A massive boom heard by NASA over Alabama is still a sonic mystery—and the...
An enormous “boom” was heard and registered by Alabama citizens and NASA instruments Tuesday night. Al.com reports that it was heard and it was seen but nobody knows what it was.NASA scientists in...
View Article/u/spez won't clean up Reddit. He needs alternative means of persuasion...
We’ve seen this story over and over.Reddit proclaims itself to be the “front page of the Internet”. And it’s very popular. Hell, I still hang out there. There’s lots of good people and good communities...
View ArticleSenate Intelligence panel seeks answers from Reddit and Tumblr
In the wake of new reports that Reddit and Tumblr may have been wielded by Russian hackers to spread misinformation in 2016, the Senate Intelligence Committee plans to interview representatives of both...
View ArticleTumblr Finally Breaks Its Silence on Russian Propaganda and Releases User Names!
The list of names is fascinating and deeply disturbing.After months of silence, Tumblr Friday released a list of 84 usernames and their aliases that it says were connected to "state-sponsored...
View ArticleUniversity Education Needed to Understand 15 Top Sites' T&Cs. Facebook...
Facebook collects data about you— the websites you visit, searches, purchases, your cellphone’s details and location even if you are not a member and the app is not open. That’s one of the more...
View Articler/GreatAwakening, other QAnon subreddits banned from Reddit
I’m just a casual lurker on Reddit, but this seems significant. r/GreatAwakening was where QAnon followers posted the utter nonsense, er, “breadcrumbs,” that make up the conspiracy theory in which...
View Article"Repentant abusers": roll20, reddit, and an object lesson
Most people here probably aren’t familiar with roll20. It’s a website that provides a sort of shared space for people to play tabletop roleplaying games (like Dungeons & Dragons) online. It’s built...
View ArticleMan creates voice-prompted Shortcut for smartphones allowing you to easily...
Whether or not cameras will have a deep impact in how law enforcement agencies’ culture of violence evolves remains to be seen. The fact of the matter is that we have enough video evidence to show that...
View ArticleWelp, There's One RW Meme Shot to Hell - MAGABomber Sayoc's Van Photographed...
Wingnuts on Reddit are spinning conspiracy theories about MAGABomber Cesar Sayoc and his MAGAVan as fast as the damning facts come out — that Sayoc was a democrat, and the bumper stickers festooning...
View ArticleAfter viral Reddit post, 18-year-old Ethan Lindenberger defies mom and...
Ethan Lindenberger, the 18-year-old whose Reddit post seeking advice on how to get vaccinated went viral, confirmed in a video interview with Fox that he’s begun receiving his vaccines. To put this...
View ArticleNew York state offers path for teenagers to override their anti-vax parents...
As measles outbreaks continue across the country, Democrats in the New York state legislature have created a solution to the ever-increasing problem of uninformed parents creating unvaccinated...
View ArticleCivil Society Took A Stand Against Trump This Week (Sunday Morning @TheVillage)
Child-rearing and knitting have traditionally been viewed as women’s work and therefore of scant value to society. Thankfully, shifting attitudes and a widening body of research into the complexity and...
View ArticleLMLOS News Round-Up -- June 27, 2019 (with Poll)
It’s Thursday, June 27, 2019, and here are today’s stories from LMLOS.It’s the last day of camp for the boychild, and today is Archery Tag with his cousin. It’s a fun game and will hopefully we will...
View ArticleReddit and Twitter enforcing TOS on their respective Donalds.
OK, so this is a long time coming-New York (CNN Business)Twitter plans to place a disclaimer on future tweets from world leaders that break its rules but which Twitter decides are in the "public...
View ArticleTrump followers go on a whistleblower hunt because 'your president has asked...
The website 4Chan is mostly known for playing host to misogyny, racism, violent rhetoric, and members who put together misogyny, racism, and rhetoric to go out and launch mass shootings. As might be...
View ArticleREDDIT Warns Trump Supporters Not to Harrass Whistle-Blower On Its Site
Perhaps the White House could issue the same warning to the President, who is harassing impeachment inquiry witnesses AS THEY ARE TESTIFYING.On a subreddit, which has been publicly endorsed by Trump,...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 2/5/20: Data
A while back I stumbled across an interesting Twitter page that was linked to a subreddit called Data is Beautiful. I don’t spend much time on Reddit since it has a lot of threads where the the worst...
View ArticleOn account of Elon Musk calling the Stay-at-home orders "Fascist"
Elon Musk the Tesla/SpaceX CEO/Founder, during an earnings call, called the stay-at-home orders as Fascist.Someone on reddit has created a great parody “Elon Musk prepares for Q1 earnings call” using...
View ArticleKilling Discussion and Owning Ourselves to Send a Message
There’s a huge, crazy-making paradox in our society. And indeed, in most Western societies today.We say social skills are the most important skills people can possess. In a time when binary,...
View Article"It is long overdue to do the right thing."
Reddit’s Ohanian Resigns from Board in Support of Black Community.Reddit co-founder Ohanian resigns from the Board of Directors, urges his company to replace him with a black candidate. This is not...
View ArticleReddit Bans "The_Donald" Subreddit Due to Hate Speech & CT -Also Twitch...
It was one of 2,000 subreddits banned today. But it was the most used and abused ones.Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ SubredditThe influential pro-Trump community broke the rules...
View Article/r/votedem: raised $950k, and still going!
I think it’s always good to learn about communities that are active in trying to save our democracy, and wanted to share one such community, the VoteDEM subreddit.— There’s a daily roundtable as a...
View ArticleReddit activists scaring Wall Street, Homeland Security taking extremists...
Reddit activists are proving that the stock market is but a fraudulent betting game. Homeland security watching Right-Wing extremist. And More!Reddit proving something bigxxYouTube VideoPolitics Done...
View ArticleThoughts on Reddit using GameStop to bring down hedge funds & prove the...
The Wall Street Bets on Reddit move on GameStop has proven that the stock market and its financial instruments are nothing but a fraud.Reddit, Wall Street Bets, GameStopxxYouTube VideoSee full episodes...
View ArticleReddit's Wall Street Bets manipulation of GameStop continues to freak out the...
The Wall Street Bets on Reddit move on GameStop has proven that the stock market and its financial instruments are a special fraud.Reddit proving something bigxYouTube VideoChat - JoinPolitics Done...
View ArticleRobinhood stock app caves to hedge funds and sells out small investors amid...
After retail investors decided to play the game Wall Street has played for years, some online brokerage apps tried to take matters into their own hands. The popular stock trading app Robinhood blocked...
View ArticlePastor investing in the GameStop short squeeze used biblical terms about...
Pastor Justin Speak, a member of Reddit's "Wall Street Bets" subreddit, supports the GameStop short squeeze to make the rich pay.Pastor makes the moral case.xxYouTube VideoSee full episodes here.On a...
View ArticleWall Street scared about market populism: GameStop proves most realize the...
Democratization via the Wall Street Bets subreddit GameStop stock short squeeze points out the stock market is a fraudulent casino.GameStop shorting & Wall Street populismxxYouTube VideoSee full...
View ArticleYour Betters are Better than You. Let Them Be Better.
First off, I cannot stand McCain. I have been reading about her far too long. I wish she would just go away. She is a whiny, talentless hack riding on her daddy’s coattails. This from the article...
View ArticleThis Game must Stop: Why we need stock market reform
The system is rigged, right? Well, yes. But not the way you might think.
View ArticleA Cesspool of Melancholy: The Anti-Social Media
I was mildly shocked recently to read a statistic that 75% of Americans used Facebook, and I paused for a moment to think that I’ve never used Facebook, Twitter, or in fact any modern social media...
View ArticleA Suppuration of Trolls: Anti-Social Media
This is the second of a small series of articles “Anti/Social” discussing why I have not ever, and won’t use popular social media platforms, and why you probably shouldn’t either, if you want to remain...
