Richard Slammer

I'm on eX-Twitter.(ugh). THE MOST VAPID FORM OF INTERNET COMMUNICATION also has the most people.(Again ugh) Well here we go! $rickslamu2
ETHOTS&SCAMMERS BLOCKED

[Richard Slammer @rickslamu22NJ]

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11-24-22

[RT @RT_com]

Police: ‘DO NOT share footage' of Belfast beheading attempt on social media

‘We all remember, over the last two years, significant disorder that only led to damage in our local communities’

[Doomcock @doomcock]

Hey @AmazonMGMStudio Peter Friedlander, and Mike Hopkins: Stargate, unlike Rings of Power, is actually something people WANT. Look at the response online! Look at Stargate trending! Reconsider this hasty decision, renew it, and let Martin Gero make something to be proud of!

https://t.co/VhdELBpQ8u

[Venture Pictures @venturepictures]

As a bit of a Google Trends nerd 😂 If Stargate were a dead franchise and aimed at a “small dedicated fanbase” you wouldn’t expect worldwide search spikes for “Stargate SG-1 Netflix” (+800%), “Stargate Netflix,” and “Stargate new series.”

The datas suggestion is there is still a strong meaningful audience demand whenever the franchise becomes visible on a major streaming platform for example. (There’s numerous examples of this kind’ve trend)

So if little old me with a PC and a pretty ok understanding of how social media ticks can see the missed goal here.

How is it the executive at Amazon MGM getting paid what I’m sure is top money get to the decision they did from a strategic standpoint?

I feel there’s a missing piece here because it makes no sense. lol.

#stargate

[Michael Shanks @MichaelShanks]

Keep going family!!

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

🚨 SHARIA LAW IN AMERICA:

Fort Wayne Police Boot American Citizens from Public Park for Recording

A man in Fort Wayne, Indiana is furious after being TRESPASSED from a public park — simply for filming.

Fort Wayne PD acting as the “feelings police” for the local Islamic community. Enforcing Sharia sensitivities over the First Amendment.

How is this happening in America? Public parks belong to WE THE PEOPLE — not religious enforcers.

American citizens removed for recording in public? This is outrageous.

Wake up, Indiana. This cannot stand.

Share if you’re done with Sharia creeping into our public spaces. 👇
#ShariaInAmerica #FortWayne #FirstAmendment #NoSharia #Indiana

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

MICROSOFT JUST ADMITTED IT WAS WRONG — AND CANCELED EVERY SECRET NDA THEY SIGNED WITH YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT WORLDWIDE

Remember the story we told you about Meta hiding behind a shell company called “Balloonist LLC?” About mayors signing secret agreements? About communities finding out a billion-dollar data center was being built in their neighborhood only when the construction equipment arrived?

That story — which went viral across America — just produced the most remarkable corporate reversal in the entire history of the data center era.

On March 18, 2026 — two and a half months ago — Microsoft announced something no tech company has ever done before: they are canceling every single NDA — every single secrecy agreement — they have ever signed with every single local government in the entire world.

Not just new ones. Every existing one. Terminated. Gone.

And the reason they did it tells you everything about the power that communities have when they organize and fight back.

WHAT MICROSOFT ACTUALLY DID

Amid widespread blowback against the spread of data centers, Microsoft on March 18, 2026 announced it is abandoning its practice of secrecy with local governments when deploying new facilities worldwide. The company stated: “We’ve made the decision that being transparent with the communities where we operate or seek to operate is paramount. This shift is about strengthening public trust, enabling better dialogue, and ensuring that our growth is matched by meaningful engagement.” 

Abandoning its practice of secrecy. Those are Microsoft’s own words. An acknowledgment — quiet but unmistakable — that what they were doing was wrong.

Microsoft announced it will terminate any existing, active NDAs worldwide — coordinating with municipalities to end the agreements. Microsoft’s corporate vice president and general counsel of Infrastructure Legal Affairs, Rima Alaily, said: “Our neighbors deserve to know when we are coming to their community. They deserve transparency about what we are building and why.” 

Our neighbors deserve to know. Said by the company that was using shell companies and NDAs to make sure neighbors did NOT know. Said because the communities fought back hard enough that the alternative — continuing the secrecy — became more damaging than the transparency.

BUT HERE IS WHY COMMUNITIES ARE SKEPTICAL — AND RIGHT TO BE

Microsoft’s move won qualified praise from data center NDA critics. But environmental group Midwest Environmental Advocates captured the community mood precisely: “Companies typically don’t make announcements about building community trust unless those communities are already pushing back pretty hard.” 

They are right. Microsoft did not have a sudden change of heart. Microsoft did a calculation. And the calculation came out like this:

The secrecy is no longer working. Communities are finding the NDAs through FOIA requests. Wisconsin Watch is writing front-page stories about them. State legislators are introducing bills to ban them. And when communities find out they were deceived — as in Festus, Missouri — they vote out every politician who signed the deal.

Transparency became cheaper than secrecy. That is why Microsoft changed.

