@clacesarano.bsky.social
Senior Manager on Tech at Civitates - The European Democracy Fund (@civitates.bsky.social) 🫴 We support civil society working on tech regulation and building a better Internet 🔙 Formerly: OSF | ALTER-EU | Diritto Di Sapere
✨ In my latest paper, I used 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 instead of “pregnant women", because pregnancy is not exclusive to those who identify as women 🤰
📢 Using inclusive language is part of our responsibility as scientists to fight erasure of transgender and nonbinary people 🏳️⚧️ #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM
The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.
I still hear some claiming elections can't be cancelled, and that democracy is too big to fail. The agenda is transparent and clear.
Of course I know it comes from black activism and there's a campaign from the Right to villanise the term. I am just thinking from a purely semantic level,it feels like a low hanging fruit in political discourse and debate.
I still do not understand why progressives are not reappropriating the term "woke".
With everything that is happening it's high time we all wake up and act on steady of being sleepy and gullible.
It's not hard to imagine a scenario where migrant workers in the US are detained in ICE raids, thrown into Trump's migrant camps, then are sent off to work at the same farms and orchards they were originally picked up from, with the state taking what would have been their wage.
Just straight-out rude
Not after witnessing the crowd of the #PrimaveraSound
Watch my conversation with Becca Branum, Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology's Free Expression Project, talking about how bad and awful the 'Take it Down Act' is and how the media and Democrats are complicit in pushing censorship bills
#SANREMO2025
"quest'anno non ci sarà politica".
Tutto è politica, la scelta di dire, la scelta di non dire.
Cosa dire e cosa non dire.
Cosa rappresentare e cosa non rappresentare.
Scelte politiche, sempre.
📢Funding Opportunity
On 17 February @civitates.bsky.social will launch a new Tech and Democracy open call to make online spaces safer, more trustworthy, and inclusive.
Up to €150,000/2 years for CSOs in 🇭🇺 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇸🇰 🇷🇴 🇳🇱
📅 Apply by 14 March
💻 Q&A Webinar 26 Feb: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Proud of my colleagues for launching this new open call supporting media in 7 EU countries.
And particularly happy Italy and Spain are among them 🫶
👋 Hello, BlueSky! We're so glad to be here, along with our director @elisapeter.bsky.social
A bit about us: We're a 5 year old pooled-fund bringing 23 foundations together working to promote and protect:
- civic space (online and offline)
- the right to assemble
- access to trustworthy information
AMO 😄🥰
Anyone else going to the EU Open Soirce Policy summit in Brussels this Friday?
summit.openforumeurope.org
I'm halfway the Zuckerberg interview when they talk of jiujitsu. After the censorship & overregulation rant, before the comment on masculine energy.
They have convinced me.
I'm not quitting jiujitsu like I was thinking of. There's no way I'm letting that sport and art being captured by toxic men.
Ma cuore 😍🫶
"Presidente, lei calpesta le formiche?" è un "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" che non ce l'ha fatta
Man creates toxic dump site:
“Please plant flowers here.”
I think it just comes down to philosophies of free speech,” he says. “The last couple of years have seen a paradigm switch into a ‘one size fits all’ approach that’s dictated to you by billionaires
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
How to apply:
Please complete this form and upload your CV and a short cover letter by January 26, 2025 here: nef-europe.optimytool.com/en/
📆Key Dates
● Apply by: January 26, 2025.
● Evaluation Period: March–June 2025 (specific timeframes provided).
Remuneration: €500/day (gross).
👤 Ideal Candidate/2
● Familiarity with civil society in the region.
● Experience in grant evaluation, writing, or organizational assessment.
👤 Ideal Candidate/1
● Expertise in platform regulation and online discourse (e.g., hate speech, polarization, discrimination).
● Understanding of political and socioeconomic contexts in Southern and/or Central Eastern Europe, especially in Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, or Spain.
✨️CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITY✨️
At Civitates we are looking for two external evaluators to support the proposal assessment in our upcoming #Tech & Democracy open call, focusing on Southern and Central Eastern Europe.
Full TOR: civitates-eu.org/wp-content/u...
Some more details in the thread 👇
On uncle's duty 🐈
🚨🚨🚨 Enormous news: the Constitutional Court of Romania has unanimously decided to cancel the presidential elections, G4 Media reports.
The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.
New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