«Digital commons is a bigger call than digital autonomy. It’s a better call because digital commons gets you digital autonomy, but not always the other way around. Almost everything we do today is Digitally Uncommon.»
Really great talk by @… on where much of the tech is currently stuck and how commoning can be away out – if paired with the right focus on delivering quality!
#commons
OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…
If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
"The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, propaganda is part of the solution. Like the kings and empire-builders of the past, they use their platforms to project the claims that suit them and suppress the claims that don’t. This means boosting right and far-right movements, which defend wealth and power..." -- George Monbiot.
I only know one song of theirs, but that’s on me.
There is a bypassable paywall on this article.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/16/this-countr…
The Communiqués Podcasts
The cases are the accounts from completed medico-legal death investigations of the Coroners Courts, and our team of senior medical and nursing practitioners present this information to meet the needs of clinicians...
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Your reminder that Trump openly threatened the citizenship of Zohran Mamdani.
✅ Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-communism-attacks-nyc-ma…
Synergetic Empowerment: Wireless Communications Meets Embodied Intelligence
Hongtao Liang, Yihe Diao, YuHang Wu, Fuhui Zhou, Qihui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10481 https://…
«The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, propaganda is part of the solution.»
On the epistemic crisis we're all in, thanks to most ways of knowing and disseminating knowledge being in the hands of a couple of billionaires.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich
Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip