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…
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…
libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted
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Het doel: vernietiging kan geen misverstand over bestaan:
Israeli chemical attacks devastates Lebanese, Syrian farms
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-chemical-attacks-devastates-lebanese-syrian-farms
(Via link ⤴️ )
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/
Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed.
#israel
Today in the drizzle I stopped by the Living Library, a beautiful native plant garden near SF's Balboa Park at the San Jose/Seneca intersection. Highly recommend a visit to see some #ceanothus in bloom and California poppies and island mallows beginning to, and much more.
"Outgrow your dependence on platforms" says person who posts to Substack.
I haven't read their article because I don't want to give them clicks, honestly, but there is no fucking way to remove dependencies in the indie book market. We'll never be able to own everything because in the end we'll be dependent on payment providers to make sales on the internet, even if people buy from our website. My beautiful subs via self-hosted Ghost are as good as it gets but …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Leaving Laurel:
🎵 Our Lives Entwined (K-Lone Remix)
#LeavingLaurel
https://leavinglaurel.bandcamp.com/album/our-lives-entwined
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOWUn8XTf062wu1Okb80B
Apple TV head of international development Morgan Wandell is leaving to launch a production company, Kismet; Matt Cherniss will take over series Wandell handled (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/morgan-wandell-leaving-a…