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IS IT ART, OR IS IT VANDALISM?
That’s for the courts to decide
IS IT ART, OR IS IT VANDALISM?
That’s for the courts to decide
OBSERVED: Behind the Arby’s Restaurant at 2150 North Main Street here in Longmont.
PURPOSE: To remind me the world is, perhaps, flat. Balls don’t roll on their own when they’re placed on a level surface, after all.
VERDICT: Art. Anything that makes a dumpster enclosure more pleasant to look at and draws me to ponder the ridiculousness of it all is ART.
FOODTELEVISION
If you love cartoons as much as we do, you’ve probably wondered what some famous cartoon foods actually taste like. What is actually IN Scooby Snacks? Would you add Popeye’s spinach to your artichoke dip? What’s the carb count on a Pac-Dot? Krispy Kreme has decided to put something to rest once and for all. We will now be able to understand why Homer Simpson drools over those pink doughnuts so much with the release of the Simpsons “D’ohnut.”
Comic Book Resources reported that Krispy Kremes and 7-11’s in Australia will be selling the trademark doughnut. From the picture, it looks like it’s a sugar lover’s dream, with a cake doughnut covered in glaze, which is then covered with the classic pink frosting and sprinkles. Our mouths water just thinking about those multi-packs with the powered, cinnamon, and plain doughnuts. The D’ohnut could put us in a food coma that any Thanksgiving meal would be jealous of. …
When the Revolution Was Televised
Martin Luther King Jr. was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.
Martin Luther King Jr. calls on President Kennedy to send troops into Birmingham, Alabama, after a bombing on September 15, 1963.
Television loved Martin Luther King Jr.
“The civil-rights revolution in the South began when a man and the eye of the television film camera came together, giving the camera a focal point for events breaking from state to state, and the man, Martin Luther King Jr., high exposure on television sets from coast to coast,” wrote the journalists Robert Donovan and Ray Scherer in their history of television news, Unsilent Revolution.
Why did the TV news networks become “the chosen instrument of the revolution,” as NBC News’ Washington bureau chief, Bill Monroe, put it?
In most popular discussions, the answer is cinematic and comforting: Brave white Northern journalists charged into the South, making common cause with black activists to expose the racial injustice of Jim Crow simply because that was the right thing to do.
In this story, the invention of television was all it took to tear down the walls of segregation, another inevitable point in that arc that bends to justice; Americans merely needed to see what was really going on and the country came to a moral reckoning. In this story, the South was a place apart, different from the rest of the country in the virulence of its white supremacy. In this story, Martin Luther King Jr. is a beloved figure whom the majority of white Americans both believed and revered. …
‘Memphis died with Dr King’ – shadow of civil rights leader haunts city
Half a century after King’s assassination, what progress has been made on the march toward justice?
The exterior of the Lorraine motel in Memphis is preserved as it was in 1968. The rest of the building houses the National Civil Rights Museum.
The Lorraine motel has more ghosts than most. Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding walked its corridors, slept in its rooms or lay by its pool. Wilson Pickett’s The Midnight Hour and Eddie Floyd’s Knock on Wood were composed here. This, after all, is Memphis, home of Elvis Presley and a strain of soul music known as the Memphis Sound.
But the motel also represents a psychic scar for the city, the south and America. It was here that, amid seething racial tensions half a century ago, Martin Luther King was gunned down by a white drifter. It is a scar that modern Memphis – a majority black city with places of pilgrimage for music lovers such as Graceland, Beale Street, Sun Studio and the Stax Museum – is still struggling to heal.
The Lorraine motel has more ghosts than most. Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding walked its corridors, slept in its rooms or lay by its pool. Wilson Pickett’s The Midnight Hour and Eddie Floyd’s Knock on Wood were composed here. This, after all, is Memphis, home of Elvis Presley and a strain of soul music known as the Memphis Sound.
But the motel also represents a psychic scar for the city, the south and America. It was here that, amid seething racial tensions half a century ago, Martin Luther King was gunned down by a white drifter. It is a scar that modern Memphis – a majority black city with places of pilgrimage for music lovers such as Graceland, Beale Street, Sun Studio and the Stax Museum – is still struggling to heal.
