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Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? (wedistribute.org)

In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: “Why didn’t the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?”...

You have no power here (lemmy.ml)

Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation (www.economist.com)

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Bodies of 6 aid workers killed in Israeli strike transported from Gaza as fallout grows (abcnews.go.com)

Tine for a petition to UK parliament (fosstodon.org)

This is a sort of a cross post but I was thinking maybe to get some visibility on the issue of UK public agencies requiring the use of private social networks to engage with them - Maybe a petition? Im surprised that someone hasnt started one already…

Are Jordan’s government and pro-Palestinian protesters facing off? (www.aljazeera.com)

While the number of protesters has ebbed and flowed throughout the war, the recent Israeli military campaign on al-Shifa Hospital and the pending invasion of Rafah has brought many Jordanians back to the streets en masse....

China tests US voter fault lines and ramps AI content to boost its geopolitical interests - Microsoft On the Issues (blogs.microsoft.com)

Space is the new ‘Wild West.’ The EU is dying to step in and regulate. (www.politico.eu)

The European Commission is gearing up to publish the world’s first comprehensive space law....

Netanyahu pushes to shut Israeli office of Qatar's Al Jazeera TV (www.euractiv.com)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday (1 April) to shutter the local office of Qatari satellite television network Al Jazeera while the war in Gaza continues....

Slovenia: Privatised municipal surveillance ineffective to increase security, but good for "spying on innocent citizens walking through the park", group says (edri.org)

A CCTV company owned by the municipality of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, had sued the Slovenian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in order to block the release of municipal CCTV system data. But the ruling of an administrative court made it clear that making the CCTV system data available is in the public’s interest, not...

Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! (lemm.ee)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/28549378...

Life Hack (lemm.ee)

Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

Wanted American man flees to Russia, signs military contract (www.themoscowtimes.com)

A former American city council member who is wanted in the United States on child pornography charges appears to have fled to Russia and joined the Russian military, according to footage shared by regional authorities in the northern Khanty-Mansi autonomous district....