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China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00618-5

#china #science #technology

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years

Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade.

So, a significant part of European companies are afraid that their access to the US clouds might be cut off. Yet, most have no plan on how to deal with it. Seems like solid business planning.
#digitalsovereignty
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Cloud-dependency-Almost-half-of-companies-have-no-plan-B-11219951.html
Cloud dependency: Almost half of companies have no plan B

83 percent of companies consider unilateral shutdown by cloud providers realistic. Almost half have no exit strategy.

heise online
Apparently it’s 20 years since Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet. On that same day, 21 March 2006, I was blathering on about “microcontent design” on ReadWriteWeb. This was the feeds world that web geeks like me wanted to become a reality: i.e. web standards-based feeds, using RSS/Atom, structured blogging, microformats, etc. Little did we know that Twitter would introduce the concept of proprietary feeds to the internet…and that would win out over web standards. https://web.archive.org/web/20060508071004/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microcontent_de.php
Read/WriteWeb: Microcontent Design, Part 1

Richard MacManus on Next Generation Web and Media

Concretely, three steps:
1. Public funds, public code: Software built with tax money must be published under a free and open-source licence.
2. Open standards, not walled gardens: Procurement rules should require open standards, so no vendor can hold governments or users captive.
3. European jurisdiction: Critical data and infrastructure must be governed by European law, with real accountability.

What would you prioritise?

(2/2)

"Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous. - Jim Dator“

(Joseph Pelrine at Craft Conf 2021)

#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading

Politiek Den Haag vertelt ons dat de aanstormende energiecrisis geen reden is tot maatregelen in Nederland. "COVID blijft in Brabant". Hier waarom we absoluut wel aan de bak moeten want anders lopen we deze winter een enorm risico. En het is duidelijk genoeg wat we moeten doen: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/waarom-we-nu-wel-zuinig-moeten-doen-en-meer-groene-energie/
Waarom we nu WEL zuinig moeten doen, en door moeten met groene energie - Bert Hubert's writings

Het Internationaal Energie Agentschap zegt dat we zuinig aan moeten doen vanwege de oorlogen in het Midden Oosten. Ministers in Den Haag zeggen dat het niet hoeft, want er zijn hier geen tekorten (!). Doet wel erg denken aan ‘COVID blijft in Brabant’. Kennelijk een Nederlandse traditie! Maar, natuurlijk komen die tekorten ook naar ons toe, de benzine is nu al stervensduur. Maar heeft het zin om nu in de zomer slim met energie te doen?

Bert Hubert's writings

In the end we have to admit that we (as societies) are suffering much more than needed because we are still culturally very bad at politics. Not the performative cheerleading politics and polarisation around arbitrary "issues" invented for distraction, but the deep politics of directly debating and addressing the stuff that really matters: societal welfare within planetary boundaries.

No reason to be defeatist, it's not like it is known how to do this.

#sustainability

#riskmanagement

"Preparedness was the lesson of the last crisis. But governments failed to act" The era of generalized malgovernance

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jirfac5mwyqe4tfk3lehtl2a/post/3mhlwokc3y22i
The financing model of the internet for the last two decades has been heinous surveillance capitalism You cannot expect nice things built on rotten foundations It will only get worse from here, until (and if ever) the funding model starts respecting basic moral principles This is not complicated

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/post/3mhjff7632222
Funny, but also revealing how current digital architectures and information flows make a mockery of assumptions about secrecy and privacy, not just of individuals but also commercial and state entities. #riskmanagement www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

'StravaLeaks': France's aircra...
'StravaLeaks': France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

As the Charles de Gaulle and its strike group approach the Middle East, Le Monde identified a French sailor using the Strava fitness application in the Mediterranean Sea. This security flaw remains unaddressed despite our previous revelations.

Le Monde