🌬️ Fresh breeze from the future (S2025-E04)

Congratulations, you have reached Q2. Can you imagine? It's 2025, robots are writing poems, and your phonographic pocket calculator teleports you to Planet Dyne at the tap of a glossy surface. Welcome back home, fellow dyne.

🧠 Building the future doesn't have to be a dirty job

... but someone has to do it! You may often find Dynes dreaming. But when utopias get too abstract, they tend to get busy hacking instead. One dyne pulls the curtain on three projects actively involving Dyne.org, and the technology stack we build to dismantle extraction and replace it with regeneration.

🐻 Carepunk

You knew about Care Bears already, you probably wouldn't read this newsletter otherwise. But have you heard about Carepunk? That's right: kindness is back! After years of online austerity, the world is waking up to a new reality: it's nice to be nice. It doesn't mean you have to love everybody to be a cool kid, this ain't no hippie shieeet. But if the intention starts within yourself, you are probably doing it right.

Carepunk is about a radical and practical reimagining of society—one where autonomy, solidarity, and community take precedence over exploitation and neglect. This transformation begins with the individual, extending to family, community, and society. It starts with you: staying true to your principles, values, and caring for them.

— PG

📰 Mainstream goes off-stream

It feels a little rich when established and well-funded media talk about the people organizing against oppression. But this is the state of the world: it can only take so much. The Guardian publishes a lengthy piece from interesting luxury leftists that stirs up constructive buzz on Planet Dyne. It's an interesting rupture from the current information landscape.

Perfection is the enemy of good enough. In a divided, cynical, and polarized world, it could be interesting to try focusing on things we have in common.

🎶 Sing along the good ol' song

Dynes rejoice as the EFF joins the choir to preach about the dangers of imposing digital identity on the population, without properly assessing the risks or by implementing it without any regard for privacy and security. A good melody ensues in the channel. To be clear, it ain't no tinfoil cat ensemble just because they have shiny outfits. But at this point, it is fair to assume that the only solutions brought forth by political assemblies, to any given societal problem, are means of prohibition and repression. Creativity and imagination simply cannot compete with lobbyists' money and influencers' egos.

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Or can they? Join the channels or comment on this post and let us know your thoughts!

☕ Coffee-break with a dyne

New segment just dropped, whodis? Get to meet the wonderful dynes behind Dyne.org in this mini-series of interviews. We talk code, hacking, passion, the simple life, the meaning of the universe, and everything...

👨🏾‍💻 Live & Direct from the terminal

A dyne lands on the planet bearing an interesting gift to the galaxy. Imagine dropping MIDI clips like there is no tomorrow! But not from some pesky proprietary mess!! And all of it from the comfort of your CLI!!!

That's tek for you! It's still in development, but it's beautifully promising! And it's got cool colors!

💌 Email, the right way?

Email is great, email is gold. But email is also old. Large portions of its network share are controlled by overlords who go to great lengths to prevent you from running your email server. But what if you could leverage the tech and make it new? With all messages encrypted at all times between the source and destination server! Compatible with your usual client, including IP over avian carrier! Well, it isn't too far-fetched! You just have to convince all your cuzzins to run with it!

📝 Manifesto for an Ethical and Human-Centrix A.I.

A new manifesto just dropped! Dynes don't dismiss the field of A.I. on the principle. But we're not impressed by the direction of the industry. On this planet, we're interested in tech helping and empowering humans. The majority of the existing AI tools do not fulfill this basic requirement. That doesn't mean there is no future in the field. Show us energy efficient FOSS AI and we'll hack away at it like the happy dynes we've always been!

📺 Live on Dyne TV

The excellent Divya Ranjan Pattanaik has started a channel on DyneTV where they live stream Emacs package development. Divya Ranjan has an interesting approach to the underlying intersections between philosophy (φ), mathematics (μ), and logic (λ).

Not many people know, but you can subscribe to Peertube accounts, comment, and like their posts from Mastodon. To do so, paste the following handle in the search function of your instance to fetch the channel's Fediverse account: @divyaranjan@tv.dyne.org

Dyne.org Fashion Starterpack - Spring 2025

The swag of the cool cats

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🔍 Somethings you cannot unsee

Silence is better than... what's the name of the goo that comes out of a bull's bottom again?

This came as no surprise on planet dyne, many dynes have been versed in this symbolism for decades.

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Expo Cyber Security on the beach

A dyne will join this cyber-security conference spoken in Italian and close to a south-eastern beach on the peninsula. What can ever go wrong? well as usual in cybersec there are still a lot of unknown unknowns....

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Technoscience for Good

Designing, Caring, and Reconfiguring

Here we go with the the biennial conference of STS Italia – The Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology. A dyne will join the program on 11 June in Milano with answers to the conference question: how might we work towards achieving ‘good’ technoscience? How can we – with our various technologies and ways of knowing, in diverse environments facing different challenges, across disciplinary boundaries and wide distances both geographical as well as socio-cultural, together with Others of all sorts – achieve good relations?

NGI Forum 2025 in June in BXL

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative continues to evolve, building on past successes while addressing new challenges in Europe’s digital landscape. As emerging technologies reshape the way we interact online, NGI remains committed to ensuring that the Internet of the future is open, inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable.

The NGI Forum 2025 will focus on the building of an Open Internet Stack conducive to European digital sovereignty and users’ empowerment. Of course dynes will be there to pave the way and recount all the success stories we have so far.

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Metrics & Open-Source Innovation for Impact

🗓️ 27th of May 2025
🕑 2 pm CEST

The planet will be represented by the wonderful Miha, in a public online event organized as a Round Table series, part of the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation, run by Fab City Foundation.

Topic: Data journey: what we don’t see, why we don’t see it, exploring ‘different pair of glasses’! Connecting dots and investigating touchpoints between public administration and essential services and the technological reliance and dependence on big tech. Alternative lines of action and the role of free software and open data formats in shaping sustainable urban transitions.

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