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Bloomberg reports Meta tried - and failed - to skew Brazil's election towards Bolsenaro via restrictions on Lula's Instagram posts and unequal engagement such as refusing requests to create images favorable to Lula. Meta said this reflected “technical problems” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

#games | @gog.com $0.79 for Tomb Raider GOTY All the Tomb Raider games are heavily discounted at GOG in celebration of the franchise's 30th Anniversary.

#Tech | #ATmosphere I knew you could use your #Bluesky account to sign in on other great apps, carrying your identity with you. @stream.place and @blento.app are my current favorites. What I didn't know: there's a whole app store of them. Sure you'll find something to enjoy: atmosphereaccount.com

#Tech | #Bluesky New dedicated link options in profile settings! I still appreciate inline links right in the bio, but extra options are always great. The special green button accent for support platforms like Ko-fi or Patreon is a really nice touch for creators. 🎨

📚 Critical thinking skills (2024) ★★★★★ This book covers a topic essential to all of us and to humanity as a whole. It breaks down critical thinking in an incredibly easy, entertaining, and accessible way for any reader. View full review on @popfeed.social

#Music | #AppleMusic Apple Music’s rebrand is so clever. Created by playing frequencies through liquid, fitting perfectly into their Liquid Glass design language.

#Tech | Blip.net #AppLove Really impressed by the new Blip app for Linux! For bridging the gap between platforms without AirDrop friction, Blip has been essential. They nailed the Linux client: it integrates seamlessly into GNOME and is easy to install via Flathub, Snap, or package managers.

I just found @blento.app, an app where you can build your personal or project website super easily using widgets arranged like a bento box. It’s open source and built on the AT Protocol, so you can just sign in with your Bluesky account and start building right away. Check it out here: blento.app

The stupidity of this… "a 14-year-old lost several teeth after a police officer fired a tear-gas grenade into his face at close range" France is the only country in the EU that uses explosive ammunition against demonstrators. The PROBLEM France faces is structural inequality and lack of opportunity

We're very happy to announce that Proton Pass now has folders and subfolders. Autofill URL matching and compromised password alerts are rolling out with them. Read more: https://proton.me/blog/introducing-pass-folders-url-matching

Thought-provoking books that also help to make sense of the evil that is going on every day… bookdna.com/best-books/u... @anthempress.bsky.social

GOG Autumn Sale brings in a giveaway – claim Bounty Train and take on the Wild West by rail! Build your locomotive, hire a crew, and trade your way across 19th-century America, where danger waits around every bend: https://bit.ly/3VfYMGn

Stop texting passwords, leaving trails of credentials in random group chats forever! Proton Pass Secure Links share a login, card or note with anyone; they do not even need a Proton account

@irenemonterog.bsky.social señala una gran verdad: ningún país debería tener derecho a veto y 65 años de bloqueo a Cuba solo han traído sufrimiento al pueblo. El verdadero veto institucional es el de EE. UU., evidenciando los límites de un orden internacional incapaz de frenar la impunidad de pocos.

Return to the Continent with improved visuals, performance, combat, progression, and the complete journey of Geralt of Rivia. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered is now available on GOG: https://bit.ly/3Vkur9w

#Tech | #Apple A $2,000 phone with 256GB base storage is engineered specifically to farm outrage.

State of Mind is available as a GOG giveaway for the next 72 hours! 🤖 👉 Claim it free: https://bit.ly/3VhozO4 Unravel a global conspiracy involving mind-uploading, transhumanism, and a missing family as you navigate the line between a bleak reality and a digital paradise.

“When a transaction objectively looks like a sale to a reasonable customer, the customer should get the legal rights that come with purchase, even if the vendor figuratively has their fingers crossed behind their back in the fine print,” EFF’s Corynne McSherry told @dailymail.co.uk.

#Sports | #WorldNomadGames Athletes from 106 nations gathered in Kyrgyzstan for the 6th World Nomad Games.

#LibreOffice 26.8 is here – with tabbed UI improvements, draft mode in Writer, and better scripting support. (And no built-in AI, of course.) Learn more about the latest update to the private office suite: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08... #foss #opensource #freesoftware

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past has been officially announced. Wishlist here: https://bit.ly/46kJsKD Return to the Path as legendary witcher, Geralt of Rivia! Dozens of hours of new adventures await, where the fate of the entire land, and even Geralt’s closest friendship, is at risk.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past has been officially announced. Return to the Path with Geralt of Rivia! As part of the celebrations, you can now claim a DRM-free, yours-to-keep copy of Video Game Show — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt concert (2016) here: https://bit.ly/3SsfD7M

#Gaming | #Batman If you like having your games offline: the entire Arkham collection is heavily discounted on @gog.com right now. 🦇 Arkham Origins 🦇 Arkham Origins - Season Pass 🦇 Arkham Asylum - GOTY 🦇 Arkham City - GOTY 🦇 Arkham Knight Premium Edition

MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor. FACT: You are the poor.

#Politics | #USA Is it actually illegal? @freedom.press and @theintercept.com filed a federal lawsuit to find out.

#Gaming | #Dawnwalker While industry giants try to push us toward subscriptions and kill physical media, grabbing games on @gog.com gives me real hope for the future of gaming. Glad to see this landing day-one on GOG.

#Tech | @libreoffice.bsky.social LibreOffice is the best legal way to get a full office suite without paying a subscription forever. On top of that, they do an incredible job perfecting different interfaces. No matter what suite you’re used to, you can pick the layout that feels like home.

“Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.” ― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature standardebooks.org/ebooks/david...

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd is extraordinary. Here he is, describing, matter-of-factly, the everyday reality of apartheid Israel. youtube.com/shorts/pAG6M... As he says, such societies must not be allowed to take root - or the poison will spread.

#Screen | #Clayface @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social So creepy! 🫠

#Tecnología | #Libros "El Proyecto Panamá es nuestro esfuerzo por escanear de forma destructiva todos los libros del mundo." — @anthropic.com

#Tech | #Books "Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world." — @anthropic.com

This animation shows the waves from the August 10 magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Colombia ripple across seismic stations in North and South America. Learn more about this event ➡️ https://loom.ly/6rGCOuc

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

#Society | @philosophyminis.bsky.social "Don’t outsource your thinking to technology. Don’t outsource your thinking to an influencer, an academic, a teacher, your parents, whatever."

#Screen | #TV #Watchlist⁠ Nothing lined up to watch today.

#Tech | #Silverblue I try not to add too many extensions, but I activated Night Theme Switcher and I'm really enjoying having the wallpaper automatically change for the night 🌙

If you hear her, don't look out the window. Just pray she keeps going. To hear the grinding of its wooden wheels is an omen; to see the driver under her hood is a death sentence.

#Screen | #Spider-Man Why do I feel like Spider-Man was always written without the hyphen? 🤔

#Screen | #Lucky Good and bad are man-made concepts. The real question with her is whether she's just surviving circumstances or actively creating the chaos.

#Screen | #Lucky 🧸 Apple, hamster, karma, snow, holiday, sunset, pledge, turkey, identity, purpose, fossil, mushroom.