Twitter: Never let liberty stand in the way of making a buck.
As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content.
Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally. Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.
Twitter Blog: Tweets must flow
So your way of defending free speech is to make it easier for governments to stifle it?
That’s some kind of bullshit, Twitter. For real.
This is irony, right?
Sorry I’m so blurry. I’m pretty sure it’s all that Sudafed I took with the second pot of coffee.
Wilco’s video for “Dawned On Me” features the first new hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in thirty years.
Oh yeah, and the song isn’t so bad, either.
(Buzzfeed)
Pros and Cons
Pro: I’ve lost enough weight that my chest and shoulders are now more prominent than my belly, which means I can wear a tucked-in dress shirt without looking like a fat slob.
Con: I’ve dressed so casually for so long that I feel really uncomfortable in a tucked-in dress shirt.
Carving a Nietzsche | National Post
Interesting piece.
I’m alternately thrilled and terrified and plain pissed-off by Nietzsche. I love the idea that we shouldn’t be bound up by outdated norms and social conventions, but I hate the way he dismisses emotion and all the messy, mushy things that make us human.
And don’t even get me started on that “Will To Power” stuff.
I can’t decide which one I want to marry first.
Tuesday Bullets
- I sent you a song. I wanted to send you a whole damn mixtape. I lose my words when I’m around you.
- As bad as that is, I really just hope I never lose my safe word around you. That wouldn’t be good.
- I have your picture hanging right by my desk. That one with the smile, and the light in your hair. You said it didn’t look like you, but you were wrong. You really are that beautiful.
- I believe that some things are inevitable. Problem is, I’m not very good at waiting.
In Kenya, Honeyguide birds locate beehives and communicate their location to humans, who then do the hard labor of breaking into the hive and extracting the honey. Honey which they then share with the birds.
These are wild birds, not domesticated pets trained to work for human masters. These are two independent species that have figured out how to communicate with each other.
Mind. Blown.
