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Practice-based research in arts and design. Interested in sociotechnical systems, DIY, self-organization and alternative technological trajectories. Sometimes I boost things multiple times because of time zones and chronological feeds.

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2026-05-18 09:08:23 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116568347773899378
Question is also whether any relevant players are actually aware and involved in these processes? Is Mastodon (@npub10gc…0m2k), is [@swf](https://socialwebfoundation.org ), is Bluesky? The only reason there is a messaging interop requirement (however flawed and gamed) is because Matrix was in the room when these things were discussed, notably the XMPP Standards Foundation was not.
DMA is reviewed every few years and while this review was a missed opportunity, a new review will happen in the near future.
#note1cce…43wr

2026-04-29 10:45:06 GMT

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please voice your concerns at one of the Staketardor Consulstation meetings
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2026-04-29 10:39:19 GMT

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Here is the whole thing:
https://jtc21.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CEN-CENELEC-JTC21-AI-Standards-Complete-Detailed-Overview.pdf

2026-04-29 10:31:30 GMT

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"Data Governance and Quality for AI in the European Context"
Image shows a man pondering:
L wf e
F i n
Tr n par n
AI SYSTEM
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2026-04-29 10:29:21 GMT

Studying materials by the JTC21, the joint technical committee of the CEN-CENELEC tasked by the European Commission to write the standards that go in to "Trustworthy AI" and the slide decks are like:
Cybersecurity Protection
Ai thodd ayirs, and trereat detsectors
Frest Fretwark
new evvarces
and allugh
seorwordss
What even is this image why is there a candy wrapper floating why is a tree connected half in a cloud why does the man with the what what what what what what wa
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2026-04-23 07:05:54 GMT

New LTM article out, this one is for the #CarryShitOlympics crowd!
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/
#mobility #transport #cargo #urbanism

2026-04-21 12:15:48 GMT

Crypto currency scammers are targeting ships stuck in the Persian Gulf by pretending to be the IRGC and offering safe passage in exchange for crypto payment.
"On April 18, when Iran ‌briefly opened ⁠the strait subject to checks, ships tried to pass but at least two of them, including a tanker, reported that Iranian boats had fired shots at them, forcing the vessels to turn around.
MARISKS said that it believed that at least one of the vessels, ⁠which tried to exit the strait on Saturday and was hit by gunfire, was a victim of the fraud."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/scam-messages-offering-ships-safe-transit-through-hormuz-security-firm-warns-2026-04-21/

2026-04-20 16:18:53 GMT

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It DMs you if you follow, and if you like the DM it sends you the last three!

2026-04-20 16:06:29 GMT

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I always thought this was a protocol limitation but the messages are right there in the outbox 🫠
Check how I solved it for [@actor](https://test.roelof.info/ ) (you need to follow first)

2026-04-16 08:34:29 GMT

"It is one thing to value technodiversity and designs for the pluriverse; it is quite another to actually work towards it under intense political economic pressures towards homogeneity coming from all sides. Even research grounded in critical refusal of harmful data practices, beautifully exemplified by the Feminist Manifest-No, is not fully liberated from that which it refuses. Nor should it be: it is a reaction against, a response to. Imagine what STS scholarship might be like if we were freed from the need to refuse at all. Would computational systems be so interesting at that point? What about them would remain interesting? What else would capture our attention instead--and shouldn't some of us start to turn our efforts to those things now, before the AI investment bubble erodes the edifice of consensus that AI is self-evidently interesting?"
https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43606
via @npub1fdf…stm6

2026-03-17 13:17:39 GMT

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you can easily change them to something less twisted (see mine)

2026-03-10 21:27:20 GMT

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@rra/116206631172856280
I really wonder what kind of implications this will have for the collective safety model in this space. Things like DMs, follower-only, blocks, federated deletes etc are dependent on correct implementation of those things.
These are things that depend not only on the local software working well, but also the remote one.
Seems like fully vibecoded instance software could lead to a massive federated whoopsie.
#note1lhj…mm45

2026-03-10 21:20:15 GMT

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oh no way! If you have links at hand do share, I'm curious. Only if you don't have to go digging..

