@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-18 15:26:07
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…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-07-18 22:08:17
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…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-09-17 12:12:27
Cowboys Have Clear Free-Agent Solution to Fix Admitted Communication Problem https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-clear-free-agent-solution-fix-admitted-communication-problem
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-19 10:50:21
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 …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-16 17:30:05
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-17 17:40:50
Disney signs a deal with Like Nastya, adding some of the YouTube brand's videos to Disney and including an animated preschool series for Disney Jr. and Disney (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-08-18 18:55:56
Just arrived, the result of a rabbit hole I went down recently.
Harich 'Communism without Growth' (1975 Ge, 2034 Sp)
Not available in English ttbomk, but I can read this translation.
Really interesting engagement with the Meadows Limits to Growth report, from the GDR. Parallel to another from Zagreb at the same time.
The quality of the bits I've read is great.
Verso UK should bring it out.
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 16:19:08
"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 21:08:16
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,…
