Meta sucks and is trying more nonsense. If you must stay on instagram or facebook, be aware of what is happening.  (Best thing is still leaving the platform altogether)

🔒 🚨 MEGA PRIVACY UPDATE: What Meta isn’t telling you about their latest change.
If you see this notification on Instagram or Facebook, pay close attention. Meta is quietly removing the option to fully “Disconnect Future Activity” from your account.

Here is exactly how this limits your digital privacy and what it actually means:

🛑 The illusion of choice: You used to be able to completely sever the link between your off-Facebook/off-Instagram browsing habits and your account. Now, Meta is replacing it with a setting called “Activity from other businesses.”

🕵️‍♂️ Tracking stays on: Instead of stopping the tracking, this new setting only lets you choose whether Meta uses that tracking data to show you personalized ads and content. The tracking itself doesn’t stop—they just change how they utilize the data they’ve gathered about you.

📉 Less control for you: By retiring the original “disconnect” feature, Meta is making it harder to keep your data siloed. Your external app usage, shopping habits, and website visits will remain tied to your Meta identity.

What you can do right now:

1️⃣ Go to your Accounts Center.
2️⃣ Find Your Information and Permissions.
3️⃣ Click on Your Activity Off Meta Technologies.
4️⃣ Look for Activity from other businesses and adjust your settings to limit how they use your data.

Don’t let them quietly strip away your privacy controls. Check your settings today!

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Fire pics(see prev entry)

Day 20,970 seed 570501080801

Called out as “WSJP248 checking in, anyone on the air?

Got a response, and asked about a fire up the hill, and it helped me to find out this info

ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) – Roanoke County Fire & Rescue crews are responding to the Havens Wildlife Management area in the Fort Lewis area for a brush fire as of early Friday afternoon.

The County said at noon, “There are no structures in the area and no threat to the public at this time.”

One to two acres have burned as of noon, according to the County, and the fire will likely grow. “There’s a lot of thick brush in the area which will produce heavy smoke.”

The cause of the fire has not been determined.

Of the artists I just haven’t been able to appreciate in my entire life is Jackson Pollock, and just now I was reminded of Cy Twombly.

Neither of them evoke anything in me in response to their art, except “good for them,  I guess, looks like trash to me.”