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*Treffen Bäuerlicher & Ländlicher Kämpfe*
(Meeting of agricultural and rural struggles)

1.9 (tomorrow!) til 7.9 (Sunday) in #Taucha, not far from #Leipzig

> In the face of all the escalating crises worldwide, be it the shift to the political right in society or the ongoing destruction of our livelihoods, instead of despairing alone, we want to create a space to encourage each other, recharge our batteries and form plans for the future.

baelaekae.org/

www.baelaekae.orgTreffen Bäuerlicher & Ländlicher Kämpfe – vom 1.-7. September 2025 in Nordsachsen

🚀 Unser Community-Hub ist da!
Seit dem 18.8. ist die neue Plattform von NFDI4Objects online.

➡️ Community Cluster & Temporary Working Groups einfacher beantragen
➡️ Laufende Initiativen sichtbar machen
➡️ Gemeinsam an den NFDI4Objects-Commons arbeiten

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👉 community.nfdi4objects.net/

community.nfdi4objects.netNFDI4ObjectsHerzlich willkommen auf dem Community-Hub von NFDI4Objects! NFDI4Objects ist ein community-getriebenes Konsortium. Auf dieser Plattform schaffen wir daher gemeinsam nachhaltige Beiträge rund um das Themenfeld Forschungsdatenmanagement in den materiellen Objekt- und Kulturwissenschaften. Nehmen Sie teil, diskutieren und gestalten Sie aktiv mit!

'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'

From 'Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons' arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470 #GenAI #commons #DigitalCommons

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arXiv.orgGenerative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge GapsThe rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by communities. However, this relationship is becoming increasingly strained due to financial burdens, decreased contributions, and misalignment between AI models and community norms. As we move deeper into the GenAI era, it is essential to examine the interdependent relationship between GenAI, the long-term sustainability of the digital commons, and the equity of current AI development practices. We highlight five critical questions that require urgent attention: 1. How can we prevent the digital commons from being threatened by undersupply as individuals cease contributing to the commons and turn to Generative AI for information? 2. How can we mitigate the risk of the open web closing due to restrictions on access to curb AI crawlers? 3. How can technical standards and legal frameworks be updated to reflect the evolving needs of organizations hosting common content? 4. What are the effects of increased synthetic content in open knowledge databases, and how can we ensure their integrity? 5. How can we account for and distribute the infrastructural and environmental costs of providing data for AI training? We emphasize the need for more responsible practices in AI development, recognizing the digital commons not only as content but as a collaborative and decentralized form of knowledge governance, which relies on the practice of "commoning" - making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources. Ultimately, our goal is to stimulate discussion and research on the intersection of Generative AI and the digital commons, with the aim of developing an "AI commons" and public infrastructures for AI development that support the long-term health of the digital commons.

"A web that you don’t understand is one that’s not user-driven, or driven by user utility. It’s one where people don’t have agency over the technology they depend upon, and where changes aren’t contrived to address a specific user need.

At the risk of sounding as conspiratorial as the author of the original Dead Internet Theory, I believe the emergence of this incomprehensibility was borne of deliberate decisions made by people at the very top of Big Tech. Furthermore, I believe these people are profoundly anti-person, and see people as resources to be tapped rather than collaborators within a vast, global digital ecosystem.

In many respects, I think this phenomena is down to two things: first, many of the tech products we use were founded by people who were still in the throes of youth, and became billionaires and global tech icons before their brains were even fully developed. They’ve been insulated from people from a young age, never lived a normal life, and they’ve been told — repeatedly — that they are geniuses and visionaries. While I don’t think this explanation excuses any of their behavior, I also think it goes some way into explaining the scarcely-disguised antipathy these people show for their fellow humans.
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The other factor behind this phenomenon is that many of the people running these companies are former management consultants spawned from hell (read: McKinsey) and then set loose on what amounts to “essential infrastructure” for the digital age. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, is a former McKinsey consultant. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook was one, too.

Management consultants have one job — it’s to recommend strategies to cowardly CEOs that they probably thought of themselves, but are too chicken to put their name behind themselves, that invariably screw over employees, consumers, and the planet."

whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-

What We Lost · How The Internet DiedBy Matthew Hughes

Supposed you were to build a public-interest-oriented company - e.g. a CSM (Community supported music coop) working in an analogous manner to a CSA but co-producing concerts instead of cabbage - from scratch and wanted to document the building process so that 1. many people wanted to chime in along the way & get involved and 2. many people could easily copy it later or somewhere else - how would you tackle this documentation?

Mitten in Süddeutschland gibt es ein kleines gallisches Dorf, in dem sich die Bewohner entschieden haben , die Immobilienbodenspekulanten aus diesem Dorf auszusperren. Resultat: bezahlbare Wohnungen
Wie: nur der #Boden, der der Stadt gehört, darf Baurecht bekommen und #bauland mit #baurecht, der nicht bebaut wird , muss zurück zur Stadt ( #Ulm).
ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ar
Ab Min 12/16
#Wohnen
#Mieten
#Stadtplanung
#mietshausersyndikat
#Commons
#bodenpolitik
#Kooperation statt #Konkurrenz