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“let’s pretend social interactions happen without social context” « Jadehawk's Blog

And nevermind that this whole scenario ignores the existence of socially inept women, since it puts the burden of clear communication on them (notice how it’s the women who have to say “no” as bluntly as possible, socialization and possible punishment be damned, but the socially awkward dudes are still allowed to operate within the subtleties of basic human interaction).

misogyny gender
12 hours ago

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Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » That Shy, Elusive Rape Particle

Lovely rant: "Then they get really serious: as artists of vision and integrity, they cannot but depict women solely as toilet receptacles because 1) that has been the “historical reality” across cultures and eras and 2) men have rape genes and/or rape brain modules that arose from natural selection to ensure that dominant males spread their mighty seed as widely as possible. Are we cognitively impaired functionally illiterate feminazis daring to deny (ominous pause) SCIENCE?!"

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On regional releases and disrupting international fandoms « Symposium Blog

No amount of public education of the kind that copyright enforcement-oriented agencies keep clamoring for is going to make this situation look any less absurd to regular people on the internet.

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Tumblr Tag Clouds | Heather Rivers

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I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened - The Oatmeal
copyright distribution
2 days ago

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Skeptical speakers behaving badly, anti-harassment policies and yammering yahoos
misogyny
3 days ago

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arduinna | Tumblr tutorial

Excellent tumblr tutorial. Link everyone to this.

tumblr how-to
3 days ago

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Recency Glossary
language regency
3 days ago

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Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology | Entertainment | TIME.com

I’m beginning to wonder if something like that is happening in contemporary fiction. We expect literary revolutions to come from above, from the literary end of the spectrum — the difficult, the avant-garde, the high-end, the densely written. But I don’t think that’s what’s going on. Instead we’re getting a revolution from below, coming up from the supermarket aisles. Genre fiction is the technology that will disrupt the literary novel as we know it.

books writers readers
4 days ago

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skud: The copyright hypocrisy files

"A while ago I started collecting examples of copyright hypocrisy, with the intent of creating a definitive list of cases where copyright bullies are caught infringing the same rules they say everyone else should obey."

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geekwriter143: New DS Fic: In A Castle Deep or a Fortress Strong -- Fraser/Kowalski -- NC-17

"In all of his life, Ray had never thought he'd once wish that Benton Fraser wasn't standing in his living room, naked."

fandom:duesouth fraser/kowalski
12 days ago

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skud: Huh! OSM on iOS

alternate email client discussion

gmail
12 days ago

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skud: My mostly-mobile Internet workflow

iffft instapaper twitter tumblr pinboard

Tech blogging how-to
14 days ago

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anthropologist: When Same-Sex Marriage Was a Christian Rite

Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual. Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University’s history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents, there were also ceremonies called the "Office of Same-Sex Union" (10th and 11th century), and the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century).

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16 days ago

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Skin is wearing thin on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ - The Washington Post

I can often tell by the sort of dress a female character is wearing whether she is likely to disrobe. (If it has buttons, they will come undone.) I marvel at the semi-medieval society’s standards for personal grooming, which seem to anticipate the Brazilian waxes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries: I call the pubic hair pattern so often seen on Westerosi women “the King’s Landing Strip.”

gameofthrones misogyny
16 days ago

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xkcd: Every Major's Terrible

Gorgeous filk of Modern Major General

xkcd comics
16 days ago

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How To Illustrate Wheelchairs In Comic Books | The Mary Sue

“So on the second volume of Birds of Prey, I put the question out there to both chair users and health care professionals, what kind of chair would Barbara feel most useful and appropriate. And we got a stunning amount of response, which we were incorporating directly into the book, when it was unfortunately canceled for the big relaunch.”

art comics disability
16 days ago

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Martin Klimas | Ufunk.net

Photographer Martin Klimas has made superb photographs of porcelain figures. The porcelain figures are dropped from a height of three meters and photographed when they touch the ground, bursting literally, giving the photograph a huge energy. I love it.

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4 weeks ago

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Jim C. Hines - Posing Like a Man

Earlier this year, I did what turned out to be my most popular blog post ever, in which I posed like women in various urban fantasy covers to try to point out some of the problematic aspects of said covers.

I’m certainly not the only one to talk about these issues. Tor.com did a post just last week: Hey Everyone - Stop Taking This Picture. As usually happens in these discussions, some people responded with, “What about romance covers?” and “Men are objectified too, you know!”

