♾️ Beyond Broken Infrastructure (S2025-E08)

Amidst the digital equivalent of underfunded aqueducts and brittle bridges, dynes keep building. This isn’t about patchwork fixes. It’s about a different path. In this issue, we explore the foundations for what comes next: from re-imagining how innovation is funded, to forging anonymous age checks that protect rather than police, and the sovereign code that makes it all possible. Let's stop maintaining the ruins and start building anew.

💡 Rethinking R&I Funding: Opting for Continuity

There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to. The growing competition for R&I project grants overburdens the R&I system, generates bursts of activity leading to unsustainable results, and fuels the much-maligned growth of precarious labour.

👶🏽 Age Verification for Humans

Europe is rolling out one of the largest online age verification experiments. Jaromil examines the EUDI wallet prototype—how its privacy-preserving, zero-knowledge core is being defused by its implementation. Fresh from a Berlin digital identity retreat, he shares the most urgent takeaways.

📖 Read a book

When word came about that "How to use a Terminal" was impossible to locate on the interwebz, some dynes had to intervene. This document is a foundation for many inhabitants of the planet. So it was ported to mkdocs and stored on the dyne.org domain.

It's not perfect yet and requires a little more formatting, but perhaps You would be the good Samaridyne that will help finish the touch-up? Pull requests are more than welcome! If you do, when (not if) it's printed on paper, you can bet your nick will be prominently featured!

🥷🏽 Conspire

Conspire is a chat for radical exchange: ephemeral, anonymous, synchronous, and free. A whisper network for organizing loud rebellion. Ephemeral chats that bloom and vanish, anonymous voices meeting in digital safe houses. No logs, no masters, no footprints—just pure, peer-to-peer signal. Built for those who believe privacy isn’t a feature, but a right. This is digital autonomy in its most elegant form: a practical “no” to #chatcontrol, wrapped in a tool that feels like magic.

Conspire is 100% free and open source software running as a single binary, written in C++ and based on the Oat++ framework. Our source code is a fork of “can-chat” available on git dyne/conspire.

🖖 Please help us fund it! Vote for CONSPIRE on Gitcoin

Funding will enable ARM porting for an embedded “Conspire Box” system with captive portal capability: a WiFi hotspot will present the chat interface to on-site connecting clients. Security enhancements will include Tor hidden-service integration and security hardening, such as Address Sanitiser (ASAN), static analysis, and penetration testing.

🫂 Vote CONSPIRE

🗣️ Policy Voices

AI here, AI there, slop, FOMO, and anxiety everywhere! You may be enjoying AI and use it in your daily tasks, but you're probably going to agree that there are many problems with it. Maybe not so much the tool itself (just maybe), but definitely on the level of ownership, governance, resources, infrastructures, and the power imbalances. Of course, where there is worry, there are dynes working hard at lifting spirits, painting sovereign perspectives, and manifesting a different reality. This happens in public settings like the Friends of Europe's Policy Voices, and more intimate settings like the Montreux Jazz Festival Residency.

Listen to what Jaromil has to say about the challenges for Europe in this strange race towards autonomy for robots.

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💣 It's noooow or neveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

In its 22nd edition, the Festival of Politics and Ideas confronted the challenges Europe faces, debated the policies that matter, and how to be bold in resetting Europe’s direction. And the redaction knows what you're thinking: "I didn't hear about this?!"

Well, dyne did, and went there. This may be reassuring, but there is a lot of work to do, and your involvement is going to be required at some point. To build a Europe by the people for the people requires, well, people.

But hey: no shaming! All that planet dyne cares for is that you be aware that you matter! And remember, if you ever feel lonely in your struggles, the planet is just a click away.

Teleport

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

— Henry David Thoreau

10k Drum Machines

🍿 Movie time!

Ever find yourself thinking that movies are great, but the resolution these days... is too dang high!

Well, we got the tool for you! ASCII rules! Everything looks better in ASCII, so do movies! Pop those corns, plug the ~~copmuter~~ computer in the home-theater, and revisit some classics in their bestest resolution!

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A Creative Triage for a Feverish Planet: PACESETTERS Summit Polyclinic of Creative Practice

🗓️ 12–16 November 2025
📍 La Térmica, Málaga, Spain.

This November, the PACESETTERS consortium is not hosting a conference. It is opening a Polyclinic of Creative Practice—a five-day, live-diagnosis summit in Málaga for Europe’s cultural immune system.

Forget siloed panels. This is a creative field hospital with seven distinct departments, each treating a different symptom of our stagnant status quo. We will be:

Unlearning the Creative Self (Dissolving the myth of the lone genius)
Prescribing Aesthetic Resilience (The antibody to artificial intelligence)
Practicing Collective Entrepreneurship (Monetizing the commons without poisoning it)

Featuring a keynote from Teresa Ribera, the Horizon Europe project will showcase its mid-term findings: proof that culture isn't a decorative flourish, but the very substrate of climate and social transformation.

This is more than a meeting. It's a triage unit for the imagination. Your participation is a diagnostic tool.

👉 Arrive with symptoms. Leave with a treatment plan.
Register now here: