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President Trump Is the Latest Critic of Facebook's Libra In a series of tweets late Thursday, the president attacked cryptocurrencies and said Libra "will have little standing or dependability." https://www.wired.com/story/president-trump-latest-critic-facebooks-libra #Business/BlockchainandCryptocurrency #cryptocurrency #Blockchain #Business #Facebook

YouTube drafting "creator-on-creator harassment” rules after Steven Crowder incident https://t.co/cf6Qut5HpF https://t.co/HSQThPagjk
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New Orleans faces a never-before-seen problem with Tropical Storm Barry https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/weather/new-orleans-flooding-trnd/index.html #CNN #news #global #bot

Your daily dose of spiritual inspiration http://www.wnd.com/2019/07/your-daily-dose-of-spiritual-inspiration-372/ #DailyBlessing

Top psychologist group now promotes group sex http://www.wnd.com/2019/07/top-psychologist-group-now-promotes-group-sex/ #APPFrontpage #FrontPage #Politics #Health #Faith #U.S.

A limited edition David Bowie Barbie is unveiled to honor the 50th anniversary of the release of the singer's hit s… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1149476590847348736

Amazon to spend $700 million retraining a third of its US workforce by 2025 https://t.co/M7TeoI8KDK https://t.co/EzjAUNoCAY
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Court decision costs Planned Parenthood up to $60 million http://www.wnd.com/2019/07/court-decision-costs-planned-parenthood-up-to-60-million/ #APPFrontpage #FrontPage #Politics #Health #Faith #Money #U.S.

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Pleroma Releases 1.0!

Pleroma, the Elixir-based fediverse communication platform, has finally pushed out a 1.0 stable release. This is the culmination of many months of hard work from about a dozen or so active contributors, all poking and prodding at the underlying codebase and discussing the best path forward.

The end game for us is to teach you (yes, all of you) how to build a resilient and safe federated Social Web. we don’t have all the answers, but we have a basic roadmap for getting from here to that point.
Kaniini, one of Pleroma's developers

This release includes numerous fixes and improvements; one of the highlights includes the capability to create and vote on Mastodon-compatible federated polls.

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A poll in Pleroma, courtesy of Lain's blog

Other improvements include a shiny new documentation site, as well as OTP releases, which aim to provide better Elixir / Erlang compatibility for deployment purposes.

There's a lot of exciting developments in store for future releases. Although they haven't been officially defined as milestones yet, the Pleroma devs are taking stock of what developments need to happen next - there's possibly some talk about adding federated groups, and Kaniini has expressed an interest in implementing Object Capabilities (OCAP) as a security improvement to Pleroma's ActivityPub implementation. In time, this might replace the HTTP-Signatures method that most ActivityPub implementations currently use. Kaniini has a Patreon available here, if you're interested in supporting them in this effort.

Anyway, this is a very exciting step forward for the Pleroma project! Instance admins are advised to upgrade, and newbies can grab the source code and set up their own instances from here.

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Happy 9th Birthday Friendica!

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Festive Flaxy O’Hare by @lightone
9 years ago, on July 1st 2010, Mike MacGirvin committed his initial work on what would become Friendica.

Since it has gone through many changes, PHP version, maintainers, name even, but it is still alive and kicking and ready for its tenth years running.

Thanks to everyone who has donated or still donate their time to make Friendica and especially to make Friendica available by running public nodes.

Here’s to another great year for Friendica!- - - - - -

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Illinois State Senator Proposes Confiscating Guns

Illinois State Senator Proposes Confiscating Guns http://bit.ly/2xGW7r3 After pointing out the punitive nature of the legislation, the gun rights supporter a...

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‘No stone unturned’: Trump orders govt to turn over ALL records for US citizen & non-citizen count

President Donald Trump has declared he is “not backing down” from his effort to determine the citizenship status of the US populationon, promising to issue an executive order to put an alternative plan into effect immediately. Read Full Article at RT.com

https://www.rt.com/usa/463962-trump-us-citizenship-question/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Trump Orders Agencies To Share Data On Noncitizens https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3763366/posts

What A Coincidence! Twitter Down Worldwide Amid Social Media Summit https://www.infowars.com/what-a-coincidence-twitter-down-worldwide-amid-social-media-summit/ #FeaturedStories

Water is good for you year round. If you're thirsty, you're dehydrated.

FCC boosts broadband competition by, er, banning broadband competition in buildings http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/11/fcc_broadband_competition/

Instagramers flock to toxic Siberian lake for ‘Maldives’ selfies https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3018264/instagramers-flock-toxic-siberian-lake-maldives

FAKE HATE: Media pushes phony 'racist' outrage over black actress playing 'The Little Mermaid' https://www.theblaze.com/jon-miller/little-mermaid #Thelittlemermaid #Facebook.com #Hallebailey #Fakeoutrage #Disney #Video #Ariel