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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…

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-launch-hatch-a…

Meta Plans to Launch ‘Hatch’ AI Agent Platform in Coming Weeks
Meta Platforms plans to launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent, dubbed Hatch internally, as soon as the next several weeks and is targeting October for its latest AI model, called Watermelon, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information. Hatch is part of Meta Chief ...

« 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

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

And actually we gave up a LOT of the things that work to manage a commons — preventing extraction, particularly — by yielding to such distant structures. Good management requires a lot more immediate engagement.
But also what a commons _is_ is a bit weird with information.

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

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.

A recent office of legal counsel memo on executive privilege maintains that
private advisers to a president can avoid responding to a subpoena by asserting the president’s executive privilege.
The ability of presidents to shield communications from public view through claims of executive privilege,
whether their own or those of a senior adviser,
was already a powerful tool for presidents to avoid accountability.
But if courts accept the OLC’s new interpretatio…

Trump’s justice department has found a new way for presidents to avoid accountability
A recent memo claiming executive privilege over communications with private advisers invites corruption