Don Watkins

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Jesse says America started it And caused "I hate America" youtube.com/shorts/zqIz2... Keep it up! Call congress www.congress.gov/members/find... STOP THE MADNESS-STOP THE WAR ! #ICE #Epstein #Democracy #tariffs #Racist #incompetence #IRAN

The Real Reason Iran Hates Ame...
The Real Reason Iran Hates America: A 1953 Coup!

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Open Letter to European Citizens
The door to digital sovereignty is open, please come in
We ask European citizens, and through them those who govern European countries, to understand one important thing: the door to digital sovereignty does not open simply by choosing different software, but by understanding what sovereignty actually entails.
It requires open document formats, open fonts, continuity of expertise, and honesty about what "open" means.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/31/open-letter-to-european-citizens/

@libreoffice #odf

(AP) — A federal judge has agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Distrobox

Use any linux distribution inside your terminal.

Is NixOS the most powerful Linux distro in 2026? | We Love Open Source • All Things Open https://allthingsopen.org/articles/nixos-most-powerful-linux-distro-2026 #NixOS #JayLacroix #LearnLinuxTV
Is NixOS the most powerful Linux distro in 2026? | We Love Open Source • All Things Open

NixOS review: Is this the most powerful Linux distro? Learn how declarative configuration, system generations, and functional package management make NixOS fundamentally different from Ubuntu and Fedora.

All Things Open
The Power of Openness in Self‑Driving Tech – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2026/03/22/the-power-of-openness-in-self-driving-tech/
The Power of Openness in Self‑Driving Tech – The Future is Open

Meet the Meerkat: A compact Linux PC with surprising power for developers | We Love Open Source • All Things Open https://allthingsopen.org/articles/system76-meerkat-linux-developer-workstation #Linux #System76 #Meerkat | @system76
Meet the Meerkat: A compact Linux PC with surprising power for developers | We Love Open Source • All Things Open

Discover how the compact System76 Meerkat delivers big Linux performance in a tiny size with an integrated GPU, making it an ideal everyday system for developers.

All Things Open

"But while copyleft liberated the source code, it failed to liberate all the users. The right to fix a bug or add a feature is a hollow freedom if you lack the elite, scarce knowledge required to speak the language of machines."

"The 'tyranny of the vendor' is finally meeting its match, not in a courtroom, but in the prompt."

https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #codingai

The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft

Copyleft gave us the right to be free; AI gives us the power to be free. The scarcity of programming knowledge is evaporating, turning the "freedom to fork" from a legal theory into a functional reality for every user.

][ Stefano Maffulli
The Power of Openness in Self‑Driving Tech – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2026/03/22/the-power-of-openness-in-self-driving-tech/
The Power of Openness in Self‑Driving Tech – The Future is Open

Uber to invest $1.25 billion in Rivian as part of new robotaxi deal https://www.theverge.com/transportation/897105/uber-rivian-robotaxi-investment-deal
Uber to invest $1.25 billion in Rivian as part of new robotaxi deal

Uber will invest $1.25 billion in Rivian as part of a huge robotaxi deal. The companies plan on deploying 10,000 autonomous R2 vehicles as robotaxis by 2031.

The Verge