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Pakistani QT killed by brother for what would be usual vanity stuff for Westerners on social media:

Qandeel Baloch: Pakistani social media star strangled by her brother

Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan's most famous and controversial social media stars, has been strangled to death in what police are calling a case of so called "honor" killing in the city of Multan in the country's province of Punjab. Azhar Akram, Multan's chief police officer, told CNN that Baloch was killed by her brother in her family's home after he had protested at the "kind of pictures she had been posting online."

[...] She had nearly 750,000 followers on Facebook, where her videos went viral but were also the subject of much debate and discomfort. In recent weeks, several of her posts encouraged her audience to challenge old practices of Pakistani society. In a July 14 post, Baloch referred to herself as a "modern day feminist."
Hamna Zubair, the culture editor of Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told CNN that she had received much criticism for carrying pieces on Baloch. One commentator asked her if she would be "reporting from a brothel" next.
Baloch tightly controlled her narrative in the media. She shared little about her personal life and was something of an enigma; nobody really knew which city she was based in.

She found fame and slipped into the national consciousness after declaring that she would perform a live strip tease online if Pakistan won a cricket match against arch rival India.
As her media profile grew, Zubair said Baloch became aware "of her power to deliver a certain message about being female in Pakistan," and that she had become a "burgeoning activist for increasing women's visibility" in the country. She made more headlines after posting selfies on her Instagram account with Mufti Abdul Qavi, a senior member of the clergy. The bizarre pairing led to frenzied media coverage and resulted in Qavis's suspension from his post on one of Pakistan's religious committees. After news of Baloch's death, while waiting to go on air on a local channel, Qavi told CNN that "her death should be a lesson for all those who point fingers at someone's honor."

[...] A couple of days ago, local media reported that Qandeel Baloch had married at 17 and left her husband about a year later. After the reports were published, she confirmed that her legal name was Fouzia Azeem and that she had been using an alias for safety reasons. Earlier this week Baloch had stirred up more controversy by releasing a kitschy music video on YouTube called "Ban," which mocked some of the restrictions that she had been subjected to. Behind the scenes, however, things were a bit different. Hassan Chaoudhry, a reporter for local paper Express Tribune, told CNN he had spoken to Baloch on the phone just two days ago, saying she was sobbing and "feared for her life." On the morning she was murdered, Qandeel had shared a picture of herself staring defiantly into the camera, wearing a pair of leopard print pants and a black tank top. She had written that she was a fighter. "I will bounce back," she said, adding she wanted to inspire women who have been "treated badly and dominated by society."

This is a story that can only be found on NextBigFuture and wire services:

Super controversial Brilliant light Power aka blacklight power claims to be generating bursts of megawatt power and claim independent validation

Wikipedia article.

Which one of these is legally acceptable discrimination?

A) "I'm sorry, being Martian is really a requirement for this position."
B) "I'm sorry, being native-born is really a requirement for this position."
C) "I'm sorry, being college-educated is really a requirement for this position."

If you answered C as in College, you're correct.

As others have noted, often times a degree means any bachelor's degree required, not necessarily one specific or even relevant to the line of work. So what is the cause of this hiring obsession with degrees today? One former bigwig I worked for required me to add it to the job descriptions because it would keep our pay relevant compared to every other department.

I would not be surprised that Applicant Tracking Systems are being used to quickly thin the herds of applicants, with location being the first check and the second being a degree. So while recruiters whine about not having enough qualified applicants, how many are really digging into applicants by hand and by eye to find the best of the whole pool outside of that candidate-burying checkbox?

In a role where I was at the cusp of being hired, the CEO's last piece of advice was to put my education status at the top of my resume, as though that's the first thing he cared about, not the last decade of directly-relevant work experience that so readily said I could do the job. The external recruiter later said they "redid the requirements" to aim at someone who well, wasn't me. In many of these cases, perhaps my judgement is skewed because this is the readily available legal rejection, not that I'm huge and intimidating by size, or pale as a ghost, or whatever.

