Did you rainbow yourself on the day the Supreme Court upheld marriage rights for same-sex couples? I did. Though I assumed Facebook had only provided the filter in order to conduct one of its studies in online behavior. According to this story by J. Nathan Matias, writing for The Atlantic, data scientists at Facebook have not analyzed the trends in ...
The other day, a meme was haunting my Facebook feed with a photo of Senator Elizabeth Warren and a quote attributed to her saying that the TPP negotiations are too secretive, even beyond the scrutiny of Congress. Now, I really like Senator Warren, and she’s one of the few pols who is likely to earn the benefit of my doubt. ...
This article by Ann Friedman for New York Magazine begins by focusing on the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton as a polarizing force, even among likely political allies. But Friedman’s point isn’t politics per se, it’s friendship. Specifically, she offers thoughts on the effect Facebook might have on friendships once politics enters the equation. And it seems to me that politics ...
So, I stumbled across this TorrentFreak post by The Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde, in which he not only concedes that the “pirate movement” is dead but also exhorts the faithful to get over it and find new ways to further the “cause.” Writes Sunde: You’ve all heard it. The “pirate movement” is dead, diminishing and what not. But ignore ...
The FCC, in a narrow vote this week, elected to adopt rules to protect the principle known as “net neutrality.” The agency will now regulate broadband as a public utility in order to ensure that ISPs cannot discriminate between one kind of customer and another, namely that they may not speed up traffic for higher paying users or slow it ...
