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Posted: Jul 6, 2011 - 12:12pm

JustineFromWyoming wrote:

Here's something from this very morning. I responded and was deleted. Oh well... it turned into a blog entry instead!

http://bit.ly/ntA6uI

That is VERY interesting...

I highly recommend The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser...

In the book, Eli writes at length about the troubling combination of Peter Thiel's extreme libertarian views and seat on Facebook's board of directors—

Peter Thiel is entitled to his idiosyncratic views, of course, but they're worth paying attention to because they increasingly shape the world we all live in. There are only four other people on the Facebook board besides Mark Zuckerberg; Thiel is one of them, and Zuckerberg publicly describes him as a mentor. "He helped shape the way I think about the business," Zuckerberg said in a 2006 Bloomberg News interview. As Thiel says, we have some big decisions to make about technology. And as for how those decisions get made? "I have little hope," he writes, "that voting will make things better."

Eli Pariser describes all sorts of hidden filters all over the internet— the big search providers like Google and Yahoo rate you with four primary characteristics by the sites you visit— your age, your gender, your political preferences are three of the four that I remember on the spot— and then they rate you with almost 60 total ratings that they build from the first four... people get offered different links, depending on how the search providers have filtered the people individually...

as Pariser describes it, the person next door to you may live in a different universe online... all of this stuff is hidden...

you can watch a great recent interview with Pariser on Book TV called After Words: Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You" hosted by Clay Shirky... you can watch it online, or it will come on television again on C-SPAN2, on Sunday, July 10th at 12pm (ET)...

Facebook filters everything to make it all bland and homogenized... one of the great things about this Radio Paradise website is that it hosts all disparate walks of life... good food for thought...

Facebook can French kiss my derrière...

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Posted: Jul 6, 2011 - 11:40am
Here's something from this very morning. I responded and was deleted. Oh well... it turned into a blog entry instead! http://bit.ly/ntA6uI And, not to say it's epic. It was just something that went on this morning.

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Posted: Jul 6, 2011 - 11:36am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: yep. Sad thing is...I could only be bothered to redact half of the string, there was twice as much as I posted...

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 8:30pm
JrzyTmata wrote: I like this part. mom couldn't be bothered to check on her before morning. Nor, apparently could mom be bothered to check her writing for grammatical errors.

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 2:38pm
callum wrote: A*** I think that is definately safe to say, yes. Saturday at 18:30 yep.

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 2:13pm

I love my friends:

A***:
waiting for Jim. Like Waiting for Godot, but hopefully with more resolution.

- M***: Can we put on Waiting For Jim With Dinosaurs? I think that solves our copyright issue ^^
  Saturday at 16:29
- A***: Is Jim the tree?
  Saturday at 18:04
- M***: I thought we should just do it in blacks so it's minimalist and then leave it for audience interpretaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyytion.
  Saturday at 18:06 ·
- A*** oh, right, yah, that sounds coollllllllll.
  Saturday at 18:08
- M*** Yah, yah, I thought you would like it.
  Saturday at 18:10
- M*** ‎...and if it's in blacks then we could have the actors NOT dress up as dinosaurs and then people would be like "Why are there no dinosaurs in Waiting for Jim With Dinosaurs?" and we can be like "because the dinosaurs are extinct" so the piece kind of has an element of Theatre of Cruelty, showing the fragility of human existence through the absence of dinosaurs...
  Saturday at 18:13
- A***: matt that's toooottalllly brilliant, i mean i think that like obviously we can use physical theare in that to properly bring out the meaning in the worrkkkk, like maybe we could do dance stuff too to make sure the aesthetics of the piece compliment the overall artistic intentions. also maybe multimediaaaaa??
  Saturday at 18:15
- M*** :
  Well I was thinking more down the autobiographical route but we could have physical stuff in there in the sense of psychophysical scores because we could have a score which expresses the feelings of what it is like to be a dinosaur that doe...See more
  Saturday at 18:26
- A*** hang on but if we're doing the dinosaur that doesn't exist could we maybe link it to absence and therefore childhood trauma?? so it IS autobiographical. yah? x
  Saturday at 18:27
- M*** So the dinosaur that doesn't exist actually represents a child that has been sexually abused? Brilliant! You know I think we're onto something which has NEVER been done before!
  Saturday at 18:29
- A*** I think that is definately safe to say, yes.
  Saturday at 18:30

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 2:00pm
JrzyTmata wrote: I like this part. mom couldn't be bothered to check on her before morning. Also the "k...........nife." WTF pronunciation is that?

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 1:56pm
JrzyTmata wrote: I like this part. mom couldn't be bothered to check on her before morning. i liked that too. she hears a shot gun blast & some screaming but figures, how bad could it be?

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 1:55pm

meower wrote:

Stoopit kids:

My name is jerry. I am 16 years old and have dark blonde
hair. NOW THAT YOU HAVE STARTED READING YOU MAY NOT STOP!! I was murdered july
14th with my fathers shotgun ........ And butcher knife. If You dont post this
on 20 other pages i will come to Your house in the middle of the night and kill
You with my fathers shotgun and butcher k........................nife. You have 5 hours to
complete this task. Dont believe me - maria marshall, pelham, texas 1998, was
showing and went to bed right after found dead the next morning. - keisha jones,
nashville, tennesee 1995, fell asleep while watching television and mother heard
gunshot and scream found laying on floor next morning. - omar wilkionsin 2002,
reading a book to go to bed and was shot and stabbed through the book after he
fell asleep. Still dont believe me? Trust me i did not want to paste this. But
it really scared me so i did it just to be sure

if i get murdered in a particularly gruesome fashion, i'm blaming you—cause I read this & have no intention of re-posting it!! {#Skull}

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 7:54am
JrzyTmata wrote: I like this part. mom couldn't be bothered to check on her before morning. she was trying to sleep - damn kids!

JrzyTmata

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 7:52am

meower wrote:

I like this part. mom couldn't be bothered to check on her before morning.

Red_Dragon

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 7:42am

meower wrote:

internet chain letter.

meower

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Posted: Jul 5, 2011 - 7:40am

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Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 10:47am
From one of my friends: Sometimes, when I am really bored, I like to go to the hardware store and run around with a screwdriver shouting, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a drill!"

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Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 11:07pm
Alexandra wrote: "One of my sons just asked if he could "pee out of the hotel window." Where did I go wrong? How did this happen?" Poor Tracie. at least he asked first...

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Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 8:24pm
blank_ "is about to give her pillow some head and her sheets some booty...lmao...goodnight fb :) "

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Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 6:42am
beamends wrote: So you're not supposed to pee out of hotel windows? Oops. Just make sure there is no one standing underneath. Or is that the fun?

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Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 6:40am
Alexandra wrote: "One of my sons just asked if he could "pee out of the hotel window." Where did I go wrong? How did this happen?" Poor Tracie. So you're not supposed to pee out of hotel windows? Oops.

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Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 6:10am
Alexandra wrote: "One of my sons just asked if he could "pee out of the hotel window." Where did I go wrong? How did this happen?" Poor Tracie. That's a boy for ya

Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan

Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 6:09am
Alexandra wrote: "One of my sons just asked if he could "pee out of the hotel window." Where did I go wrong? How did this happen?" Poor Tracie. perhaps letting the kid watch jackass movies wasn't the finest example of good parenting.

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A***:waiting for Jim. Like Waiting for Godot, but hopefully with more resolution.

A***:
waiting for Jim. Like Waiting for Godot, but hopefully with more resolution.