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According to a peer-reviewed study in @…, the algorithms that control our largest social media platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field for Donald Trump and the GOP.

Was the 2024 Election Stolen, Not by Ballots, but by Algorithms?
It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016 that Robert Mueller…

Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty
The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms.
https://tech.eu/2026/03/27/europe-bui…

Europe builds Microsoft-compatible ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty
Today, a coalition of European enterprises and community organisations has launched Euro-Office, a solution for editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, developed as a true sovereign community collaboration of over a dozen different organisations. A tech preview is available immediately. The effort, backed by major European tech firms including IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian and BTactic is planning a first stable release by summer. Need for a sovere…

Community Alert: ICE Operations Actively Surging on Illinois Streets
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1swacu7
Added Context:
I've been hearing these comments about ICE ramping up. Here is an example:
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https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.

"One demonstrator said they attended the phallic protest, at which people pelted federal agents’ vehicles with sex toys, “because ICE likes to bend over for Daddy Trump.”"
'Operation Dildo Blitz' Anti-ICE Protest in Minneapolis Ends With 50 Arrests | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/operation-dildo-blitz

I don't get it. I am not a frequent #AI user but do not reject it completely for now. Just casually checking some AI comments in some AI project makes me shudder.
See this comment: https://github.com/opencla…

MS NOW announces financial backing for the Pulitzer Center, and collaborations with The Marshall Project on ICE and States Newsroom to feature state reporting (Tom Jones/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/ms-now-growing-local-news-investigation…

MS NOW is investing in local news and original reporting as it builds a post-NBC identity - Poynter
The network will partner with The Marshall Project, States Newsroom and the Pulitzer Center to power investigative and statehouse coverage

TIL: There are drastic differences in the sugar content of internationally sold drinks like Fanta. Acc. to Spiegel UK 4.5g vs. Germany 7.6g. This map comments indicate that upper end (US, 12g) to lower end is factor of three (4.1g some eastern baltic states) https…

Zehn europäische Länder im Vergleich: Deutsche trinken am meisten Zucker
Gut acht Zuckerwürfel nehmen Menschen hierzulande als Brause, Limo oder Saft zu sich – jeden Tag. Das ist mehr als doppelt so viel wie in Italien. Auch weil in deutschen Getränken teils deutlich mehr Zucker steckt.