AOL 2.0 – write once, run everything.
Google Reader is just the latest casualty of the war that Facebook started, seemingly accidentally: the battle to own everything.
For half a century, one theory about the way we experience and express emotion has helped shape how we practice psychology, do police work, and even fight terrorism. But what if that theory is wrong?
“Arguably, you might think it would be the citizens’ own fault for going against ministerial advice by checking their Facebook statuses and using Google to search for that new pair of shoes — but actually it’s not. It’s the German government’s issue, politically and legally, to protect its citizens from espionage and foreign spying.”
Welcome. You can do anything.
I unlocked a NSFWCorp dispatch for you: Edward Snowden's Half-Baked Revolution.
Neologism: How Words Do Things With Words. (Via hubski.com.)
Boing Boing: “The PUA world applies algorithms, testing and feedback, and gamification to human interaction, turning women into not just sexual objects but essentially treating that cisgendered biological configuration as a Turing-complete machine in which specifying the right sequence of inputs results in access to specific ports and protocols.”
Bad news for fans of anonymizing Tor networks, PGP and other encryption services: “If you're attempting to avoid the National Security Agency's digital dragnet, you may be making yourself a target, as well as legally allowing the agency to retain your communications indefinitely—and even use them to test the latest code-breaking tools.”
So how about getting rid of those stupid Guy Fawkes V for Vendetta Time Warner masks now in favor of Edward Snowden ones?