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He's just tailoring his message to his audience! There's no way he actually believes that! He's for individual liberties!!!11

I know a lot of you are disappointed I didn't go ahead and finish the debate on the MIT petition story. Tough.

Most days it's fun smacking down the willfully ignorant but sometimes outside forces conspire to make me too tired to bother. I just delete all the messages, pop open a beer, and watch some TV.

This was one of those times and you're just going to have to live with it.

The 'editor in chief and publisher' of the MIT Technology Review Jason Pontin took to twitter today. He was replying to WikiLeaks posting a picture of Eric Schmidt wearing a "Clinton Campaign Staff Badge". I with agree with Jason, that image is pretty meaningless by itself. Schmidt private citizen and can support a candidate if he wants to.

However, Jason goes on to say, after being shown differences between suggested searches on DuckDuckGo and Google; "Well, I doubt it... but oooh, no autocorrect: that will swing an election."

Where he goes off the deep end and is either lying or being completely ignorant is when he says "You have no evidence, except your own paranoia, that Google manipulates search results." ... This is from the Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Technology Review.

Here is the leading paragraph from an engadget article written in 2015:

A few years ago, the FTC decided not to pursue an antitrust lawsuit against Google despite finding that its search algorithm really was biased. Now, we finally know the details of that lengthy investigation, thanks to a report written by FTC staffers that recently surfaced due to an open-records request. According to the 160-page report, the employees found evidence that Mountain View was demoting its competitors and placing its own services on top of search results lists, even if they weren't as helpful.

I'm sure most of us have seen the effects of localization and other 'personalization' on search results and suggestions when using Google outside your normal state/country.

This sets an extremely low standard for what the MIT Technology Review publishes from where i'm sitting.

Live like a lion. Feel nought when you catch an antelop, for no matter how fast the survivors run your sons will run faster.

So, I've been sitting here watching the Spam moderations page and the mod-bombs page post-election thinking someone's gonna get butthurt and abuse moderation. It has yet to happen. Kudos to everyone for managing to restrain themselves. You guys make me fucking proud, so I'll leave you with this little bit of humor on an otherwise tense day:

Britain: Brexit is the most shocking thing a country will do this year.

America: Hold my beer...

US election: Trump and the rise of the alt-right

US election: Black Republicans seek converts in Trump's 'war zone'

In pictures: Clinton and Trump through the years

US election: The German comparing Trump's campaign to Hitler's

Randstad's 400 million dollar purchase of Monster.com really has made awful into bloody awful.

RE: Fantastic Opportunities at Uno Pizzeria and Grill!

From: "Uno Pizzeria Careers"

Hi Gungnir!
I reached out to you about a potential job opportunity, but haven't heard back yet. Perhaps you're not interested, but I understand how inboxes get flooded these days, so I figured I'd try and contact you one more time before I close out your candidacy.
Just to re-cap, my name is Dan Brown and I work for monster.com. We are currently partnered with Uno’s Pizzeria and Grill to find a variety of different positions, part time OR full time in their LocalCity/LocalTown locations. I pulled your resume from our website and was wondering if you wanted to have a conversation about a potential job opportunity!
They are looking for the following positions:
- Experienced Server (1+ year). - Experienced Bartender (1+ Year). - Host, Cook, Dishwasher or Prep/Salad no experience required!
Let me know when you get a chance to have a quick chat!
Regards,
Daniel Brown [[monster.com]]

Letter Value: 6xHex-7xHex

How can I take your bullshit recruiting firm or Monster.com with anything less than complete disregard when:
You're faking the RE: in the subject line.
You're trying to get my attention with for jobs outside of my field that require zero experience.
You're using a fake "Daniel Brown" to sign the email.

Oculus VR made "factually inaccurate" statements in ZeniMax lawsuit, forensic analyst says

A recently-granted motion in the lawsuit between ZeniMax Media and Oculus VR suggests that the case could be about to get very interesting, and not in a way that's good for Oculus. The motion to "permit disclosure of any 'demonstrably inaccurate' representations made to court," as reported by Polygon, indicates that an independent expert investigating the case found sworn statements that are "factually incorrect," and that "critical log files" on one of John Carmack's hard drives were deleted prior to its collection as evidence.

I'm too lazy to give this one the research needed to produce a coherent submission, since I haven't been following the case.

I'm taking away your Air Force One privileges.

President Obama ridiculed on Snapchat by daughter Sasha

The president also mentioned that his own iPhone was limited to receiving emails and browsing the internet, and would not take photos, play music or make calls. "My rule has been throughout my presidency, that I assume that someday, some time, somebody will read this email," he said. "So, I don't send any email that at some point won't be on the front page of the newspapers."

US election 2016: Indians' verdict on Donald Trump's Hindi

An uncanny mixture: God, alcohol and even cannabis

A Stray: Finding and filming the real Somali immigrant experience

The Skype sex scam - a fortune built on shame

In pictures: Living off-grid

Fun.