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#MozFest returns to Barcelona this October, and 2026 is yours to shape.
28–30 October. Recinte Fabra i Coats.
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Mozilla Festival is coming back to Barcelona.
28–30 October 2026 at Recinte Fabra i Coats.

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Join us for tomorrow's new virtual session: Encryption & Feminism: Reimagining Child Safety Without Surveillance 🗓️ 10 Feb | 16:00 GMT

If you missed this conversation at #MozFest, we’re bringing it online!

Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#civictech #encryption #surveillance

@mozilla.org 's #MozFest is taking place in Barcelona in 2026 and 2027 too, after @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social and Mozilla signed a MoU.

Also, Barcelona Open Tech Week is happening again in October 2026!

Privacy is not a purely technical issue. I got to speak on the Main Stage at #MozFest 2025, on “Unlearning Privacy” with @signal.org's Udbhav Tiwari. Moderated by the wonderful Lauren Hendry Parsons from @mozilla.org.

IRL Podcast | Nothing Personal by Mozilla Foundation Mozilla’s award winning podcast is back! In Season 8, Bridget Todd is on a journey to find out how AI affects us on a personal level. From her love life to her city, to the privacy of her memories, Br...

In this bonus IRL episode, recorded live at #MozFest, @bridgettodd.bsky.social uncovers how AI can fuel collective action, resist algorithmic oppression, and build data-driven counter-narratives for the public good.
Listen in now 🎧 www.mozillafoundation.org/nothing-pers...

Audrey Tang: A.I. should serve communities, not control them As Taiwan’s first digital minister, Tang pioneered a model of AI governance built on civic participation, transparency and “broad listening."

No one actually wants an all-seeing AI that disempowers humans, Aubrey Tang told @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social at #MozFest. Yet in Silicon Valley, both AI doomers & accelerators assume that future is inevitable. Audrey Tang has a word for this: hyperstition.

www.compiler.news/audrey-tang/

@alixdunn.com sat down with @audreyt.org at #Mozfest to learn more about how we can train algorithms away from breeding outrage, how to make social media platform-agnostic, and how this could be possible with Audrey’s six-pack of care.

All the #MozFest goodness via @alixdunn.com 👏✨

Nice! Had lunch with George, Rabble and the incomparable @neb.me at #MozFest a few weeks ago. Always a blast to hang with the OGs.

Resisting the Everywhere Border

"Inspired by the stories of resistance in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket Books, 2024), we launched this living archive of struggle and solidarity at #MozFest, Barcelona, in November 2025...

www.everywhereborder.org/resources/re...

holy moly! aw heck, I think my new favourite thing is @audreyt.org getting 2h of pre- #MozFest media/presentation coaching on the official Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS) account back in 2017... haha yaaaay @joedolce.bsky.social <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzmx...

Unlearning Cisnormativity - Mozilla Festival 2025 This year at Mozilla Festival, we unlearned the old rules of the internet to imagine new ways to build, connect, and create together. Watch the highlights on-demand.

At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice."

The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:

www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...

@mozilla.org

The ever brilliant @alexhanna.bsky.social has a rundown of #MozFest, including the backstory on how and why we organized a last-minute main stage panel on Unlearning Cisnormativity

MozFest 2025: Rupture, Narrative, and Trans Justice I had the opportunity to attend MozFest -- Mozilla's annual festival -- the weekend of November 7 to 9 in Barcelona, Spain. Taking place in the absolutely...

At #MozFest 2025, rupture met repair, and new stories took root.

MozFest speaker and moderator @alexhanna.bsky.social reflects on a weekend of unlearning, from privacy to trans justice, and how imagination can reshape the future of tech.

Alex's thoughtful takeaways here 👉

bit.ly/3JXV6DP

Highlights Join MozFest 2026 — the global AI policy summit, digital rights event, and open source festival for a healthier internet. Sign up now for updates and early access.

Mozilla Festival 2025 Highlights

"If you couldn’t make it this year, don’t worry—you can now watch all recorded sessions for free, including keynotes from Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Chelsea Manning and many others. Be inspired to keep unlearning defaults." #mozfest

www.mozillafestival.org/2025-highlig...

At #MozFest one of the debaters was introducing it as a new movement, people acknowledging that they can't change the world so they focus their efforts in a single area, a small group with limited reach.

The equivalent to tending your little co-op garden instead of fighting climate change.

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"We say the unsaid when everyone is afraid to.." You can still catch @bencollins.bsky.social #MozFest talk on "Why Satire Is Important for Good Tech" here>>: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ4T...

