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Listen to the author read this entire article out loud (9:05) February 27, 2012 So, Facebook reads your text messages, according to the the London Sunday Times in a subscribers-only article, referenced all over the blogosphere today (Fox News, Tech Crunch, and many others). If you have the Facebook mobile app, then that same mobile app, without asking…
Censored: If, and only if, justice, then peace. Why, war, why? Carl Rittenhouse Larson February, 2012 For the record, my poetry, shown above, has been censored. This is a fact. Most likely, it was censored by an algorithm, but still. In a way, it was written by an algorithm. I’m thinking about getting “Censored…
February 22, 2012 All of advertising can be divided up into two categories – relevant information, and spam. Most of what I see on TV is spam. It’s funny sometimes, but it’s still spam. Kind of creepy that they know everything about me, but it’s the price we pay for relevancy. Most of the ads…
February 21, 2012 I recently challenged Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg to a duel of words. I posted an image to my Facebook wall, along with thousands of other people, who posted the same image to their own walls. Eventually, that image was taken down, from everyone’s wall, by Facebook. The image wasn’t lewd, it wasn’t…
February 19, 2012 Charlie Dent is a politician from Pennsylvania who has introduced the Enemy Expatriation Act (EEA), which would revoke the citizenship of American citizens suspected of links to terrorism. The interviewer’s only decent question is whether the EEA would strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship, or just those suspected of terrorism. Dent responds by alluding to “investigations,”…
February 18, 2012 There’s no democracy in Maine this year. Voters from Hancock and Washington counties have been reported (by Fox News, actually) as being “not counted.” Some polling stations were closed, due to a phantom snowstorm that never materialized. There’s an easy way around all of this – we just need to do it….
February 20, 2012 Random information is generated by the human mind. From that random information, humans are extremely skilled at unconsciously, unawarely, hacking down 99+% of that randomly generated information, removing data based on their own consciously understood priorities, thereby prioritizing that random information, or (in other words) ranking that random information in relation to…
February 13, 2012 I recently made a post to my Facebook profile that was promptly un-posted, by Facebook. Whether it was a human, a flagger, an algorithm, or a silver unicorn with an impaled tiger on its horn, bellowing more loudly than a blue whale, at the Sunrise, from a mountaintop, underwater, in space…
Podcast February 8, 2012 This election year, don’t vote for politics as usual. Instead, let’s amend the constitution. Amendment 28: Uncensored internet access is a human right.
February 6, 2012 Pythagoreanism.com is probably the worst-categorized website online – if you’ve ever wondered what this is all about (for example, why it’s called Pythagoreanism), this video should clear up some of your confusion: [Direct link to video]