Mark Boyd
@markboyd.bsky.social
Mostly here to talk about how to build open digital ecosystems where everyone can participate and co-create (platformable.com) and to share my queer fetish comedy fiction (akamarkboyd.com). He/him 🏳️🌈📚
Had a Disney lawyers moment today
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Had a Disney lawyers moment today
Just posted my latest EuroStack newsletter: platformable.beehiiv.com/p/digital-so...
Digital sovereignty and open source technologies
Proposed strategies to support open source technologies in Europe to strengthen and take an open digital ecosystem approach when building communities and delivering value for users.
platformable.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Just posted my latest EuroStack newsletter: platformable.beehiiv.com/p/digital-so...
One of airtable's suggested prompts for using their AI is "Generate brainstorm ideas for our fall activewear campaign". Generate brainstorm? Also, if you are in marketing isn't that the part of your job you *want* to do?
February 10, 2026 at 9:28 AM
One of airtable's suggested prompts for using their AI is "Generate brainstorm ideas for our fall activewear campaign". Generate brainstorm? Also, if you are in marketing isn't that the part of your job you *want* to do?
After PEPFAR funding was cancelled I looked for EU health groups I could join to advocate for replacement funding to ensure we keep pace with ending the global AIDS epidemic. I didnt have any luck so i volunteer directly with a human & sexual rights ngo in Nigeria. The issues they face are: ... 1/3
🧵1/ Global health is under attack, and not just by pathogens. Governments are walking away from international law, blocking humanitarian access, and even targeting health workers. We need a principled response, which @tiagocorreia.bsky.social & I set out in an editorial in Eur J Public Health
February 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
After PEPFAR funding was cancelled I looked for EU health groups I could join to advocate for replacement funding to ensure we keep pace with ending the global AIDS epidemic. I didnt have any luck so i volunteer directly with a human & sexual rights ngo in Nigeria. The issues they face are: ... 1/3
I'm gonna write something up about this a bit more, but i submitted a response to the European Commission's open digital ecosystems consultation last night: drive.google.com/file/d/1W2fy...
Open digital ecosystems response.pdf
drive.google.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:13 AM
I'm gonna write something up about this a bit more, but i submitted a response to the European Commission's open digital ecosystems consultation last night: drive.google.com/file/d/1W2fy...
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As Amazon announced 16,000 layoffs today, worker representatives and MEPs blasted Amazon management for undermining worker health and democracy at work during a European Parliament hearing on working conditions in its warehouses.
Unions and MEPs blast Amazon’s disregard for worker health at European Parliament hearing
As Amazon announced 16,000 layoffs today, worker representatives blasted Amazon management for disregarding worker health at a European Parliament hearing on working conditions in its warehouses.
uniglobalunion.org
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 PM
As Amazon announced 16,000 layoffs today, worker representatives and MEPs blasted Amazon management for undermining worker health and democracy at work during a European Parliament hearing on working conditions in its warehouses.
Anyone else reading Some Desperate Glory or read it recently? By @emilytesh.net So good! Halfway through at the moment but the emerging deradicalisation plotline is fascinating and keeping me up at night reading. And love the queer characters of course.
January 24, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Anyone else reading Some Desperate Glory or read it recently? By @emilytesh.net So good! Halfway through at the moment but the emerging deradicalisation plotline is fascinating and keeping me up at night reading. And love the queer characters of course.
For anyone interested, here are the tracks I've been listening to this month: tidal.com/playlist/ce2...
January 2026
Playlist - January 2026 - 46 items
tidal.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
For anyone interested, here are the tracks I've been listening to this month: tidal.com/playlist/ce2...
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if you’re passionate about AI accountability research and enjoy working in a vibrant lab with a multi-disciplinary team but not interested in doing traditional academic work, this position might be for you
I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie
- Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE)
- Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata)
- Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Main Responsibilities👇🏾
- Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE)
- Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata)
- Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Main Responsibilities👇🏾
January 21, 2026 at 4:25 PM
if you’re passionate about AI accountability research and enjoy working in a vibrant lab with a multi-disciplinary team but not interested in doing traditional academic work, this position might be for you
Why isnt this data used in the constant “EU needs to be more competitive” policy arguments? Why isnt this all factored into the so-called competitiveness agenda?
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 19, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Why isnt this data used in the constant “EU needs to be more competitive” policy arguments? Why isnt this all factored into the so-called competitiveness agenda?
I do appreciate what i think is @mozilla.org's work in providing an option when right clicking for links: offering a "clean link" copy that removes everything after the ? So much easier to share links without having to manually remove campaign tracking parameters each time
January 18, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I do appreciate what i think is @mozilla.org's work in providing an option when right clicking for links: offering a "clean link" copy that removes everything after the ? So much easier to share links without having to manually remove campaign tracking parameters each time
Over on LinkedIn people are AI meme-ing their way through the threat of the Greenland invasion. Here I am getting hopeful that Europe is finally saying "enough", (they should have done that after EU digital regulation threats & commissioner sanctions but now is a good time too)
January 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Over on LinkedIn people are AI meme-ing their way through the threat of the Greenland invasion. Here I am getting hopeful that Europe is finally saying "enough", (they should have done that after EU digital regulation threats & commissioner sanctions but now is a good time too)
I've enjoyed reading the GTM analysis and deep dives that Kyle Poyar does, so super happy to see he has shifted to @beehiiv.com now, and i can share his work here. His latest newsletter discusses creator support at beehiv and his creator economy operating model www.growthunhinged.com/p/new-unhing...
