Just... keep in mind that I might be biased on that one!
Incoming Transmission #3
File this under “OH HAI, This actually happened to me.”
“Hate speech on Twitter reportedly steered Disney away from buying the company”
The trolls who take a toll on their fellow Twitter users with alarming regularity have finally taken a toll on Twitter itself. Bloomberg reports that the Walt Disney Co. ditched a potential acquisition of the social-media platform, in part because it did not want the family-friendly Disney brand to be associated with the hate speech… On …
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U.S. journalist faces charges for covering a protest ↦
“Here’s a story about a prosecutor in North Dakota charging a journalist with ‘participating in a riot’ because he was unhappy with her coverage of that event.” An infamous quote from George Orwell comes to mind: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” [Source]
Incoming Transmission #2
I’ve actually written this part yesterday, but thought I’d split my post in two smaller and more manageable bits.*
Once More With Feelings, GoPro Edition
Playing around with GoPro's Quik Desktop app.
#FML: I could have met Jack Bauer today!
In which I could have bumped into Kiefer Sutherland today...
