Right, folks, so there is an account on mastodon.social (@8124@mastodon.social) that has been libelling me and others, defaming us as antisemites for the longest time.
They just sent the posts attached.
They have been reported to mastodon.social and I have raised my concerns with them and yet no action has been taken against that account even though the account has been suspended on at least three major Mastodon servers and limited on at least four others.
It is not limited…
Musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added Trump’s name to the performing arts center.
Kennedy Center's MAGA Chief Threatens Legal Action Against Redd Over Canceled Christmas Concert
https://www.nytimes.…
Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercr…
Bravo! Philip Glass withdraws premiere of his Symphony No.15 at Kennedy Center...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/27/philip-glass-withdraws-lincoln-symphony-kennedy-center
Largest federal employee union calls for Noem, Miller's resignations (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates-doj-investigating-apparent/?id=129340693&entryId=129600588&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_c_3days_filter-2078,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_c_trending-1851&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_b_7days_filter-2077,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_b_less_popular_bias-1850
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p142#a260127p142
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
"…the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms & log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse & Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy & control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, & services that make up their online prese…
An analysis of 30 US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details (Natalie Kainz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/dat
Summize, which uses AI to let in-house legal teams manage contract workflows within apps like Slack, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $65M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026…
AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technol…