RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116346475122993248
It's been an act of convenience and a times necessity to speak two languages (one for business and one for humans and culture - but they are not the same)
"'How can the commons also be a supply chain? How can a moral obligation also be a business model? “Open source” is a stack of incompatible expectations'
Digital Sovereignty in #Canada: Why Education Is the Place to Start
https://sunnydeveloper.com/digital-sovereignty-in-canada-why-education-is-the-place-to-start/
This post is based on a presentation I gave at our Open Source Practitioner Call in March 2026 and related collaborations with educators and students. Like conversations around AI, I find that everyone uses this term (digital sovereignty) to mean different things (and in many cases this is due to
It's easier to write about what's broken and scary - this time I focused on an optimistic future after #OpenSource.
"The optimistic future requires tenacity on our part to insist on values to humanity: trust, consent, safety, accountability; the environment and inclusion. The alternative is to agree, that what we have built so far, is the best we are capable of - and hand it off to corporations and their machines."
https://sunnydeveloper.com/after-open-source-an-optimistic-prediction/
In this moment, AI is being built for developers, by developers, and marketed back to developers. This hyper-focus on developer productivity, cheap tokens, and the corporate race to win these audiences has had an unsurprising side effect: human spaces and communities have been flooded with uninvited noise, cognitive drain, and
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