🏷️ AI content is getting labels.

Just like energy ratings or safety certifications help you make informed choices, the same logic now applies to AI.

From 2 August 2026, the AI Act will require clear labelling in key cases:
🔹 Deepfakes
🔹 AI-generated or manipulated content
🔹 Interactions with chatbots and AI systems

You have the right to know whether what you see, hear or read has been made or altered by AI 🤖

👉 https://link.europa.eu/jrcdgq

European Commission has updated its follow buttons.

✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in;
⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out.

(Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.)

https://commission.europa.eu/index_en

This cracks me up because kids just think up these things so brilliantly, but also this proves that age verification laws are complete dogshit and don't even work.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/

NIEUWS: De hoogste privacy-adviseur van Logius, onderdeel van BZK, slaat alarm: de overname van DigiD bedreigt de veiligheid van Nederland.

CPO Pieter van Oordt waarschuwt publiekelijk om overname door ‘t Amerikaanse Kyndryl tegen te houden:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/privacy-adviseur-binnenlandse-zaken-overname-van-digid-bedreigt-veiligheid-van-nederland~b6be96c0/

Why is Mastodon the best social medium in 2026?

Picture 1: If I share a post with some objectively good news, it gets 97 boosts and 140 likes.

Picture 2: If I share the same post on Threads, it gets zero interactions — zero! — because it contains a link to the competing social medium YouTube, and on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the algorithm should not promote such content.

Threads is where the rich decide what we can talk about.

On Mastodon, we decide.