Jan Krewer

Beyond AI and copyright – Open Future This White Paper calls for a levy on commercial AI systems to fund public infrastructures and ensure a sustainable Digital Knowledge Commons in the generative AI era.

📄 New White Paper: "Beyond AI & Copyright: Funding a Sustainable Information Ecosystem."
@paulk.bsky.social examines how AI impacts information control, argues for public AI models, and proposes a levy system on commercial AI services to support the digital commons.

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YouTube video by RISC-V International The Custom Silicon Imperative: Addressing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Realities

Great intervention by @pablovalerio.bsky.social from @eetimes.bsky.social on the geopolitics of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy and chips manufacturing.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XD...

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

www.404media.co/directfile-o...

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

The Last Currency: On Crypto and the Banality of Extinction The crypto boom was never just about money.

The Last Currency: On Crypto and the Banality of Extinction thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-last-cur... #ClimateChange #Crypto #LIbertarianism #Musk via @mitpress.bsky.social

"« S’il y a menace de préjudice, le responsable des émissions de CO2 pourrait être tenu de prendre des mesures pour les empêcher », même si les dommages surviennent très loin de l’endroit où le producteur d’énergie se trouve, a tranché la cour d’appel de Hamm."

La justice allemande rejette la plainte d’un paysan péruvien contre l’énergéticien RWE, dans une affaire emblématique de la cause climatique Saul Luciano Lliuya exigeait du producteur d’électricité allemand une aide financière contre les risques d’inondation de sa maison, à cause des émissions de dioxyde de carbone de RWE au niveau mondial...

"La justice allemande a, cependant, reconnu le principe d’une responsabilité mondiale des énergéticiens dans les dommages liés au changement climatique, où qu’ils se produisent, ce qui constitue un précédent juridique d’ampleur selon les défenseurs de l’environnement."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

The EU’s 3% Digital Services Tax (DST) proposal stalled in 2018, but with rising financing needs, could it be revived?

Our new report finds a renewed DST could generate EUR 37.5 billion by 2026, or 19% of the EU’s 2025 budget.

LEARN MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-publica...

The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.

The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-cap... #Capitalism #EssentialKnowledge #Standards via @mitpress.bsky.social

They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.

Let's hit Trump's Tech Bros with that EU Digital Services Tax finally The EU Digital Services Tax (for which the commission proposed a directive in 2018 but at the time was blocked by several member states) can be reintroduced — a targeted levy that will not harm consumers, but aims directly at the excessive profits of tech billionaires supporting Donald Trump, writes the S&D vice president.

Let's hit Trump's Tech Bros with that EU Digital Services Tax finally

NGI Commons' recent webinar brought together experts to explore digital commons policies, sovereign tech funding, and the future of open source in Europe.

🛠️ Key takeaway from @ngicommons.bsky.social “Public Policies for Digital Commons” webinar: Open source software (OSS) is critical infrastructure, like roads & bridges.

Read more and watch the discussion: openfuture.eu/event/public...

Northvolt’s bankruptcy ends Europe’s battery dream Northvolt, once hailed as Europe’s homegrown battery champion that could rival Chinese dominance, has officially gone bankrupt.

Northvolt, once hailed as Europe’s homegrown battery champion that could rival Chinese dominance, has officially gone bankrupt.

Les seuils de pollution de l’air préconisés par l’OMS sont dépassés dans la quasi-totalité des pays, dont la France, d'après une étude d'IQAir.

Seuls 12 territoires sur 138 évalués ne dépassent pas les normes de particules fines.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/ist

The EU's next budget needs rethinking: current spending is too dispersed, overly focused on “disruptive” tech rather than infrastructure.
Read Zuzanna Warso's analysis on why we need a more practical, needs-based approach. Published at @tspbackground.bsky.social (in German).

There’s a discussion brewing in Brussels – a discussion about whether European public authorities should be forced to buy part of their digital needs from European companies.

#EU #EuropeanUnion #digitalsovereignty #eurostack

Proposal for the European Research Area Policy Agenda 2025-2027 At the end of February, the European Commission adopted its proposal for a Council Recommendation on the European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda for 2025 to 2027. COMMUNIA supports the Commission’s...

The @ec.europa.eu proposed the policy agenda for the European Research Area for 2025-2027, containing many key steps to unlock #research and #science in Europe in line with our ideas for a #DigitalKnowledgeAct.

Our take on the proposal: communia-association.org/2025/03/10/e...

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...

Chat-based search apps are often "confidently wrong" in attributing and citing news stories... particularly Grok, which performs abysmally. Terrific study from CJR:

www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

But still — this is super well-made documentary movie with crazy access to key figures, from Oleg Kalugin, former head of KGB foreign intelligence to foreign FBI agents. You can still find it online under the title "Operation Trump: Russian Spies Conquer America".

And to be fair, the documentary doesn’t really dwell on the fact that, for a long time, many were right not to fuel a new Cold War with Russia. There were also good reasons to try and build peace, economic ties, and mutual understanding after the Soviet collapse.

Of course, this "operation" is probably only one part of the story. Greed and opportunism play their role too — with Big Tech oligarchs happy to align with authoritarian regimes if it helps shrinking democratic spaces where it is not the strongest or wealthiest who decide (see Musk vs Wikipedia)

What I found striking was the broader strategy: the goal wasn’t to push one ideology over another — it was to amplify divisions within Western societies, wherever they existed. No problem shifting from courting leftist movements to infiltrating the right if it served the same purpose.

Days later he is back in the US, attacking NATO on TV. The documentary retraces the now-familiar playbook of Russian interference in US elections: the Clinton email leaks, the social media bots, the Trump campaign’s repeated contacts with Russian agents.

It shows how in the late '80s, Trump, drowning in debt, finds eager buyers for his luxury apartments — members of Russian organized crime, leading him to get the opportunity to pitch a Trump Tower project in Moscow in 1987.

"Opération Trump" by @antoinevitkine.bsky.social shows the long game played by Russian intelligence, methodically infiltrating the US conservative movement over decades, turning Cold War anti-communists into unexpected allies.

For anyone trying to make sense of the current mess in the transatlantic alliance — and how, after years of fueling the divide between the EU and Russia, parts of US diplomacy brutally switched to playing directly for Putin’s interests — I can highly recommend a recent French documentary movie.

Tell me you are a Nazi without telling me you are a Nazi.

Looking for an Exit: Europe’s Way to Public Digital Infrastructures | TechPolicy.Press The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency, writes Jan Krewer.

The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency on US or Chinese tech firms, writes Jan Krewer.
www.techpolicy.press/looking-for-...

Looking for an Exit: Europe’s Way to Public Digital Infrastructures | TechPolicy.Press The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency, writes Jan Krewer.

The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency on US or Chinese tech firms, writes Jan Krewer.