2026-03-10 19:54:32 GMT

First vibecoded fediverse application / instance: https://inkwell.social/
https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1859983/inkwell-a-multi-tenant-long-form-writing-platform-for-the-fediverse-open-source-fep-b2b#post_replies
developer also communicating through llm agents (at least at first in that interaction)
#note1qa4…9fv9

2026-03-03 12:25:00 GMT

"What was normalized in Gaza will not stay in Gaza. This is perhaps the most important thing to understand, and the thing that the framing of the current conflict as a local, bounded military operation most dangerously obscures. Every targeting algorithm stress-tested over Gaza’s densely populated streets, every AI system whose performance data is being collected in real time, represents intellectual property and operational knowledge that will flow, via export and emulation, through the global defense technology market into other conflicts, other theaters, other cities."
https://newrepublic.com/article/207189/iran-war-ai-deciding-bombs-drop

2026-02-27 08:42:16 GMT

"I would wager, in fact, that the most common left-liberal position is not that generative AI is just a stochastic parrot, but a product built by powerful profit-seeking firms that’s capable of serious harms. It’s not a semantic or philosophical critique the AI industry should be worried about, in other words, but a material one. AI is viewed, correctly, as a threat to jobs, education, mental wellbeing, the arts, child safety, the information ecosystem, and as possessing little upside for few others then corporate managers and AI companies."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-the-left-is-winning-the
@npub10zp…fkta
(h/t @npub1frq…kzu5 )

2026-02-20 22:32:25 GMT

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https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/105/330/115/999/123/original/2d68f631c997ce60.png

2026-02-09 14:16:20 GMT

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Also, I find it very hard to ignore that nostr is cooked up by a bolsonarista, embraced by dorsey (https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-donation-2024-6) but it seems the author manages fine.

2026-01-21 21:18:31 GMT

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truly! big Democrat not-him-but-nothing-worthwhile-either vibe.
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/935/158/772/924/893/original/232614ddffbd44dd.jpg

2026-01-02 10:38:28 GMT

Surprise @npub1gfs…ajz2 in the newspaper in an article about how datacenters do not publish data on energy use, despite being legally required. National governments do not enforce European rules and corporations interpret such rules to their own benefit leaving researchers without data on energy use.
"A scarcity of electricity is a problem that only grows because of AI, which requires a lot of computation. We have to be able to research this." [translated by me from Dutch original]
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/01/google-en-microsoft-verzwijgen-energiegebruik-van-hyperscale-datacenters-voor-overheid-a4915848?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20260101

2025-12-11 10:21:38 GMT

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I was also looking in to it the other day bookmarked this one: https://beeps.website/blog/2024-09-12-in-memory-of-cohost/
If you had another in mind and find it do let me know!

2025-10-27 19:12:34 GMT

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Yeah agreed! Telegram's UX is so good. Should be studied more by different projects.

2025-10-17 14:28:34 GMT

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oh I love a good Tortiuciiie but I already had my fill of *undefined layers with a side of swirly sauce*
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/389/966/454/390/681/original/7fd6de55303fac85.jpg

2025-10-17 11:26:19 GMT

"Hi, what can I get you?"
"I'll try one of your slopjitos!"
"I'm so sorry, we just ran out of WHITE LIME LAIVES LIME ULCE SODA SODA"
"Oh, just a sparkling water then."
#ai
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2025-10-13 18:10:27 GMT

#Fediverse stickers by @npub1qhr…zt7z just arrived! If you are in Malmö and we're mutuals, you can have one!
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/368/181/996/944/027/original/02b55fd9109b1064.jpg

2025-10-10 13:26:14 GMT

LURK 2025 Radio Looptober now also on #Peertube
https://tv.lumbung.space/w/7V8BECgNsTxQDXzoCiAVgP
Listen, boost, like and subscribe (and help me test peertube-as-radio infrastructure for a community project)
#looptober

2025-09-28 09:24:49 GMT

Here is the deal: you write the #koReader #bookwyrm integration, I supply you with fantastic quotes from books I read via @npub152k…v5g6

2025-09-20 13:10:25 GMT

What do people use to keep track of visual references?

2025-09-18 10:24:34 GMT

"This work considers how IoT based botnet architectures might be considered as a substrate for designers to develop sustainable edge computing functionality."
https://siliconforag.ing

2025-08-26 13:04:11 GMT

"From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield"
"Some European governments are now wondering if reviving ailing bogs can solve several problems at once. Finland and Poland told POLITICO they were actively exploring bog restoration as a multipurpose measure to defend their borders and fight climate change."
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-defense-kyiv-ukraine-nato-eu-bogs-poland-war-germany/
#wetlands #restoration #defence

2025-08-19 07:54:39 GMT

Tomorrow Malmö based #hackerspace Lodis is organizing a meetup to write physical postcards to MEPs to oppose #chatcontrol
Join us or organize your own postcard writing session with friends!
More information at https://nej.lodis.se
:boost_requested:
#StopChatControl
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2025-07-25 13:44:47 GMT

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yes but only for wedding. Monday we continue towards ostsee. Will ping you next time I'm here longer!