“When we think about the sound that came out of the city during that time, you can’t help but feel that grief in the sound,” says Zandria Robinson, assistant professor of sociology at Rhodes College in Memphis. “Even if it’s joyous, even if it’s nothing to do with race at all, there’s a bit of grief there in the sound because you associate with that time, with that moment and with those issues.”
The sound will turn to momentary silence at 6.01pm on 4 April to mark exactly 50 years since King’s sonorous voice was stilled by the assassin’s bullet. A wreath-laying ceremony, to which past presidents are invited but Donald Trump is not, will be held on the motel balcony where King died during three days of commemorations under the rubric “Where do we go from here?”, after the title of his final book. …
Revisiting King’s Final and Most Haunting Sermon
Delivered two months before he died, “The Drum Major Instinct” saw the preacher give his own eulogy.
One of the last pictures to be taken of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaking to a mass rally April 3, 1968, in Memphis.
“The Drum Major Instinct” is one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s finest sermons and perhaps his most haunting. He delivered it exactly two months before his assassination, on February 4, 1968, at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he served as co-pastor with his father. In both substance and style, the sermon is vintage late King: He fiercely articulates the imperatives of faith and citizenship with the voice of a preacher who had mastered his art.
Still, what distinguishes “The Drum Major Instinct” is that King concludes this homily by rehearsing his death, effectively spelling out the kind of eulogy he wanted delivered at his funeral. It’s spellbinding to listen to, especially when King reaches the climax and begins to reckon with his imminent mortality, his voice heightened with the kind of emotion rarely heard in his other recorded speeches.
The sermon wasn’t one of King’s iconic addresses, nor was it delivered on a grand stage; rather, it was part of a Sabbath service given in his home church. In the sermon, King is a minister teaching and communing with his flock. Listening to the recording of “The Drum Major Instinct,” in fact, we can hear a key feature of the black church: the call and response between preacher and congregation, with the latter’s cries of “Amen,” “Yes,” “Preach it,” and “Make it plain” adding resonance to King’s words.
That Sunday, King preached on the virtues of service and the false ideals of greatness, adapting his sermon from a 1949 homily, “Drum Major Instincts,” by James Wallace Hamilton, a prominent white liberal Methodist minister. Like Hamilton, King draws his text from a passage in the Gospel of Mark detailing an exchange between Jesus and the apostles John and James. The two brothers ask to sit next to Jesus in heaven; Jesus tells them the favor isn’t his to grant, but theirs to earn by committing their lives to serving others. The apostles’ request is motivated by a need to stand out, to be the exception. It’s this basic human impulse for recognition that Hamilton and King refer to as a drum-major instinct. Both caution that this drive can be abused for self-serving purposes and pernicious ends. But, if nurtured, it can be a powerful resource for good and for achieving greatness. …
When Bail Feels Less Like Freedom, More Like Extortion
As bail has grown into a $2 billion industry, bond agents have become the payday lenders of the criminal justice world, offering quick relief to desperate customers at high prices.
Most bail bond agents make it their business to get their clients to court. But when Ronald Egana showed up at the criminal courthouse in New Orleans, he was surprised to find that his bondsman wanted to stop him.
A bounty hunter was waiting at the courthouse metal detector to intercept Mr. Egana and haul him to the bond company office, he said. The reason: The bondsman wanted to get paid.
Mr. Egana ended up in handcuffs, missing his court appearance while the agency got his mother on the phone and demanded more than $1,500 in overdue payments, according to a lawsuit. It was not the first time Mr. Egana had been held captive by the bond company, he said, nor would it be the last. Each time, his friends or family was forced to pay more to get him released, he said.
As commercial bail has grown into a $2 billion industry, bond agents have become the payday lenders of the criminal justice world, offering quick relief to desperate customers at high prices. When clients like Mr. Egana cannot afford to pay the bond company’s fee to get them out, bond agents simply loan them the money, allowing them to go on a payment plan. …
Philadephia’s New DA Wants Prosecutors To Talk Cost Of Incarceration While In Court
Philadelphia district attorney Lawrence Krasner is asking prosecutors to bring up the cost of incarceration with judges.
