Jan Krewer
@jankrewer.bsky.social
I like things to be open and green. I tweet mostly about #data #commons and #climate.
Researcher @afd-france.bsky.social
PhD Student Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (CEPN)
Associate PhD Student @cis-cnrs.bsky.social
Researcher @afd-france.bsky.social
PhD Student Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (CEPN)
Associate PhD Student @cis-cnrs.bsky.social
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📄 New White Paper: "Beyond AI & Copyright: Funding a Sustainable Information Ecosystem."
@paulk.bsky.social examines how AI impacts information control, argues for public AI models, and proposes a levy system on commercial AI services to support the digital commons.
openfuture.eu/publication/...
@paulk.bsky.social examines how AI impacts information control, argues for public AI models, and proposes a levy system on commercial AI services to support the digital commons.
openfuture.eu/publication/...
Beyond AI and copyright – Open Future
This White Paper calls for a levy on commercial AI systems to fund public infrastructures and ensure a sustainable Digital Knowledge Commons in the generative AI era.
openfuture.eu
June 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
📄 New White Paper: "Beyond AI & Copyright: Funding a Sustainable Information Ecosystem."
@paulk.bsky.social examines how AI impacts information control, argues for public AI models, and proposes a levy system on commercial AI services to support the digital commons.
openfuture.eu/publication/...
@paulk.bsky.social examines how AI impacts information control, argues for public AI models, and proposes a levy system on commercial AI services to support the digital commons.
openfuture.eu/publication/...
Great intervention by @pablovalerio.bsky.social from @eetimes.bsky.social on the geopolitics of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy and chips manufacturing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XD...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XD...
The Custom Silicon Imperative: Addressing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Realities
YouTube video by RISC-V International
m.youtube.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Great intervention by @pablovalerio.bsky.social from @eetimes.bsky.social on the geopolitics of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy and chips manufacturing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XD...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XD...
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This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
The Last Currency: On Crypto and the Banality of Extinction thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-last-cur... #ClimateChange #Crypto #LIbertarianism #Musk via @mitpress.bsky.social
The Last Currency: On Crypto and the Banality of Extinction
The crypto boom was never just about money.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
May 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The Last Currency: On Crypto and the Banality of Extinction thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-last-cur... #ClimateChange #Crypto #LIbertarianism #Musk via @mitpress.bsky.social
"La justice allemande a, cependant, reconnu le principe d’une responsabilité mondiale des énergéticiens dans les dommages liés au changement climatique, où qu’ils se produisent, ce qui constitue un précédent juridique d’ampleur selon les défenseurs de l’environnement."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
La justice allemande rejette la plainte d’un paysan péruvien contre l’énergéticien RWE, dans une affaire emblématique de la cause climatique
Saul Luciano Lliuya exigeait du producteur d’électricité allemand une aide financière contre les risques d’inondation de sa maison, à cause des émissions de dioxyde de carbone de RWE au niveau mondial...
www.lemonde.fr
May 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"La justice allemande a, cependant, reconnu le principe d’une responsabilité mondiale des énergéticiens dans les dommages liés au changement climatique, où qu’ils se produisent, ce qui constitue un précédent juridique d’ampleur selon les défenseurs de l’environnement."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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The EU’s 3% Digital Services Tax (DST) proposal stalled in 2018, but with rising financing needs, could it be revived?
Our new report finds a renewed DST could generate EUR 37.5 billion by 2026, or 19% of the EU’s 2025 budget.
LEARN MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-publica...
Our new report finds a renewed DST could generate EUR 37.5 billion by 2026, or 19% of the EU’s 2025 budget.
LEARN MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-publica...
April 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The EU’s 3% Digital Services Tax (DST) proposal stalled in 2018, but with rising financing needs, could it be revived?
Our new report finds a renewed DST could generate EUR 37.5 billion by 2026, or 19% of the EU’s 2025 budget.
LEARN MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-publica...
Our new report finds a renewed DST could generate EUR 37.5 billion by 2026, or 19% of the EU’s 2025 budget.
LEARN MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-publica...
The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-cap... #Capitalism #EssentialKnowledge #Standards via @mitpress.bsky.social
The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards
In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-cap... #Capitalism #EssentialKnowledge #Standards via @mitpress.bsky.social
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They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.
