"By investing in #opensource, Europe can support small businesses, universities, and public institutions, giving them tools to compete with global tech giants. Despite this importance, the budget proposal does not include specific funding for open source… The omission is alarming as Europe pushes to increase #digitalsovereignty, strengthen cybersecurity, and boost competitiveness."

TNW | Data-Security

The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source

Daniel Stenberg, president of the European Open Source Academy and founder of cURL, fears the EU's next big budget will sideline open source.

"The [#Bolsonaro] conviction is a landmark ruling for Latin America’s largest nation. In at least 15 coups and coup attempts with links to the military since #Brazil overthrew its monarchy in 1889, Thursday marked the first time the leaders of one of those plots have been convicted."

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate...

"#Bluesky's #ToS contain a "binding arbitration" waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them. This is so pro-enshittificatory, it's like a landing strip for the sole use of Enshittification Airlines, which can land a 747 full of enshittfying nonsense on Bluesky's users every 10 minutes, around the clock, without worrying about any legal repercussions."

Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world’s weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"A full #React rewrite may look cutting-edge, but it threatens the broad community, the ecosystem, and #WordPress’s future sustainability. Instead, modernizing via #PHP + Interactivity API + modern CSS (including View Transitions) preserves backward compatibility, performance, and accessibility while delivering a polished, modern admin experience."

GitHub

Admin Materials and Surfaces · Issue #70913 · WordPress/gutenberg

As we further develop the primitives that make up the overall admin system (#53322) it seems important to map out the main elements that compose it...

"Once the infrastructures of #uniqueIdentification are constructed, it won’t only be #advertisers profiling and microtargeting customers but #states profiling and microtargeting any political opponents or other public enemies-du-jour. In addition to chilling #freespeech, restricting access to vital health & identity resources, impacting historically oppressed communities, forcing users to hand over sensitive biometric or government ID data to unaccountable 3rd parties."

We must fight age verification with all we have

Age verification laws exploit the moral panic over social media and mental health to repackage old censorship tactics under the guise of protecting...

#theFediverse : "Some might say that #decentralisation without a unifying centre will weaken our collective voice. But history shows that #movements thrive when they are many-voiced. A network of independent spaces, each with its own #governance and #culture, is harder to silence, co-opt, or corrupt than any single global fediverse could ever be." #mustread https://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses/

O CGI.br apresenta 10 princípios para a regulação de #RedesSociais. Uma proposta foi colocada em consulta aberta entre maio e junho de 2025. Vejam o Princípio nº 07: 7. Interoperabilidade e portabilidade A regulação deve garantir aos usuários de redes sociais o direito de #portabilidade, permitindo a transferência de dados em um formato estruturado…Deve também promover a #interoperabilidade…Neste contexto, deve ser promovido o emprego de #protocolos e #padrões abertos.

CGI.br - Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil

CGI.br - Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil

Versão PDF O CGI.br apresenta dez princípios para a regulação de redes sociais, no exercício de sua atribui&cc...

"Os #InstitutosFederais são, por natureza, instituições territorializadas e em rede, e é a partir desse desenho que podem se tornar protagonistas de um novo projeto de #soberaniadigital popular. Em cada campus há comunidades com experiências acumuladas em projetos de #softwarelivre, em parcerias com #movimentossociais, em cursos que se articulam com os arranjos regionais. Há vida pedagógica pulsante!" Fato! O #IFRN é parceiro crucial no desenvolvimento do #Tainacan.

Movimento Software Livre

Institutos Federais e Soberania Digital: uma disputa de sentidoS na área de TI Da rede federal - Movimento Software Livre

Ao fortalecer sua presença nos territórios e sua institucionalidade em rede, os Institutos Federais podem construir soluções digitais com, e pa...

"If you wanna know how I write 2-3 books per year, blame the #cognitiveprosthesis of #blogging, which forces me to apply rigor to the #notes I take, and rewards me with a searchable database of everything I've ever found important, while stimulating a constant mnemonic rejuggling of all those thoughts that crystallizes into an endless stream of novel synthetic insights and road-tested ways to express them." The @npub1fdrp...lvhs strategy you'll want to learn.

Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#PIX is the future of #money! "I can’t help noticing that Pix is actually achieving what #cryptocurrency boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93% of Brazilians using Pix to the 2% of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024. Oh, and using Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys."

Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?

And will it ever come to America?