Month: April 2010
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Facebook’s vanishing privacy
The EFF has an excellent timeline of the changes in the privacy policy at Facebook. It’s worth a read for anyone who might consider Facebook either (a) private in any sense or (b) ethically reliable in any sense. These changes bother me less than other people because I’ve always assumed Facebook would screw us over…
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A fantastic visual response to “Show us your papers” in AZ…
From the cartoonist Lee Judge ( http://media.kansascity.com/images/cartoons/judge/04-2010/judge_04272010_700.jpg)
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How to Lie with the Truth — and how to counter it
A meme spreading like wildfire throughout the rabid right is that “47% of Americans don’t even pay federal income tax.” Clearly it’s time for another tax cut for the uber-wealthy in the interest of “fairness”. David Leonhardt wrote a piece in today’s New York Times exploring this. Short version: The number is true… and meaningless. …