Every day, judges around the country are deciding the fate of criminal defendants by trying to strike the right balance between public safety and fairness.
In Philadelphia, the new progressive district attorney has launched an experiment. He’s asking his prosecutors to raise another factor with judges: the cost of incarceration.
The move has ignited a debate about whether the pricetag of punishment belongs in courtrooms.
Do a little math
“Fiscal responsibility is a justice issue, and it is an urgent justice issue,” Larry Krasner said at a press conference recently.
Krasner is a former civil rights lawyer who rode into office on a platform of radically revamping the city’s district attorney’s office by opposing the death penalty, stepping away from cash bail and seeking shorter prison sentences for offenders.
He sees asking prosecutors and judges to grapple with the cost of locking up a defendant as a stride fulfilling his promise of trying to fight mass incarceration.
At sentencing hearings, when prosecutors traditionally talk about the impact on victims and the community and the need for deterrence, they now will also have to do a little math. …
The international aid community has a sexual abuse problem and they’re still not talking about it
DIRTY HELPING HANDS
There are many dirty hands in the aid community.
One of the world’s most prominent humanitarian organizations, Oxfam, is still reeling from the reputational damage caused when its own workers were caught misusing their power in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
In February, a whistleblower and newspaper investigation revealed how aid workers allegedly held a “full-on Caligula orgy” with women assumed to be prostitutes at the charity’s villa in Haiti, where Oxfam was helping the country recover from a devastating 2010 earthquake. Some of the the aid workers had already moved on to other charities, but Oxfam failed to warn the next NGOs about their misconduct, the whistleblower revealed.
Haiti suspended Oxfam’s operations and the international charity has lost thousands of regular donors. Oxfam has apologized to the Haitian government, explained itself to MPs in Britain who decide its UK government funding and appointed an independent commission on sexual misconduct. Still, the charity’s image has been tarnished.
Oxfam’s disgrace has forced the rest of the aid community to do some introspection, or at least get ahead of their own potential scandal. Other aid organizations came clean before they came under scrutiny, dismissing workers who had been involved in sexual misconduct. With this, NGOs also reiterated their dedication to ethical behavior, publicising their own strict codes of conduct. …
4 Facts That Prove Sex Isn’t As Important As You Think
If the size of the porn industry is any indication, it would seem as if humanity views all other aspects of life as distractions from what we’d prefer to be doing every moment of the day: fuckin’. But thanks to the power of data, science has found that people aren’t nearly as sex-obsessed as the conventional wisdom would have you believe …
“She stopped having sex with me to check her phone!” sounds like a stand-up bit that would be immediately followed by a rant about kids these days and their Snapchats. Not only is it a boring Black Mirror plot, but it also defeats the unspoken hierarchy of Shit You Should Be Paying Attention To. If you’re in the middle of sex, then logically, the thing you’re paying attention to most is sex. Your Instagram follower count is maybe in fourth place, after the snack you’re gonna have when the sexin’ is done and trying not to fart. Yet in one survey, 62 percent of women admitted to stopping mid slip-n-slide to check their phone, because that’s how important sex is sometimes — good, but not unread text good. And in a rare bit of men being more sensitive to the needs of their partners, a paltry 48 percent of them check their phones mid-hump, meaning it’s very likely some couples just pause and maybe have a little Pokemon Go break. Is that Squirtle? You bet! It’s not just the phone that is more attractive than bumping grundles, either. 21 percent of women prefer TV to some spunk hockey, and while 21 percent isn’t helping you pass any tests, it’s still one in five. One in five women, when presented with the option of riding the slippery seal, just shrug and put on Top Chef. … After the Cambridge Analytica data-breach row many users are looking to switch their social media accounts. What sites and apps could prove an option? For too many people considering leaping aboard the #DeleteFacebook bandwagon, the answer is simple: switch your photo and video sharing to Instagram and your messaging to WhatsApp. But what many do not realise is that both of those apps are owned by Facebook – since September 2012 and October 2014 respectively. It is a mark of the company’s dominance of the social media landscape – Facebook has 2.13 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp 1.5 billion and