Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

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Ask a question. Get an answer. Preferably in complete sentences. The internet had a butler once & he was awesome.

See more of the Class of ’96 ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/

#Classof96

GitLab Act 2

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/11/gitlab-act-2/#atom-everything

#Tech #OpenSource #AI

Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!

#SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs

I've now heard many examples of companies that actively make AI token usage part of perf reviews.

In some, you could perform otherwise perfectly, but fail to get promoted without token usage. So people are building systems just for the sole purpose of burning tokens.

Normal or utter bollocks?

🇪🇺 Digitally sovereign communications need an open standard to enable vendor-neutral federation and prevent lock-in.

We’ve mapped out sovereign communications across Europe that support @matrix open standard federation.

That’s sovereign and secure communications between separate organisations, and cross-border, without any reliance on a specific vendor.

Know of a deployment missing from the map? Contributions welcome.

https://element.io/blog/digital-sovereignty-is-built-on-an-open-standard-that-enables-federation/