Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio YouTube video by Principles by Ray Dalio

"Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order" by Ray Dalio 🍿

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"The proceeds would flow into a central European fund dedicated to investing in new content creation, and supporting Europe’s cultural sectors."

"Crucially, this levy would apply equally to providers based abroad, creating a level playing field within the European market and ensuring that foreign AI companies also contribute when they operate here."

"At Mistral, we are proposing a revenue-based levy that would be applied to all commercial providers placing AI models on the market or putting them into service in Europe, reflecting their use of content publicly available online."

Mistral CEO: AI companies should pay a content levy in Europe A revenue-based charge would protect the livelihoods of copyright holders and bring legal certainty

"Mistral CEO: AI companies should pay a content levy in Europe" by Arthur Mensch 💯

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Open source as critical infrastructure: A white paper by Block, inc.

Open Source as Critical Infrastructure - A White Paper by Block, Inc., with input from the Open Source Initiative 💯

"Open source is a civic resource and a public good. Let's make sure it's treated like one."

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"This vital technology allows user-level code execution inside the Linux Kernel, transforming network traffic handling for SDN environments. Whether these engineers knew it or not, they had just revolutionized the Linux Kernel."

"In 2014, a group of engineers at Plumgrid needed to find an innovative and cost-effective solution to handle network traffic in [Software-defined networking] environments. What they created was a landmark in the industry known as the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (or eBPF)."

eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel [OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY] YouTube video by Speakeasy Productions

eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel (2023) 🍿

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"So we need a highly diverse population of AI assistance for the same reason we need diversity in the press, and that can only happen with open source."

"If those AI systems come from a handful of proprietary companies on the West Coast of the US or China, we're in big trouble for the health of democracy, cultural diversity, linguistic diversity, and value systems."

"The most important risk of AI is that in the near future, our entire digital diet will be mediated by AI systems."

The LLM Revolution Is Over. The Physical AI Revolution Is Coming Fast YouTube video by Forbes

Yann LeCun on open vs. closed AI, at the AI ​​Summit in Davos

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"Python's PyPI registry bandwidth needs for shipping copies of its 700,000+ packages (amounting to 747PB annually at a sustained rate of 189 Gbps) are underwritten by Fastly, for instance. Otherwise, the project would have to pony up about $1.8 million a month."

"Winser estimated it could cost $5 million to $8 million a year to run a major registry the size of Crates.io, which gets about 125 billion downloads a year. And this number wouldn't include any substantial bandwidth and infrastructure donations (Like Fastly's for Crates.io)."

"Bandwidth naturally turned out to be the #1 cost, about 25% of the total expenses. Storage (18%), compute (15%) and battling malware (12%) all followed. New feature development barely registers at 2% and documentation wasn't even in the top 10."

"Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them."

Open source registries underfunded as security costs rise fosdem 2026: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

"Open source registries underfunded as security costs rise" by Joab Jackson, The Register

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Germany Aims to Standardise ODF by 2027 Following the 48th meeting of the IT Planning Council, in November 2025, Germany confirmed its goal of standardising ODF by 2027.

"... state administrations will gradually support ODF starting from 1 January 2027..."

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Germany Aims to Standardise ODF by 2027 Following the 48th meeting of the IT Planning Council, in November 2025, Germany confirmed its goal of standardising ODF by 2027.

Germany Aims to Standardise ODF by 2027 | Interoperable Europe Portal 💯

"In 2025, the German federal government committed to adopting the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard, driven by ambitions that go beyond mere technical interoperability."

"Europe should speak with one voice, loudly, clearly, and collectively to send a message that it will not accommodate pressure on judicial independence regardless of its source."

"As an international judge and as an EU citizen, I am here today to call on the European Union to protect its citizens who have spent their lives upholding international law and are now treated like terrorists."

"In this regard, EU's efforts to develop and provide European-based tools have real value."

"Although a transaction may be between two European banks in Euros without any US nexus, it may still get rejected."

"... as a European citizen with no ties to the United States, living in Europe, working for an international organization that is based in Europe, the impact of these unilateral sanctions here in Europe has been especially concerning."

"Because there is no non-US credit card alternative, it is a impossible to have a credit card as a sanctioned individual."

"As a sanctioned person, I no longer have access to American products and services even in Europe. My Apple ID, iCloud, Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, and other accounts have all been blocked or cancelled. These cancellations happen overnight without advance warning."

Committee on Legal Affairs Joint JURI-DROI - Multimedia Centre The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...

An International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Hohler's speech on the consequences of US sanctions against her and on the ICC, from the Committee on Legal Affairs Joint session (starts at 15:21:15)

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#DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack

- Distribute funds back into the EU's open source sector in a data-driven, transparent, and reliable way.
- Gradually increase the tax rate to shift resources from proprietary to the open source side.

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European Open Digital Ecosystems proposal: A Progressive Open Source Strategy for Europe We have submitted our feedback on the European Commission’s call for evidence on the European Open Digital Ecosystems, which concluded on February 3rd. *** As technological sovereignty becomes one …

My input for the European Open Digital Ecosystems call: A Progressive Open Source Strategy for Europe

From the summary section:
- Establish European Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF).
- Implement a 1% Open Source Tax on proprietary solutions, and use the revenue to fund EU-STF.

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