1. The System (James Ball) 2. No Place to Hide (Glenn Greenwald) 3. The Sublime Object of Ideology (Slavoj Žižek) 3. Animal Farm (George Orwell) 4. Utopia for Realists (Rutger Bregman) 5. Winners Take All (Anand Giridharadas) 6. American Girls (Nancy Jo Sales) 7. FireWeather (John Vaillant) 8. Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists & Engineers 9. The Whole Story (Design)

1. Second Life (Amanda Hess) 2. Anti-Oedipus (Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari) 3. Viral Justice (Ruha Benjamin) 4. Digital Empires (Anu Bradford) 5. Wisdom Takes Work (Ryan Holiday) 6. Quit Everything (By Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi) 7. The Art of Invisibility (Kevin Mitnick) 8. Gender Outlaws (The Next Generation) 9. The Shockwave Rider (John Brunner) 10. Artificial Wisdom (Thomas R. Weaver

1. Uncovering Algorithms (Edited by Natalia Domagala) 2. 1984 (George Orwell) 3. Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World (Adele Zeynep Walton) 4. People’s Republic of Walmart (Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworksi) 5. Tools and Weapons (Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne) 6. The Seven Rules of Trust (Jimmy Wales) 7. What’s Your Dream? (Simon Squibb) 8. Linux Basics for Hackers (OccupyTheWeb) 9. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation 10. Data Feminism (Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein) 11. More than a Glitch (Meredith Broussard)

1. Quantum Leaps (Hugh Barker) 2. Glitch Feminism (Legacy Russell) 3. Artificial Unintelligence (Meredith Broussard) 4. Chokepoint Capitalism (Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow) 5. Operation Sandworm (Andy Greenberg) 6. Permanent Record (Edward Snowden) 7. The Eye of the Master (Matteo Pasquinelli) 8. How to Think About AI (Richard Susskind) 9. Chokepoints (Edward Fishman)

There was a comfy library area at #MozFest. 📚

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Here’s a few of the stacks, and the image alt text has the list of books displayed written out. Mostly non-fiction, for readers interested in activism, digital rights, social justice, and systemic change.

#BookSky #Books

Cori Crider and Robin Berjon standing in front of a slide showing the arm wrestling meme with “breaking monopoly, enforcing law” on one bicep and “building alternatives” on the other with freedom in between

Still thinking about how @coricrider.com said its not so much “walled gardens” as “cock fighting cages” at #MozFest last week

Back from #MozFest 2025! Our session on tech monopolies & profit models showed one truth: change needs collective action.

Read our reflections in Counterbalance: https://substack.pulse.ly/ext0o4lqdq #MozFest #DigitalRights

Last week, @b-cavello.bsky.social spoke at Mozilla Festival about how to ensure AI tools advance UN #SDGs, breaking down ways to align AI developers' goals with those of communities. See pics from #MozFest here, and learn about our work on this on our website: www.aspendigital.org/project/ai-b...

I’m just flying back from Barcelona and I’ve got another 20 minutes to practice my thumb gymnastics, so here’s a brief post about the 15th Mozilla Festival. Actually, it’s not about Mozfest at all. Because this years Mozfest didn’t really feel like a Mozfest to me. Maybe in other parts of the venue there were people building the future and making the technology that will someday become ubiquitous? Talk is talk and that’s fine, but I didn’t even SEE people with laptops let alone hacking away at things together. I heard, at this Mozfest, about legacies dismissed or forgotten. “Mozfest” stickers were being _sold_ (!?) This post is about my community. My people. The internet OGs and radically open technologists who, despite _waves around at everything_ still fight the good fight. These people are sitting inside of global NGOs, local governments, fortune 500s, think tanks and so on. Like me, they take the values of open, participatory, community driven, tech for good with them wherever they go. _Have I arrived yet?_ Luckily for me, Mozilla supported a coincidental meetup for some of the Mozilla Alum spread out across the world. For those of us who could make it to Barcelona, Mozilla sponsored accommodations and a one day alumni event. As always, it wasn’t the organised togetherness that made the event valuable to me (although we did do a Paella Cooking class together that was pretty cool.) It was the moment that a former Mozilla engineer I had never met before and I realised that very obscure 90s references don’t always fall flat. It was the snapshot in the elevator of a former intern laughing about a wild elevator ride from the night before. It was the deep talks with a friend I didn’t manage to keep up with. It was a canoe in the bylaws. The inside jokes, the promises to have each other’s backs. The offers of help. We said, the Mozilla alumni who were in a circle together all day on Friday, we said that finding the Mozilla community back in the day was when we found belonging. That is still the case, but nowadays it doesn’t have much to do with Mozilla or does it? We, the Open Web community of ye olde past, are still here. The Old Guard at a societal level. People who believe, still, that the web we want is open, decentralised. People who know how much we’ve won, even if everyone says we lost. We know about the real impact of our lives and careers. We’re still doing the work, with or without Mozilla’s help. We have been and we will continue to do so. Even if Mozfest felt…off… seeing that the Mozilla leadership values and understands the power and influence they helped incubate was a nice way to spend a weekend in Barcelona.