View ArticleThe Demon of Speed: Anti-Social Media
--This is the last of a small series of articles “Anti/Social” discussing why I have not ever, and won’t use popular social media platforms, why I’d advise readers of Kos and their friends not to...
View ArticleNew Draft Paper Confirms Feeding Trolls Keeps Them Coming Back For More
As the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” the (anti)social media website reddit has largely flown under the radar when it comes to the high-profile disinformation failings of Facebook,...
View ArticleViral video: Man destroys Black Lives Matter signs and George Floyd memorial...
A video uploaded to Reddit Sunday has gone viral for its atrocity. In it, a man can be seen destroying Black Lives Matter signs and a memorial in honor of George Floyd. The short video taken outside of...
View ArticleJan. 6 'tourists' were planning to erect gallows weeks before they attacked...
One of the most enduring—and horrifying—sights of the Jan. 6 insurrection was an actual gallows erected on the west side of the Capitol. Yesterday, People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch...
View ArticleActions meet consequences as woman who coughed on grocery shoppers loses a...
Anti-maskers just won’t learn. Since the start of the pandemic, videos of anti-maskers resorting to violence when asked to wear a mask, licking items at grocery stores, and coughing on customers have...
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Some Halloween fun, yard decor from Reddit for 2021
Here are some screen caps from Reddit for ideas for yard decor during Halloween.this one is trump and it is funny as hellthis one is grim but necessary too.
View ArticleReddit and TikTok users clog job postings after Kellogg readies to replace...
Kellogg workers began striking outside of production plants in four cities (Battle Creek, Michigan.; Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee) back in early October. About 1,400...
View ArticleEducation during Omicron
Mercedes Schneider, a Louisiana teacher, reposted a January 5 Reddit post by a New York City high school student on her blog, deutsch29. It is deeply disturbing and important to share. As Mercedes...
View ArticleTech giants formally subpoenaed after lackluster cooperation with Jan. 6 probe
A slew of the world’s most powerful tech and social media companies failed to give the Jan. 6 Committee adequate information in response to an inquiry for records tied to the attack of the U.S....
View ArticleHouse Jan. 6 panel subpoenas social media giants for records related to...
The House select committee has subpoenaed leading social media companies for records related to the Jan. 6 insurrection as it seeks to review data that could potentially implicate the Trump White...
View ArticleWhy Is Reddit Promoting Climate Disinformation? Because Algorithms Are Stupid.
It's one thing for a social media company like reddit to play host to various unseemly communities, as it has over the years (to put it VERY lightly- we're not even going to link out to examples, as...
View ArticleWhen it comes to anti-LGBTQ harassment, Twitter's actions need to match its...
Following pressure over anti-LGBTQ harassment campaigns on social media, Twitter said it has a policy banning the use of a word that is being used by the right-wing as a slur. Florida Gov. Ron...
View ArticleAn online group is protesting Texas' ludicrous social media censorship law in...
Texas’ HB 20, titled “Relating to complaint procedures and disclosure requirements for and censorship of users' expressions by social media platforms,” was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott last...
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WYFP: The 1st Annual* Christmas Quiz
As some of you know, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and every Christmas, we would read Jon Carroll’s Christmas Quiz, a S.F. Chronicle tradition. This is a shameless ripoff. Most of the...
View ArticleReddit's CEO is now taking his cues from Elon Musk, working to destroy...
Sheesh, talk about someone who can’t read a room. In the middle of a wide-ranging blackout by many of its largest volunteer-driven communities, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman gave what might be one of the...
View ArticleThe Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting...
Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and...
View ArticlePro-UAE Propaganda Campaign On Reddit Appears To Be Latest In Long History of...
The United Arab Emirates' efforts to bolster its reputation ahead of the annual UN climate negotiations it's hosting in December haven't gone particularly well this year. They've been playing the long...
View ArticleReddit conspiracists discover climate change—and their minds are blown
No one will ever accuse the regulars over at Reddit’s r/conspiracy community of, er, conspiracy theorists of being the brightest our society has to offer. But it finally dawned on one of them that...
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