Wisconsin state Rep. Clint Moses — a Republican from Menomonie, where the city signed an NDA — put it bluntly: Microsoft “just realized that it’s not a successful formula when you come into a community under darkness.” But he also noted that his bill to ban data center NDAs stalled in the Wisconsin Legislature — meaning other companies can still use them. “Hopefully, the industry follows,” he said — but expressed doubt that it would without legislative mandates. 

Hopefully the industry follows. That is the hope. But hope is not a policy.

Amazon has not ended its NDAs. Meta — the company behind Balloonist LLC — has not ended its NDAs. Google has not ended its NDAs. Oracle has not ended its NDAs.

Microsoft made a move. The rest of the industry is watching. And communities should not mistake one company’s PR pivot for industry-wide reform.

THE COMMUNITIES THAT FORCED THIS CHANGE

Here is the story behind the story — the one Microsoft will never tell in its press releases.

The NDA terminations came after The Detroit News reported the existence of confidentiality agreements — obtained by filing public records requests with communities that had publicly fielded interest from data center developers. The News obtained copies of the agreements. Since reporting on four west Michigan communities’ confidentiality agreements with Microsoft, two more governmental bodies responded with copies of additional NDA agreements. The NDA scandal was spreading — and Microsoft knew it. 

Reporters. Filing public records requests. Obtaining the secret documents. Publishing them. That is what forced Microsoft’s hand. Not a change of heart. Not a new commitment to ethics. Journalists and community members armed with freedom of information laws.

Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council president Bill Lueders said data center developers’ use of NDAs in Wisconsin “did blow up in their faces” and contributed to projects facing increasing backlash. “Communities don’t like it when they find out that their public officials are meeting secretly with representatives of companies to change the character of their communities,” he said. “I’m also not surprised that a company like Microsoft would take a look at it and say, ‘Boy, that’s really not a good look.’” 

It blew up in their faces. That is the Freedom of Information Council’s official assessment. And it is exactly right.

Communities organized. Journalists filed records requests. Wisconsin Watch and the Detroit News and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published the documents. And one of the most powerful companies in the world had to stand up and say: we were wrong. We’re ending this. Worldwide.

AND HERE IS THE CATCH NOBODY IS REPORTING

While Microsoft is internally taking action to address community concerns — it was a key player in defeating Washington state legislation that would have mandated data center transparency and restrictions on environmental impacts. In other words: Microsoft ended its own NDAs voluntarily — while simultaneously working to block laws that would have forced the entire industry to do the same. 

Read that again. Microsoft ended its own NDAs. Then helped defeat the bill that would have required every data center company to end theirs.

They made the choice to be transparent. Then worked to make sure Amazon, Meta, and Google don’t have to make the same choice.

This is not a company that has seen the light. This is a company that is managing its reputation while protecting the industry’s ability to continue doing exactly what they were doing — just not Microsoft specifically.

Microsoft may still, in “certain limited circumstances,” share confidential trade secrets or “competitive sensitive information” about its data centers with local governments and will still try to protect that information from public records. The company’s corporate vice president acknowledged that land acquisition NDAs will continue — meaning the secrecy around purchasing land for data centers remains in place even as government NDAs end. 

Land acquisition NDAs continue. Meaning: the shell company phase — where Balloonist LLC buys land without anyone knowing it’s Meta — that can still happen. The NDA that covers the land purchase can still be secret. It’s only the government-level NDA — the one that binds your mayor — that Microsoft is ending.

The most important secrecy tool — buying land through disguised companies — remains intact.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Microsoft just did something no tech company has ever done: canceled every secret NDA with every local government in the world. Worldwide. All of them. Gone.

It happened because communities organized. Because journalists filed FOIA requests. Because Wisconsin Watch and the Detroit News published the documents. Because Festus, Missouri voted out every politician who signed a secret deal. Because the political cost of secrecy exceeded the commercial benefit.

That is how change happens. Not because corporations develop a conscience. Because communities force their hand.

But here is the truth that needs to be said plainly: Microsoft is one company. Amazon, Meta, Google, and Oracle are still using NDAs. The Washington state bill that would have mandated industry-wide transparency — Microsoft helped defeat it. Land acquisition NDAs — the tool that lets Balloonist LLC buy your neighbor’s farm without telling anyone — those continue.

One battle won. The war not over.

Share this for every community that fought back against the secrecy — and every community that is still fighting. Microsoft blinked. Now pressure the rest of them.

🎩 The StoicWay

📌 Source: GeekWire — “Microsoft nixes NDAs with local governments worldwide when deploying data centers” (March 18, 2026)
Read all about it! 😉
https://t.co/7IUMlrR15u

[Jelte @j3lte]

What... The... F*ck?

The GoFundMe for Bryan Mansell has been taken down???

This can't be real. This has to be a mistake or fluke. If it really is down, I'm afraid this whole Bricks & MiniFigs saga is going to be a whole lot uglier.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Richard Dean Anderson, who played Colonel Jack O'Neill across 8 seasons of Stargate SG-1, speaking at a fan convention in France just days before Amazon cancelled the revival:

"The new producers, the new owners, want to have their own entity with that franchise name attached to it. So they'll have all new characters. They haven't asked me to be a part of it, and I'm glad they're not putting me on the spot to make it awkward to say, possibly, 'No.' I'm the old guy!"

