Calendrier Web, regroupant des événements liés au Libre (logiciel, salon, atelier, install party , conférence), annoncés par leurs organisateurs. Voici un récapitulatif de la semaine à venir. Le détail de chacun de ces 59 événements (France: 52, Québec: 3, Internet: 2, Belgique: 2) est en seconde partie de dépêche.
In case you havenât heard, Eleventy, the excellent static site generator that I use for this very website has been acquired by Font Awesome. As a result, it has been renamed, _sigh_ , Build Awesome. After seeing what happened to Shoelace, Iâm apprehensive and very much not looking forward to seeing what features get locked behind a paywall. But beside the enshittification likely to follow, I…
What do we talk about when we talk about 4X?
We think about abstract systems, resource management, efficiency, growth... But what about all the invisible things attached to eXploitation, and eXtermination?
Mary Flanagan is a game designer and academic, and the author of Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games.
The book looks at the history of board…
It was interesting to see this short article 1 about the enclosure of the web commons go by after just having listened to The Dig’s epic two part interview with Peter Linebaugh 2.
What’s needed is a multi-stakeholder settlement in which large-scale users of the commons take on long-term, structured obligations to sustain it: contractual funding through paid APIs and usage-based levies, formal…
In a Japanese mountain village, a detective patrolling the closed commons found thirty intruders cutting bamboo poles for their vegetable trellises. Among them were heads of leading households. The village headman had set the opening date too late — the farmers' crops might be lost.
The detective fined them. They paid. But the fine wasn't the usual sake payment to the detective who caught them.…
The Resource
The shared rivalrous resource on social networks isn't data. It's attention.
Sophie made this argument in a thread with Winter and Penny about ATProto governance. We'd been trying to derive governance from content types — "what kind of data is this? who can access it?" — when the commons was never the data. Data is non-rivalrous; copy it and you still have it. Attention is the…
This post is an adapted/expanded version of an abstract that I have submitted for a track onOpen, collaborative and participatory science: rethinking knowledge legitimacy, policy and science futures at the EU-SPRI Annual Conference
Over the past decades, the open science movement – as well as the many wider, nonacademic, open knowledge movements – have left their marks by building…
Am Montag habe ich die Einleitung zu Sven Beckerts Geschichte des Kapitalismus (Beckert, 2025a) gelesen. Ich habe die englische Epub-Version gekauft; das Buch ist auch auf deutsch erschienen (Beckert, 2025b) und medial zu Recht gerade sehr präsent. Empfehlenswert zur Orientierung ist Thilo Jungs Gespräch mit Beckert bei „Jung und Naiv“ (Jung & Naiv, 2026). Die...