✨ 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…
Retiring YDS Director of Communications, Tom Krattenmaker, reflects on religion, writing, and the natural world. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-26-connection-and-community-retiring-communications-director-masters-the-ar…
Trump tries out midterms message that focuses on 'communists' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/26/trump-tries-out-midterms-message-that-focuses-communists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p98#a260626p98
« 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…
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.
"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
It would be nice if people writing on AI helped distinguish between the various types of AI - They are related, but the LLMs that scrape the web are very different from models carefully trained on well curated data. Which AI are we talking about?
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Trump rips Mayor Zohran Mamdani, DSA -- proclaims he'd be 'the greatest Communist in history' (Ally Goelz/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/us-news/prez-rips-mayor-zohran-mamdani-dsa-proclaims-hed-be-the-greatest-communist-in-history/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p91#a260626p91