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America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship (www.inquirer.com)

Mozilla is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to work on their Mastodon server at mozilla.social (www.mozilla.org)

Huge new satellite outshines nearly every star in the sky (www.nature.com)

Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat (techcrunch.com)

Mother gets 78-year prison term for killing daughters, 15 and 5, in Virginia (apnews.com)

A northern Virginia mother who sedated her two daughters with melatonin-laced gummy bears before fatally shooting them was sentenced Friday to 78 years in prison....

"waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate" (www.businessinsider.com)

Intel is making progress on a handy new material for building even bigger computer chips: glass (www.pcgamer.com)

IGN posts written review of Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, but withholds video review. CDPR is, once again, not letting reviewers use their own gameplay footage before release. (www.ign.com)

Forty years of GNU and the free software movement (www.fsf.org)

On September 27, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) celebrates the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement. Free software advocates, tinkerers, and hackers all over the world will celebrate this event, which was a turning point in the history of computing. Forty years later, GNU...

Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out (boingboing.net)

Unity isn't a game engine. It's a malware-pushing advertising network which merged with a game engine to acquire a delivery channel and now wears its skin. This is fine for the bigger devs and publishers structured around platform relationships, but for everyone else? Gamemaker, Godot, Unreal, Defold… pick a flavor, they're...

X is suing California over social media content moderation law (www.engadget.com)

X is suing California over social media content moderation law::X, the social media company previously known as Twitter, is suing the state of California over a law that requires companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices.

AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web (lemmy.capebreton.social)

cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/497698...

Two Cats, One Box (sh.itjust.works)

Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK (www.bbc.com)

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work (apnews.com)

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work::Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.

Donald Trump Sold Mar-a-Lago Before Arrest, Listing Reveals (www.newsweek.com)

US, Japan and Australia plan joint navy drills in disputed South China Sea, Philippine officials say (www.independent.co.uk)

Two Philippine security officials said that the United States, Japan and Australia are planning a joint navy drill this week in the South China Sea off the western Philippines after a recent show of Chinese aggression in the disputed waters

Moscow briefly shuts all major airports after alleged drone attack (www.cnn.com)

Russia temporarily shuttered all four major Moscow airports early on Friday morning following an alleged drone strike on the capital city, its civil aviation authority said.

Georgia charges Trump, former advisers in 2020 election case (www.reuters.com)

Justice comes calling for the fourth time this summer.

We No Longer Need a Big Carrier’s Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way. (www.nytimes.com)

P.S. Some of the ‘big’ carriers, now and then, offer much less expensive ‘plans’. Some event beat the prices in this article, if your ‘Data’ needs are limited.

Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote - Inside Climate News (insideclimatenews.org)

Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will...