Aloki Jawe

@starduster75
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Philosophy, Psychology, and Physics, oh my.
Cultivate awe in every moment, and you will have a wondrous existence.
Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:

If you are an open source maintainer working with standards or want to help shape them, we encourage you to apply before the deadline.

Learn more and apply: https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards

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#SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #OpenStandards #FOSS #Maintainers

Sovereign Tech Standards | Sovereign Tech Agency

Sovereign Tech Agency

Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how

Vaccines may be training a part of our immune system long thought to be untrainable.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/routine-vaccines-may-cut-dementia-risk-experts-have-startling-hypothesis-on-how/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

  • 2006: rolled our own janky hosting, version control, CMS, and backup systems
  • 2016: AWS, GitHub
  • 2026: rolled our own janky hosting, version control, CMS, and backup systems

There is no digital sovereignty without ODF

Any other choice is a choice of dependence on a single vendor

Digital sovereignty begins with the document format. Everything else – server location, hosting jurisdiction, procurement clauses – is downstream of this single decision. If the format is standard and open, the user controls the document. If the format is proprietary the vendor controls it, even when the file sits on the user’s own hard drive.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/

"The poor and the middle class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers - and the ultra-rich pay politicians".

#Quote #GeorgeMonbiot #wealth #Inequality #Influence #Politics

10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies

A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.

Politico