The internet is having one of its periodic freak-outs about a privacy policy change. Gawker posted a ridiculous, trolling article, which made its way onto Tumblr, and now is showing up in the Washington Post and on Democracy Now. The sentence causing all the concern is: In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today […]
One of the things I built in to the current design of this blog is that the layout for posts, and most especially for the front page, only really makes sense for long-ish posts. My thought here was that Twitter would take the strain of short comments and “hey look at this link” type posts, […]
The pious outrage Thursday over heiress Paris Hilton’s “early release” from jail in Los Angeles, accusations of “special treatment” and the vindictive demands that she receive “justice,” i.e., punishment, have nothing healthy or progressive about them. Excellent article about Paris Hilton on the World Socialist Website. While k-punk’s criticisms of the musical defense of Paris […]
Sure, Google say their results are based on an impersonal algorithm, but this looks an awful lot like an insult to me.