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End-To-End Encrypted Social Networks
Tresorit Launches Campaign To Build An End-To-End Encrypted Social Network
The new technology that aspires to #DeleteFacebook for good (Mastodon)
At the end of these charts, you can see a small spike in Diaspora users.
It might all be in the name. People/"dumb fucks" will sign up for a "Facebook", but "Prevaat"?
Trump's Stormy Shark Week
Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, and Shark Week: ‘He made me sit and watch’ (archive)
Clickbait? Sure. But reading about the history of "Shark Week" in that context really makes something click.
Stormy Daniels describes her alleged affair with Donald Trump (w/ transcript)
"Wow, you-- you are special. You remind me of my daughter."
Congratulations to Taiwan! 🇹🇼
Folks, when I was the President-elect, I did something VERY SPECIAL. I talked on the phone with President Tsai of Taiwan. And the Chinese lost their minds over that one. They absolutely lost their minds, that was so amazing. Because for a long time we had what they called the One China Policy. That said Taiwan is part of China, they call it a province. One team, one people, one Chinese family. Very important to the Chinese. And because we went along with that, China helped us take out the USSR, they were having big problems with the USSR just like we were. And we made some deals that were very unfair to our country. That made it so our companies, our factories, our jobs, our technology, our money all went to China. That changes now. I'm doing tariffs, I put on some tariffs.
And I signed a proclamation, I didn't have to sign it but I wanted to sign it. I loved signing it. Our guys in Congress worked very hard on this one, and they passed it OVERWHELMINGLY. So it would have gone through even if I didn't sign. But I signed.
It's called the Taiwan Travel Act. And it's great news for the people of Taiwan. Because it means Taiwan isn't just an island in the Pacific any more. It's now a Country. They already had a President -- great phone call, by the way, one of the best. They have a Flag, it's a lot like ours because it's red, blue and white. 🇹🇼 Instead of red, white and blue (God bless our Flag). 🇺🇸 But to the United States, to my predecessors, they weren't a Country. We pretended they were just a so-called "province" of China. I upgraded them massively, now they're a Country. We're going to make some great deals and do a lot of great things together. Because this Travel Act lets our diplomats go back and forth much more easily. Congratulations!!!
Yet Another American Football League
Yet Another American Football League: The Alliance of American Football
Another New Football League Says It Will Start Play in 2019
The N.F.L. is under pressure from falling television ratings, lawsuits over its handling of concussions, and fan opposition to player protests during the national anthem.
Yet investors keep lining up to help start new football leagues. On Tuesday, the longtime N.F.L. executive Bill Polian and the television and movie producer Charlie Ebersol became the latest entrepreneurs to join the fray when they unveiled plans for the Alliance of American Football.
There have been several short-lived football leagues before, including the United Football League, United States Football League and XFL. Like others before them, Polian and Ebersol say they have a formula for success. They have acquired investments from Silicon Valley firms that will allow their eight-team league to start playing a week after the Super Bowl in February 2019. Their partners include CBS, which will show a few games on its main channel and some on its cable network. They will also launch a smartphone app on which fans will be able to stream games and play fantasy football.
The league will also aim for two-and-a-half hour games (N.F.L. games generally last at least three hours). To achieve that, there will be no kickoffs or extra points — only 2-point plays — and a 30-second play clock, as opposed to the N.F.L.'s 45-second clock. There will also be no television timeouts, which will lead to about 60 percent fewer commercials.
Also at Variety.
Previously: As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return?
NASA Briefing on TESS Exoplanet Mission, Mar. 28, 1 PM EDT
NASA to Discuss Upcoming Launch of Next Planet Hunter
Join NASA at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 28, as astrophysics experts discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Reporters can attend the event in person at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington or participate by phone.
The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
Scheduled to launch April 16, TESS is expected to find thousands of planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, orbiting the nearest and brightest stars in our cosmic neighborhood. Powerful telescopes like NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope can then further study these exoplanets to search for important characteristics, like their atmospheric composition and whether they could support life.
