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Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verificat…

🗾 Is it Really Impossible to Make a Living as an Animator in Japan?
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2026-02-20/is-it-really-impossible-to-make-a-living-as-an-animator-in-japan/.233979

Is it Really Impossible to Make a Living as an Animator in Japan?
There have been numerous horror stories about working as a newbie animator in Japan—namely, the inability to earn a living wage. To find out if this was still the case, ANN met freelance and studio-employed animators, studio heads, and animator-rights advocates.

livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is leaving the Department of Homeland Security (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/acting-ice-director-todd-lyons-leaving-department-homeland-security-rcna332282
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p133#a260416p133

The transfer of digital operations and print ad work from the UK's Standard to The Independent is complete; of 75 Standard staff, 23 moved to Independent Media (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Standard website transfers to Independent with around 30 staff leaving
The Independent has completed a "long-term" deal to run the digital operations and print advertising of The Standard.

Investigators have discovered that the European Commission bowed to the demands of Big Tech lobbyists that the environmental impact of individual datacentres be kept out of the public eye.
https://www.…

EU bowed to Big Tech lobbying to keep datacentre impact secret
Investigators have discovered that the European Commission bowed to the demands of Big Tech lobbyists that the environmental impact of individual datacentres be kept out ...

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect,
-- pausing fighting in the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,100 Lebanese people and displaced over 2.1 million.
The agreement was announced earlier by Donald Trump, who said he had spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, and invited both leaders “for meaningful talks” at the White House.
Both leaders welcome…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
SHE Spells Doom:
🎵 Portrait of the Living Sky (feat. Sun Ra Arkestra)
#SHESpellsDoom
https://omnisoundlabel.bandcamp.com/track/portrait-of-the-living-sky-f-sun-ra-arkestra-she-spells-doom-remix

Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed.
#israel

Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed
BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.