Steve Song
@manypossibilities.net
Local hands building local networks.
Open Data in telecoms https://linktr.ee/opentelecomdata
Day job: https://isoc.org
Views my own.
Open Data in telecoms https://linktr.ee/opentelecomdata
Day job: https://isoc.org
Views my own.
What is community-centred connectivity? youtube.com/shorts/AOhsM...
Community-Centered Connectivity
YouTube video by Internet Society
youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What is community-centred connectivity? youtube.com/shorts/AOhsM...
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Catch us this week at #MediaParty happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for an #PIMFargentina / Sandbox event 'Internet Pulse: Visibilizando la salud de la red'
ft @manypossibilities.net, @joaoaguiar.blog.br, Juan Peirano, and Hernan Seoane
pulse.internetsociety.org/en/events/pu...
ft @manypossibilities.net, @joaoaguiar.blog.br, Juan Peirano, and Hernan Seoane
pulse.internetsociety.org/en/events/pu...
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Catch us this week at #MediaParty happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for an #PIMFargentina / Sandbox event 'Internet Pulse: Visibilizando la salud de la red'
ft @manypossibilities.net, @joaoaguiar.blog.br, Juan Peirano, and Hernan Seoane
pulse.internetsociety.org/en/events/pu...
ft @manypossibilities.net, @joaoaguiar.blog.br, Juan Peirano, and Hernan Seoane
pulse.internetsociety.org/en/events/pu...
The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) website is now live at ofds.info. Tell your friends!
Home — Open Fibre Data Standard
ofds.info
September 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) website is now live at ofds.info. Tell your friends!
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The book Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power is here!
Proud that our #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager, Felicia Anthonio, and MENA Campaigner, @kassemmnejja.bsky.social, contributed.
Dive in ▶️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Proud that our #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager, Felicia Anthonio, and MENA Campaigner, @kassemmnejja.bsky.social, contributed.
Dive in ▶️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The book Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power is here!
Proud that our #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager, Felicia Anthonio, and MENA Campaigner, @kassemmnejja.bsky.social, contributed.
Dive in ▶️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Proud that our #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager, Felicia Anthonio, and MENA Campaigner, @kassemmnejja.bsky.social, contributed.
Dive in ▶️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.
I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.
We need a government that serves the many, not the money.
Join in. lewisforleader.ca/
youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.
We need a government that serves the many, not the money.
Join in. lewisforleader.ca/
youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
Why I’m running for NDP leader
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.
I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.
We need a government that serves the many, not the money.
Join in. lewisforleader.ca/
youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.
We need a government that serves the many, not the money.
Join in. lewisforleader.ca/
youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
Bill C-2 is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian! Tell our leaders to scrap this dangerous bill NOW! #StopBillC2 @OpenMediaOrg openmedia.org/Stop-BillC2-bsky
Stop Carney’s Surveillance Plan: Stop Bill C–2!
Bill C-2 threatens our privacy, erodes our freedoms, and grants the government unchecked surveillance powers. Tell Mark Carney: surrendering to U.S. data demands isn’t leadership — it’s a betrayal of ...
openmedia.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Bill C-2 is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian! Tell our leaders to scrap this dangerous bill NOW! #StopBillC2 @OpenMediaOrg openmedia.org/Stop-BillC2-bsky
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Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated
Alaa was not defeated!
Alaa was not defeated!
September 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated
Alaa was not defeated!
Alaa was not defeated!
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علاء علي الاسفلت!!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
September 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
علاء علي الاسفلت!!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
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Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist
Amazing news!!
Amazing news!!
Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist
The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted, according to state media.
www.bbc.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist
Amazing news!!
Amazing news!!
