Elies Campo

Fellow @CitizenLab. I like to build things. In love with the world, humanity, and its diversity. Formerly Growth, Business & Partnerships @Telegram & @WhatsApp.

[Vocdoni 🗳️ Secure digital voting @vocdoni]

Quan una decisió afecta prop de 100.000 persones, la confiança en el procés és imprescindible. Més de 60.000 docents de Catalunya han participat en una consulta vinculant impulsada per @USTECSTEs, @CGTCatalunya i @LaIntersindical.

Dades clau:
🗳️ 60.686 vots emesos
👥 99.305 docents convocats
🔍 Verificació oberta del procés
🔒 Privacitat garantida

El cas d'èxit de la consulta dels docents de Catalunya amb Vocdoni:
https://t.co/gmivrASgGQ

[NacióDigital @naciodigital]

L'empresa catalana Vocdoni ha elaborat la votació impulsada per USTEC, CGT i Intersindical per decidir el futur del conflicte educatiu

✍️ @mira_gerard
https://t.co/UHdDbvIHqo

[Pau 🏴‍☠️ @wildp4u]

Today, almost 100k educators in Catalunya are deciding what happens next with the education strikes. And the vote is running on @vocdoni.

This is precisely why we build open-source voting tech; this is how we democratize access to secure voting.

1/7 🧵

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa

[Elies Campo @elies]

By default, your @Telegram chats, groups, and channels are NOT end-to-end encrypted. Telegram holds the keys. @Durov can read your messages. In front of an @OsloFF audience of dissidents, this reinforces a false sense of safety among the exact people who can least afford it.

[Elies Campo @elies]

Inviting @Durov & celebrating @Telegram as a champion of freedom is a form of privacy-washing, or Security Theater to stretch @schneierblog's term. @HRF @OsloFF is wrapping an insecure tool in the credibility of the human-rights movement. Telegram is not secure.

[Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) @OsloFF]

🌍 @Durov will be speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum in just a few days in Oslo, Norway.

Pavel Durov is a technology entrepreneur known for championing freedom of expression. He is the founder and CEO of Telegram, a globally popular messaging platform. Before launching Telegram, Durov founded VKontakte (VK), which became Russia’s largest and most influential social network.

Join us at the Oslo Freedom Forum → https://t.co/oCvH0zH5y4

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

With the tower of Jesus Christ completed, the Basilica of the Sagrada Família inspires emotion with the ensemble of finished central towers.

[PhotoPills @photopills]

“Photo of the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, captured at sunrise with the Sun behind it, from a distance of around 15 km)."
📷 OM System 1 | 500mm | ƒ/9 | 1/80s | ISO 200 | ND1000
👉 Photo by Mario Ribera.
📍 Planned with PhotoPills: https://t.co/P4CRT3PZbi

[Elies Campo @elies]

Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas
of His Holiness @Pontifex on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
https://t.co/9Xdskm7jGs

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Building a city founded on the common good implies, first and foremost, building upon the firm foundation of a relationship with God. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Àlex Hinojo @AlexHinojo]

Aquesta setmana la @Viquipedia en català ha arribat als 2 milions de pàgines. Això inclou totes les pàgines del wiki, incloses les pàgines de discussió, redireccions, etc.

A data d'avui, tenim 794.277 articles editats i revisats per humans, que parlem la mateixa llengua. Seguim!

[Seth Howes @SethSHowes]

I just sequenced a human genome to 30× coverage entirely at home.

As far as I know, this is the first time this has been done.

I didn’t step foot in a lab once. Every step - from saliva collection, to running the sequencer - took place in a single room with a dining table + kitchenette.

Six weeks ago, I had never done wet lab biology before.

I used an Oxford Nanopore P2 Solo - the only commercially available sequencing device portable enough to do 30x human genome sequencing at home.

Biggest takeaway - I could build something that combined software, hardware, and molecular biology far faster than I thought was possible.

I can name >100 specific instances where AI helped me solve a technical problem that would previously have blocked me because I lacked access to a domain expert.

For example: how do I save my sequencing run when my DNA extraction yield is 4x lower than I need it to be, and I have this limited set of reagents to hand?

To make this work, I had to navigate multiple disciplines:

- writing software to monitor sequencing runs and orchestrate remote GPU infra for basecalling
- learning + executing 5 hour long molecular biology protocols
- building a hardware device to quantify DNA concentration

Apologies for the hyperbole, but I feel super lucky to be living in 2026.

