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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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
RJD2:
🎵 The Proxy
#RJD2
https://officialrjd2.bandcamp.com/track/the-proxy
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JeLDcXnYLTr9ygceSv5KQ

🤩 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

Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed. 
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…

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

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

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

RE: #Hannover kauft falsche #Microsoft-Lizenzen für 324.000 Euro«¹
vs
»#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

> #Eurosky and @… announce partnership to develop key infrastructure for the open social web, based on the #ATProtocol.
16 March 2026: #SocialMedia #ATmosphere #OpenSource #DiDay #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSouveranitat

We are delighted to welcome two new accounts to the #2MR Community #StarterPack:
👉 #MustRead)
and
🔹@…, 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