GOP plans policy retreat (Benjamin Guggenheim/Politico)
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FBI looks for any link between Tesla explosion and New Orleans attack (Reuters)
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Johnson doesn't have the votes to remain speaker. But his allies insist it's trending his way. (Politico)
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Officials ID person who rented Cybertruck used in explosion outside Las Vegas Trump hotel (NBC News)
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Apple’s AirTags add new child safety battery warnings
Apple is adding the warnings to comply with a law mandating labels on products with button cell or coin batteries.
Elon Musk Defends His Petty Revenge on MAGA Critics (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
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Congress Has the Opportunity to Do the Funniest Thing Ever (David Dayen/American Prospect)
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Las Vegas explosion suspect was a veteran, Army confirms (Ivana Saric/Axios)
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Republicans' Assault on IRS Resources Gives Away Their Fake Populist Game (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)
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Live updates: FBI now says New Orleans truck attacker acted alone in an 'act of terrorism' (Jack Brook/Associated Press)
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Army Men Anniversary Bundle
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Publisher: High Level Games This special bundle product contains the following titles. A Baker’s Dozen of Booby Traps (Army Men)Regular price: 0Bundle price: 0Format: PDF Boobytraps have a long and storied history, both in warfare as well as in tabletop…
The Secrets of La Roque
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Blutgassenviertel in Vienna, Austria
One of the Austrian capital's oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys allegedly has a bloody past that gave it its name.#localhistory #haunted #names #section-Atlas
New Orleans Attack Highlights New Terrorism Risk Inside U.S. (Alan Cullison/Wall Street Journal)
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House Democrats are expecting full attendance ahead of the speaker vote (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
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New Do Kwon superseding indictment just dropped.
Kwon has been extradited to this US to face fraud charges. The charges contain a description of the overlapping network of allegedly fraudulent entities Kwon juggled before Terra / Luna came crashing to Earth.
Trump and MAGA Are Desperately Trying to Pin New Orleans Attack on the Border (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
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Agency staff that wish to advocate for using the Open Social Web to take better control of social media messaging can use the following high level talking points to begin the conversation:
#ActivityPub is the accepted global Web standard for open social networking. It is published by the World Wide Web Consortium, the non-profit body that oversees Web standards.
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China's Economy Is Burdened by Years of Excess. Here's How Bad It Really Is. (Wall Street Journal)
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IFTAS
in reply to IFTAS • • •The Fediverse is the real world collection of platforms, apps, and services that implement ActivityPub. They constitute a “federated universe” of interconnected social networks and can freely communicate with one another.
The #Fediverse is considered to be the “next big thing” in social media. Usage has roughly tripled from 2022 - 23, and as larger platforms begin adopting we can expect a tenfold increase in adoption in 2024.
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in reply to IFTAS • • •So why should a public agency care?
1. Autonomy.
#Government agencies should not be reliant on advertising-driven media companies to broadcast vital public messaging.
2. Alignment.
Support a person-centric, privacy-focused social network environment grounded in diversity and inclusivity. In many ways it is being built to counter the harms of for-profit social media.
Learn more about the pathways to Fediverse adoption by governments: about.iftas.org/2024/03/06/ope…
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