A few weeks ago I decided to sequence a human genome to 30x at home.

Then I actually did it. And I did it really quickly.

[Frontier Residency @Superhero Hotel @frontierheroes]

For the last 2 months, they’ve been building quietly out of @frontiertower + @Superherohotel:

6 repeat founders.
@ycombinator, @Bankless, @NASA alumni.
One startup backed by @balajis .

Investor spots are almost gone, secure yours: https://t.co/LbWRjr9MpP

[Natalia Krapiva 👩🏻‍💻🕊 @natynettle]

We submitted an amicus brief in @WhatsApp v NSO case urging the 9th Cir. Court to protect WhatsApp & its users from Pegasus spyware!

Grateful to our fellow amici & counsel @BakerHostetler for the legal support in the case!

[Coupa Cafe @CoupaCafe]

In @Google's I/O 2026 keynote, the new @_GentleMonster_ Gemini smart glasses demoed hands-free navigation to Coupa Cafe followed by a seamless @DoorDash pickup order for a Coupa Nitro Cold Brew! ☕

https://t.co/PrYWwL62Pz

#GoogleIO @googledevs @Samsung @WarbyParker @nishtish25

[Leandro von Werra @lvwerra]

We are releasing Carbon: a crazy fast DNA model

Carbon is 275x faster than the next best model. So fast you can process the whole human genome on a single GPU in <2 days.

Here are the tricks we used:

When modelling DNA sequences a lot of the performance comes down to tokenizing the sequences in a smart way. BPE tokenizer struggle because there are no whitespaces and character (called base in DNA) level tokenizers waste a lot of compute on too many tokens.

Carbon is built with a unique tokenizer: we split sequences in chunks of 6 bases, but during both training and inference we can work with single base resolution. That's similar to having word tokens but resolving them at the character level. All possible thanks to the DNA tokens unique structure.

The architecture combined with the tokenizer makes the model 275x faster than the previous SoTA (Evo2) at this size.

We built an interactive demo so you can explore how the model can generate DNA sequences, investigate the structure of genes, predict the effect of mutations, generate and fold proteins and even reconstruct parts of the tree of life.

https://t.co/OWEUoxAFjG

[Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya | MNAC @MuseuNac_Cat]

Nit històrica al MNAC!✨

🔊Techno i romànic en diàleg, amb les sales del Museu plenes de mirades curioses recorrent més de mil anys de creativitat, connectant passat i present.

Gràcies a les més de 17.000 persones que vau fer de la #NitDelsMuseus una experiència inoblidable! 🥰

[Elisenda Paluzie @epaluzie]

En Jaume Ventura del CREI ho resumeix així: "Tenim un creixement que ens empobreix".

[El Faro @_elfaro_]

Two years after a scandal over the use of Pegasus in El Salvador, the government sought different spyware, according to @the_newsground. El Faro verified the identity of a senior military officer who went to Romania for a product demonstration.
https://t.co/d76MvyGfEY

[Omer Benjakob @omerbenj]

Exclusive image I obtained of a new type of surveillance and intelligence technology

These are programs that track &amp; map Starlink terminals used by millions across the world to connect online - and in some case can even ID users

@Haaretz @haaretzcom
https://t.co/vjjmKqyIUG

[Elies Campo @elies]

@Vert_Noel @EU_Commission @vonderleyen It is very real.
The website on the ads is:
https://t.co/ujSQsccTH9

The ads have been live in Europe for a few days now.

Here is an example of a live ad in Barcelona in Catalan:
https://t.co/NCCfo9mHTr

[PlujaFreda @PlujaFreda]

Vist avui a Glòries. Impossible veure aquest exercici de cinisme i no pensar en els Titiriteros de Madrid i en @PabloHasel, @valtonyc i tants altres represaliats a l'estat espanyol i la Unió Europea per criticar el poder amb el seu art.

[Elies Campo @elies]

🧵 PAY ATTENTION: @EU_Commission is spending €30 million on ads.

A European campaign telling citizens that "BAR JOKES" don't cost you your freedom in the EU.

The ad is running in Spain right now.

Spain. Where people have gone to prison for jokes, songs, tweets, puppet shows.