March 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.
Reposted by Jan Krewer
Let's hit Trump's Tech Bros with that EU Digital Services Tax finally
Let's hit Trump's Tech Bros with that EU Digital Services Tax finally
The EU Digital Services Tax (for which the commission proposed a directive in 2018 but at the time was blocked by several member states) can be reintroduced — a targeted levy that will not harm consumers, but aims directly at the excessive profits of tech billionaires supporting Donald Trump, writes the S&D vice president.
euobserver.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Let's hit Trump's Tech Bros with that EU Digital Services Tax finally
Reposted by Jan Krewer
🛠️ Key takeaway from @ngicommons.bsky.social “Public Policies for Digital Commons” webinar: Open source software (OSS) is critical infrastructure, like roads & bridges.
Read more and watch the discussion: openfuture.eu/event/public...
Read more and watch the discussion: openfuture.eu/event/public...
March 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🛠️ Key takeaway from @ngicommons.bsky.social “Public Policies for Digital Commons” webinar: Open source software (OSS) is critical infrastructure, like roads & bridges.
Read more and watch the discussion: openfuture.eu/event/public...
Read more and watch the discussion: openfuture.eu/event/public...
Reposted by Jan Krewer
Northvolt, once hailed as Europe’s homegrown battery champion that could rival Chinese dominance, has officially gone bankrupt.
Northvolt’s bankruptcy ends Europe’s battery dream
Northvolt, once hailed as Europe’s homegrown battery champion that could rival Chinese dominance, has officially gone bankrupt.
euobserver.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Northvolt, once hailed as Europe’s homegrown battery champion that could rival Chinese dominance, has officially gone bankrupt.
Reposted by Jan Krewer
Les seuils de pollution de l’air préconisés par l’OMS sont dépassés dans la quasi-totalité des pays, dont la France, d'après une étude d'IQAir.
Seuls 12 territoires sur 138 évalués ne dépassent pas les normes de particules fines.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/ist
Seuls 12 territoires sur 138 évalués ne dépassent pas les normes de particules fines.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/ist
March 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Les seuils de pollution de l’air préconisés par l’OMS sont dépassés dans la quasi-totalité des pays, dont la France, d'après une étude d'IQAir.
Seuls 12 territoires sur 138 évalués ne dépassent pas les normes de particules fines.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/ist
Seuls 12 territoires sur 138 évalués ne dépassent pas les normes de particules fines.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/ist
Reposted by Jan Krewer
The EU's next budget needs rethinking: current spending is too dispersed, overly focused on “disruptive” tech rather than infrastructure.
Read Zuzanna Warso's analysis on why we need a more practical, needs-based approach. Published at @tspbackground.bsky.social (in German).
Read Zuzanna Warso's analysis on why we need a more practical, needs-based approach. Published at @tspbackground.bsky.social (in German).
Die #EU plant ihren mehrjährigen Haushalt. Der muss mehr als „Weiter so“ liefern: Statt auf stark angepriesene, neue Technologien zu setzen, sollten öffentliche #Infrastruktur gefördert & Innovation realistisch bewertet werden. Zuzanna Warso von @openfuture.bsky.social im Standpunkt 👉 lmy.de/paQwV
March 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The EU's next budget needs rethinking: current spending is too dispersed, overly focused on “disruptive” tech rather than infrastructure.
Read Zuzanna Warso's analysis on why we need a more practical, needs-based approach. Published at @tspbackground.bsky.social (in German).
Read Zuzanna Warso's analysis on why we need a more practical, needs-based approach. Published at @tspbackground.bsky.social (in German).
Reposted by Jan Krewer
There’s a discussion brewing in Brussels – a discussion about whether European public authorities should be forced to buy part of their digital needs from European companies.
#EU #EuropeanUnion #digitalsovereignty #eurostack
#EU #EuropeanUnion #digitalsovereignty #eurostack
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There’s a discussion brewing in Brussels – a discussion about whether European public authorities should be forced to buy part of their digital needs from European companies.