2025-07-24 12:31:32 GMT

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argh missing this by one day!

2025-07-09 13:11:00 GMT

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Think kifferent.

2025-04-05 07:12:45 GMT

Funny how finance bureaucrats get all creative on budgets and the possibilities to circumvent them as soon as it is about buying guns, yet somehow this sort of creativity is impossible when it comes to high speed rail, affordable housing or energy transition.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eu-defense-fund-arms-investment-procurement/

2025-03-27 12:29:31 GMT

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@npub1p35…qm6h and https://dukop.dk/en/
But like convoca.la this relies on volunteers painstakingly taking events announced on meta platforms and manually making entries in to these alternative calendars. Something to be aware of.
@npub1y2d…2yu2 also knows one initiative combining cultural events in NL whose name escapes me now..

2025-03-20 10:38:15 GMT

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yes it applies to all smartphones and tablets

2025-03-20 10:19:47 GMT

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they have to conform to EU Ecodesign requirements going in to effect this year. Which means 5 years of software updates after they stop selling it. So this is not unique to Google.

2025-03-11 08:24:28 GMT

"AI therefore currently, and under current conditions, only helps to carry on with business as usual[...], and sustainable #AI only works as change placebo resulting in placebo change; or to put it more concisely: “sustainable AI is the technical solution to the #climate crisis from a techno-solutionist vantage point simply reproducing the status quo."
https://policyreview.info/articles/news/impossibility-sustainable-artificial-intelligence/1804

2025-02-19 07:31:41 GMT

https://www.theverge.com/news/614664/facebook-live-video-30-day-limit-archives
If you know of people who have used #facebook livestreams as documentation or evidence and have important material on facebook live: it will be deleted in the next month. Pass the word.
#archives

2025-02-10 20:21:48 GMT

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looks miniscule on tusky also

2025-01-28 09:39:21 GMT

Google maintains its long tradition of being the funny mirror which reflects geopolitcal desires back at the onlooker in order to keep in business.
"Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/google-maps-rename-gulf-mexico-gulf-america-us-users-2025-01-27/

2025-01-21 11:29:06 GMT

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There are several implementations. One is called Mobilizon (https://joinmobilizon.org/en/) used for instance here https://mobilize.berlin/ another called Gancio (https://gancio.org/) used for instance here: [@Agenda](https://bcn.convoca.la )
@npub1xse…lgk3 knows more probably!

2025-01-13 14:18:11 GMT

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have a look at the archive of The Rest Is History!

2024-12-26 11:20:12 GMT

"Community servers for interdependent #feminist trans*feminist free/libre self-hosted #federated autonomous collective #cooperative community and #art servers "
A thorough historic overview by @npub1vlx…n3g0
https://monoskop.org/Community_servers

2024-11-19 14:36:49 GMT

The idea of starter packs and introductions are nice and all, but then this happens:
"omg someone who self labels as a zionist put me on an antisemite list on bluesky" (real case, anonymized)
People added to such (publicly shareable) lists and starter packs (two different things) do not get notified at all! Furthermore, they cannot remove themselves from such packs. Yes, you can report, but that might be too late.
Where is the informed consent? Why is it not a requirement to give consent before one shows up on lists. Why can consent to inclusion not be withdrawn? I mean, this stuff is trivial to do in a centralized app developed by a company with a lot of staff and millions in funding. Yet, it doesn't happen.
Move fast and break someone's life.

2024-10-23 08:40:11 GMT

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Laurens, which ones in your view then are the best to track to understand the diversity of the ecosystem? What is the analog in atproto to tracking numbers of instances and numbers of implementations (such as Mastodon) in AP? Are PDS more like instances and Appviews like implementations?

2024-10-20 13:01:19 GMT

NL government completely outsources all its digital workstation infrastructure to microsoft cloud.
What could go wrong?
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/de-totale-keuze-voor-microsoft/
by [@bert_hubert](https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert )

2024-08-25 06:44:20 GMT

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so how are they progressing in your opinion?

