Some are angry about the "anti-Christian depiction of the last supper" at the Olympic Opening ceremony. (Elon Musk and Donald J. Trump among others) A Dutch art historian explains it's not the last supper but a Dutch painting of the Olympic gods. And I explain what I loved. 🧵

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Open Future is looking forward to the 2024 Open Forum Academy Symposium where we will present a new paper on #DigitalCommons as providers of #PublicDigitalInfrastructure 🗞️ The paper was written by Jan Krewer and @ZWarso with support from the NGI Commons project.

Mario #Draghi's call for a European #IndustrialStrategy is salient, but history shows such strategies shouldn't just serve big businesses. We need a plan that empowers people & strengthens democratic control over the digital infrastructure we rely on 👉openfuture.eu/blog/draghi_re…

💸 Nearly 7 in 10 Europeans agree on taxing the rich to support the poor. 📣 You agree? Then sign here to #TaxTheRich! Sign 👉 eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/s…

50+ known scholars & activists against Big Techs attach on #DigitalSovereignty The list includes Mariana Mazzucato Thomas Piketty Daron Acemoglu Shoshana Zuboff Yanis Varoufakis Evgeny Morozov (evgenymorozov.bsky.social) Gabriel Zucman Jayati Ghosh Jason Hickel #Support_Brazil Read and sign: tinyurl.com/yar7ab6r

If it were iPhones that were leaving the factory with explosives inside, the media would be a hell of a lot faster to cotton on to what a horrific precedent has been set today. Nothing can justify this. It's a crime. A crime. And everyone in the world is less safe for it.

It is urgent to shape a European digital industrial policy and build an independent #EuroStack. To create alternatives to digital monopolies and regain industrial, economic and technological sovereignty. It is about protecting our rights, data, and the planet. Proud of our event!

🚨 [AI REGULATION] The paper "The False Choice Between Digital Regulation and Innovation" by Anu Bradford is a MUST-READ for everyone in AI governance, offering 🌶️ provocative insights 🌶️ on AI regulation. Quotes: "Of course, all digital regulation is not beneficial. But neither

While introducing some of our ideas about how intellectual monopolization impacts on Brazil's AI plan, Cédric Durand and I took the chance to reflect on #digitalsovereignty , a truly public cloud and more in our Jacobin piece jacobin.com/2024/10/brazil…

🏙️ Our new report, by Jan Krewer and @ZWarso, focuses on how #DigitalCommons can support and improve #PublicDigitalInfrastructures. 📄Read or download the paper, contributing to the @NGI Commons Project: openfuture.eu/publication/di…

🧑‍🏫 Jan Krewer will present our latest paper, co-authored with @ZWarso, at the #OFASymposium in Boston. 📅 Today at 15:30 EST time and hosted by Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Some of our NGI Commons partners will also be speaking at the conference. Good luck to all! symposium.openforumeurope.org

💡Our new report, by @JanKrewer and @ZuzannaWarso, focuses on how #DigitalCommons can support and improve #PublicDigitalInfrastructures. ⬇️Read or download the paper, contributing to the NGI Commons Project: commons.ngi.eu/2024/11/14/dig…

Here's a weekly roundup of must-read articles in the field of tech governance (in just 7 stories): ⬇️ 1. Combinationsmag We’re excited for the new publication by RadicalxChange, exploring ideas about economics, democracy, and the relationship between technology and power. Online

La Cour Pénale Internationale émet un mandat d'arrêt contre le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu, l'ancien ministre israélien de la Défense Yoav Gallant, et le chef de la branche armée du Hamas Deif #AFP

📣 La France, par la voie de France Diplomatie 🇫🇷🇪🇺, semble suggérer qu’elle n’arrêtera pas Netanyahu s’il venait sur son territoire. 🤯 Dans ce thread, je vous explique pourquoi cette position est juridiquement erronée et politiquement dangereuse. 🧵👇 france24.com/fr/france/2024…

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Here's Trump's response to California wildfire in 2020. Official: If we ignore science, we're not going to succeed in protecting California. Trump: It will start getting cooler. You just watch. Official: I wish science agreed with you. Trump: I don't think science knows,

Je viens de faire mon #eXit! L’exode de X est massif. Ne perdez pas un seul de vos abonnés. Grâce à #OpenPortability j’ai inscrit 1943 nouveaux passagers pour partir vers #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Retrouvez automatiquement vos communautés le #20Janvier via openportability.org !