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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

jwz: The Follower Factory

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The Follower Factory A data-heavy and well researched article about the "buy followers" scams. It is JUST SO WEIRD that the New York Times was able to crunch the numbers and see obvious botnets pop out, but Twitter and Facebook are incapable of this. SO WEIRD.
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Dried Apriocots = Gas Pains from Hell? - fruit apricots trapped | Ask MetaFilter

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Can I add to the mix that when you have gas pains from hell, you can take one to two green simethicone pills. A very, very safe way of ending gas pain. I have IBS, and at least once a month those pills mean the difference between lying in pain and getting on with my work and my life. I also only recently learned that IBS gas gets worse with age, as women approach perimenopause and menopause.
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I’m a sexual consent educator. Here’s what’s missing in the Aziz Ansari conversation. - Vox

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Studies show that most rapists are perfectly aware their victims aren’t into what’s happening. And social science has also clearly demonstrated that men (and women!) are perfectly capable of understanding social cues, even ones where someone is saying “no” without using that actual word.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Can You Say...Hero? - Mr. Rogers Profile Interview

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And so, every day, Mister Rogers refuses to do anything that would make his weight change—he neither drinks, nor smokes, nor eats flesh of any kind, nor goes to bed late at night, nor sleeps late in the morning, nor even watches television—and every morning, when he swims, he steps on a scale in his bathing suit and his bathing cap and his goggles, and the scale tells him that he weighs 143 pounds. This has happened so many times that Mister Rogers has come to see that number as a gift, as a destiny fulfilled, because, as he says, "the number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?"
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Gluten free sourdough bread, artisan style

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Piri Reis map - Wikipedia

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As far as the accuracy of depiction of the supposed Antarctic coast is concerned, there are two conspicuous errors. First, it is shown hundreds of kilometres north of its proper location; second, the Drake Passage is completely missing, with the Antarctic Peninsula presumably conflated with the Western Patagonian coast. The identification of this area of the map with the frigid Antarctic coast is also difficult to reconcile with the notes on the map which describe the region as having a warm climate.
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'Black Panther' Just Had Its Premiere — Here's How People Responded - Digg

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Amazing Goop

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(Note: Apparently "Shoe Goo" is not a trademark. Several products from differing manufacturers use the same name, in very similar packaging. Amazing Goop is the brand Justin Belshe used. Beware of imitations! — editors)
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The cult of Mary Beard | News | The Guardian

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“To be a true public intellectual is like offering a form of public service. A lot of people don’t realise that: they confuse being a public intellectual with their ego.” He counted off those he regarded as her predecessors: “Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Clark, Susan Sontag, Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer, Stuart Hall, Simon Schama … ” Figures like these emerge only once in a generation, he said. “She looks at the world through the deep lens of the ancient world, and she shifts arguments.”
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Father buys $64,259 ad calling for police to reopen investigation into son's death - CBS News

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More than 13 years after his son's death, the former military pilot still soldiers on. "Nobody understands what it takes to get to this level, to bring this kind of awareness to it," Bell said. "The best way to describe is that it's my duty."
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Why is my Duo hardware token frequently falling out of sync?

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the C2 wiki.

I feel like I keep returning to the same types of projects.  Right now I'm collecting, editing and publishing historical rhetoric texts ...