This month I've been spending a lot of my free time tweeting about racism and sexism in comics. I've spent the last week and a half arguing with Erik Larsen directly. Twitter is such a time sink for me. I've got access to intelligent and admirable people, as well as deplorable ones. I can spend hours reading up on the unfolding disaster in the Gulf ( Read more... )

Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole (Wall Street Journal)

Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent ( Read more... )

Oh man, I have no idea why I'm so tired.

Today I will actually catch up on comments, oh yes. I've only got about 20 left and most of them are comments in serious discussions that are due replies. I don't like to reply while incredibly tired (as opposed to *so* tired, as I am now), because I end up spewing a metric tonne of bullcacky and silliness ( Read more... )

Last night I talked about reporting Punch A Slut Week on Facebook. Sometime during the night, Facebook too the event down. \o/

Also, I can't recall if I linked to this article. Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of ( Read more... )

TeeJay Szabo is hosting National Punch A Slut In the Face Week.

If you have an account on Facebook, please report this event as a violation of FB's terms of service ("a direct call to violence"). It advocates violence against women and slut shaming - for lulz.

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1. Atheists and charity. My working thesis is that the reason atheists donate less to charity on average than do church-going believers, is that they aren't part of charitable communities. Churches and temples regularly engage in fundraising and charitable works. Where does the atheist go for the same kind of in-built charitable community? We have ( Read more... )

The EFF has put together a timeline of FB's privacy policies:

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2005:

No personal information that you submit to Thefacebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2006: We ( Read more... )