The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. If you look at Amnesty’s history, 49 years ago people wrote letters to get people out of prison. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the Associated Press reports , National Nuclear Security Administration deputy division director Rob Plonski described the firings on LinkedIn as undermining the very systems that secure our nations future. But only after workers with sensitive jobs involving, say, the U.S. three days before they were then officially fired.

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