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Lindy West Quits Twitter: “It Is Unusable for Anyone But Trolls, Robots and Dictators”
I disagree that it is “unusable” for people like me. Though I did LOL when Twitter’s founder asked for feedback and had the above interaction. Lindy West is not known for understatement, going along with authority figures, or sugar-coating. She takes a fierce stand when it comes to trolls: She wants to defeat them or […]
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Social Media Diet: 7 Things Iโm Doing This Holiday Season Instead of Scrolling My TL
Since enduring the election (and some minor heartbreak during the holiday season), Iโve found myself continuously abusing The Worldwide Bloodstreamโnamely Twitter, Facebook, and Instagramโdespite the fact that it only exacerbates my mood. My news feeds have literally been โfeedingโ my negative emotions about current affairs, and allowing me to stew in a pool of bitterness […]
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A Favorite Emoji Combo (๐ฌ๐ซ) Will Soon Be Obsolete
This is the new gun emoji. Courtesy of Apple The revolver emoji is out. Now in its place? A squirt gun: Apple’s latest software update for the iPhone and iPad features one of its subtlest but most symbolically significant design changes yet. iOS 10, which will be available for free download this fall, removes the […]
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Meet “Pepper”โYour Newest Robot Overlord
“Would you like fries with that, future slaveโBZZT!โI mean, human?” Last year, SoftBank Robotics Corporation announced their humanoid robot, Pepper, would be available to replace employees and bring about the coming robot revolution and the eventual downfall of humanity help staff various businesses around Japanโand it appears that Pizza Hut will be taking them up […]
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Report: Apple’s Chinese Workers Are Paid Less Than Two Dollars Per Hour
The Apple Store in Shanghai. August_0802 / Shutterstock.com New York Magazine: In depressing news that should shock absolutely no one, an investigative report into labor practices of Apple contractors in China found, among other things, that workers at factories run by Foxconn and Pegatron, both major suppliers of Apple, work over 60 hours a week—Apple’s […]
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FBI Director Tries to Calm Down Everyone Freaking Out About Apple
FBI director James Comey says that the debate around digital rights shouldn’t be resolved “by corporations that sell stuff for a living.” Ellica / Shutterstock.com Apple is fighting the FBI over a request to break into an iPhone recovered after the San Bernadino shooting. Today, FBI director James Comey posted a statement that urges everyone […]
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How to Neko Atsume: The Waiting Game of Kitty Collecting
If you already know about Neko Atsumeโthe Japanese kitty-collecting app that has inspired a bunch of adorable toys, the term โloafing,โ an active subreddit, and a whole lot of adults yelling at their phones, โHOW DO I GET ALL THE CATS??!!โโthen you understand why 3/4 of the Mercury staff are fully engrossed in this game. […]
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Want to Remove Comments from the Oregonian? There’s an App for That!
Like reading OregonLive, but hate the comments? Well, now there’s a Chrome extension for that! Trey Witteried has devised a handy extension to block comments on the O’s online site, and here’s why: Comments on OregonLive are a drag. I don’t neeed to see the opinions of miserable and often bigoted people on every page […]
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Michael Fassbender Makes a Pretty Good Steve Jobs!
STEVE JOBS Dammit, Steve, stop fiddling with the headline kerning. “The very nature of people is something to be overcome,” Steve Jobs says in Steve Jobs. Well, not the real Steve Jobs—this Steve Jobs is played by Michael Fassbender, doing his best to rock Jobs’ black turtlenecks and dad jeans while being an asshole to […]
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Nauseated Face, Man Dancing, Prince: New Emojis are Coming! Here’s Why You Should Care.
Unicode Consortium AT LAST, ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ gets its due. Today, in great Friday news, we’re getting a whole bunch of brand-new emojis! The Unicode Consortium, which is an actual governing body in charge of standardizing our emojis, has submitted 38 new emojis for review, and—WE HOPE!—an eventual public release in June of 2016. That’s a long […]
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Weird Timing on the Car2go Price Increase
Car2Go announced at the end of last week that they’re adding a $1 fee to every rental of those blue and white gocarts they leave lying around town. They did it in a Terms of Service update that tried its hardest to make it seem like the company was doing us a favor. “Good news, […]