He dodged the awkwardness of saying no. Amazon cancelled it anyway. Is the version of Stargate fans actually want — with the original cast — the version no studio will ever make?

[SkriptkeeperElect @Skriptkeeper17]

They are lying about the data centers.

[Anthony Hudson @Hudson4Governor]

AREN’T YOU TIRED OF BEING CONTROLLED BY A GOVERNMENT THAT DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU?

THEY ARE LITERALLY ATTACKING US ON ALL FRONTS TO TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM, OR OUR ABILITY TO MAKE DECISIONS ON OUR OWN!

THIS NOVEMBER, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR THAT FREEDOM THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH, A FREEDOM THAT WAS GIVEN TO YOU BY GOD, NOT THE GOVERNMENT.

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The Death of Satire

[Sapien @SapienAssassin]

Hi, Lego Co.👋🏼
You're a family company, right?

Well, @bricks_minifig is using your product to harm families. It's gonna be hard to maintain a family friendly face with friends like these.

I'd be pretty upset if Ammon
fucked up my business model.
#amwriting @LEGO_Group #crime

[JohnLogostini @JohnLogostini]

@Pirat_Nation This is clickbait. GOG is not shutting down; a piracy site with a similar name is shutting down.

[The Constitutionalist 🇺🇸 @WeWillBeFree24]

RECEIPTS 🚨

Vivek Ramaswamy's company Datavant controls all of Ohio's medical records. ↓ I requested my medical records for the VA from two different healthcare systems.

They were sent from Datavant. I have to login to the system with my personal information, to view my own "private" medical data.

Not only does Datavant control all the health care data, they also control all the Ohio Medicare and Medicaid data. It's even noted that Datavant is used for audits.

You can't tell me he didn't know about the fraud.

Welcome to our digital prison.

[Francesco 🇮🇹 @SaP011]

Her name is Luana Zaratti, an Italian bus ticket inspector.

She was 26 when, during one of her shifts, she asked an illegal Egyptian immigrant for his ticket.

He had none. His answer was a violent headbutt straight to her face, so hard it shattered her nasal septum and caused severe head trauma.

Luana collapsed to the ground, blood pouring from her nose.

That single blow destroyed her life.
It left her with permanent brain damage and lifelong disability.

Years bedridden, almost vegetative.
But her willpower pulled her back to a shadow of the life she once had.

The attacker was sentenced to just 14 months in prison, but he never served a single day. He disappeared.

Luana, declared unfit to work, now survives on less than €1,000 a month.

[Harry Stabbings @harrystabbings]

Today we arrested a group of teens in Birmingham for their illegal use of Youtube.

Under the new social media ban under-16s are not permitted to access any platform without parental supervision.

They were watching cooking tutorials.

Sharing one phone between four of them.

Absolute madness.

One of them tried to argue it was educational content.

Educational.

As if that's a defence.

The law doesn't care what you're learning.

All four are being processed.

Parents notified.

Devices confiscated and they will be trialled as adults.

Britain is safer for it.

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

If you thought the Bricks and MiniFigs drama was over, nope, and it got even hotter as they threatened Ben with Jail time if he even mentions the name of the company.

This isn't isolated. On the QRT, there is a Utah man who posted that the same American Fork PD told him his $527k construction loan fraud was a “civil case”. They told him that they wouldn’t investigate and were told to go hire a lawyer. This person has been fighting it for 7 years... and yes... This is the SAME department that treated Reckless Ben like a criminal while defending Bricks and minifigs. The same Mormon mafia circles...

It's the same problem wherever there are parallel societies. They circle the wagons, handle threats internally, and it's far worse than any kind of "small town" mentality.

If you browse social media, there are tons of other stories of people losing five to six-figure dollar sums in franchise deals, scams, contractor disputes, property fraud, and family business-related thefts in Mormon hotspots against people who aren't.

Every other complaint follows the same pattern where the PD tells them it's civil and they don't investigate... "go hire a lawyer."

It doesn't help that there is an overrepresentation of Mormons in the FBI-CIA and many law enforcement agencies that look the other way all too many times.

If the Mormons want to squelch the drama, hold the fraudsters, scammers, and the corrupt accountable instead of trying to silence the critics. Or else the Streisand effect is going to get louder.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

An artist who worked on South of Midnight says that Microsoft discourages developers from creating curvy female characters in its games.

The artist shared his own stylized drawings of Lara Croft with a curvier look, showing the difference between his designs and what is allowed in official projects.

According to him, this reflects a trend many people have noticed across several Xbox games in recent years.

Find via @Mangalawyer

[Nina Infinity @Nina7Infinity]

Uhoh! @AmazonMGMStudio and @PrimeVideo are starting to delete posts cause they're getting ratio'd by #stargate fans in the comments.😂🤣😂🤣

Keep going guys! 😁

#savestargate

[Goy Gems @GoyGems]

Comic by @WokelyCorrect