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One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
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Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Billionaire Chris Larsen Plans to Spend $3.5 Million in NY House Race Amid Midterm Clash Over A.I.
Chris Larsen, who hails from California, plans to spend $3.5 million to help Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over A.I. regulation.

This might be a long shot, but if anyone wants to do a #PhD in #Chemistry or #MaterialsScience in #Berlin, I have an open position in my lab at @… :
https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-postings/204252
The project is on modelling and measuring electrical conductivity of materials. I'm looking for someone with experience in DFT and python, also willing to work in the lab. Feel free to reach out by email or forward to anyone you think might be interested.
Funding is confirmed at 100% TV-L E13 for 2 years.

We are delighted to welcome two new accounts to the #2MR Community #StarterPack:
👉 #MustRead)
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🔹@…, building open-source, content discovery for decentralized social media
#2MR is a festival for #SocialMedia that strengthens #democracy taking place on 4 May in #Hamburg
👉 #MayTheForth
#Media #Eurosky #Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse #Meta #SciComm #DanmarkSkifter

Open Air: Kindertheater auf dem Leo https://weddingweiser.de/open-air-kindertheater-auf-dem-leo/

Interested in setting up the Anubis web application firewall to help block bot registrations against your Mastodon instance, but want to leave the rest of the site open? Here's how we used nginx to proxy just the user registrations through Anubis in an attempt at combating spam registrations.
Will it work? Don't know, time will tell.
If you notice any issues with it or have additional tricks that you like to implement to help secure your Mastodon instance, let us know!

Protect Mastodon from bots with Anubis WAF
Howto guide for installing Anubis to protect Mastodon user registrations

🔴 live now:
Together for #2MR
The #Hamburg Declaration – strengthening the Open Social Web with @…, @… and @… #SaveSocial – Networks For #Democracy
#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #Eurosky

🤩 Now available online: @… ’s wonderful keynote speech at the #2MR festival:
„I have a dream“ – A view of the Open Social Web in 5 years
👉 #Fediverse is the best, most empowering #SocialMedia experience that I have ever had.
About #2MR: #SaveSocial #DiDay # #FOSS #Floss #Mastodon #democracy #digitalindependence #digitalsovereignty #media #danmarkskifter #DigitalRights

🔴 Watch the #2MR session »Media companies and journalists on the Open Social Web« now on #PeerTube:
👉 #podcast #radio #Leipzig)
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presented by: @… from #FollowThemAll ! #IfYouLike !
#Journalism #Journalismus #Rundfunk #Medien #Presse #Press #democracy #Demokratie #SocialWeb #Detektorfm #broadcast

RE: #Hannover kauft falsche #Microsoft-Lizenzen für 324.000 Euro«¹
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»#SchleswigHolstein zeige, so @…, dass der Weg in die digitale Unabhängigkeit möglich und bereits jetzt wirtschaftlich sei. Das Land spare dadurch schon jetzt mehr als 15 Millionen Euro an Lizenzkosten.«²
¹ #FOSS #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #Digitalisierung #PublicMoneyPulicCode #Bund #Verwaltung #Schulen #Hochschulen #Bildung #Wissenschaft

RE: #2MR #SaveSocial and #DiDay community will be interested in joining the livestream!
🔴 #SocialWeb
#Journalism & #Democracy
#Demokratie #Medien #Journalismus #Blacksky #Fediverse #Eurosky