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Black manager for Facebook quits

jeudi 13 décembre 2018 à 01:00

A black manager for Facebook quit, and posted on Facebook that Facebook had treated black useds and black staff badly and had censored blacks' postings.

Facebook deleted his post, saying it went against "community standards".

Globalized high-volume food industry

jeudi 13 décembre 2018 à 01:00

The globalized high-volume food industry was designed by plutocrats for plutocrats, and it does harm of many kinds: economic, ecological, medical, and agricultural.

Prudery and censorship

jeudi 13 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Tumblr is using "AI" to find the photos that will presently be banned. This results in lots of stupid errors, but unless that shames the company into reversing its policy, it won't change anything.

(Note: Tumblr seems to depend on nonfree Javascript code, so I myself cannot see anything there, and I urge people not to run that code.)

I doubt I ever heard French Kiss, and if I did hear it I would probably have considered it superficial titillation and annoying. But my personal taste does not matter. Prudish censorship threatens to increase sexual repression.

If this keeps up, instead of teenagers that know about sex only from porn — alas, mostly sexist porn — we will once again have teenagers that know nothing about what makes for sex, and have no idea who to ask.

Environmental effect of growing marijuana

jeudi 13 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Growing marijuana could harm the environment — since so many other chemicals we produce tend to do so.

Ukraine's ports

jeudi 13 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Russia has stopped blockading Ukraine's ports, while claiming it never blockaded them. The claim seems like typical Putin disinformation.

I speculate that Putin was probing to see how far he could advance.

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