Europa kan niet anders dan meedoen in de AI-wapenwedloop met de VS en China, schrijven AI-onderzoekers in een alarmerend toekomstscenario. „Als je afwacht, geef je je hele economische concurrentiepositie op.” Zijn er echt geen alternatieven mogelijk?

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/06/18/de-ai-oorlog-is-begonnen-staat-europa-met-lege-handen-a4930328?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20260618

We zijn bij Scientias nog op zoek naar een #stagiair voor de periode september-januari (feb.). Wat vragen we? Je hoofdtaak is schrijven van wetenschapsnieuws, maar uitstapjes naar (short) video, achtergrondartikelen, interviews met wetenschappers en veel meer zijn er natuurlijk ook. Wat bieden we? Je hebt veel vrijheid in onderwerpkeuze en werktijden en er is een stagevergoeding. Ook is er een kantoor waar je ook nog collega's in het echt kunt spreken. We werken deels online en deels op kantoor.

Je moet een opleiding volgen, anders kunnen we geen stage aanbieden helaas. Wetenschappelijke opleidingen of een opleiding journalistiek komen in aanmerking.

Stuur een mail naar [email protected] als je meer wil weten. Of deel het bericht :-)

I'm appalled to see the European Commission apparently embracing closed source, commercial, ID and age verification mandatory, social media today - in the very face of the technology sovereignty and online freedoms debates.

I think they've just thrown away the greatest opportunity to be the champion of all things open and collaborative, and to live and demonstrate their own values. Incredibly disappointed.

🔥 🔥 from @_elena who nails it, and asks crucial questions.

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/

Starting yesterday, federal agents have begun raiding folk around Minnesota. Friend reports there's a raid happening on their block in Minneapolis, right now, from the FBI.

I won't get confirmation on it obviously but I got told that I"m likely to be investigated, because I 3d printed and distributed about 10,000 whistles during Operation Metro Surge, and anyone who knew either of the people killed is getting investigated.

That'd obviously be not great for me, considering my long record of getting investigated by the government.

The "fun" trap? Organizing in advance is exactly what gets called conspiracy and terrorism!

So no one really wants to do anything to help anyone, because the systems of oppression have, frankly, been really successful.

edit to add source: https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minnesota-ice-observers-face-federal-charges/

Leeftijdsverificatie, een gevaarlijke schijnoplossing. Het beschermt onze kinderen niet. Het vergroot wel de macht van BigTech en bedreigt onze democratie:
https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/leeftijdsverificatie/

#LeeftijdsVerificatie #BigTech #Privacy #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #AppDwang #Democratie

Dear Fedi friends,

Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.

The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.

I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.

My articles on them:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/

Wow. Just wow.

Edit: Update: y'all are amazing and I'm talking to several people now! So while I appreciate more emails, as y'all are lovely, I'm probably good!

Hi internet friends. I have a bit of a weird request.

I am looking for a German technical writer/translator who knows their Web Development basics and would be able to translate @bw 's excellent https://htmlforpeople.com into German (casual edition). Here are some of the facts:

• All the markdown files are ~31k words in total.
• I will pay for your time, I don't expect free labor. However, that also means you need to be able to send me an actual invoice ("me" being a German legal entity with a business license who just so happened to get frequently audited by the tax office).
• The contents will be available publicly to everyone under the same original license. My goal is just to make that content available to German speakers. I'm not entirely sure if getting paid for a translation is a violation of the CC's Non-Commercial clause, so I checked with Blake before posting this and he's fine with me doing this (thanks again!)
• I will host the contents, you don't need to worry about any of that.

If that's something you can help out with, please say hi via email to [email protected]. And if you know someone who you think would be a great fit, feel free to forward this post!

Oh, and also: This post is only applicable to you if you are a human and you will use human translation skills and your human brain to translate the text with the love and attention it deserves. If you want to pitch me using an LLM for the translation, I will block you. Sadly, this also means I can only consider working with you if you have a public website or profile or anything that demonstrates me you actually do technical writing stuff, because I really don't want to pay someone just to throw the text into an LLM. If you think you could scam me into paying you to then just use an LLM, you will learn that I have a less-friendly personality, too. Don't be a jerk, please.