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✨ SIG-Marcomms Meeting Recap ✨
Our communications community gathered in Helsinki right before #TNC26 for a day of discussions and shared learning. One question was on everyone's mind: how do we move from communications as a reactive function to communications as a strategic force?
What followed were discussions on crisis communications, strategic influence and a round of Lightning…

« Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs »
Are we going back to the nineties? It remembers me when some forges disallowed to have compiled binaries for a proprietary operating system.
#llm #ai #freesoftware

You can replace "Santa Claus" in the lyrics of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" with "Palantir" and it still works

Communication directors of 12 Dutch ministries: government should leave X, to stop exposing citizens to desinformation, racism, discrimination, misogyny, and antisemitism.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/topambtenaren-in-intern…

Topambtenaren in intern memo aan kabinet: Rijksoverheid moet van X
De Rijksoverheid moet zich grotendeels terugtrekken van het socialemediaplatform X. Dat adviseert de Voorlichtingsraad, die bestaat uit de directeuren communicatie van alle twaalf departementen, aan het kabinet-Jetten.

Protecting our FLOSS commons from #LLMs
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Chicago Funk Band:
🎵 No Communication
#ChicagoFunkBand
https://starcreature10000000000000000.bandcamp.com/track/no-communication-tz-radio-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OOzxSaxndhoG2qAcJOklJ

Towards a Fossil-Free Future:
Seed the Commons invites you to a two-part webinar series this weekend so that you can join the movement to build a truly regenerative food system and a fossil-free future.
Date & Time
Jul 26, 2026
10:00 AM  Pacific Time
https://us06…

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Towards a Fossil-Free Future: Farming for a Time of War and Climate Change . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Seed the Commons invites you to a two-part webinar series this weekend so that you can join the movement to build a truly regenerative food system and a fossil-free future. JULY 26: Farming for a Time of War and Climate Change We will be joined by three Northern California farmers, educators and advocates for a radically different way of growing food and living on our planet. Sydney Grange, Lama Nasser-Gammett, Matthew Nasser-Gammett will speak about how they avoid an extractive approach to …

"The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) in Robledo de Chavela was evacuated on July 24 due to the wildfires. All personnel are safe following the passage of the fire through the area. [...] Mission operations have been transferred seamlessly to the Goldstone Complex (California). This ensures service continuity and uninterrupted support for spacecraft communications." From the thread #DeepSpaceNetwork

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Moondoggies:
🎵 Long Time Coming
#TheMoondoggies
https://themoondoggies.bandcamp.com/track/long-time-coming
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AFbzoMLOnzTmjvYRbJ3F1

Americans are neither as hostile to socialism as they once were
nor as positive toward capitalism as they have been in the past.
More important than polling, however, is the fact that for many Americans the “communist threat” is a total abstraction.
There are tens of millions of voters (
who were young children when the Soviet Union fell.
There are millions more who weren’t yet born.
For these Americans, communism is as much a concern as the missile gap …

Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S.
Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.