Well, sure. Men can absolutely be objectified too. But is it the same kind of objectification? Are we contorted into similarly painful, impractical, and improbable positions? Is the posing of men in book covers really equivalent to the posing of women?

There was, of course, only one way to find out…

sexism gender books humour misogyny
4 weeks ago

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otw_news: Mainstream Media, the OTW, and You
otw
5 weeks ago

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50 Shades of Publishing

Even before I finish reading, I can tell you this: Fifty Shades of Grey is the end of the publishing industry as we know it. The fat lady is singing, the tipping point is in the rear-view mirror.

publishing fanfiction
5 weeks ago

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MPAA: you can infringe copyright just by embedding a video

The Motion Picture Association of America is squaring off against a coalition of Internet giants and public interest groups over the key question of whether it's possible to directly infringe copyright by embedding an image or video hosted by a third party.

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homestuck primer
fandom primer homestuck author:melannen
6 weeks ago

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Why e-books cost so much | Internet & Media - CNET News
ebooks
6 weeks ago

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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
books internet history:usa
7 weeks ago

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The 'Girls Around Me' Problem Isn't Just About Data, but Sexism - Nathan Jurgenson - Technology - The Atlantic

Kashmir Hill makes this point when stating, " 'You're too public with your digital data, ladies,' may be the new 'your skirt was too short and you had it coming.' " By looking at information-flows as well as sexual politics, Hill paints a better picture of why the Girls Around Me app is "creepy"; and it is all a lot more complicated than "obvious."

facebook privacy foursquare
7 weeks ago

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How Apple and Google help police bypass iPhone, Android lock screens | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
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7 weeks ago

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arduinna | Mar. 31st, 2012

"This is what my experience of mailing-list-based fandom 10-18 years ago (oh dear god) was like, to the best of my recollection. Other people had different experiences, sometimes hugely different, depending on when they came into fandom, what fandom was their gateway, whether they were monofannish or not, whether they were into slash or not, whether they lurked or were active, etc. The only thing that would be mostly the same for everyone is that posts were made, distributed, and read via email."

monthofmeta:2012 fandom history:fandom
8 weeks ago

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BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Contraception

It’s easier to talk about anything than to talk about women who control their own sexuality.

gender politics:usa misogyny
8 weeks ago

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Snarlik.se – Johan Thörnqvist
art illustration design
8 weeks ago

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Our Story Got Foursquare To Kill API Access To Creepy Stalking App Girls Around Me [Update: Facebook Responds] | Cult of Mac

Asked to clarify with us the section of their API policy that prohibits apps like Girls Around Me from using their data, Foursquare responded:

We have a policy against aggregating information across venues using our API, to prevent situations like this where someone would present an inappropriate overview of a series of locations.

privacy foursquare facebook internet
8 weeks ago

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This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] | Cult of Mac

"Girls Around Me isn’t an app you should use to pick up girls, or guys for that matter. This is an app you should download to teach the people you care about that privacy issues are real, that social networks like Facebook and Foursquare expose you and the ones you love, and that if you do not know exactly how much you are sharing, you are as easily preyed upon as if you were naked. I can think of no better way to get a person to realize that they should understand their Facebook privacy settings then pulling out this app."

privacy internet facebook foursquare
8 weeks ago

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The Feminist Agenda: Blast from the Past: Own your Space

We found that if you don’t alter your path when walking toward a man, a lot of men will almost run right into you, or bump their shoulder against yours, and then turn and give you this weird look. The weird looks you get are increased if you stand up straight with squared shoulders and take longer strides. I habitually walk this way now, and I continue to get puzzled looks by men who turn around after I pass them and watch me with an uncertain look.

gender
8 weeks ago

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Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
science
8 weeks ago

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Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn't just about passwords | Technology | guardian.co.uk

So this is what Skynet really looks like.

facebook internet privacy
8 weeks ago

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bonspiel | On fandom, contingent narratives and reinterpretation

I agree with Lim and Butler that part of the thing that makes genre fiction and fanfic work is that readers ‘look through’ the piece to see the larger idea or emotional arc that was intended. Is there any difference between this and a transmedia project, or is it just a matter of degree and of framing?

fandom monthofmeta:2012
8 weeks ago

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Protecting Your Passwords and Your Privacy | Facebook

Kind of hilarious to see Facebook posturing for privacy but such employer requests do violate their TOS. Good on 'em, also LOL this:

