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Close Attention - Dissent Magazine An interview with Frederick Wiseman.

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman died today at age 96. "At a moment when many of the institutions he documented are being decimated and our attention is divided," Natasha Lewis wrote last year, "Wiseman’s films are out of time and completely timely." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The Untold History of Women.

Sobre - como los chicos ocupan la centralidad del espacio cuando jugan a - el fútbol - y las chicas se quedan en los márgenes - en los patios.

Sobre el fútbol en los patios.
www.linkedin.com/posts/honora...

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Se necesitan un millón de firmas: suspensión total del Acuerdo de Asociación UE-Israel. La inmensa mayoría de la ciudadanía europea no quiere ser cómplice del genocidio como lo están siendo nuestros gobernantes. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

El riesgo de depender de los oligarcas-intelectuales del trumpismo | lamarea.com Para no arriesgar su soberanía, Europa debería revisar sus contratos de defensa con empresas cercanas al trumpismo como Palantir o SpaceX.

Una investigación de la economista Francesca Bria debería llevar a Europa a revisar los contratos de sus ejércitos con empresas como Palantir o SpaceX para evitar que su soberanía dependa de una red de vigilancia y control nunca vista hasta ahora. Por Ekaitz Cancela
www.lamarea.com/2026/01/01/t...

CKAN: Powering Open Data Portals Everywhere ⛵️ If there is one reason why most of the open data in the world is available, that reason is CKAN. CKAN is a sustainable, 20-year-old open-source data management system that turns disorganised data…

We created #CKAN over 20 years ago, and it's become the industry standard for #opendata portals.

It's used in over 50 countries – UK, US, India, Brazil, EU, as well as by many UN agencies, universities and research institutions worldwide.

Learn why 🎥 👇🏾 buff.ly/CBTVdXx

La cosa más lógica sería traducirlo al español, of course.

Plural commons: translation as a relational practice The widespread use of the English term commons, rooted in British history, often obscures the diverse ways in which collective life, stewardship, and organising are practiced across different cultu...

A collective paper by the Urban Commons Collective on embracing hesitation, stirring up stories and staying in the gaps.

Or how the impossibility of translating non-English commoning practices into our one shared language creates the spaces where our understanding of commoning practices can expand.

BREAKING: Reports of spontaneous protests erupting in European cities tonight in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was illegally attacked by Israel an hour ago.

Demonstrations have been seen in Berlin🇩🇪 & Rome🇮🇹 - and these are the current scenes in Brussels🇧🇪 👇

@hopeenpie.bsky.social "We are plagued with hope"

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Países como Alemania ni siquiera han firmado esta declaración inconsecuente que se limita a mendigar unos mínimos insultantes frente a un genocidio. Europa es un pozo oscuro.

La UE es el MAYOR socio comercial de Israel.

Decir “no al genocidio” pero no sancionar ni suspender relaciones y acuerdos preferenciales es cosmética.

Es urgente poner fin a la complicidad europea⬇️

Nos ha dejado Osfa Veladoz, aka José Pérez de Lama, y el mundo es un poco menos luminoso.

Rest in power, Osfa, las máquinas rebeldes te echarán de menos.

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I love this screenshot! Thanks for sharing it :)

👩🏾‍💻🌱 Join us for #TheTechPeopleWant Summit! @okfn.bsky.social + The Tor Project are teaming up to rethink who current tech is really for and against. Will you be there?
🗓️ 8–9 July
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🔴 #TheTechPeopleWant is on!

We are discussing why people want #OpenData with the authors of Towards a Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystem.

It's key to keep in mind that "Without sustainability there is no sovereignty" says @anamandes.bsky.social

Join the discussion today and tomorrow.

A conversation with:
Solana Larsen
Merrin Muhammed Ashraf - @itforchange.bsky.social
Jugal Mahabir -@parinstitute.bsky.social
Arturo Sánchez Pineda - Cevale2VE & LA-CoNGA physics
and Constanza Figueroa - amigashacker.club

The Tech People Want Online Summit – Open Knowledge Foudation We’re bringing together advocates, civil society organisations, government officials and forward-thinking creators to reimagine technology from the ground up.

Tomorrow, we are presenting some insights from the study on Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystems Semra Sonmez and I have done for @okfn.bsky.social

The commons are the perfect framework to rethink openness: communities, co-governance and care will make sharing data and content sustainable again :)

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@itsbethperry.bsky.social @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social @ethelbaraona.bsky.social

Urban Commons Handbook A compilation of definitions, experiences and references around some of the questions that arise when thinking about commoning the city

Our last collective endeavour was the Urban Comons Handbook.

Now, we seek to expand contemporary debates around urban commons with a pluriversal perspective, engaging the diversity of people, places, cultures, and knowledge involved in sharing practices.

dpr-barcelona.com/urban-common...

Urban Commons - Call Fields of Equivocation for Plural Commons (Lara Scharf x Urban Commons Research Collective, 2024)

Through this call, we seek to engage with this diversity and expand contemporary debates around urban commons from a pluriversal perspective, acknowledging the rich tapestry of people, places, cultures, and knowledge involved in sharing practices.

More details:

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

An image of different terms related to commons in Turkish, Arabic, german, Aymara, Chinese or Greek, with their English translation and a background of colors with a thick white text saying: Urban Commons Reserach Collective OPEN CALL An archive and Glossary of Pluriversal Commons in Translation, and the website address: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/urban-commons/call

Open Call from the Urban Commons Research Collective.

An initiative to broaden our understanding of communal living and stewardship by challenging the Western-centric notion of “the commons.”

Join us in this initiative by submitting an Expression of Interest until 20 June 2025.

A las 19h estaremos @xanlopez.xyz @anamandes.bsky.social y yo hablando de redes sociales, comunicación y tecnológica en una mesa redonda que monta @movimientosumar.es

Con una idea fuerte en la cabeza: "Mundus sine cesaribus".

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

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¡Felicidades! Lo leeremos cuidadosamente ❤️