Mark Boyd
markboyd.bsky.social
Mark Boyd
@markboyd.bsky.social
Mostly here to talk about how to build open digital ecosystems where everyone can participate and co-create (platformable.com) and to share my queer fetish comedy fiction (akamarkboyd.com). He/him 🏳️‍🌈📚
Celeste’s new album comes out tomorrow. Here’s a demo from it that got me so excited: tidal.com/browse/track...
Celeste - Woman Of Faces (Demo)
Listen to Woman Of Faces (Demo) on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I'm starting to plan my trip to Paris for 8-13 December. Anyone want to meet up and talk open digital ecosystems while i am there?
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Read @robin.berjon.com on cloud infrastructure

Europe must embrace a “break-and-build” strategy:
“break” entrenched monopolies and
“build” its own digital infrastructure and addressing on a sector-by-sector basis

@projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/5baiDt6?refe...
How Many More Cloud Scares Does Europe Need?
Robin Berjon urges the EU to dismantle the entrenched US monopolies that are undermining the goal of tech sovereignty.
prosyn.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Unlearning data collection by looking at new citizen generated data models at #mozfest with Datalabe
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Hearing @ruha9.bsky.social today set me up for the rest of the year and for 2026, to be building and supporting alternatives that help us all jump from the current cycle’s endgame to a new world we are all welcome to participate and create in.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We’ve just launched our Global Digital Health Policy Dashboard, aiming to become an ecosystem view of digital health in each country. Have a look at our beta release and let us know what you think: platformable.com/blog/global-...
Introducing our Global Digital Health Policy Dashboard
Before building out a digital health go to market strategy, or embarking on a digital health initiative in any country, it is important to be able to understand the digital health policy context. The ...
platformable.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Great start to my first mozfest with @robin.berjon.com and @coricrider.com talking about how to break, build and enforce new digital infrastructure for democratic societies
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“Breaking up monopolies is a creative act” - @coricrider.com at MozFest. Fascinating, funny and inspiring start to the day
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Following @rebeccawilliams.info civictech and govtech career for years: she has an outstanding capacity to think through how tech can be in service of communities i hope @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s team sees this.
Lots of very good ideas in here for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about what it might look like to have a tech policy agenda aligned with human rights principles.
By resisting surveillance and extraction and pursuing goals such as affordability, dignity, and justice, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani can show how technology can truly serve people, writes Rebecca Williams. The first step, she says, is to protect immigrants.
buff.ly/Mwk8vRu
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Looking forward to attending this and meeting some of the @openfuture.bsky.social team
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I’m going to Mozilla Festival 2025 in Barcelona this November! Join me there to help build a better, healthier internet. mzl.la/3HDm6HF
Attend Mozilla Festival
Join MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, Nov 7–9 — the global AI policy summit, digital rights event & open source festival for a healthier internet.
mzl.la
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I want to commit myself to this going forward. New strategy to swap from my friday afternoon linkedin fightback cycle (see my previous post where i got into it about AGI this week). This suggestion feels more aligned with what im trying to do more generally: build new options for the future
The best way to "respond" to a bad take is not to mention the original take at all. It's to make a new statement that is actually true/that you want to magnify and share that instead. Its making a new story; building a stronger and more compelling narrative.
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Just realised i have a habit of picking arguments on LinkedIn on Friday afternoons about AI. By the end of the week i think i get fed up & cant resist saying something. Today, Gartner showed AGI on an AI adoption spectrum. But the fine print admits it would require technologies not even built yet!!!
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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We're releasing our health data governance learning course as a series of blog posts every friday. And combining it with open office hours coming up from mid-November. Join us to discuss how to improve your health data governance practices: platformable.com/blog/health-...
Health Data Governance Framework (Data Governance for Digital Health Ecosystems 1)
Good health data governance will be essential for European Health Data Space (EHDS) readiness, to meet regulatory requirements, to enter markets around the globe, and to leverage AI. Effective health ...
platformable.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I love that my work is mostly writing, and i pride myself somewhat on identifying as a "writer". But writing also physically hurts a lot of the time. It feels like molasses rolling down two sides of a hill and i am waiting for them to connect in the valley between, its excruciating.
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
May i suggest a new term? I know we have ai slop for the content generated by ai but may i propose AI gunk to refer to the worsening of google workspace, miro, and other globally distributed architecture software that now glitches more often or is slow to work cos of all the ai gunk clogging it up
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Looking forward to attending this tomorrow. Keen to hear how i can continue to foster open digital ecosystems through future policy making and action in europe
It’s nearly time: Think & Do 2025 is happening this Wednesday.

We’re excited to welcome you to a packed day of bold ideas, strange futures, and the hard questions Europe needs to face on tech.

Find all the information here:

👉 cfg.eu/event/think-...

#ThinkAndDo2025
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We need more strategies that discuss how to build non-AI solutions for competitive advantage. Here’s my contribution: platformable.com/blog/ai-bloc...
Product or Feature Idea: AI Blocker
In Platformable's API Economy in the Age of AI - State of the Market Report, we expect to see a growing number of non-AI related product and feature offerings emerge. We discuss the six drivers for no...
platformable.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Loving digging into this: cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Superb graphics and excellent look at full “value” chain of genAI. Useful for mapping impacts and addressing challenges with genAI adoption
Cartography of generative AI
cartography-of-generative-ai.net
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The EU can’t miss the chance to build fairer, stronger, more efficient supply chains.

Ahead of the #JURI vote on 13 Oct, we urge MEPs to reject political blackmail and defend the core elements of the #CSDDD.🤝

#Omnibus
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch
October 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM