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Reading the Meta settlement and I'm very tired and I just want someone else to tell me why I hate this.
@evacide Meta settled. That tells me right there that Meta thinks this is a reasonable cost of doing business / making the bad publicity go away.
Looks like today’s market agreed
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U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452709
#HackerNews #USImmigration #VisaPause #ImmigrationPolicy #VisaApplications #StateDepartment
@dansup @Buage@loops.video Thanks for sharing my video 🙏
This is what, and all, it takes to be a designated terrorist organization anymore: being a “cadre of radical hackers and tech developers [that] provide a full spectrum of services – including encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming, anonymity shields, and a suite of other technological tools – to Marxist, anarchist, and other left-wing extremist groups in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.”
NB: That’s just about every one of us on here, is it not? Incredible overreach, incredibly pernicious and incredibly dangerous.
@adamgreenfield
A/I has responded:
Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
For those in other parts of the world, here is where she started, afaict.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.474&mlon=-123.887#map=9/49.474/-123.887
Important election announcement from Oregon Secretary of State. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dce4WYOlTyk
(Sorry about the insta link, that’s where he posted it.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117163333233363089
I first saw this movie when I was 12. It was my introduction to transgender/non-binary everything, and opened my eyes to a world that I didn’t know existed. I’m grateful for that.
As an aside, TIL that this was Tim Curry’s debut role in a film. He had been acting in theater prior to that (including the theater performance of The Rocky Horror Show), but this was his first on the screen.
#TimCurry #RockyHorrorPictureShow #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow #RIP #LGBTQ #Trans
@markwyner @blogdiva this one hit hard, and I’m so thankful for the work he did.
@lauren Ridiculous. Every knife may have a blade, but not every blade is a knife.
@WideEyedCurious A cutting observation.
Has anyone ever seen Dolly and Tim in the same room at the same time.
#Florida USA accounts to follow:
NEWS
@WJCT - Florida PBS & NPR affiliates
@MiamiHerald - Miami Herald, first outlet to investigate Epstein
@SunSentinel - South Florida Sun Sentinel
@index@beachgazette.org - Northeast Florida local news
@www.floridabulldog.org - News feed of Florida Bulldog, non-profit public interest journalism
SPORT
@index@duval22.com - Jacksonville Jaguars news blog
DRUPAL
@fldrupalcamp - Annual Drupal event in Florida
@drupaleasy - Drupal training & consulting, based in Florida
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Florida USA accounts to follow (continued):
🌤️ WEATHER FORECASTS
@bonita_springs__florida
@cape_coral__florida
@clearwater__florida
@coral_springs__florida
@daytona_beach__florida
@deltona__florida
@fort_lauderdale__florida
@gainesville__florida
@hialeah__florida
@hollywood__florida
@jacksonville__florida
@lakeland__florida
@melbourne__florida
@miami__florida
@miramar__florida
@naples__florida
@ocala__florida
@orlando__florida
@palm_bay__florida
@panama_city__florida
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I see I should have been more specific: SOMEONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY READ THE ENTIRE TEXT OF THE SETTLEMENT.
@evacide If you have access to the entire settlement corpus, why don’t you post a link so more people can read it? 🤔
🕳️ What happens when an entire TV network nearly disappears from history?
📺 The DuMont Network pioneered television with firsts that shaped the medium, yet much of its legacy is gone forever.
Taylor Cole Miller explores how one of America's most innovative TV networks became one of its greatest preservation tragedies, and why archives matter. 🗄️
📚 Read or download "The DuMont Network: America’s Vanishing Television History" in VANISHING CULTURE:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/85/
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Reading the Meta settlement and I'm very tired and I just want someone else to tell me why I hate this.
Russia is preparing to escalate attacks on Ukraine after concluding that negotiations for peace have reached a dead end. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/27/world/putin-escalate-war-ukraine-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #nato
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