Electronic Frontier Foundation"When an FBI agent wants to look through Americans’ conversations scooped up as part of a national security intelligence program," it should require "a warrant signed by a judge just as if they were trying to search your email account or your house,” Matthew Guariglia told NJ Spotlight News. https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/05/weighing-privacy-and-security-congress-punts-again-on-key-spying-law/
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ScienceAlertAfrica Is Splitting Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean
https://www.sciencealert.com/africa-is-splitting-apart-faster-than-we-thought-forming-a-new-ocean?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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CA’s social media ban weaponizes legitimate parental concerns, using them to hand over more censorship and surveillance power to the government. Beneath shiny “protect the children” rhetoric, AB 1709 is misguided, unconstitutional, and deeply harmful to users of all ages. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/act-now-stop-californias-paternalistic-and-privacy-destroying-social-media-ban
Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying Social Media Ban
California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms. In the name of “safety,” this bill would destroy online anonymity, expose sensitive personal data to breach and abuse, and replace parental decision-making with state-mandated censorship.
Project GutenbergToday is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!
Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore.
Brittany Allen
https://lithub.com/today-is-the-very-first-national-black-bookstore-day/
#books #literature #blacklivesmatter #NationalBlackBookstoreDay
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LibreOfficeDocument Freedom Day – because the format is the message: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/25/document-freedom-day/
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AzulCrescentBiblical levels of greed
Everytime i eat two in one sitting, i get a tummy ache and feel terrible. Still it calls to me lol
nixCraft 🐧Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/
Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward - TDF Community Blog
Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement. The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it. At this point, the question for all other European governments is clear: what are you waiting for? With this decision, the distinction between those who care about digital sovereignty and those who do not becomes stark. There are no more excuses Over the years, public administrations in Europe have accumulated a series of tired excuses, long since overtaken by the facts, for not making standard and open document formats mandatory. Let’s examine them one by one. ODF isn’t mature enough. ODF has been an ISO standard since 2006. It is now at version 1.4, with active development,