Gut so, warum auch sollte jeder Erfindung dem Verwertungszwang unterliegen? Mit KI sind so viel sinnvollere Dinge möglich als Geld zu verdienen.
#OpenSourceAI #PeopleOverProfit #AntiMonetization #DigitalCommons #DemocratizeAI #NoPaywall #PublicInterestTech #AgainstEnshittification #FreeKnowledge #OpenScience
📢 Deadline extension!
We’ve extended the @NGICommons #survey by two weeks.
🗓 New deadline: 25 March
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💡 The 2-day NGI Commons General Assembly just wrapped up in Paris and online.
It was great to bring together partners and stakeholders to discuss how #DigitalCommons and #OpenSource can strengthen Europe’s digital future and competitiveness.
Work now continues toward the 2026 Digital Commons Policy Summit and the roadmap ✈️
#NGI #OpenInfrastructure #EUtech
👉 For more info check our news: https://commons.ngi.eu/2026/03/11/ngi-commons-general-assembly-in-paris-aligns-partners-for-the-final-stretch/
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Hi @bert_hubert it is fun that "we" might have some leverage here, but this isn't really #TechnologicalSovereignty.
The key problem with politicians talking about sovereignty is that they think we can be sovereign if we'd have European Googles and the likes.
But until we build truely #DigitalCommons, as you know well, with open standards interoperability, decentralised and distributed architectures and community-driven open source, we can overcome bigtech and maybe even preserve our democratic foundations.
Zo, eerste weekje social.codefor.nl zit erop. De eerste 10 #publictech'ies zijn onboard 🎉 Benieuwd wie er volgende week bij komen... jij misschien? ;)
Komende week naar Helsinki voor Polis/Voxit "hackathon": het starten/inrichten van de Europese samenwerking aan een PolsNL.org als #digitalcommons Morgen een presentatie maken over governance best practices en #StandaardVoorPubliekeCode Zin in!
I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public goods, we need to look beyond moral high grounds and engage with the material basis of AI—specifically compute, data, and the relations of production.
I've written two posts exploring this through the lens of historical materialism. The first piece analyzes why current “open source” definitions struggle with LLMs, and the second discusses what it means to “act materialistically” in our imperfect world. My goal is to suggest a path forward that moves from mere boycotting to a more proactive, structural socialization of AI infrastructure.
If you've been feeling uneasy about the AI landscape but aren't sure if boycotting is the final answer, I'd love for you to give these a read:
#LLM #AI #opensource #historicalmaterialism #histomat #materialism #digitalcommons
Have you heard of OpenStreetMap?
“In a map, you can see not only roads and labels, but also culture, language, habits, history and weather reflected.
#TIL about #CommonsDB;
"... a public registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works, to bring greater legal certainty to the reuse of digital content.
The registry uses content-derived, decentralized identifiers to ensure persistent recognition of digital content and rights information across formats, thereby providing greater legal certainty for reusing digital content."
Marcus Baumgartner
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