What’s new (did I hear perks 👀)
The tools and insights you need to have an unhinged 2026
www.growthunhinged.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I've enjoyed reading the GTM analysis and deep dives that Kyle Poyar does, so super happy to see he has shifted to @beehiiv.com now, and i can share his work here. His latest newsletter discusses creator support at beehiv and his creator economy operating model www.growthunhinged.com/p/new-unhing...
Petition for a new term: AI gunk. Meaning: the additional infra and workarounds that cause products that used to work fine now feel jammed up or slower cos there is AI gunk in the system, even if its not being used in whatever you are trying to do. Oh also why is LinkedIn down at the moment?
January 11, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Petition for a new term: AI gunk. Meaning: the additional infra and workarounds that cause products that used to work fine now feel jammed up or slower cos there is AI gunk in the system, even if its not being used in whatever you are trying to do. Oh also why is LinkedIn down at the moment?
My line of the day is "API governance supports entelechy not entropy." I am my own writing audience.
January 6, 2026 at 8:05 AM
My line of the day is "API governance supports entelechy not entropy." I am my own writing audience.
My EuroStack Potential newsletter is changing it's focus: now I am focusing on what it's like for a digital small business/startup (like mine) to operationalise the EuroStack ideals: platformable.beehiiv.com/p/the-eurost...
The EuroStack tech stack in practice
Discover how EuroStack supports open digital ecosystems, helping businesses move beyond big tech monopolies and embrace a collaborative, sustainable tech approach.
platformable.beehiiv.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
My EuroStack Potential newsletter is changing it's focus: now I am focusing on what it's like for a digital small business/startup (like mine) to operationalise the EuroStack ideals: platformable.beehiiv.com/p/the-eurost...
"Hope is a discipline. It requires that you not give in to despair." - Doctorow on the EuroStack potential and more: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"Hope is a discipline. It requires that you not give in to despair." - Doctorow on the EuroStack potential and more: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
In 2025, i started the #EuroStack potential newsletter, but i couldn't find the right angle i wanted to focus on. I am superproud of the piece on using EuroStack for decolonisation: you can't show you are worried about EU being a digital colony without addressing Europe's colonisation legacy 1/4
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In 2025, i started the #EuroStack potential newsletter, but i couldn't find the right angle i wanted to focus on. I am superproud of the piece on using EuroStack for decolonisation: you can't show you are worried about EU being a digital colony without addressing Europe's colonisation legacy 1/4
Last week i shared how it was hard to #EuroStack when open source providers (including European) use AWS servers for their online cloud. I love what @openproject.bsky.social are doing: They have two options for cloud hosting, ok yes an AWS option but also the French cloud provider @scaleway.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Last week i shared how it was hard to #EuroStack when open source providers (including European) use AWS servers for their online cloud. I love what @openproject.bsky.social are doing: They have two options for cloud hosting, ok yes an AWS option but also the French cloud provider @scaleway.com
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We are looking for an European 🇪🇺 alternative to replace OpsGenie / PagerDuty; could you please share some love with us ? #cloud #sovereignty
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
We are looking for an European 🇪🇺 alternative to replace OpsGenie / PagerDuty; could you please share some love with us ? #cloud #sovereignty
"Let's be bold, ambitious and creative!" @diegonaranjo.bsky.social shares a plan for 2026: www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-y...
2026 - The year we fight back
Everywhere I look in my professional and personal circles, things look rather depressing. Whether the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Russian's invasion of Ukraine, the latest Trump's attack on democra...
www.linkedin.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Let's be bold, ambitious and creative!" @diegonaranjo.bsky.social shares a plan for 2026: www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-y...
We've mapped the #agrifood ecosystem. We want to help players identify how data flows, how to align with standards & regulations, who to partner with, & how to calculate impacts on society, local economies & the environment. Anyone want to test this out? platformable.com/blog/agrifoo...
The Agrifood Data & Digital Ecosystem
Understanding the agrifood digital and data ecosystem is essential as systems become more digital and issues including climate impacts, sustainability, trade, and smart agriculture become more prevalent.
platformable.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We've mapped the #agrifood ecosystem. We want to help players identify how data flows, how to align with standards & regulations, who to partner with, & how to calculate impacts on society, local economies & the environment. Anyone want to test this out? platformable.com/blog/agrifoo...
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We're hiring a postdoc to identify, map and evaluate commercially used age verification systems
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We're hiring a postdoc to identify, map and evaluate commercially used age verification systems
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
Im a big policy nerd, but with #EuroStack i want to bring it down a level and hear more discussions about practicalities, partly as a small business that wants to live the principles of digital sovereignty and partly as a European citizen (ok permanent resident). 1/2
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Im a big policy nerd, but with #EuroStack i want to bring it down a level and hear more discussions about practicalities, partly as a small business that wants to live the principles of digital sovereignty and partly as a European citizen (ok permanent resident). 1/2
Excellent thread to counteract the "competitiveness" agenda as a necessity for EU. As I've said, it doesn't factor in universal healthcare, wage theft and huge inequities, education costs, or that the top companies include meta and other unethical highly ranked enterprises
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Excellent thread to counteract the "competitiveness" agenda as a necessity for EU. As I've said, it doesn't factor in universal healthcare, wage theft and huge inequities, education costs, or that the top companies include meta and other unethical highly ranked enterprises