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NEWS 📣 The Sovereign Tech Agency is launching the Sovereign Tech Standards network today, a new program designed to bring open source maintainers directly into global standards development. sovereign.tech/news/join-sovereign-tech-stan…
NEWS 📣 The Sovereign Tech Agency is launching the Sovereign Tech Standards network today, a new program designed to bring open source maintainers directly into global standards development. sovereign.tech/news/join-sovereign-tech-stan…
Good news, everyone! I have a short piece coming out in The Conversation on Monday that explains the main issues with this study. It's impossible for me to have the same media reach as the original press release. So I'd be extremely grateful if people could help me share it as widely as possible 🙏
G. Willow Wilson
Good news, everyone cnn.com/2026/05/14/health/arts-ageing…
👀 @techdirt.com is now posting @standard.site compliant articles... Next up... backfilling our 80k+ article archives. But, for now, every new post should be using the @standard.site lexicon...
Techdirt
The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents Recently, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the... techdirt.com/2026/07/13/the-uks-new-under-…
1/ Lots of thoughts about the new White House science and tech policy report, meanwhile just a few quick notes (I only skimmed it so far but plan to read through it)
Science: A New Golden Age
www.whitehouse.govA brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...
European Commission
We have now joined W, a new European social media network. We’re present on 15+ platforms, and are especially happy to join one based in Europe and with the ambition to foster open and safer online conversations. Keep the conversation going - whether from W, Bluesky or other compatible apps.
@london.gov.uk is still on wsocial.news and is still not actually on W Social. It’s been long enough to really make it look like it could be the Greta Thunberg thing all over again Sources: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:axuvbckddrg7lwlp… blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-soci…
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Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first account shown on W Social’s promotional website, isn’t even on W Social (yet)
@london.gov.uk is still on wsocial.news and is still not actually on W Social. It’s been long enough to really make it look like it could be the Greta Thunberg thing all over again Sources: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:axuvbckddrg7lwlp… blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-soci…
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Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first account shown on W Social’s promotional website, isn’t even on W Social (yet)
