John Tinker

Poland’s digitalisation strategy now formally includes an open source chapter promoting OS software, open standards, and reduced dependence on proprietary systems 🇵🇱🧩
The policy also establishes OSPO-style coordination and pilot funding for public-sector deployments through local government open source projects 🏛️🔓

🔗 https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/poland-adds-open-source-chapter-its-digitalisation-strategy

#TechNews #OpenSource #Poland #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #PublicSector #OSPO #EU #Europe #Policy #Technology #Government #OpenStandards #Privacy #OS #Software

People power works: evil Thiel’s Ireland retreat cancelled after campaign

In a sign of how hollow power can be once confronted, a Wicklow hotel has cancelled a Peter Thiel led event after a relatively brief campaign from Irish activists.

A collection of the world’s most despicable ruling class parasites were set to infest the Powerscourt Hotel as part of a conference run by a secretive group called Dialog. Co-founded by tyranny advocate and genocide backer Thiel in 2006, Dialog were set to use the meeting just south of Dublin to discuss topics entitled Navigating WWIII, Battlefield Technologies and Build-a-Cult.
4 July 2026

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/07/04/peter-thiel-ireland/

Associated Press: Another New York resident says he was warned by officers after criticizing ICE. “An attorney representing David Streever, of Rochester, said Streever was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his home last week and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that an email he sent months earlier was a threat.”

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.

There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.

#Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine