Notices by Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social), page 3

65 million is the Latino population in the U.S. This is the Republican party in 2025. Fully mask off giddy about committing a racist genocide in America.

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@laurin @yala @activitypods @nextgraph do you have a test suite or documentation about what parts of the solid spec are fulfilled?

@box464 I'm a fan. Still learning it. But see its potential.

@karlbode.com @hacks4pancakes

While the fight against the great harms of the Trump bill continues, we saw this one key victory last night:

“The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)”

Still too close to this passing: “After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.”

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-moratorium-trump-megabill-blackburn/

Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera have pledged their support for a new initiative under the Linux Foundation called the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" development fund.

The fund aims to promote open development within the Chromium project. It is vital for the future of the web that Chromium's development moves beyond being predominantly funded by Google, fostering diverse contributions, enhancing trust, and reducing dependency on a single organization to

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6/10 Astonishingly, Apple has been also paying Google for Google traffic in iOS Chrome.
🔎 The CMA believes this undermines Google's and Apple's incentives to compete
✅ The CMA seeks to end this practice

7/10 Sadly, the regulator disagreed that:
❌ Google should share WebAPK minting on Android
❌ Apple/Google/Meta should be forced to respect user's default browser choice for in-app browsers (or at a minimum, ask permission to override)

We’ll keep fighting for these under the DMCC.

However, we’re concerned that if the DOJ goes too far, particularly by forcing a sale of Chrome and banning search deals with smaller browser vendors like Mozilla, it will do lasting harm to the web platform, including an estimated 70% drop in web platform investment.

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@laurenshof Just building #wafrn rather than waiting for Tumblr to ever federate is time spent about an infinity times better. cc: @gabboman

Very troubling….
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Does it feel like Mastodon has changed more in the last 6 months than it did in the previous 4 years? :annoyingdog:

That's because it has.. they've gotten more funding and more staff and more support and from what I can tell a morale boost from the internal team.

You love to see it. The future of Mastodon is very bright. :vibing:

Booo!
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There is a sound of ocean waves that I’m convinced cannot be fully captured by any digital recording. I don’t know if it is overtones/undertones…but it’s like the difference between hearing a live band vs. a recording of one. The only way to really hear an ocean is to sit in person and listen.

@o.simardcasanova.net 👍 And empathize with your pain points of Fedi UX….See my recent thoughts on Fediverse UX: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

@atlauren @rmondello That I think is perceptive.

#LetPieWork

@o.simardcasanova.net @ianbrown.tech I would advise focusing where you are but do keep one eye on other open social web siblings. I think each can teach the others. In my case that means not ignoring Nostr even though it’s not my cup of tea.