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04.06 2026
№ 71

Fatherhood Family Generations

In Deeds, Not Words

My father never once told me he loved me. He showed me, and that was all, and it took me forty years and a child of my own to understand it. For once I am not writing about code or European rules.

6′ reading time

1,362 words

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27.05 2026
№ 69

AI AI Act Digital Sovereignty Compliance Ethics Humanism

The Human Is a Stance

I am an atheist, I come from philosophy, I work in European compliance. Leo XIV's first encyclical on artificial intelligence is not something I signed, it is something I argued with. And I found in it a vocabulary that Brussels still lacks.

10′ reading time

2,096 words

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13.05 2026
№ 67

AI Act AI Compliance EU Regulation IT Market Work

Twelve Jobs in Search of a Market

The first national European standard on AI professional profiles was published on 30 April. It is worth taking seriously, and it is worth mistrusting in the right way.

6′ reading time

1,312 words

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08.05 2026
№ 66

Responsible Design Parenting Attention Economy Digital Addiction Ethics

I Say No at Night, I Use the Same Tools in the Morning

At night I say no to my three-year-old who wants the tablet for a little longer. I say it for one specific reason, and from that reason a free book was born.

8′ reading time

1,727 words

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07.05 2026
№ 65

Compliance Italian Market IT Advisory Digital Sovereignty ACN

The Compliance Hourglass

A map of the Italian compliance market drawn from the inside: specialist advisory at the top, platforms at the bottom, the middle layer crushed between them. And the one specifically Italian piece—ACN—that bends the rules.

7′ reading time

1,768 words

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05.05 2026
№ 64

Digital Sovereignty GDPR AI Act DSA Politics OF Technology

The Spectre We Are

A long reckoning with European digital regulation seen from the outside—by those who hate it—and a counter-reading from inside, by those who translate those rules into technical objects every working day.

22′ reading time

4,950 words

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01.05 2026
№ 63

Compliance PLD AI Act CRA EU Regulation

The Contract's Deception

On why the software supply contract, as we have known it, has stopped being the central instrument of the relationship between vendor and client — and how much it costs to keep pretending it still is.

19′ reading time

4.180 words

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01.05 2026
№ 62

Compliance Work Software Development AI Act Labour Market

The Rise of the Compliance Engineer

On the figure now emerging from the gap between software engineering and European regulation, and on why almost no one is noticing in time.

16′ reading time

3.520 words

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01.05 2026
№ 61

Compliance AI Act PLD Technical Debt Philosophy OF Technology

The Specification Debt

On why the document that certifies the system ages worse than the code that implements it, and why the next generation of civil software-liability cases will be fought over the specification.

19′ reading time

4.420 words

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29.04 2026
№ 60

Wellbeing AI Work Time Philosophy OF Technology

The Shape the Day Lost

There's a diffuse tiredness we don't know how to name. It doesn't come from doing more: it comes from living inside a time that has lost its shape. AI doesn't speed the activity up — it replaces it with another, and the body, calibrated over years, can no longer read the day.

7′ reading time

1.310 words

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