Not creepy at all
“Among the apps that were found to be sending information to Facebook were a period-tracking app, a heart-rate monitoring app and a home-buying app.”
Facebook reportedly gets deeply personal info from some apps, like ovulation times and heart rate
Several apps share highly sensitive data with Facebook even if users do not have a Facebook account, testing by The Wall Street Journal found.
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Looks like we found some voter fraud after all… From the GOP. Pathetic.
“Kim Strach, the board’s executive director, and witnesses said that the operation involved forging signatures, completing ballots and mailing them from post offices near the voter’s home, and may have involved more than 1,000 absentee ballots or request forms.”
A political operative working on behalf of a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress oversaw an illegal absentee ballot “scheme” and went to elaborate lengths to conceal it, a North Carolina election official said Monday at a hearing that could settle the final undecided House race of last year’s midterms.
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We need a Maximum wage
US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker’s wage, figures show
Astronomical gap between the pay of workers and bosses exposed in report on earnings of America’s top 350 CEOs
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The time for half measures is over.
“Since 2009, Antarctica has lost almost 278 billion tons (252 billion metric tons) of ice per year, the new study found. In the 1980s, it was losing 44 billion tons (40 billion metric tons) a year.”
Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s
WASHINGTON (AP) – Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows. Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurements and computer models to track how fast the southern-most continent has been melting since 1979 in 176 individual basins. They foun…
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A must read. Our dialogue on poverty needs to change.
[Here is the blueprint. First, valorize work as the ticket out of poverty, and debase caregiving as not work. Look at a single mother without a formal job, and say she is not working; spot one working part time and demand she work more. Transform love into laziness. Next, force the poor to log more hours in a labor market that treats them as expendables. Rest assured that you can pay them little and deny them sick time and health insurance because the American taxpayer will step in, subsidizing programs like the earned-income tax credit and food stamps on which your work force will rely. Watch welfare spending increase while the poverty rate stagnates because, well, you are hoarding profits. When that happens, skirt responsibility by blaming the safety net itself. From there, politicians will invent new ways of denying families relief, like slapping unrealistic work requirements on aid for the poor.]
U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But America’s tremendous economic growth has not led to broad social uplift. Instead, workers are being shut out of the profits they are helping to generate.
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“Elections have consequences” how many times have you seen that today?
Rigging the primary has consequences
Coronating a bland corrupt corporatist has consequences
Elevating Trump has consequences
F*ck the DNC and their fake outrage. They put us here
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You can always bet the Trump administration will go to bat for their corporate overlords. Bring it.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday restored net neutrality rules in California that were repealed under the Trump administration, setting up a legal battle with the federal government over whether states can prevent companies from blocking access to the internet.
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