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Social media bosses don't use social media to avoid getting 'high on their own supply'

Alex Hern
The Guardian
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:27 UTC
Developers of platforms such as Facebook have admitted that they were designed to be addictive. Should we be following the executives' example and going cold turkey - and is it even possible for mere mortals?

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Mark Zuckerberg doesn't use Facebook like you or me. The 33-year-old chief executive has a team of 12 moderators dedicated to deleting comments and spam from his page, according to Bloomberg. He has a "handful" of employees who help him write his posts and speeches and a number of professional photographers who take perfectly stage-managed pictures of him meeting veterans in Kentucky, small-business owners in Missouri or cheesesteak vendors in Philadelphia.

Facebook's locked-down nature means mere mortals can't see the private posts on Zuckerberg's timeline, but it is hard to imagine him getting into arguments about a racist relative's post of an anti-immigration meme. And it is not just Zuckerberg. None of the company's key executives has a "normal" Facebook presence. You can't add them as friends, they rarely post publicly and they keep private some information that the platform suggests be made public by default, such as the number of friends they have.

Comment: Designed to exploit people's susceptibility to addictive behaviors, it's no wonder they avoid using social media. See also:

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Syringe

Philadelphia approves 'supervised injection' of heroin, other drugs amid opioid crisis


RT
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:36 UTC
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© Andy Clark / Reuters
Officials in Philadelphia are moving to open safe-injection sites for drugs like fentanyl and heroin as the opioid crisis persists. But the state attorney general insists there's "no safe way to inject" the highly addictive drugs.

Officials in Philadelphia announced on Tuesday that they would encourage the creation of addiction engagement sites that would oversee medically-supervised consumption of drugs, WCAU reports.

Such a center is called a safe-injection site, and they are staffed with medical professionals who can immediately respond in the event of an overdose. The sites also provide critical access to clean medical supplies, such as needles, along with addiction rehabilitation services, according to WCAU.
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Dollars

State Department spending $592,500 to push the ideology that "ideals of masculinity" in Kenya are contributing to terrorism

Elizabeth Harrington
Fox News
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:27 UTC
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© iStockThe State Department announced a new taxpayer-funded study that suggests "ideals of masculinity" in Kenya are contributing to terrorism.
Taxpayer-funded study blames terrorism on 'ideals of masculinity'

he State Department announced a new $600,000 taxpayer-funded study that suggests "ideals of masculinity" in Kenya are contributing to terrorism.

The department's Bureau of Counterterrorism is seeking a nonprofit group to "explore gender identities of boys and men in Kenya." The grant proposal states that men being "tough, heterosexual, aggressive, unemotional, and achieving" can make them vulnerable to joining Islamic extremist groups.
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Propaganda

The Young Turks 'alt-news' site now more pro-establishment than ever

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:22 UTC
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Last August I made a note of the fact that The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur had retweeted a fan who said that he gets his news from Uygur and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, because "they report the REAL NEWS." I said at the time that this was Cenk's way of officially formalizing TYT's position as MSNBC's ugly little sister.

Once a relatively reliable outlet for anti-establishment progressive values, TYT has been growing more pro-establishment by the day, joining Rachel Maddow in the relentless promotion of the Russiagate psyop, with Uygur even going so far as to predict ten months ago that the scandal could have President Trump out of office within six months. Since that time no evidence of collusion has been produced and Trump has devolved into a more aggressive anti-Russia hawk than his predecessor, effectively invalidating the entire premise of the scandal.

And now they've recruited Dan fucking Rather.


Comment: The Young Turks also received funding from the Clinton machine. Guess where their loyalties lie.

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Fireball

'Meteor' car commercial at the right time!

Michael Jackman
Detroit Metro Times
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:58 UTC
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This commercial, which came out about a week and a half ago, has plenty to laugh about.

The joke, of course, is that this sucker is so roomy you can fit more than what you'd first grab fleeing your home if, says, a meteor was about to strike.

The secondary joke is that Americans have become so materialistic that they'd go back for seconds and thirds if they felt they could.

What makes it funniest, though, is it must have turned a few heads given the way a giant fireball streaked across the Michigan sky last week.
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Ice Cube

Siberian policemen rescue bus passengers trapped as temperatures sank to -40 degrees Celsius


TASS
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 01:12 UTC
Policemen saved 22 passengers from a bus that had broken down in the Khanty-Mansiysk Region
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© Vyacheslav Prokofiev/TASS
Policemen saved 22 passengers from a bus that had broken down in the Khanty-Mansiysk Region and got stuck in the middle of nowhere as temperatures sank to -40 degrees Celsius, regional police authorities said on Tuesday.

"On January 22, Nefteyugansk District policemen rescued 22 bus passengers from freezing on the 730th km of the Tyumen-Khanty-Maniysk highway. The car's timing belt had broken. The highway patrolmen - police lieutenant Ruslan Kadyrov and police captain Vitaly Kozhevin - helped the passengers get on another bus that was going in the same direction," the press service reported.
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Briefcase

New Jersey spent $42mn in taxpayer money settling crimes committed by police


RT
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 01:02 UTC
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© FILE PHOTO Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

Local authorities in New Jersey have spent $42 million in taxpayer money to settle allegations of crimes committed by police, including murder, abuse and sexual misconduct, according to an explosive new report.

Abuse of power by police left at least 19 people dead, 131 injured, and seven documented sexual assaults, plus dozens of other offenses from false arrest to harassment, according to a two-year investigation by the USA Today Network.
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Newspaper

Nude man slips down sex shop steps; in critical condition


NL Times
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:24 UTC
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A man is in critical condition after falling down the stairs in sex shop Candy Shop in Tilburg on Monday night. The naked, unconscious man was rushed to hospital by ambulance, Omroep Brabant reports.

Two ambulances, a trauma helicopter, three police cars and motorcycle officers were deployed to the shop on Korvelseweg. The police refused to say anything other than this was a "medical issue" to the broadcaster.
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Newspaper

Danish inventor reportedly tied up, tortured Swedish freelance journalist before murdering her


Sputnik
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:51 UTC
Peter Madsen
© REUTERS/ Scanpix Denmark/Ida Marie Odgaard
Peter Madsen, the Danish inventor charged with murdering Kim Wall, reportedly tied up and tortured the Swedish freelance journalist before killing her, an indictment published Tuesday states.

According to prosecutors, Madsen allegedly planned the murder before meeting up with Wall. He brought tools such as pipes, screwdrivers and a saw onto his home-built submarine so that he could torture the writer. These tools were used to hit, cut and stab Wall.

Comment: Submarine owner accused of killing Swedish journalist kept snuff videos in his workshop - UPDATE: Body parts of journalist found

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Sheriff

Arizona family sues for $5 million after cop refuses to apologize for beating autistic teen

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:32 UTC
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Following a national outcry surrounding the violent takedown of an autistic boy by Officer David Grossman, the Buckeye Police Department began conducting damage control. As the world lashed out at the department for mistreating Connor, an innocent autistic boy in such a violent and callous manner, the parents simply asked for an apology-one that would never come.

As ABC 15 reports, after the incident, the Leibel family through an attorney sent Buckeye Police Chief Larry Hall a letter with three requests: (1) Grossman apologize face to face (2) Grossman perform community service in the autism community (3) Buckeye institutes autism training for officers.

The letter then said, "If these terms are agreed to first, any financial component of this case will be quickly resolved."

All the department had to do was agree to those terms, an apology, teach cops not to beat up autistic kids, and have the abusive cop who did beat up an autistic kid volunteer at some local events in the autism community. They refused to do any of it.
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