Even superheroes have problems with social media Whoops! I knew facial recognition on Facebook was going to be a problem! Source: Even superheroes have problems with social media / Boing Boing Continue reading Even superheroes have problems with social media

The tracking siphons data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other sites and has taken place largely out of the public eye. This is why people need to download the shit outta Underground’s … Continue reading Police are spending millions of dollars to monitor the social media of protesters and suspects 

While we are being bombarded by the mainstream media and their propaganda war, with the fake, new buzzword called “Fake-News”, the real people of Aleppo are slowly regaining hope that their liberation … Continue reading ALEPPO: Tears, Hugs and Smiles, the Relief of Escaping Imprisonment in East Aleppo

I think that what the papers failed to do was write the big story of the fact that Donald Trump wasn’t playing chess. It’s like the endless fact checking was a little … Continue reading How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable 

Dean has one enormous blind spot – his assumption that federal deficits are evil and that the answer is to continue to wage vigorously the long war – … Continue reading Bill Black: Howard Dean Wants to Continue Austerity’s Assault on the Working Class 

The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history Every website you’ve ever visited for a year, all of these organizations get full, searchable access without … Continue reading The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history

With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed. This truly is the same as McCarthyism with the media calling out other … Continue reading Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group

A Kentucky man who, in 2012, hacked into an online account for followers of a Ohio high school’s football team to expose a gang rape of a teenage girl has pleaded guilty … Continue reading Hacker who helped expose Ohio rape case pleads guilty, faces more prison time than rapists

Once established to crush fake news, the Facebook mechanism could be repurposed to crush other types of information that might cause moral panic. Who decides what’s fake news? If news organizations shortly … Continue reading The Cure for Fake News Is Worse Than the Disease

[Trump] won — what you have to do now is to figure out what to do about it. Half of you are happy Trump won, but if you are part of the … Continue reading Liberals are taking their eyes off the ball — here are 3 things they should do instead

Erdogan threatens to open land borders and allow refugees to cross into Europe if talks on EU membership bid are frozen. Brazen as eff. Source: Turkey threatens EU with new refugee surge … Continue reading Turkey threatens EU with new refugee surge 

A new book points out that improving people’s lives requires their participation. This book sounds great. It explains that economists have truly failed which is why you see people finally riding up … Continue reading Don’t Entrust Economics to the Experts – Bloomberg View