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The Next Generation Internet (NGI) program from the European Commission has been crucial for the development of many open-source products, including the free social media Mastodon, a project born in EU and at the moment the only real alternative to X, Facebook Meta, Microsoft Linkedin and other private american social media.

NGI is one of the best initiatives worldwide to finance work on Open Source Software projects.

Wittystore did not received NGI EU funds but is supporting this open letter in favor of the NGI programs, and is calling on the European Commission to not shut them down.

For centuries, we’ve asked humans to become machines. Now, we’re asking machines to become human.
This is the paradox of artificial intelligence: after pushing people toward extreme specialization, today we’re designing algorithms that can do everything.
After locking individuals into increasingly rigid roles, we aspire to create machines that are flexible, curious, and versatile. In other words, intelligent.

“Ego cogito, ergo sum, sive existo”.

"I think, therefore I am, or rather, I exist".

With these words, René Descartes(1) drew a boundary between being and illusion. To think was to prove one’s existence. The self, in this logic, was not the body, nor the voice, nor the action, but the thinker behind them. It was this inner witness, this private certainty, that constituted the essence of being human.