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Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/08/18/f…

Francisco Partners to acquire Weave Communications for $650M
The deal comes less than five years after Weave went public at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Attention Star Wars Galactic StarCruiser alumni - coming to San Diego ComicCon:
✅Disney's Most Ambitious Failed Star Wars Attraction Is Coming to SDCC - Collider
https://collider.com/halcyon-daze-the-final-voyages…

Disney's Most Ambitious Failed Star Wars Attraction Is Coming to SDCC
Halcyon Daze, the fan documentary exploring Disney's ambitious Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser attraction, is officially coming to SDCC and Gen Con.

O&C – ownership and control – *that’s* the lens by which we should be evaluating data and technology.
Who owns and controls data and technology?
If we want a fair, just world with human rights, freedom, and democracy, the answer to that question must be twofold:
1. Data about and technology for the commons must be owned and controlled by the commons.
2. Data about and technology for people must be owned and controlled by individuals.
That’s it.
Notice …

Trump's "communist" panic isn't just senile ranting.
It's a strategy. It comes straight from a book Bannon and Vance endorsed,
a genocide-themed screed that calls for dehumanizing Democrats as demons who don't deserve rights.
The "Unhumans" playbook, exposed

'Unhumans' Playbook Explains Trump's 'Communist' Fixation
“It’s important to use ‘communist’ this way as a slur.”

The secret sauce to how new Cowboys DC Christian Parker is increasing Dallas' communication

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-christian-parker-fixing-defensive-c…

Buggin': Cowboys DC Christian Parker using codeword play calls to improve communication https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/17/cowboys-dc-christian-parker-code…

Various Artist – DOOM / A Creative Commons Music Compilation
https://archive.org/details/va-doom-a-creative-commons-music-compilation

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.