John Oliver's Gay Bunny Book Outsells VP Pence's Daughter's
John Oliver’s Gay-Bunny Book Is Outselling the Mike Pence Book It’s Trolling
John Oliver’s Marlon Bundo Book Sells Out In A Day; Another Printing In Works
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Worst Pence bashing since Trump:
“Trump thinks Pence is great,” Bannon told me. But, according to a longtime associate, Trump also likes to “let Pence know who’s boss.” A staff member from Trump’s campaign recalls him mocking Pence’s religiosity. He said that, when people met with Trump after stopping by Pence’s office, Trump would ask them, “Did Mike make you pray?” Two sources also recalled Trump needling Pence about his views on abortion and homosexuality. During a meeting with a legal scholar, Trump belittled Pence’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade. The legal scholar had said that, if the Supreme Court did so, many states would likely legalize abortion on their own. “You see?” Trump asked Pence. “You’ve wasted all this time and energy on it, and it’s not going to end abortion anyway.” When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”
Mankind Peaked
Hawking Meme 2far and Rihanna Blasts Snapchat's Stock
Word of the day: Ableist.
How I saw Stephen Hawking's death as a disabled person
- https://twitter.com/MitchellToy/status/973774076803248128
- https://twitter.com/afiqhusyairi1/status/974195115739701249
- https://twitter.com/ayfchang9021/status/974446485113729024
- https://twitter.com/DEADCLOWN45ACP/status/974368607948935168
- https://twitter.com/DJSicFanny/status/974286742571319301
- http://iignatz.tumblr.com/image/171932503530
Snapchat pulls 'awful' Chris Brown and Rihanna advert
Rihanna's Criticism Sinks Snapchat's Value by $800M
Related: Reality TV Star Wipes Out $1 Billion+ of Snap's "Value"
🗳 Very close race in Pennsylvania! 🍿
It's a very close race in the 18th district of Pennsylvania. A VERY SPECIAL election. And we haven't gone through all the legal on that one. Whoever ends up winning, it'll be a hard fought victory. The people of Pennsylvania are great. If they chose Rick Saccone for Congress, he will be much better for steel and business. Very strong on experience and what our Country -- and our 🐘 Party -- needs. We need that seat, believe me. We need more Republicans to continue our already successful agenda! Rick is a great guy. He's always had my TOTAL support. I'm not a lawyer, as everybody knows. I'm a builder. I'm an actor. And I'm a politician. But if there's anything I can do on the legal, anything he wants, he knows where to find me. Rick's a fighter, I know he's going to fight very hard on the legal. And Jill Stein, maybe she'll raise some money to do a recount. Or whatever she does with that money.
But if they chose Conor, they made a great choice too. I'll work with him. And I think we can get some terrific things done. So many Dems do nothing but obstruct. And they talk about nothing but Donald J. Trump. I just came back from San Diego & Los Angeles, they love me there. Tremendous crowds wherever I went. But Dirty Maxine is always going "Trump, Trump, Trump." Instead of fixing some of the big problems in her district -- a very sad situation, totally out of control. Conor's not like that, he's never said anything against me. That's very special. And very smart. I love the way he looks, he's a handsome guy. He supports me on the steel & aluminum tariffs, which I did for the hard working folks in Pennsylvania. He knows Pennsylvania needs them. So we can stop losing our industry there. Have you seen his ads? He has a great one where he's shooting, maybe an AR-15? They're saying it's an AR-15. Very gun-adept guy, very weapons talented, he's part of the 20% with military or special training. Our military needs to be much stronger, so strong that no one will want to get into a war with us. I know Conor wants that, 100%. Hopefully he'll see how important it is to upgrade & modernize our nuclear arsenal. He goes both ways on abortion. Like the guy who left, former Congressman Tim Murphy. That was one of his big issues, probably the biggest. And he decided to go both ways on that one.
The drugs, I love what Conor's been doing about the drugs. As you know he did some great work with the U.S. Attorney's office in Pittsburgh. Where he was a prosecutor. So many drug dealers LOCKED UP because of him. You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you’re smuggling them in and you are making a lot of money and people are dying. And they don’t even put you in jail,. That’s why we have a problem, folks. I don’t think we should play games. And Conor doesn't play. The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness. When you catch a drug dealer, you’ve got to put him away for a long time. Great job!
Some countries have a very, very tough penalty -- the ultimate penalty. And, by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. A while back I talked to the President of Singapore, President Tan -- they replaced him with a lady now. And I asked him, are you having the same problems we're having with the opioids? And he told me, "we have a zero tolerance policy. That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty." Same thing in China, they do executions, they're very tough about it. The Philippines, President Duterte is doing a great job. I don’t know if this country’s ready for it, but I think that's a discussion we have to start thinking about. Probably you'll have some people who say "oh, that's not nice." But we have to do something. And believe me, eventually we'll get something done. Do you think the drug dealers who kill thousands of people during their lifetime, do you think they care who’s on a blue-ribbon committee? We can't just keep setting up blue ribbon committees and all they do is talk, talk, talk.