" For example, if an employer sees on Facebook that someone is a member of a protected group (e.g. over a certain age, etc.) that employer may open themselves up to claims of discrimination if they don’t hire that person. "

facebook privacy discrimination
9 weeks ago

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What she really said: Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way! | Geek Feminism Blog

In any case, I feel that I have succeeded in constructively disrupting an aspect of my work culture that made me uncomfortable. This is the first personal project I’ve ever thought of, coded, and made public, and I am pretty excited about it! It makes me so happy every time the other bot says “that’s what she said,” and my bot responds with something like:

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. ~ Bella Abzug

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9 weeks ago

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Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Perhaps Google is right. Perhaps the future lies in learning as much about people’s personal lives as possible. Perhaps Google is a better judge of when I should call my mom and that my life would be better if I shopped that Nordstrom sale. Perhaps if they nag me enough about all that open time on my calendar I’ll work out more often. Perhaps if they offer an ad for a divorce lawyer because I am writing an email about my 14 year old son breaking up with his girlfriend I’ll appreciate that ad enough to end my own marriage. Or perhaps I’ll figure all this stuff out on my own.

facebook google internet
10 weeks ago

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The Other Austen

Rozema’s movie is most arresting in its evocations of sexuality. On this subject, many readers and viewers who are usually intelligent become stupid and priggish, as if it is indecent — indecent, mind you — to discover sexuality in Austen’s novels, and as if the sexuality that is clearly there cannot possibly be sexuality. Scores of viewers who gasp with pleasure at a glimpse of Colin Firth’s extratextual derriere in the A&E Pride and Prejudice denounce Rozema’s movie on the grounds that there’s no sex in Jane Austen, a conviction egregiously inapt with respect to Mansfield Park, which is suffused with frustrated, illicit, wayward, or polymorphous sexuality.

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10 weeks ago

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American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 12 | The Raw Story

Not everyone sees it as a positive: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group, argued that the “graduated response” scheme lacks transparency, and that copyright holders could wield the network operators like a blunt instrument in cases where their claims may not be entirely valid — which is the biggest problem with statutes codified by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

politics:usa copyright internet
10 weeks ago

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veleda_k | The Women of White Collar (Are Made of Awesome)

Lovely discussion of female characters on White Collar. My only criticism is not enough June, but then there is never enough June for me.

meta fandom:whitecollar gender
10 weeks ago

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Painting On Cobwebs - Once Upon A Time Vid: Sweet Dreams
vids fandom:onceuponatime recs
10 weeks ago

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Sleep-speaker - Vid: Quantum Theory [Once Upon A Time]
vids fandom:onceuponatime recs
10 weeks ago

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A closer look at Yahoo's patent case against Facebook | The Verge
facebook yahoo
10 weeks ago

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European Commission Blames Social Networks For ACTA Failure; Worried About Its Imminent Directive On Copyright Enforcement | Techdirt

Now that the EU's ratification of ACTA has departed from the original script of everyone just waving it through, the European Commission is clearly trying to come up with Plan B.

privacy internet politics:EC
10 weeks ago

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rivkat | N Crazy Nights

Smallville futurefic where President Luthor, due to threat of natural disaster, is stuck for hours with that annoyingly ethical reporter Clark Kent. Since Lex is smart and Clark is a crap liar, once they're alone in a room together, Lex figures out that Clark must know something about him pre-memory-loss. Basically, Lex is brilliant and there's loads of UST (or ST that gets resolved ;) but also suspicion or antagonism.

fandom:smallville clark/lex
10 weeks ago

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Hello, tailor.: movie costumes i have loved

Hello, tailor blog. Tag for movies posts. Very much worth reading.

movies costume design
11 weeks ago

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Godin to authors: You have no right to make money any more — Tech News and Analysis

Godin’s message may not be a popular one, but it is the way that content works now.

books copyright publishing
11 weeks ago

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Hello, tailor.: New style crush: Nolan Ross in REVEEEENNNGGE.
fandom:revenge fashion
11 weeks ago

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The Anatomist

Part 1 of 4
A story about Molly Hooper that is very good.

sherlockbbc author:rosa-acicularis recs
11 weeks ago

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facetofcathy | Kony 2012

"Please read the full linked posts. They're more forgiving of the three white men who want to save Africa than I am. They all mention the value of the awareness this organization has raised.

"But I think it needs to be asked, particularly if you watched the video, what is this video really for? Is it to educate you about this complex post-colonial conflict that is only one aspect of life in Uganda and South Sudan? Or is it to make you feel something. And then to do something, because something is better than nothing. Happily, this doing something like shooting some money IC's way gives you closure on these feelings you just had about an issue you just learned about five minutes ago."

politics:uganda politics:sudan politics:international colonialism
11 weeks ago

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Red Tape - Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords
facebook Twitter privacy
11 weeks ago

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danceswithgary | SSA Migration to AO3 - Q&A

Migration done! List of historical links re migration.

fandom:smallville otw:archive otw:opendoors
11 weeks ago

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Star Wars: Machete Order

This is a fantastic paper edit of the six Star Wars movies. It makes heaps of sense. Sadly, Qui Gon is my fave character in I and I've never watched II or III because a) he is not in them and b) George Lucas is pants at making movies. Seriously dude, they're so much better if you let someone else - someone with actual storytelling skills - have control.

movies starwars
12 weeks ago

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picfor1000: 'Til Hell Grows Cold [Grimm, Nick/Monroe, PG]

Monroe is utterly adorable and grumpily bossy.

fandom:grimm nick/monroe author:duckduck
12 weeks ago

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Dr. Seuss's Little-Known Book of Nudes - Maria Popova - Entertainment - The Atlantic

"A beautiful story of love, honor and scientific achievement has too long been gathering dust in the archives."

books humour drsuess
12 weeks ago

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The Collapse of Print Advertising in 1 Graph - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic
newspapers internet advertising journalism infographic
12 weeks ago

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Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert - video - YouTube
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12 weeks ago

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scott_lynch: Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain

There are too many Sesame Street specials to count, and most of them have climactic revelations along the lines of, "Oscar learns that not everyone likes a grouch" or "Elmo learns the real value of sharing." Yet once, just once, a bunch of writers at the Children's Television Workshop actually decided to run with "Big Bird overpowers the will of gods and demons in a quest for celestial justice."

tv humour sesamestreet
12 weeks ago

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Digitizing "Chinese Englishmen" | Representations of race and empire in the nineteenth century

Digitizing ‘Chinese Englishmen’ is a project that involves both digitization and academic commentary on the Straits Chinese Magazine, a literary magazine published in colonial Singapore from 1897-1907 by a combination of Southeast Asian-born Anglophone Chinese subjects, European colonial writers and mixed-race Eurasian writers.

history:singapore history:malaysia history
12 weeks ago

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Why I Won’t Do Business With Amazon | Jason Erik Lundberg

Just last week, Amazon pulled more than 4,000 books from its site in order to pressure the Independent Publishers Group, one of the USA’s largest book distributors, into renegotiating their contractual terms to move things more toward Amazon’s favor. The books by the publishers distributed by IPG are now delisted from the Kindle e-book store, and the situation remains unresolved at this point. In response, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) are now redirecting all Amazon.com links on their site, and replacing them with links to IndieBound, Powells, and B&N;

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12 weeks ago

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How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com

Using data to predict a woman’s pregnancy, Target realized soon after Pole perfected his model, could be a public-relations disaster. So the question became: how could they get their advertisements into expectant mothers’ hands without making it appear they were spying on them? How do you take advantage of someone’s habits without letting them know you’re studying their lives?

privacy marketing science statistics
12 weeks ago

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Women of the Gate - Meta: The Unrealised Potential of Stargate's Female Characters

Interesting discussion of Stargate women.

meta fandom:sga fandom:sg1
12 weeks ago

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BBC News - Google privacy changes 'in breach of EU law'

A poll of more than 2,000 people conducted by the group in conjunction with YouGov suggested 47% of Google users in the UK were not aware policy changes were taking place.

Only 12% of British Google users, Big Brother Watch said, had read the new agreement.

The group's director Nick Pickles said: "If people don't understand what is happening to their personal information, how can they make an informed choice about using a service?

"Google is putting advertisers' interests before user privacy and should not be rushing ahead before the public understand what the changes will mean."

google privacy internet politics:EC
12 weeks ago

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How to Make Presentations Accessible to All

Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke?
Be careful not to leave out information for some people in your audience. For example, if you say "you can read it on the slide", you are probably excluding people who cannot see the slide.

This page helps you make your presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others. Inclusive presentations have many benefits.