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Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints
Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints
Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace have decided otherwise. In a letter to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander, these two Republicans are demanding that Wikipedia hand over editor identities, internal communications, and arbitration records because some studies suggest there might be bias in Wikipedia articles about Israel-Palestine issues.
www.techdirt.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
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LLMs are actually the perfect technology for American business society at the moment: a tireless sycophantic yes man that confidently hallucinates whatever horse shit your friendless soul-void craves? Obviously this was always going to be a hit with American executives
August 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
LLMs are actually the perfect technology for American business society at the moment: a tireless sycophantic yes man that confidently hallucinates whatever horse shit your friendless soul-void craves? Obviously this was always going to be a hit with American executives
This. A thousand times this.
"True human companionship & emotional support cannot be programmed into a robot no matter how advanced our technologies can become, for companionship & emotional connection require sense-making & a value-positing consciousness."
i wrote this 7 rys ago & it still holds
medium.com/@Abebab/the-...
i wrote this 7 rys ago & it still holds
medium.com/@Abebab/the-...
August 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This. A thousand times this.
Crowd-sourced, interactive map outlining the connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. www.surveillancewatch.io
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
www.surveillancewatch.io
August 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Crowd-sourced, interactive map outlining the connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. www.surveillancewatch.io
The inimitable Russell Southwood of Balancing Act is back with a Substack! russellsouthwood.substack.com
For anyone who has followed African telecoms over the years, Russell's newsletter has been a go-to source of news and insight. Highly recommend. :-)
For anyone who has followed African telecoms over the years, Russell's newsletter has been a go-to source of news and insight. Highly recommend. :-)
Russell Southwood | Substack
Click to read Russell Southwood, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.
russellsouthwood.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The inimitable Russell Southwood of Balancing Act is back with a Substack! russellsouthwood.substack.com
For anyone who has followed African telecoms over the years, Russell's newsletter has been a go-to source of news and insight. Highly recommend. :-)
For anyone who has followed African telecoms over the years, Russell's newsletter has been a go-to source of news and insight. Highly recommend. :-)
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and @mmasnick.bsky.social with the silver pen: "Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are" at Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2025/07/09/l...
Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are
It’s not every day you watch a company faceplant so theatrically in public, but Cloud Innovation’s latest stunt deserves a slow clap. Cloud Innovation, which you’d probably never heard of unless yo…
www.techdirt.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
and @mmasnick.bsky.social with the silver pen: "Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are" at Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2025/07/09/l...
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Like others, I received a cease and desist letter [2] from Cloud Innovation regarding Emmanuel Vitus' Medium article "AFRINIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism". 1/
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Like others, I received a cease and desist letter [2] from Cloud Innovation regarding Emmanuel Vitus' Medium article "AFRINIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism". 1/
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Short form video is turning everyone's brains to mush
June 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Short form video is turning everyone's brains to mush
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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
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Here's one of the most important lessons from the creation of Direct File, IMHO: for a high-priority software project, an agency needs to protect a space for an Agile team to work in a user-centered, incremental way, damn the agency norms. A lot of people fought to protect that team, and it worked.
The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."
www.404media.co
June 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here's one of the most important lessons from the creation of Direct File, IMHO: for a high-priority software project, an agency needs to protect a space for an Agile team to work in a user-centered, incremental way, damn the agency norms. A lot of people fought to protect that team, and it worked.
Independent UN panel determines that Alaa is being illegally detained. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m.... #freealaa
Egypt illegally detaining Alaa Abd el-Fattah, UN investigators find
Report says British-Egyptian writer held for expressing political views and should be released without delay
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Independent UN panel determines that Alaa is being illegally detained. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m.... #freealaa
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In case you still have interest www.instagram.com/p/DJUeqQhJ_y...
May 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In case you still have interest www.instagram.com/p/DJUeqQhJ_y...
The Open Fibre Data Standard, a standardized way of describing terrestrial fibre optic networks. It's not rocket science but it could make a big difference. www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04...
The Open Fibre Data Standard - Internet Society
The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) is an open data, open standards initiative supported by the Internet Society.
www.internetsociety.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Open Fibre Data Standard, a standardized way of describing terrestrial fibre optic networks. It's not rocket science but it could make a big difference. www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04...