decided collectively […] [Original post on social.coop]

group photo at the stairs of the Internet Archive in Amsterdam with people at the cocreation workshop in Feb 2026 bringing the DTF from concept to prototype

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Opening keynote by @robin Tech is political. The infrastructure we use is the result of political decisions, basically privatising increasingly the tech infrastructure that makes up the internet.

Photo of the speaker in front of a large audience with a presentation projected showing a MAGA baseball cap and a timeline since 1993 advancing private government over an increasing part of internet tech.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

The title "Technology for Democracy" explained by @sander and @Digi_tien at the opening of the #PubConf2026 with three tracks: - #DigitalAutonomy - #PublicAI - #TheNextSocials watching live: conference.publicspaces.net/en/live…

Photo showing PublicSpaces director Jantien Bosboom and Sander van der Waal of Waag Futurelab at the ppening of #PubConf2026 with a backrgound screen showing the logos of supporting partners.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Today the #PubConf2026 "Technology for Democracy" PublicSpaces Conference is about to start. As I cannot make it in person, I will be following the live stream. All set for @robin's opening keynote, and discussion panel with @marleenstikker I'm also looking […] [Original post on social.coop]

Screenshot of the live video streaming of the PublicSpaces Conference on today June 5th 2026 in Amsterdam. 3 rooms are being streamed. Opening at 10h.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

At the UAB TANC Congress - The Apocalypse is Not Coming - apocalyptic narratives are questioned. "We in the Global North are in love with the apocalypse. Just take a look at the catalogues of major television platforms and you will agree," Marco Armiero. "We […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Mooi artikel van @sander samen met de @volkskrant over hoe gewone mensen Los kunnen komen van BigTech. Best lastig om alle mogelijke opties tot één te beperken, per app categorie, om het makkelijk te maken, om mensen in beweging te houden/brengen. Dit komt bij […] [Original post on social.coop]

Illustratie in de Volkskrant met de titel "Los van Big Tech" met ern serie app categorieen en daarbij een voorgesteld alternatief.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Thanks @pluralistic for joining us in BCN and @X_net and @Capitan_Swing for organising the event. I bought the English version, as ebook. Only disadvantage, I couldn't get a signed copy :-) Great to support the author directly and obtain the book in 3 formats […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture of Cory Doctorow's book Enshittification frontpage as ebook on an ereader.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

Recently the Norwegian Consumer Council Forbrukerradet published a report and a fun video about #Enshittification, the terrible process of BigTech locking in users, and then businesses while making worse and worse the service itself. This week reported by the […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture of the video showing the Enshittificator under the bed of a (male?) person putting his socks on, while the Enshittificator is about to attack and cut a hole in the sock.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

There is an awful lot of work that needs to be done, and it is at the same time amazing that so much IS being done by so many people and communities around the globe, to increase our resilience, autonomy and sovereignty moving out of the tentacles of BigTech, and […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture stating: 3 main segments:
1) people and organisations INTERESTED in
2) people and organisations INVOLVED in
3) public and private institutions FUNDING for

digital autonomy and democratic tech

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

In the context of the @DigitalCoup and #AuthoritarianTech, can we find an answer in #DemocraticTech? Something that goes beyond mere free/libre open source software, and combines #cooperativism and #commoning. Communities who govern their shared resources, and […] [Original post on social.coop]

Illustration titled "Democratic Tech" with 5 postits with the words:
1) Shared and free knowledge
2) Community care
3) Decentralised co-production
4) Communal self-governance, and,
5) Communication as equals (in the centre)

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

Here's a summary table of the three discussed deployment strategies. For smaller scale deployments, of a few hundred to a few thousand users, the @coopcloud method with abra and docker swarm seems a very reasonable approach, one that different tech operators can […] [Original post on social.coop]

A summary table of the 3 deployment models discussed.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

At the Dolibarr session at #msc2026 @joseplluisat presents the background of Dolibarr, how it started in France, with a foundation setup in 2009. Every year around this time there is a new version. #gplv3 A modular, web-based program based in PHP. @dolibarr […] [Original post on social.coop]

Photo of a man, Josep Lluis, presenti g ob stage in front of a slide about Dolibarr

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

Mònica explains their work to make the use of these tools more accessible, with documentation but also fun videos with a narrated story of a fictitious character, "Pepa Demo" who experiences all kinds of tech adventures. @femprocomuns

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

Mònica Garriga presents CommonsCloud.coop, a shared service where users are cooperative members. Tech services that members can get access to incl Nextcloud, Zimbra email, online forums with Discourse, video conferencing with BBB, and WordPress for web […] [Original post on social.coop]

A woman, Monica Garriga, presenting on stage in front of a slide mentioning the cooperative shared services of ethical tech

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

At #msc2026 @dvdgmz criticises the Mobile World Congress for the dominant model of #surveillancecapitalism And presents positive examples of technoethical tooling and tech services like #CommonsCloud #mobilesocialcongress2026 at @canodrom

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people […] [Original post on social.coop]

Photo of conference packed with people in the Canodrom top floor, taken from the back.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Monica Vargas de @GRAIN in conversation with journalist Gina Rigols about #TechnoFeudalism vs #FoodSovereignty -> #bigtech and #bigagroo corporations intimately working together to "help" transforming farmers being more productive based on pesticides, tech […] [Original post on social.coop]

Photo of two women speaking in front of an audience, Monica Vargas (left) and Gina Rigols (right).

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Opening session at #MobileSocialCongress2026 How do we create a feminist, decolonised AI? with @ymouled of the @AlgoRace project. "Race can be seen as a 'technology'." Tech as something magic that normal people cannot understand. In AI the colonial relations […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Margarita Padilla with a great presentation about what #DigitalSovereignty means in the context of #AI #LLM -> the License alone doesn't guarantee sovereignty Here we talk about infrastructures The challenger is not really technological but organising data […] [Original post on social.coop]

Slide in Catalanen saying:

What do we want?

the License alone doesn't guarantee sovereignty

Political + technical + ethical

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Ferran Reyes presents "Democracy is not a button. Limits and possibilities of digital voting" at #SobTec2026 Digital voting comes with serious social risks, like maintaining the status quo, polarisation,... sobtec.cat/2026/la-democracia-no-es… […] [Original post on social.coop]

Photo of Ferran Reyes during his presentation, seated in front of a laptop.

Slide showing different systems to reach agreement in large groups, during human evolution

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Joan Pahisa explains the accessibility challenges for people with disabilities. Most webs don't comply, tech is designed without taking these groups of people into account. E.g. the case with self driving cars is terribly dangerous. Joan is not detected(!), well […] [Original post on social.coop]

Session about accessibility with Joan Pahisa in wheelchair at the right.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

The coming week we'll also have the MobileSocialCongress to discuss and share critical visions about technology, with a focus on #DecolonizingTechnology cooperativism and #technologicalsovereignty Very good that both SobTec.cat and #MSC are well coordinated […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture of the opening of SobTec an invitation and intro about the Mobile Social Congress taking place in the coming week.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Today is #SobTec, the annual gathering in #BCN about #technologicalsovereignty since 2016. As always, gender balance is a challenge, but at least 6 of 11 sessions count with a female presenter. And as always, collected note taking is done through collaborative […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture of the opening session of SobTec 2026

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

European social media Networks are flourishing, and interconnected like the #DecentralisedWeb See here some maps of the bigger servers: - arewedecentralizedyet.online/map - umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/25.80/29.79

A geographical map of Europe with hundreds of servers in the Fediverse, dominated by Mastodon, some PixelFed, mapped in this umap at OSM: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#5/50.471/4.241

A geographical map of Europe showing many different social media servers that store user data in Europe, filtering for the decentralised Fediverse servers, mapped at https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/

A geographical map of Europe showing (partially centralised) social media servers in the Bluesky network, filtering for the AT protocol, storing user data in Europe, mapped at https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

Digital Commons panel kicked off by @SophieB posing #DigitalCommons as a way to keep us on track. Also think of open protocols to assure a level playing field and interoperability. Key for #DigitalSovereignty

Sophie Bloemen with microphone in a line up of 4 people

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

Bert Hubert poses the relation between Digital Commons and digital autonomy: the first guarantees the 2nd, not necessarily vice versa. His slides: berthub.eu/dc-edic

Bert Hubert in front of a slide showing Digital Commons inside a bigger circle saying digital autonomy

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

Virgile Deville presents Docs, the collaborative document editing app; one year old, open source, born at DINUM, key part of the open desk collaboration inside the DC-EDIC.

Virgile Deville pictured, when presenting Docs during the launch of the EDIC

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

Henri Verdier, "founding father" of the DC-EDIC, former digital ambassador of France. He's happy that the EDIC is launched in The Hague, also seat of the International Criminal Court. The ICC judge lost access to his credit cards and all US platforms after sanctions imposed bij Trump.

Keynote by Henri Verdier at the DC EDIC, a photo of him with a slide in the background. Founding father of the DC-EDIC, former digital ambassador of France

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

Opening by Art de Blaauw, CIO of the Dutch national government. Regain digital power - Digital Commons EDIC.

Photo of opening speevh and slide presentation in the background.

Opening by Art de Blaauw, CIO of the Dutch national government. Regain digital power - Digital Commons EDIC.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

Marta Villegas, director of Language Technologies @ Barcelona Super Computing, presenting about public digital infrastructure in AI. Key projects ALIA (alia.gob.es), AINA (projecteaina.cat).

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Today is the first day of the @decidim Fest, the Community Day. Amazing how nice, welcoming, diverse, international is this community! #DecidimFest

Foto showing some of the participants in a circle looking at the screen, depicting the ecosystem. This is the start of the General Assembly of Decidim Association.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

We have @pluralistic in the #4D Conference, talking about how the US Trade Rep always had stopped tech from becoming better public tech. Key example: Anti-Circumvention regulation. For Trump, the US trading partners are now its rivals and tech companies its key […] [Original post on social.coop]

Cory Doctorow in a video connection in the conference.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

B. Cavello speaking at the #4D Conf in Barcelona on public AI. @b_cavello

B Cavello on what makers public ai different

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

We have public and shared responsibility for shared digital infra. Therefore the Sovereign Tech Agency runs a Fellowship programme, a Resilience programme and the @sovtechfund This is German government investments to keep our internet working.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Adriana Groh from the @sovtechfund speaking at #4D Conference presents the Invisible problem. The internet we all rely on, but is invisible to most, until it stops working

Adriana Groh. Slide: the Invisible problem.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Requirements for a democratic digitalisation: 1) generation of data and content 2) storage (cloud) 3) interpersonal communication 4) navigation (web browser) @X_net

Slide with 4 Pilars: Requirements for a democratic digitalisation:
1) generation of data and content
2) storage (cloud)
3) interpersonal communication
4) navigation (web browser)

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Simona Levi from @X_net in her speech at the #4D Conference on Democratic Digitalisation: DD implies a "digital transition based in fundamental rights and the cooperation by design and by default." #DemocraticDigitalisation

Photo with Simona Levi and in the background her slide about Democratic Digitalisation:
digital transition based in fundamental rights and the cooperation by design and by default.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Woensdag kun je een voorkeurstem uitbrengen om de #BigTech verslaving af te bouwen. De #NerdVote stemwijzer benoemt per partij de kandidaten met inhoudelijke kennis op dit gebied. Kandidaten als @barbarakathmann, @mariekekoekkoek, Hanneke van der Werf, @erikkemp […] [Original post on social.coop]

Screenshot met tekst: "Het doel van deze site is om ieder kandidaat-kamerlid te steunen dat wil en kan bijdragen aan:

IT die niet 100% afhankelijk is van Amerikaanse Big-Tech, zodat we onze paspoorten/persoonsgevens niet door Amerikanen te hoeven laten managen

Het behoud van onze privacy, zodat we vrij kunnen communiceren

Onze cybersecurity, zodat onze medische uitslagen niet verhandeld worden

"

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems The German state ditched Microsoft for open source solutions. From Ms Exchange to OpenExchange + Thunderbird. This part involved the migration of email infra for 30.000 […] [Original post on social.coop]

Flag of Schleswig-Holstein with a heart "loves" the the logos of OpenExchange and Thunderbird.

And at the right a red circle with a white cross "doesn't like" Microsoft, Exchange and Outlook logos.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Really proud of my bank, as they open with a message in solidarity with the people in Gaza. Indeed, when I said "my bank" it is really so, as I am a cooperative member of Fiare Banca Etica, a cooperative ethical bank registered in Italy with a large community in […] [Original post on social.coop]

A message at the homepage stating in Spanish, Catalan and Bask/Euskera, here translated for you into English: "Gaza, let us not surrender to horror.
It is difficult to go about our daily lives while witnessing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Despite the feelings of anger and helplessness, we cannot surrender to pain and indifference. Let us continue to stay informed, pay attention to what we buy, and use our voices to give visibility to the Palestinian people"

Homescreen stating in Spanish, translated here: "Ethical Finances
Justice to the Palestinian people: our commitment continues" The smaller, longer text can be found here: https://www.fiarebancaetica.coop/justicia-para-el-pueblo-palestino-nuestro-compromiso-continua/

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

President Lula from Brazil published an open letter to Trump in the NYT. About the indisputable sovereignty of their country, questioning the imposed 50% trade tariff, understanding it as a means to pressure them to liberate convicted coup leader Bolsonaro […] [Original post on social.coop]

The Trump administration has furthermore accused the Brazilian justice system of targeting and censoring American tech companies. Those allegations are false. All digital platforms, whether domestic or foreign, are subject to the same laws in Brazil. It is dishonest to call regulation censorship, especially when what is at stake is the protection of our families against fraud, disinformation and hate speech. The internet cannot be a land of lawlessness where pedophiles and abusers are given free rein to prey on our children and teenagers.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

The closing of the #PubConf2025 by @Digi_tien and @marleenstikker Takeaways: - much increased level of knowlefge and awareness - ecological, out of planetary boundaries - fomo, rich programme - rewilding the internet - proposal: Amsterdam city: spend 5% of 150 […] [Original post on social.coop]

Jantien Borsboom and Marleen Stikker with background pic of the audience

Jantien Borsboom and Marleen Stikker with background pic of speakers panel in the morning Michiel Leenaars, Zuzanna Warso and Emma Ghariani

Jantien Borsboom and Marleen Stikker with background pic of Geertjan-Jan Bogaerts

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

Maria Farrell about #rewilding the internet at #PubConf2025 'We work to "unfuck" the internet.' -> cf. "unenshitify" About a few extreme right billionair men who have the power to kill us, while we have the power to laugh at them. Move away from monocultures […] [Original post on social.coop]

A mountain valley in Ireland, left: 20 years ago, "centralised beauty" vs right: the rewilded internet. Beautyful messiness.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

"Putting Digital Sovereignty into practice” @ #PubConf2025 with great speakers Emma Ghariani from @dinum, Michiel Leenaars from @nlnet @parismarx and Zuzanna Warso from @openfuture conference.publicspaces.net/en/sess…

Session with Emma Ghariani, Michiel Leenaars, Paris Marx and Zuzanna Warso

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