It's the Weird Wild Web, and you know it! Of all the promises, that one was kept: we can observe it through the pocket-calculators. Seen from planet dyne however, the popcorn is always included! 🍿

Stay weird. Stay free. https://news.dyne.org/planetdyne-s2026-e03/

Planet dyne makes a point in being everywhere: New social media thingy? You'll find us there, puncturing the silo!

We are preparing a big conference on March 19–22 2026 in Berlin.

EXPOSING CRIMES IS NOT A CRIME The Real-World Consequences of WikiLeaks

More than 30 speakers including whistleblowers from the NSA, CIA, FBI, GCHQ, and the military are coming together offering first-hand insights into the systems of power investigated by WikiLeaks.

To support this and future events, the Logan Foundation has offered to double individual donations*. If we manage to raise 10,000 USD in donations by February 28, we will receive an additional 10,000 USD. Only 8 days are left!

It would be wonderful if some of you would like to join in and donate here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/donate

p.s. Tomorrow Feb 20 there will be a ticket discount of 50% from 17 to 21! https://www.disruptionlab.org/exposing-crimes-is-not-a-crime#tickets

*donations should come from individuals

Some things change, others evolve. It's all a matter of perspective in Space and Time: there are many different ways to keep a calendar. Hopefully, the constant is you feeling comfort in this newsletter finding you. Ideally, somewhere in the new social: the Local.

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.

This trend needs to be turned around, and not by means of the usual patchwork but through a fundamental rethinking of the system for R&I funding. We believe that a very promising avenue for such a turnaround would be a shift from project-based funding to continuous funding for R&I networks.

Such a shift would have significant benefits, as it would drastically reduce the time spent on writing and reviewing grant proposals, make results much more sustainable, and largely eliminate precarious labour. It is not a catch-all solution that would replace all R&I funding, but would be a valuable addition to the current funding ecosystem. It could quite easily be tried out as a pilot and scaled up if proven successful.

On the digital battleground, one side is surveillance and control. The other: freedom and community. Dyne.org is on the front lines.

This isn’t about patchwork fixes. It’s about a a different path. In this issue, we explore the foundations for what comes next!

There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to.

📢 Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Planet Dyne is back with the glow! A wild Jaromil on Italian TV, the powerful but tiny neon shiny lsget, call for proposals, actions and MOAR, in Episode 07 of your favorite newsletter!

Seasons are just Earth’s way of reminding us it’s always someone’s turn to hibernate or spontaneously combust with ideas.

In a tumultuous galaxy, dynes across the network exchange know-how and action items. Resilient, sovereign, and steady.