2024-08-07 05:16:06 GMT

Edit: the piece is publicly available now!
Together with @npub1amy…qnrw and Benjamin Royer, I wrote a detailed research note on the topologies of digital identity systems (siloed, centralised, federated and user-centric) and how thinking derived from topological determinism, common in technical communities, obscures how digital identity systems operate in practice.
To understand the threats of digital identity, we must shift from rigid models and describe the topologies of digital representations as they truly are, rather than as they are purported to be.
Expect surprising twists and turns: DIY identity portability techniques turn siloed identities into centralised ones which allow attackers cascading access; platformisation turns federated identities into centralised ones and de-facto user-centric identities might be more likely to emerge from siloed models rather than user-centric ones. It's a mess. But one we have to reckon with.
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2024/spheres-of-identity/
#topolgy #federation #identity #threats
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2024-06-26 08:40:13 GMT

"Duk Op is growing and we're out of promo material. Because of that we need money to make posters and stickers. Its up to you how much you feel like donating.
https://opencollective.com/dukop/contribute/spred-dukop-74996
*Why*
The money is to break big tech algorithms by being visible. We want to be visible where its always at: the street!
*What*
https://dukop.dk has been online since 2015 and is a
activist run online calendar platform. With Duk Op its possible to find each other and form alliances, without the censorship and platform capitalism form Big-Tech. After the collapse, censorship and pay-for-views models from several of the big platforms, Duk Op is more relevant than ever. Duk Op is what we collectively make it, and
the more we use Duk Op, the more useful the platform will become.
Thats why its important to get all good comrades along.
*Goal*
We aim at printing 4000 stickers and 1500 poster to spread in all of
the circles of Duk Op; from Malmö, Odense and Århus. Out goal is to have funding to print at the cooperative Eks-skolen print, instead of some online- profitbased print company."

2024-06-19 20:56:56 GMT

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ok I made too many already. This is good stuff.

2024-06-07 06:51:34 GMT

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sure! Thank you!

2024-06-06 15:00:18 GMT

"The #fediverse and AT Protocol also yield different problems: which instance should a newsroom choose to make its home? How can it measure #engagement in what it posts in a decentralized system so that it knows what’s working and where it should continue to invest its meager resources?
Much has been written about newsrooms’ inability to move away from X even as it has become a hotbed of white supremacy and far-right rhetoric. The honest truth is that it still drives significant #traffic to their websites, and in an environment where traffic #referrals are dropping overall, intentionally further deepening the traffic shortfall is understandably not a career risk newsroom leaders are willing to make."
I've said it before, the fediverse needs to solve the issue of a universal referrer in outgoing links in order to show up in web traffic statistics as a single entity ("Mastodon", "Fediverse" whatever). Currently all web traffic coming from the fediverse shows up as one of any of the 10k+ different domains which will naturally all be at the end of the "long tail" and *always* behind centralized platforms, no matter how popular it gets. Organizations need to see line go up to invest in this ecosystem.
https://werd.io/2024/dispatches-from-the-media-apocalypse

2024-05-02 16:18:11 GMT

'Teranoptia is a #typeface without letters, a peculiar contraption that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures just by typing letters with your keyboard. Its design has been inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and by medieval illustrations, as well as by children's books. You can use it to create border ornaments, to daydream about monsters or just to spice your layouts with #marginalia.'
https://www.tunera.xyz/fonts/teranoptia/

2022-04-26 09:07:56 GMT

#introduction #reintroduction
Hi all, Roel he/him.
An artist and designer with an interest in computer networks, materiality of the internet, digital community infrastructure, DIY/DIWO approaches, FOSS culture.
You might know my work from the LowTech Mag's solar powered server project https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
Currently pursuing a #PhD in Interaction and Participatory #Design at Malmö University. As part of that research I work together with actors in the cultural sector to co-design alternative social media infrastructures with/for them. These are mostly based on fediverse applications, so I am also interested in aspects of #federation #governance #contentmoderation and more generally how to transition to and improve alternatives together etc. This space is far from perfect and in some cases insufficient but we need to start somewhere??
I'm a founding member of https://varia.zone, and also part of https://lurk.org. With LURK we've been running a fediverse instance called post.lurk.org since 2018, for which I am happy to be one of the co-admins! As part of that I boost #introductions, calls and questions..
:drake_like: This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337