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Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents (The Pew Charitable Trusts)
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p58#a260318p58

Anyone can now install #FeedLand on their #Cloudron without building anything :
deploy repo package is here
> cloudron install --image rmdes/feedland-cloudron:latest --location feedland.example.com

GitHub - rmdes/feedland-cloudron: Cloudron app package for FeedLand — Dave Winer's social feed reading environment
Cloudron app package for FeedLand — Dave Winer's social feed reading environment - rmdes/feedland-cloudron

a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it "one of the best funds" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

This article is rightly making the rounds, but somewhat misses the point. The Guardian annoys you because you aren't paying. What is really off here—and the article completely fails to talk about—is what they do to *subscribers*. I'm already PAYING!
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

aus der reihe "zufallserkenntnisse" heute nachmittag: wenn die sonne in einem bestimmten winkel auf ein rundes #weck-glas fällt, ergibt sich auf der tischplatte ein muster, das an das einer iris erinnert. ☀️

Microsoft only gets more and more likeable, eh. https://www.972mag.com/ice-microsoft-azure-leaked-files/
For those who haven't seen it:

Goed. Rondje #trike met hindernissen.
Eerst over de Reliboulevard.
#regel17

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/863710/google-search-antitrust-monopoly-ap…

Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling
Google filed a notice to appeal Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling calling it an illegal search monopolist and requesting to pause some of his ordered remedies.

New to Indiekit? Read the full deployment guide — a step-by-step walkthrough covering server setup, DNS, configuration, first-run password creation, syndication, webmentions, and the full plugin set.
https://github.com/rmdes/indiekit-deploy/blob/main/docs/deployme…

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/business/technol

Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle raises $30M for Austin AI startup
Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle’s Austin startup Circuit raised $30 million in one of Texas’ largest angel rounds to address manufacturing labor shortages.