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What is Silicon Valley Really Up to?

Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 12:19 pm by

This is well worth the read and I do agree with this. But the strategy I’ve employed is a little different. My IRL stuff is on FB. I keep my nom de plume for other social media sites including the … Continue reading →

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Look upon my works ye Facebook and Despair

Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 4:11 pm by

What would you use besides Facebook? G+ is going away. There’s the run-amuck depornified Tumblr. Instagram. Whatapp. Tindr/Grindr (I kid, I kid)… Twitter (which I would never in a billion years use my real name at)… Diaspora, Friendica, MeWe (which … Continue reading →

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facebook: never deletes

Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: German; Captions: English] Ever. Like 0

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MoveOn and Slut Walk and Rape Culture

Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm by

There are days when I want to just bash my head on the nearest brick wall. It started off with MoveOn’s moronically titled post about the Slut Walk protests: 10 Best Photos From This Summer’s Most Scantily Clad Movement. This, … Continue reading →

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why do I use facebook when it is evil?

Posted on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 3:00 pm by

Facebook is notoriously insecure. It has flipflopped — more often then McCain — on privacy settings, policies. It keeps rolling out “new” features that undermine old settings. And given the business facebook is in, it WILL be using and harvesting … Continue reading →

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this n that

Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 12:00 pm by

Really a lot of stuff going on in MENA right now, it’s almost impossible to keep up. Key countries: Libya – la terre brûlée: Looks like on the cusp of civil war, as Ghadaffi is responding with extreme violence to … Continue reading →

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Wael Ghonim, the man who broke the Egyptian regime in one interview

Posted on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 2:30 pm by

[Audio: Arabic; Captions: none; Transcript: see below] I was on twitter when he was interviewed, so the tweets provided live coverage and translation for me. The interview is absolutely heartbreaking, and is translated/transcribed here: Wael @Ghonim (thanks to @exiledsurfer who … Continue reading →

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wikileaks, the internet, egypt: at the edges and intersections

Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 1:00 pm by

I first want to touch on the importance of communication. Believe me, as a deaf person I am acutely aware of the central place communication has in all of humanity. We are driven to communicate, we must communicate, and we … Continue reading →

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wikileaks: “The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.”

Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 2:00 pm by

In looking over this article, one thing that strikes me is that these Wikileaks commentaries are becoming a blend of current political issues as well as Wikileaks news, and not just purely articles about Wikileaks itself. In fact, this article … Continue reading →

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this n that

Posted on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 9:00 am by

How America will collapse (by 2025) Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go … Continue reading →

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