#EU #EuropeanUnion #digitalsovereignty #eurostack
#EU #EuropeanUnion #digitalsovereignty #eurostack
Reposted by Jan Krewer
The @ec.europa.eu proposed the policy agenda for the European Research Area for 2025-2027, containing many key steps to unlock #research and #science in Europe in line with our ideas for a #DigitalKnowledgeAct.
Our take on the proposal: communia-association.org/2025/03/10/e...
Our take on the proposal: communia-association.org/2025/03/10/e...
Proposal for the European Research Area Policy Agenda 2025-2027
At the end of February, the European Commission adopted its proposal for a Council Recommendation on the European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda for 2025 to 2027. COMMUNIA supports the Commission’s...
communia-association.org
March 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The @ec.europa.eu proposed the policy agenda for the European Research Area for 2025-2027, containing many key steps to unlock #research and #science in Europe in line with our ideas for a #DigitalKnowledgeAct.
Our take on the proposal: communia-association.org/2025/03/10/e...
Our take on the proposal: communia-association.org/2025/03/10/e...
Reposted by Jan Krewer
Chat-based search apps are often "confidently wrong" in attributing and citing news stories... particularly Grok, which performs abysmally. Terrific study from CJR:
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...
www.cjr.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Chat-based search apps are often "confidently wrong" in attributing and citing news stories... particularly Grok, which performs abysmally. Terrific study from CJR:
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
For anyone trying to make sense of the current mess in the transatlantic alliance — and how, after years of fueling the divide between the EU and Russia, parts of US diplomacy brutally switched to playing directly for Putin’s interests — I can highly recommend a recent French documentary movie.
March 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
For anyone trying to make sense of the current mess in the transatlantic alliance — and how, after years of fueling the divide between the EU and Russia, parts of US diplomacy brutally switched to playing directly for Putin’s interests — I can highly recommend a recent French documentary movie.
Tell me you are a Nazi without telling me you are a Nazi.
“The fundamental weakness of Weatern civilization is empathy.”
—Elon Musk
—Elon Musk
March 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tell me you are a Nazi without telling me you are a Nazi.
Reposted by Jan Krewer
The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency on US or Chinese tech firms, writes Jan Krewer.
www.techpolicy.press/looking-for-...
www.techpolicy.press/looking-for-...
Looking for an Exit: Europe’s Way to Public Digital Infrastructures | TechPolicy.Press
The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency, writes Jan Krewer.
www.techpolicy.press
March 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency on US or Chinese tech firms, writes Jan Krewer.
www.techpolicy.press/looking-for-...
www.techpolicy.press/looking-for-...
Reposted by Jan Krewer
The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency on US or Chinese tech firms, writes Jan Krewer.
Looking for an Exit: Europe’s Way to Public Digital Infrastructures | TechPolicy.Press
The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency, writes Jan Krewer.
buff.ly
March 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency on US or Chinese tech firms, writes Jan Krewer.
The EU: "We need the European Telcos to build alternatives to US Big Tech in line with our values and rules".
The EU Telcos: "We need to do exactly what Big Tech is doing in the US".
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The EU Telcos: "We need to do exactly what Big Tech is doing in the US".
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Europe Needs a DOGE’: Telecom CEOs Fume at EU Bureaucracy
European telecommunications executives gathered at the continent’s biggest trade show railed against over-regulation, blaming Brussels for preventing consolidation in the industry that’s fallen behind...
www.bloomberg.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The EU: "We need the European Telcos to build alternatives to US Big Tech in line with our values and rules".
The EU Telcos: "We need to do exactly what Big Tech is doing in the US".
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The EU Telcos: "We need to do exactly what Big Tech is doing in the US".
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Jan Krewer
Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.
Here is what it means:
Here is what it means:
March 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.
Here is what it means:
Here is what it means:
"How the EU distorts data to justify green deregulation" via @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/green-econom...
euobserver.com/green-econom...
How the EU distorts data to justify green deregulation
The EU’s telephone game distorts studies to fit a narrative—turning green reporting into a competitiveness threat, despite little evidence that deregulation would boost competitiveness.
euobserver.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"How the EU distorts data to justify green deregulation" via @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/green-econom...
euobserver.com/green-econom...