I didn't get diagnosed with ADD until after I left college, so while I'm intelligent and was reasonably successful, I have this repeated experience where I can't get hired to a job commensurate with my real life experience and award-winning track record. And it makes me feel like leftovers, that someone might hire me if they really need someone right now, but otherwise all I'm good for is answering calls. Even some early high school degree requirements were found to be discriminatory. So this this educational requirement the new discrimination?

http://www.vice.com/read/oakland-underage-sex-work-scandal

Not so long ago it was possible to point to Oakland as a police reform success story. In the last decade, the cops have gone from conducting an average of 3,000 searches without probable cause every year to 280 in 2015. Officers are now required to wear body cameras. After decades of abuse, violence, and corruption, the police department seemed to finally be changing.

In the last few weeks, though, a scandal has emerged that threatens to tear the department apart. In brief, 14 Oakland police officers are currently under investigation for sleeping with an 18-year-old sex worker—three of them when she was 17, thus allegedly committing rape and sex trafficking under California law. The woman, using the alias Celeste Guap, told the East Bay Express earlier this month that she was having sex with the cops for money and protection; she had been given a friend's arrest history and information about undercover prostitution stings.

Hints of the scandal surfaced last year, after a suicide note written one of the officers involved, Brendan O'Brien, mentioned Guap, prompting an investigation. But the higher-ups allegedly dragged their feet, and the supposed cover-up has only widened the sordid scandal has since expanded. (According to Guap's later comments to the media, she's actually had sex with "more than 30 officers" from multiple agencies around the Bay Area.)

The shocking and salacious events were the catalyst to Oakland appointing four police chiefs in two weeks. Initially, Sean Whent, who was promoted to top cop at the end of a similarly messy 2013 shuffle that saw three new police chiefs in three days, got canned because he allegedly knew about Guap sleeping with Oakland cops but didn't press for a speedy and public investigation.

On the old green site there user achievements like CmdrTaco's list. Perhaps we could promote submitters by making them get a scribe's icon or something distinctive to encourage submissions?

We already have the gold star for subscribers, but the servers aren't useful without submissions to feed the place too.

My default length password via generator was too long for an application today.

The password you entered is not valid

Please note that the password must respect the following rules:

        It must contain between 6 and 32 characters. Use only characters from the following set: ! # $ % & ( ) * + , - . / 0123456789 : ; ? @ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ [ \ ] _ ` abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz { | } ~
        It must contain at least 1 letter(s) (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).
        It must contain at least 1 numeric character(s) (0123456789).
        It must not contain more than 2 identical consecutive characters (AAA, iiii, $$$$$ ...).
        It must not contain your user name.

Sorry that I prefer more than 32 characters for my throwaway application accounts. F Oracle Taleo.

A funny article I found on NBF:

Do not "blame" life extension for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, If Murdoch died Fox would still be right wing

Which is a response to: Bonus Level: The World's Most Powerful Humans are Getting Another 10-15 Years on Earth

A common argument against life extension is that it would allow the elites to live indefinitely, accruing more power, wealth, and influence for themselves. To that I say: If you're so worried about it, stop waiting for them to die, and start killing them.

This thread made me chortle like a short little fat man with too much money:

Why is this article tagged with the logo for Digital Equipment Corporation?

Maybe I'm just old, but damn, I could excuse not knowing Honeywell had a computer systems group. But not knowing |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| is technologically heathen!

There are currently 32 stories in the submissions queue: i think the Poll for : "On average, how many stories do you submit to Soylentnews each month?" has made many of us up our submissions rate, lol.

Biggest submission queue i've ever seen.
(That's what she said.)

Alabama ACLU and Newspaper Criticize Police for Arresting Citizen Journalist by Bama Camera

The Alabama police department that had a man arrested on a felony charge of jamming up their emergency lines – even though he did not make a single call – is now taking heat from the local ACLU as well as the local newspaper.

But the Wetumpka Police Department is still sticking to its guns, threatening to arrest anybody else who posts their non-emergency phone number of (334) 567-5321.

They claim that by calling that number, it somehow leads turns into a 911 call, which they claim makes it difficult to respond to actual emergencies.

But all they were doing were exercising their First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances by complaining about how officers ripped a camera out of Keith Golden’s hands for recording the police department from public property.

First Amendment Audit (Wetumpka PD) "I don't care about your 1st Amendment Rights"

Arrest Update by Bama Camera
**UPDATE**FPS-USMS-BAM CAMERA by News Now Houston