Instagram 800 million – that finding a single alternative is difficult. While some services, including Ello and Diaspora, have been over-optimistically hailed as potential “Facebook-killers”, they have struggled to catch on for a simple reason: these other sites and apps can provide features similar to (and in theory, better than) Facebook, but if your friends and family aren’t using them, what’s the point? For those determined to exit the Facebook ecosystem, the best approach is more likely to be a patchwork of sites and apps that mirror individual features. Messaging is the easiest: apps such as Telegram and Signal offer messaging and group chats, as well as voice calls, with encryption to keep your communications private. Telegram even has a thriving collection of chatbots, similar to Facebook Messenger. … ‘Got my blonde on,” writes Cindy Sherman in a recent Instagram post. In the photo, a woman with a blond wig and a computer-generated symphony of neck wrinkles, faces down the viewer. “Looks like some women I saw at Mar-a-Lago,” reads one comment. Good point: Sherman seems to have tapped into the Trump era’s gaudy glitz and glares. But there’s more to this. “Yeah and?” the surly tilt of her head seems to be saying, even if her eyes – poised between vulnerability and defiance like so many Sherman-created women – tell a different story. It’s odd that it took Sherman so long to put her work on Instagram. For decades, she was doing Instagram before Instagram. From Untitled Film Stills (1977-80) Not all Sherman’s posts depict her as different women in delirious costumes and bonkers makeup. And not all are the result of her playing about with Facetune, an app that allows her to reshape heads and eliminate wrinkles, or Perfect365, the makeup simulator she uses to give her subjects garish digital makeovers. There are holiday snaps of lighthouses, Mick and Keith bumping and grinding at a Rolling Stones gig. But even the dullest moments of Sherman’s Instagram are incidentally fascinating since they reveal the woman of 1,000 disguises letting her mask slip for once. She goes to Katy Perry gigs? She gets inspiration from a Dior show? Her Instagram besties include Sex and the City siren Kim Cattrall? Cindy, we hardly knew you! onwards, her art has dealt with all the stuff that captivates and disgusts about the photo-sharing site: the narcissism, the perils and pleasures of self-exhibition, the cunningly filtered fantasies masquerading as the real thing. …
You’ve decided to delete Facebook but what will you replace it with?
#DeleteFacebook has gathered momentum since the Cambridge Analytica fallout.
Damien Hirst hates sausages! How Instagram became art’s new playground
Damien Hirst hates sausages! How Instagram became art’s new playground
Twisted selfies from Cindy Sherman, strange fruit from Wolfgang Tillmans, skull revelations from Damien Hirst … as artists muscle in on the app, what have we learned about them?
‘The perils and pleasures of self-exhibition’ … a selfie from Cindy Sherman’s Instagram account.
Got my blonde on’ … posted by Cindy Sherman
With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyber attack
A view of Atlanta’s City Hall, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 31, 2018.
Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert to paper.
On an Easter and Passover holiday weekend, city officials labored in preparation for the workweek to come.
Police and other public servants have spent the past week trying to piece together their digital work lives, recreating audit spreadsheets and conducting business on mobile phones in response to one of the most devastating “ransomware” virus attacks to hit an American city.
Three city council staffers have been sharing a single clunky personal laptop brought in after cyber extortionists attacked Atlanta’s computer network with a virus that scrambled data and still prevents access to critical systems.
“It’s extraordinarily frustrating,” said Councilman Howard Shook, whose office lost 16 years of digital records.
One compromised city computer seen by Reuters showed multiple corrupted documents with “weapologize” and “imsorry” added to file names. …
A forced marriage: “I met him on Monday. On Wednesday, we were engaged. On Friday, he went back to America.”
PARENT TRAP
I’ve never known anyone to get divorced.
This story is part of a series called Craigslist Confessional. Writer Helena Bala has been meeting people via Craigslist and documenting their stories for over two years. Each story is written as it was told to her. Bala says that by listening to their stories, she hopes to bear witness to her subjects’ lives, providing them with an outlet, a judgment-free ear, and a sense of catharsis. By sharing them, she hopes to facilitate acceptance and understanding of issues that are seldom publicly discussed, at the risk of fear, stigma, and ostracism. Read more here. Names and certain identifying details may have been changed or omitted to protect her subjects’ anonymity.
