@pranesh.in
Tech policy & law @anekaanta.org Also: Co-founder, Centre for Internet & Society / Affiliated Fellow, @yaleisp.bsky.social #a2k #privacy #FoE #AI #infosec #netgov #FOSS #NetNeutrality #a11y #DPI zhōngyōng & anēkāntavāda prāṇēś prakāś pranesh.in
I know that in Hindustāni classical music, each rāga has its timing. But my brain just doesn't work that way. Instead, for me, day time is for Karnāṭak music and evening is for Hindustāni.
We already have calls for "Privacy by Design", "Safety by Design", "Security by Design", "Accessibility by Design", "Equality by Design", and soon we'll be calling for "Freedom by Design".
Then we'll have "Utopia without any Trade-Offs by Design".
#FoE #privacy #security #safety #InternetForTrust
There's a tension b/w the claim that AI systems are being built on data extracted from the Global South and the claim that the Global South data is not being represented in the training data of AI systems.
Yet, many advocates freely switch b/w both.
#AISummit #DataColonialism
There's an broadly-shared assumption that "data" is being extracted from the "Global South" whereas "value" is accruing to the "Global North". I don't think this is apparent, and I'm not sure it is true either.
#AISummit #DataColonialism
New massive music publishing copyright lawsuit against Anthropic.
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> The problem is that Docker the technology became so successful that Docker the company struggled to monetize it. When your core product becomes commoditized and open source, you need to find new ways to add value.
#FOSS #standards
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I, for one, think that a rift between Europe and the US could actually be good for the rest of the world, especially larger developing countries, if they manage to navigate the waters carefully.
How much of an actual impact is this going to have, Thiru?
OpenAI has to pay royalties to GEMA.
I still believe that expansive interpretations of copyright and data protection laws are two of the greatest threats to generative AI overall, but especially open weights models / open source AI.
I think the claim was that any royalties-based resolution would privilege Big Tech incumbents and proprietary models over smaller firms & open weight / open source models. I would put that down the delay to how slow the judiciary is. ANI case is still ongoing here. + www.bakerlaw.com/services/art...
kāl karē sō āj kar, āj karē sō ab .
pal mēṁ parlay hōēgī, bahuri karēgā kab ..
The trouble with inviting companies to a public policy roundtables is that they'll almost inevitably start marketting their products.
I'm at a roundtable where the moderators have done a great job of asking pointed and relevant question. Hardly anyone answered the questions they were asked.
🔹 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬
@investinopen.bsky.social · @scossfunding.bsky.social · TSOSI
🎥 Video: youtu.be/nf_5px0Pjzs
📄 Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Sustainability isn’t just about funding: it’s about governance, coordination, visibility, and community-led approaches.
🔹 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬
OpenAlex · @openaire.bsky.social · @opencitations.bsky.social
🎥 Video: youtu.be/gpyO3TErTMw
📄 Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Graphic with a purple and cream geometric background titled “Open Infrastructures,” referencing OpenAlex, OpenAIRE, and OpenCitations. A highlighted label reads “Working Group 5 – Sustaining infrastructures,” alongside the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information branding.
Graphic with a purple and cream geometric background titled “Related Initiatives,” referencing IOI, SCOSS, and TSOSI. A highlighted label reads “Working Group 5 – Sustaining infrastructures,” alongside the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information branding
🧩 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝟓 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥
They explore a shared question:
How can governance, community, and institutional support work together to sustain open research infrastructures?
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More people need to learn about #Pandoc. It can convert from Markdown to Groff man pages.
mastodon.social/@brauner/114...
The gpg.fail talk at #39C3 was pretty amazing. Incredible hacking!
Surprisingly, many of the serious bugs have still not been patched despite having been reported 2 months ago.
Here's their summary slide.
Fascism does not appear because of feminists or Jthe left Fascism appears because it is financed And fascism does not disappear because people ignore it or hand fascist microphones
You are not alone You have the right to a good life You do not need fascism
#39C3 had a super-simplistic talk on fascism, cybernetics, AI and "TESCREAL" by a German political scientist and Sinologist and the audience seemed to lap it up. Oh well.
The law of everything. Broad concept of personal data and future of EU data protection law Nadezhda Purtova Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands ABSTRACT Article 29 Working Party guidelines and the case law of the CJEU facilitate a plausible argument that in the near future everything will be or will contain personal data, leading to the application of data protection to everything: technology is rapidly moving towards perfect identifiability of information; datafication and advances in data analytics make everything (contain) information; and in increasingly ‘smart’ environments any information is likely to relate to a person in purpose or effect. At present, the broad notion of personal data is not problematic and even welcome. This will change in future. When the hyperconnected onlife world of data-driven agency arrives, the intensive compliance regime of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become ‘the law of everything’, well-meant but impossible to maintain. By then we should abandon the distinction between personal and non-personal data, embrace the principle that all data processing should trigger protection, and understand how this protection can be scalable.
Nadezhda Purtova on "The law of everything. Broad concept of personal data and future of EU data protection law". (2018)
Increasingly, there's nothing that *isn't* covered by data protection law.
"Gandhi was much more than merely a political leader. He was also a moral philosopher who gave the world a particular technique for combating injustice, namely nonviolent protest."
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but Everest Masala Chai powder is totally worth getting.
For public-facing reports, looking "good enough" isn't sufficient. Small changes — like using consistent colors and fonts — can instantly make your report look on-brand.
Watch our walkthrough of how to make high-quality PDFs with Quarto and Typst: buff.ly/hRuUEqR
#rstats
Excellent pointers from the folks at @typst.app on how to make a PDF accessible for persons with disabilities:
typst.app/blog/2025/ac...
This is a large part of the reason why I've shifted to Typst over LaTeX.
#a11y #QuartoPub #Typst
I spent several days working on this blog post and video. Behold everything I know (aka everything @joseph-barbier.bsky.social has ever taught me) about making high-quality PDFs using Quarto and Typst. #rstats
China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar.
'US is … the greatest source of chaos in cyberspace'
#security #China #USA #cybersecurity
www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/c...
This is an unnecessarily inflammatory headline.
The lead researcher was able to produce correspondences with some of the participants in which radioactivity *was* mentioned. 26 years after the research, 2 of the 11 participants said they didn't recall being told about radioactivity.
The MRC investigated this in the 90s. This wasn't a secretive study. The lead investigator says he took proper precautions to obtain consent, and shared the protocol they followed. The researchers themselves also took the same radioactive dose of iron as the volunteers.
What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
