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alek.bsky.social
Doing my share to help the digital commons grow. Director of Strategy at openfuture.eu, sociologist and digital activist. European perspective on global challenges. Board Chair at Centrum Cyfrowe, Board Member at Wikimedia Europe. Bread, tea, apples.
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New piece from my co-director Zuza Warso. Good overview of EU’s current take on digital sovereignty and public infrastructures

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For the past few years, me, Kris at Naive and Matt at Reddit have been running the Tiny Awards, celebrating the good bits of the web. THEY ARE BACK IN 2025 AND NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN! Please tell your friends and share the link, as a small act of resistence to everything being shit: tinyawards.net

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“Making for the web is easy, but most of us have forgotten how – ceding our digital agency to platforms and corporate landlords.” @kleinkleinklein.bsky.social + @sachajudd.com on building the Good Internet, out of the cozy web bits. Good stuff. zine.kleinkleinklein.com/p/good-inter...

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🤖 Join us May 20 for a discussion on Public AI. We will present a new white paper, commissioned by @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, with authors @felice.bsky.social and @alek.bsky.social, as well as industry experts. 📅 15:00 CEST | Free online event openfuture.eu/event/online...

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“Europe Must Build: a Strategic Reset” by @nicolascolin.bsky.social, great piece that has faith in Europe’s tech capacity. Colin proposes “decentralized coordination” as mode of operations suited for EU’s diversity Useful for thinking about #publicAI in Europe. www.driftsignal.com/p/building-i...

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The European Commission published the AI Continent Action Plan, with the aim of building a European approach that is innovative and competitive in the "race for leadership in AI". Here’s my analysis: ttps://openfuture.eu/blog/from-ai-factories-to-public-value/ #ai #publicAI #europe

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“Algo decision making systems are “leviathans”, harmful not for their arbitrariness or opacity, but systemacity of decisions" - @christinalu.bsky.social on need for plural #AI model ontologies (sounds technical, but has big consequences for human #commons) www.combinationsmag.com/model-plural...

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Strong piece from @dacemoglumit.bsky.social on the AI opportunity - public interest AI will be built only if societies don't leave it just to the developers and engineers, and also - EU needs to build alternatives to the "Silicon Valley model" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

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Good op-ed in NYT about the tech billionaries and companies they own, and how antithetical to democracy they are. good quotes from @himself.bsky.social who does some of the best thinking on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

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A proposal for how the UK National Data Library could function (from Feb, I'm catching up on #publicAI examples). Sounds a lot like #publicdatacommons. And a good example of a data-first pathway to more public AI (and other tech policy goals) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/tbi-ndl

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David Braue writes about the National Library of Australia, which began Terms of Use, limiting open access to its resources. Braue describes the context as "voracious genAI training algorithms overstay open government’s welcome". ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

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This Guardian piece looks at how Nordic countries, once at the forefront of digital payments, now see cash as a crucial mechanism for resilience. Social campaigns are encouraging people to pay with cash, at least once in a while. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I've been working on a white paper on #publicAI policies and learned in the process that sound proposals are imposible without deep technical dive into the #AI stack. THis is a great NYT explainer on GPUs, data centers, energy and water use for AI. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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@communia.bsky.social analysis of the recent draft European research strategy 2025-2027. Good to see a strong commitment to #openscience. And an overall #publicinterest perspective - which is often missing from EU’s broader digital strategies communia-association.org/2025/03/10/e...

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New piece from my @jankrewer.bsky.social , my team member, on how EU should seek Exit from current digital challenges to #publicdigitalinfrastructure, in @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/looking-for-... #publicAI

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AI is meant to be destroying knowledge jobs, but at the moment, in the #US, it’s the state that’s destroying PhD jobs through funding cuts. The key question is then, how do the two trends intertwine? (And I guess it’s a #publicAI question) www.msn.com/en-ca/money/...

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"as we build new social media, we need to keep in mind lessons learned from activist efforts to make corporate social media better" - @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy , at #rightscon panel on new social web. Fixing big platforms + alternatives is two pronged strategy for #digitalpublicspace

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An amazing #opensourceAI story: Perplexity AI took the DeepSeek R1 model and de-censored it. the-decoder.com/perplexity-a...

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Looking forward to #RightsCon, and seeing how ideas about #AI as public infrastructure resonate with people who focus on #digitalrights.

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🇪🇺 The #EuroStack report proposes €300B for EU tech sovereignty through chips, AI, and cloud infrastructure. Read @jankrewer.bsky.social's analysis: openfuture.eu/blog/eurosta...

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“the future lies in institutional reform – in rebuilding the public institutions that have been “eaten” by the profit-driven platforms” – Mike Pepi talks #publicdigitalinfrastructure in Dazed piece on #platform alternatives (with rare mainstream / pop tone www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

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DOGE is accessing vast troves of data, shutting down gov websites, and promising to replace countless jobs with an "AI-first" strategy. There's a reason Musk is aiming to automate the government—it's all about concentrating power and exercising control. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government...

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