Zarah, early 20s
I attended a top school in my country—a co-ed school that specializes in STEM education. There were only 15 women in my class, in a sea of men. I am the first woman in my family to go to university. I had envisioned a very different life for myself—a fulfilling career, some travel, and perhaps marriage and children, later in life. I abandoned hope when, a few months into college, my parents told me they’d started looking around for possible marriage proposals.
My mother approached me one day and told me they’d found a nice match in the UK. I frantically searched his name on Facebook and LinkedIn, but found nothing except photos of fast cars and a sparsely populated work history. In a panic, I told them I knew nothing about him—that I couldn’t just be expected to marry anyone.
“He’ll be here in a week, for his sister’s wedding,” my mother told me. “And you’ll have a chance to meet him and then we can have your engagement ceremony.”
The day came quickly. I spoke to him for a few minutes and went back to my parents in tears. I told them, categorically, “No.” They sat me down over the next several weeks and, underhandedly, made it clear that I had no choice in the matter: “This is what we’ll do for your wedding,” my mother would say, showing me photos and brochures.
The more I tried to resist, the more they began to taunt me: “Do you think you’re too good now—because you’re educated? You’re becoming arrogant.” …
IN A DISPOSABLE AGE, LUXURY IS SOMETHING OLD, WORN, AND BEAUTIFUL
WABI SABI
None the worse for wear.
It’s not fun to wear old-fashioned, 100% cotton denim in its “raw” unwashed state. It’s stiff, like cardboard. It tends to crease rather than fold. It’s constricting and rough against the skin.
Most of the jeans you’ll find in stores today weren’t worn in for decades before softening into their current form. They’re washed to lighten the shade and relax the fabric, which is now often made with synthetic stretch materials to be more comfortable (or less expensive), and comes pre-distressed with wear marks you no longer make yourself.
The biggest difference between these two types of jeans, however, may not be how they look and feel right off the hanger: It’s how they look and feel after they’ve been worn and washed countless times.
In a year, the raw jeans will likely be better than when you bought them. But cheap, stretchy, pre-distressed pairs will often be best when you first bring them home from the store, and decline from there. When those raw jeans get a hole, you may actually want to patch them up and keep wearing them. When the other jeans start to rip, you’re more likely to toss them and get a new pair. …
All of Google’s jokes for April Fools’ Day 2018
April Fools’ Day is upon us, and like every year, Google is doing its best to outdo itself. The company releases all sorts of jokes, ranging from the ridiculously lame to the very clever, spanning the simple blog post or video to the elaborate gag or new feature. It’s a very Google-specific tradition — even other Alphabet companies don’t really participate in the celebration.
In fact, Google’s various divisions create more practical and impractical jokes for the holiday than any other tech firm, and it’s simply hard to keep track of them all. We have put together our annual roundup — here are all of Google’s April Fools jokes for 2018.
Where’s Waldo? In Google Maps
The Google Maps team tends to have the more intricate jokes — usually playable games — and this year it’s a Where’s Waldo? integration. Waldo is traveling the world with his friends Wenda, Woof, Wizard Whitebeard, and Odlaw. To travel with him, all you have to do is find him. The April Fools feature will be available all week on Android, iOS, and desktop (make sure you have the latest app version or visit google.com/maps on your computer). To start, press play when you see Waldo waving at you from the side of your screen or ask “Hey Google, Where’s Waldo?” via Google Assistant on your phone, Chromebook, or Home device.
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ON THE FAR SIDE
For 15 years, Gary Larson took millions of readers over to the “Far Side.” Using anamorphic animals, chubby teenagers, universal emotions, a simple drawing style and a really bizarre, morbid sense of humor, The Far Side became one of the most successful – and praised – comic strips of all time. But like many cartoonists, Larson has remained rather elusive. In 1995 (Calvin and Hobbes did the same), he abruptly ended the comic strip – perhaps even a bit prematurely according to many of his fans. So, how did Larson get to the “Far Side?” And what was with his fascination with making aliens look stupid?
