It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should

🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/

Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Following the @EUCommission Tech Sovereignty and Open Source Strategy (and Mastodon’s direct mention within it!) announced this week…

Our team is proud to have signed and contributed to the drafting of the European Social Stack Open Declaration alongside our peers in the #SocialWeb and #Fediverse: @anewsocial, @eurosky.social, @newsmast, Save Social, and @swf.

We are a movement, and stronger together.

Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: https://european.social/

Flüge sind in Europa oft billiger als die Bahn. Denn der Flugverkehr profitiert von zahlreichen Privilegien. ✈️

Nun will die Bundesregierung ab 1. Juli die Luftverkehrsteuer senken. D.h. Flugkosten bleiben künstlich billig, während die fehlenden Einnahmen ab 2027 durch Kürzungen im Verkehrshaushalt ausgeglichen werden sollen. Bis 2030 fehlen der Bahn dadurch rund 1,5 Mrd. Euro für die Infrastruktur-Sanierung.

Wir fordern: Flugprivilegien abbauen und die Bahn stärken!
👉 https://www.vcd.org/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/anhoerung-im-bundestag-vcd-warnt-vor-absenkung-der-luftverkehrsteuer