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After Building Community At Nike And VSCO, Discord’s New CMO Wants To Help More Than Just Gamers Connect During Isolation

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Tesa Aragones is hoping to use her past experience fostering communities in the photography and fitness worlds to now do the same for Discord’s growing social network.

Aragones, who left her role as the chief marketing officer of VSCO to become the new CMO of Discord last week, is now leading marketing for the San Francisco-based platform that allows people to chat in private conversations using video and chat features. And while it’s long known for being used by gamers since its founding in 2015, that categorization is quickly changing—especially during the current era of social distancing.

Building community within a platform is something Aragones is familiar with, having created Nike’s digital training community along with the brand’s first iPhone app and winning a variety of patents for various projects. And at VSCO, she focused her efforts on

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Spotify Says Apple One Bundle Will Cause ‘Irreparable Harm to Developer Community’

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Apple today announced Apple One, a series of new subscription bundles that provide access to various Apple services at a combined monthly price.


In response, Spotify sent out statements (via Peter Kafka) to the press decrying Apple’s anti-competitive behavior and calling on “competition authorities” to stop Apple before it is able to cause “irreparable harm” to developers.

Once again, Apple is using its dominant position and unfair practices to disadvantage competitors and deprive consumers by favoring its own services. We call on competition authorities to act urgently to restrict Apple’s anti-competitive behavior, which if left unchecked, will cause irreparable harm to the developer community and threaten our collective freedoms to listen, learn, create, and connect.

There are three separate Apple One plans that start at $14.95 per month. The standard plan includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and 50GB of iCloud storage. Individually, these services would be priced

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Pokemon Go September Community Day Guide: Shiny Porygon, Event Move, And More

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September is another packed month for Pokemon Go players. Niantic has a variety of events and activities lined up for the game over the next few weeks, from the Mega Evolution-themed Mega September event to a new Victini Special Research line. There’s also September’s Community Day, which takes place next Sunday, September 20. To help you prepare for the event, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about September’s Community Day below.

September’s Featured Pokemon: Porygon

Porygon
Porygon

The Virtual Pokemon Porygon is the featured Pokemon for September’s Community Day. Throughout the event, Porygon will spawn in the wild much more frequently than normal, making this a good opportunity to stock up on Porygon Candy. On top of that, you’ll be able to catch a Shiny Porygon in the game for the first time during the event.

September’s Community Day Move: Tri Attack

If you can evolve Porygon2 (Porygon’s

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Library’s virtual summer reading program overcomes COVID restrictions | St. Tammany community news

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Thanks to a series of virtual programs, the St. Tammany Parish Library’s “Imagine Your Story” summer reading program was a success, despite COVID-19 restrictions that prevented in-person events.

Teen Services Coordinator Jennifer Rifino briefed Library Board of Control members on the program results during a Sept. 2 Zoom meeting.

Participation in the program, which ran from May 15 through Aug. 8, was down significantly from normal levels, Rifino said, but enthusiasm among those who did participate was high.

Over 900 children registered for the program, as did 85 teens and nearly 200 adults. The library offered more than 150 virtual programs and events, attended by over 1,700 participants.

“I’m so proud that we were able to present a very robust summer reading program, as we do every year,” Rifino said.

In other business, the board received the audit of the system’s 2019 financial operations from John Murray, of the LaPorte

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Pokemon Go September Community Day: Shiny Porygon, Event Move, And More

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September is another busy month for Pokemon Go players. Niantic has a variety of events and activities lined up for the game over the next few weeks, from the Mega Evolution-themed Mega September event to a new Victini Special Research. There’s also September’s Community Day, which takes place on Sunday, September 20. To help you prepare for the event, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about September’s Community Day below.

September’s Featured Pokemon: Porygon

Porygon
Porygon

The Virtual Pokemon Porygon is the featured Pokemon for September’s Community Day. Throughout the event, Porygon will spawn in the wild much more frequently than normal, making this a good opportunity to stock up on Porygon Candy. On top of that, you’ll be able to catch a Shiny Porygon in the game for the first time during the event.

September’s Community Day Move: Tri Attack

If you can evolve Porygon2 (Porygon’s evolved

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Marvel’s Avengers Reveals How Faction And Community Challenges Will Work

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Marvel’s Avengers has launched worldwide to those players who pre-ordered the game for early access, with the worldwide launch coming on September 4. The story of how the Avengers reassemble to face the threat of Advanced Idea Mechanics is only part of the full experience, as the game will continue long after the main campaign has wrapped up.

According to a new blog post from developer Crystal Dynamics, these events will be split between weekly and seasonal activities such as missions, faction challenges, and community challenges, and will reward players with cosmetics and gear if they can complete these objectives before they expire.

Missions can be accessed through the war table, and will also feature weekly content and their own unique loot to earn. Modified operations will be playable through Priority Missions and Priority HARM challenges that include several modifiers, while two new mission modes will be activated after Marvel’s

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Meet The New Manjaro Community Edition PinePhone, Starting At $149

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Between multiple versions of the PinePhone, the fantastic PineBook Pro and the development of PineTime and PineTab, there’s no question Pine64 has been on a roll. Its mobile phone endeavors, in particular, have garnered widespread development support and community adoption. Now it’s time for another Community Edition of the affordable Linux phone that will have users of a certain persuasion chanting “Btw I use Arch. . . on my phone!”

The short version: pre-orders for the brand new Manjaro Community Edition PinePhone should go live in mid-September, and fans of the Arch-based Linux distro have a lot to be enthusiastic about.

“Manjaro has offered support for PINE64 devices since the very beginning and the PinePhone is no exception in this regard,” says Pine64’s Lucasz Erecinski. “There are currently three Manjaro PinePhone build variants (Lomiri, Phosh and

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OpenEEW Formed to Expedite Earthquake Warning Systems | Community

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A new coalition is building a low-cost solution to save lives in earthquake-threatened regions, rather than garnishing a profit from a new early-warning system. OpenEEW is an open-source IoT project with the goal to save lives by reducing the cost of earthquake early-warning (EEW) systems and accelerating their deployments globally.

The Linux Foundation earlier this month announced that it will host the project’s developer — Grillo — in collaboration with IBM. The project includes the core components of the Grillo EEW system, comprised of integrated capabilities to sense, detect, and analyze earthquakes and alert communities.

Nearly one-third of the world’s population live in seismically-active regions. At risk is the safety and survival of approximately three billion people living in earthquake-prone areas without early-detection systems that could cost upwards of US$1 billion to put in place.

A Project for a Safer Future

OpenEEW was created by Grillo with support from IBM,

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