Oompf I don't even feel like sharing stuff, I'm so tired. But also, here's my #mozfest post: www.laurahilliger.com/techie/obligatory-mozfes...

Obligatory Mozfest post – Laura Hilliger

Obligatory #mozfest post: www.laurahilliger.com/techie/oblig...

I’m just flying back from Barcelona and I’ve got another 20 minutes to practice my thumb gymnastics, so here’s a brief post about the 15th Mozilla Festival. Actually, it’s not about Mozfest at all. Because this years Mozfest didn’t really feel like a Mozfest to me. Maybe in other parts of the venue there were people building the future and making the technology that will someday become ubiquitous? Talk is talk and that’s fine, but I didn’t even SEE people with laptops let alone hacking away at things together. I heard, at this Mozfest, about legacies dismissed or forgotten. “Mozfest” stickers were being _sold_ (!?) This post is about my community. My people. The internet OGs and radically open technologists who, despite _waves around at everything_ still fight the good fight. These people are sitting inside of global NGOs, local governments, fortune 500s, think tanks and so on. Like me, they take the values of open, participatory, community driven, tech for good with them wherever they go. _Have I arrived yet?_ Luckily for me, Mozilla supported a coincidental meetup for some of the Mozilla Alum spread out across the world. For those of us who could make it to Barcelona, Mozilla sponsored accommodations and a one day alumni event. As always, it wasn’t the organised togetherness that made the event valuable to me (although we did do a Paella Cooking class together that was pretty cool.) It was the moment that a former Mozilla engineer I had never met before and I realised that very obscure 90s references don’t always fall flat. It was the snapshot in the elevator of a former intern laughing about a wild elevator ride from the night before. It was the deep talks with a friend I didn’t manage to keep up with. It was a canoe in the bylaws. The inside jokes, the promises to have each other’s backs. The offers of help. We said, the Mozilla alumni who were in a circle together all day on Friday, we said that finding the Mozilla community back in the day was when we found belonging. That is still the case, but nowadays it doesn’t have much to do with Mozilla or does it? We, the Open Web community of ye olde past, are still here. The Old Guard at a societal level. People who believe, still, that the web we want is open, decentralised. People who know how much we’ve won, even if everyone says we lost. We know about the real impact of our lives and careers. We’re still doing the work, with or without Mozilla’s help. We have been and we will continue to do so. Even if Mozfest felt…off… seeing that the Mozilla leadership values and understands the power and influence they helped incubate was a nice way to spend a weekend in Barcelona.

Obligatory Mozfest post I’m just flying back from Barcelona and I’ve got another 20 minutes to practice my thumb gymnastics, so here’s a brief post about the 15th Mozilla Festival. Actually, ...

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photo with all my stickers! on my laptop are a “don’t ask for my number, dm me on germ”, a blacksky algorithms, a mdn, a mozilla, a shiny mozilla festival, a “fork the system”, a firefox logo, a mozilla festival and for loose stickers we have the sticker sheet from mozilla, a couple different mozilla data collective stickers, a non-shiny mozilla festival sticker, a different colorway of the blacksky sticker and a big version as well, one more of each germ sticker, a firefox fan club sticker, a firefox nightly sticker, another mdn sticker

i’m back home now, and so this is my day 3 and final #MozFest sticker update!

i’m glad i ended up going, there were lots of interesting talks and booths, i got to meet some people, i got to explore barcelona, it was really fun!

a photo of Foxy, the firefox mascot, holding a blobcat plushie

this may be the greatest photo i’ve ever taken #MozFest

It's the next day, and I've just landed back in the UK after my first #MozFest ever as a guest. 10 years as #MozHelp before...

Was great to see so many old faces, and new. Already looking forward to the next.

Our Local Lab team was excited to share experiments and compare notes at #MozFest in Barcelona this weekend