Want to know why Congress is doing nothing on AI?

AI oligarchs have already spent over $185 million buying politicians this year.

There it is. It’s no more complicated than that.

Did you know that less than 1% of the world’s institutions share heritage in open access? In this article, our Open Culture team provides an overview of the main barriers to equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment, makes the case for openness as a key principle in the preservation and dissemination of documentary heritage, and shares examples of positive reuse enabled by open heritage.

https://www.ijodh.org/0201-09/

Brian Bilston's Poem "Refugees" -

Please read all the way down, including the note at the bottom of the page. Now reread ...

Switch to #Foss https://jesald15.github.io/Declutter/ for better #privacy

Share your suggestions btw more to add.

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

We've just released Ardour 9.0 with pianoroll windows, cue recording and editing, region effects, a realtime perceptual analyzer, mixer strips importing and exporting, various quality-of-life improvements, and many more changes

Check out the full release notes: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

Bluesky: Funded by crypto VCs. Protects Trump/ICE. Controlled by shareholders.

Also Bluesky users: "wHy iS mAstOdOn So bAd??"

Brother, you're literally on a corporate surveillance tool criticizing actual freedom.

The fediverse won everywhere that matters.

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Keep Android Open | Fighting against Google’s 2025 developer verification mandate.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

#android #KeepAndroidOpen #google #degoogle #developer #smartphone #foss #fdroid