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"But there are seven billion people in the world! I can't possibly stop to consider how ALL of them might interpret something!" "Ah, yes, there's no middle ground between 'taking personal responsibility for the thoughts and feelings of every single person on Earth' and 'covering your eyes and ears and yelling logically correct statements into the void.' That's a very insightful point and not at al...
https://xkcd.com/1984/

"I was one of Facebook's first users. I shouldn't have trusted Mark Zuckerberg"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard

Nice

Capybara getting a good scratch

People should be embarrassed to call themselves "evangelicals" any more.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/04/22/evangelical-is-just-another-word-for-hypocrite/

Regular reminder: "legal name" is a very boring sounding phrase.

It sounds WAY cooler if you call it your "government alias"

Y'know what in a system that's a successor to capitalism I'm okay with the possibility of work in some fields giving above-average compensation.

I'm fine with a nurse or a teacher or a farm worker having twice the "purchasing power" or whatever as I do. Those are necessary, hardass jobs.

I'm not okay that people like venture capitalists make tens of thousands of times as much as I do while creating zero value.

Hans Asperger aided and supported Nazi programme, study says

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/hans-asperger-aided-and-supported-nazi-programme-study-says

forteller - This sounds like Aaron Swartz all over again :(

A teenager in Canada who downloaded several thousand public freedom-of-information requests records has been raided by police and accused of "stealing" private information

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-information-request-privacy-breach-teen-speaks-out-1.4621970

Best Egyptian Hieroglyphs

via http://marrasart.tumblr.com/

reminder

Facebook Doesn't Need To Listen Through Your Microphone To Serve You Creepy Ads

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/facebook-doesnt-need-listen-through-your-microphone-serve-you-creepy-ads

"“Sustained response” = war. And that requires the authorization of Congress - unless you don’t believe in the Constitution." ---Seth Moulton (D-MA)

"There is no way this action is legal but that horse left the barn decades ago. [...] I would like a careful explanation of why we should believe anything this administration* says simply because the boom-boom has started." ---Charles P. Pierce