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cache hit 185:single/related:3a5449b86601aec7e9aac3e20cf38559 empty On Wednesday evening, Twitter changed its rules to state that it would forbid users from posting revenge porn and non-consensual nudes on the service. In the private information section of the site’s policy list, the company added that users “may not post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed…
This week is Book Week at Belt. We’ll be swaying from our traditional formula and sharing with you samples from some of our print publications, including a sneak peek at an upcoming release. With today’s piece, we’re highlighting A Detroit Anthology. — By Marsha Music Photos by Aaron Waterman / “Jump Rope” banner art by Kathleen…
Political scientist Bob Putnam is photographed at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Putnam recently wrote a book about the inequality of opportunity for children titled “Our Kids.” (Damian Strohmeyer for The Washington Post) SWARTHMORE, Penn. — Robert Putnam wants a show of hands of everyone in the room with a parent who graduated from…
SHARING BUTTONS CONTENT OF THE POST Unindexed is an online community that anyone can contribute to; it runs a back-end process that continuously scours Google for signs that it has been indexed, and securely erases itself once it discovers evidence of same. It’s a cute art project (as opposed to a cute engineering project, which…
Wednesday’s news from the Justice Department that the Ferguson police are racially biased would not surprise any of the protestors who have kept the faith in this struggling suburb. /.shifty-wrapper It is their daily lives that were coldly recounted in a Justice Department report, six months in the making, that studied 35,000 pages of police…
In 1997, a writer and web developer named Paul Ford walked into a sushi restaurant in midtown Manhattan to meet a group of strangers. These were bloggers—a term not yet widely in use—who, along with Ford, formed a tight-knit vanguard of individuals publishing personal writing online. Ford had been building experimental personal websites since 1993, and had…
Entry Text FERGUSON, Mo. — A forthcoming Justice Department report on the Ferguson Police Department has found that city officials engage in practices that discriminate against black residents and routinely violate the Constitution and federal law, according to officials familiar with the results of the investigation.The formal report, expected to be released Wednesday, largely blames…
You’re in a rush. Weaving through the maze of slowpokes on the sidewalk, you’re bypassing everyone—sluggish seniors, torpid tourists, short-legged schoolchildren—launching over them like an Olympic hurdler. Today, there are no pedestrians. There are only obstacles to be overcome. And—look at you, Speedy Gonzalez—you arrive just in time. You’re no Urban Olympian, however. You were…
HUNTING FOR THE END OF THE LONG TAIL • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015 Today in Tedium: 1995 was the year that Billy Corgan got in our faces and shouted, “Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage!” And since then, we’ve only gotten angrier as a society. All of our…
A Starbucks barista’s job is more than just serving coffee. She also needs to be polite, even friendly, to the customers. If she does her job correctly, then maybe the customer will walk away feeling like the barista was actually happy to serve him—that it was not only her job, but a genuine pleasure. In…