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12 weeks ago

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Google to launch controversial privacy rules - Americas - Al Jazeera English

In January, the European Commission launched a bid to make companies, including internet giants such as Google or Facebook, give people more control over their personal data or face big fines.

The proposal, championed by Viviane Reding, the EU justice commissioner, would force all companies to get explicit consent from customers to collect their data, explain how it will be used, and allow users to completely erase their information.

google privacy internet politics:EC
12 weeks ago

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This Shit Matters #2: Google’s New Privacy Policy, Straight Talk Edition | Slacktory | This seems legit.

Device information: We might save stuff about the devices you use — what hardware you’ve got, what operating system you’re running, which exact phone you’re using out of all the phones there are, some shit about your mobile network and your phone number, and what accounts you use on them. Just… you know, the basics.

google privacy internet humour
12 weeks ago

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The Jane Austen Society of North America - Persuasions On-Line
austen booksonline
12 weeks ago

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Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Travel, 1910-1959 | Brain Pickings
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12 weeks ago

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arduinna | Google and privacy and alternatives: giant post o' doom
google internet privacy how-to
12 weeks ago

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Lutheran Insulter
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12 weeks ago

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A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: The Internet is broken: could we please fix it?

In late January of this year, Trustwave made a cryptic update to their CA policy. When people started asking about it, they responded with a carefully-worded post on the company blog. When you cut through the business-speak, here's what it says:

We sold the right to generate certificates -- on any domain name, regardless of whether it belongs to one of our clients or not -- and packed this magical capability into a box. We rented this box to a corporate client for the express purpose of running Man-in-the-Middle attacks to eavesdrop on their employees' TLS-secured connections. At no point did we stop to consider how damaging this kind of practice was, nor did we worry unduly about its potential impact on our business -- since quite frankly, we didn't believe it would have any.

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12 weeks ago

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I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones

Still, she advises, regardless of how much they push me, don't work so hard that I injure myself. I'm young. I have a long life ahead of me. It's not worth it to do permanent physical damage, she says, which, considering that I got hired at elevensomething dollars an hour, is a bit of an understatement.

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12 weeks ago

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‘Community’: Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable - The Daily Beast
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12 weeks ago

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blamebrampton - Australian Politics and the Goblet of Dire

Crabbe looked down his patrician nose. 'Not,' he enunciated clearly, 'the Australians I care about.'

Fuck, this is brilliant

politics:australia fandom:harrypotter humour
february 2012

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glvalentine: A "Fun" "Fact" about This Means War!

2. This went unspoken in the Fun Fact, but I feel I can rest assured that his vision for her character also included taking her to board meetings of companies where woman CEOs presided while making tough decisions in an environment trained to belittle and vilify assertive women, and then a visit to NASA labs where women are applying their advanced-science degrees in their space-flight training and Mars-colony simulations, and these entities just asked not to be mentioned so that their offices wouldn't be flooded by the scores of actors straining to confidently portray capable, powerful women for all those movies where capable, powerful women are in high demand.

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february 2012

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She Has No Head! – No, It’s Not Equal | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

And the larger issue is not the believability, but the connotation. An athletic male form suggests strength, power, and ability – all traits that make sense for superheroes.

Porn star and model body types suggest beauty, sex, and frequently, submissiveness. None of those qualities tie directly to superheroes.

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february 2012

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The gender agenda: Gillard and the politics of sexism

''If Julia Gillard, as an eminently capable person and leader, is not able to continue serving as the first woman prime minister, it will set us back decades,'' says Mary Crooks, executive director of the Victorian Women's Trust. ''Every time someone makes an attack on her authority to lead (as distinct from her policies), they are sending a subliminal message to every woman and girl that they are not welcome to sit at the table of real political power.''

politics:australia feminism gender misogyny
february 2012

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Daily Dot | How copyright law became a weapon in YouTube spats

The process works well enough for music labels and movie studios with big legal departments. However, YouTubers have taken to abusing the DMCA request process to remove any material they don’t like—sometimes using falsified personal information so the claim can’t be traced back to them.

Last September, one person falsely claimed copyright over music videos by Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. It took hours for the videos to be restored. And that was an unusually fast response. It can normally take days or weeks for YouTube to restore a video—and that’s if the person who posted it responds with a counterclaim against the original DMCA request.

Nearly 8,000 YouTubers have signed a petition calling on Google to reform how it handles DMCA notices.

google youtube copyright internet politics:usa
february 2012

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