Larson was born in 1950 – in the midst of the baby boomer generation – in a blue-collar neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington. His father was a car mechanic, someone who didn’t mind getting a bit dirty, which was a trait he passed on to his two sons. Larson has often reminisced about how he and his brother would wade in the nearby Puget Sound looking for critters like octopi and salamanders, several of which would end up in his later comics.
As he explained to the New York Times in 1998, this love of wildlife has continued throughout his life. He originally was even a biology major at Washington State University before deciding that he wasn’t into all that schooling. “I didn’t want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn’t know what you did with a bachelor’s in biology,” Larson told the Times, ”so I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.”
Throughout his adult life, he was a keeper of exotic pets including tarantulas, African bullfrogs, Bermuda pythons, Mexican king snakes, and carnivorous South American ornate horned frogs. Also, through high school and college, he got really into jazz, both listening and playing. And he was pretty talented, especially on the guitar and banjo.
All of this is to say that being a cartoonist was not originally part of Larson’s career plan- he was never even terribly good at drawing. Unlike many cartoonists of his era, Larson says that he more or less fell into it. …
Video Goodnesses
and not-so-goodnesses
and not-so-goodnesses
he Department of Energy is trying to turn a lake in the California desert called the Salton Sea into a farm for renewable fuels — and clean its infamously polluted water in the process.
The Salton Sea Biomass Remediation Project harnesses algae’s ability to grow in hostile conditions. In this case, the water is polluted with agricultural fertilizers and pesticides that algae can filter out and use to fuel its own growth.
Every week, researchers harvest algae from a 900-foot metal chute in a wetland by the Salton Sea, process it, and take it to Sandia National Laboratories, where they’re testing methods to turn it into a high-quality fuel. The end goal is for algae fuel to replace oil in everything from cars to plastics.
It sounds futuristic, and the project is trying to succeed where others have failed. In the mid-2000s, venture capitalists poured funding into algae startups and their slime farms. But the promise — a cheap and abundant fuel that wouldn’t compete with land needed for food production, like corn or soy-based biofuels do — never materialized. It turns out that commercial-scale algae-farming is hard and resource-intensive, and most of the initial startups have folded or are marketing algae for cosmetics and dietary supplements, not aircraft fuels.
With the SABRE project, the DOE thinks it can avoid the mistakes made in the past. VICE News went to the California desert to see how they’re giving algae a second chance.
THANKS to HBO and VICE News for making this program available on YouTube.
Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei unveiled his latest work at the Sydney Biennale in Australia. The piece, “Law of the Journey,” highlights the plight of refugees across the world. It’s made out of raft rubber, it’s over 60 feet long, and it’s meant to evoke the dangerous journey that many refugees take across the Mediterranean Sea.
Dee Rees discusses her film “Mudbound,” which examines World War II veterans returning home, and weighs in on the difference between representation and tokenism.
Dulce Sloan and Desi Lydic salute Sarah Howe, a 19th-century con artist who shattered the glass ceiling of financial crime.
THANKS to Comedy Central and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah for making this program available on YouTube.
How can so much be in one video?
Because it’s a Max video.
FINALLY . . .
Why no one cares about privacy anymore — in three words
The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook mess reminded me of a piece written eight years ago by Declan McCullagh, a journo who at the time was writing an online column called “Taking Liberties” for CBS News.
In March 2010 McCullagh cranked out 2,300 words in an attempt to explain “Why no one cares about privacy anymore.”
He didn’t succeed.
He did make a compelling case for the proposition that there were tens of millions of people who could care less about their personal privacy, and that they flocked to websites that are not only cavalier about privacy — sites like Twitter and Facebook — but make a virtue about being cavalier about it.
But he didn’t tell us why this is so.
He told us why he thought the passing of privacy is not necessarily a bad thing, quoting a federal judge named Richard Posner who said:
“As a social good, I think privacy is greatly over-rated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.”
It’s a sentiment Joseph Stalin could have readily shared on his Facebook page, if he had had one. …
DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY: “The truth about privacy is counterintuitive: less of it can lead to a more virtuous society.” …
Ed. More tomorrow? Probably. Possibly. Maybe. Not?