Second in my series of tutorials on how to use #Mastodon is now up. I go over the home feed, how to fill it up with interesting things using the trending feed and hashtags, and how to declutter it with lists. Let me know if you learn something you weren't aware of from this video 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkg9j1lmy3k

Reminder: Adtech is dangerous. New story, same problem.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pentagon-says-us-military-personnel-are-reportedly-being-targeted-using-location-2026-05-28/

9 years since I blew the whistle. 8 years since formal complaint to Irish DPC (which supervises Google and others across all of Europe).

Senator Wyden's letter today --> https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28168364-ron-wydens-may-28-2026-letter-to-the-department-of-defense/..

My father-in-law passed recently, and so I was helping my mother-in-law clean up the digital leftovers today.

It turns out he had subscribed to a few substacks. They had a shared e-mail address, so I went to unsubscribe him and delete the account.

Substack has decided to handle Australia's age verification requirements by demanding verification before logging back in. Which means that we have no option for deleting his account - and she's going to get Substack emails forever.

You know your product is bad if you need to send lobbyists to the freakin' #Pope.

#AI #Vatican #BigTech #lobbying

The dutchies have a centralized identity that you are using to basically interact with everything government. That contains pensions and health related issues.

This is called DigID. It is run by a company called Solvinity an was was supposed to be taken over by a U.S. company called Kyndryl.

The dutch cabinet (= government) has now blocked this takeover.

I think the topic of souvernty is slowly landing in the right heads. I guess also ... thank you @bert_hubert and everyone else making noise there🙂

https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/26/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-digid-operator-solvinity-security-concerns

#infosec #cybersecurity #souveraeneInfrastruktur #sovereignty #digid

We are working on a new Pixelix update and would like to collect some feedback on the current state of the app.

If you have a few minutes and have already used Pixelix, please be so kind and fill out the survey. It would help us a lot. It should not take more than 5 minutes and is anonymous. Please repost for more reach.

https://app.formbricks.com/s/cmplkixsldbx0qh01yijw6fcy

Thank you ❤️

#Pixelix #Pixelfed #Survey #Feedback #OpenSource #Repost #Boost

Front page news of printed paper 🗞️

Good to see the message so prominently:

Top civil servants advise government, ministers and public sector to leave X.

I concur as quoted: being there adds oxygen to and legitimizes the platform. The government has plenty of alternative communication channels

#democracy #eXit

Da Pope has dropped an #encyclical. An encyclical is a pastoral letter issued by the #Pope.

Historically encyclicals serve as a key instrument of the Pope’s ordinary magisterium to guide the faithful on matters of faith, morals, devotion, or social discipline, they are generally not infallible pronouncements ex cathedra.

I’m still reading and digesting, but a quick skim suggests that this is the biggest thing to drop from the #Vatican in my lifetime.

There’s, #AI, there’s transhumanism, there’s social contract, he apologizes for the Church’s blind eye to #slavery, he declared that “just war” is no longer a thing…in a change of policy held since the Crusades. He calls for #OpenSource, he quotes #Tolkien. (I like Da Pope.)

There’s a lot. You can read it here. It’s gonna take me a while to map it all out.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html