In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

[browniet]

British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Damian Collins chairs the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee; it was he who ordered the Parliamentary Serjeant at Arms to drag a visiting US tech executive named Ted Kramer out of his hotel to surrender his laptop to Parliament so they could see the internal Facebook documents that a US federal judge had ordered sealed.

Kramer is CEO of Six4Three, a creepy US startup whose Facebook app helped you find pictures of your friends in bikinis; when the app was neutered by a change to Facebook’s API, Six4Three sued Facebook and in the course of pre-trial discovery, they were given extensive internal documents from Facebook, which the judge in the case had ordered sealed. Somehow, Collins got wind of the fact that Kramer, his laptop, and the documents were all in London, and – having been spurned by Mark Zuckerberg, who repeatedly refused demands to appear in Parliament – saw his change.

Now, Collins has dumped a 250 page file, hosted on Parliament’s servers, which includes the documents from Kramer’s laptop and Collins’s summary.

The release comes despite a plea from Facebook to respect the US court order and not publish the documents.

The documents are incredibly damning. They show Facebookers at the highest level – up to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg – conspiring to trick Android users about how much data was being gathered by an update to the Facebook app; to give certain companies “whitelisted” access to user data beyond the access the company had disclosed to its users; to explicitly productize “friends” data (that is, to allow the trick Cambridge Analytica pulled, when getting a user to grant permission to their own data also allowed a company to access their friends’ data); to use the Onavo battery-monitor app to covertly gather data on which other apps users had installed; and anti-competitive targeting of partners’ apps.

Collins tweeted: “I believe there is considerable public interest in releasing these documents. They raise important questions about how Facebook treats users data, their policies for working with app developers, and how they exercise their dominant position in the social media market.”

This isn’t just one smoking gun, it’s hundreds of them. This is Facebook’s worst nightmare.

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/05/last-laugh-on-zuck.html

[nuisancehelicopter]

vox.com

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

[xenoqueer]

The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.

Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.

Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.

Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.

Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.

[anaisnein]

good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesn’t exist any more, @staff.

[fandomshatewomen]

Then they’re def gonna let Tumblr die on the vine when it doesn’t pan out. It’ll take a few years but mark my words, this is going to work out about as well as when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody left. Also, fuck Verizon forever.

[a-trans-resource-blog]

Plz lemme know if you reblog this and it disappears. I have Suspicions.

[xenoqueer]

I mean, there are already mutuals of mine reporting that they can’t see this post, only a “post was deleted"notice on my blog, and I’m the OP.

So, whatever your suspicions are, I suppose mark them as confirmed.

[trashbandikyut]

i’ve seen it disappear about 5 times off my dash. 

[taebaelee]

@staff

[raesputin]

[dailytsurune]

kisaragi nanao

[sportsanimedaily]

[dailytsurune]

[takeseiya]

“You’re the same as ever, Seiya… Still serving as Minato’s knight.”
“You’re the same as ever, too. I heard you landed a 20-shot kaichu recently. The Young Prince lives on, I see.”

[rythyme]

[americachavez]

in trying to ban nipples tumblr has forced me to see the word “nipples” more times in one evening than I have in my entire 8 years on this website

[sagechan]

[nothingelsebroughtmeclosertogod]

Me on December 17th

[sagechan]

[bellamynochillblake]

we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we? 

[im-reddie]

LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!

[bellamynochillblake]

oh you sweet summer child 

[cheesetrap0113]

Random HypMic Seiyuus Facts

From all the lives they guested/hosted at 😀

Will edit if something is wrong xD

-KimuSuba debuted as a seiyuu when he was 14. He had his eyes set on Gian.
-Even though he debuted as a seiyuu at 14, he had his first appearance as an actor in the 2002 Japan production of  Annie as a dancer.
-He can play violin, keyboards, drums, and guitar. Was in Karate and Kendo club during his high school and university years.
-He’s quite good in English and studied the language by himself, following his interest with rap and Eminem.
-His parents have performed in the stage, but in the musical field (father was an opera singer, mother was a vocalist in a group)
-He smokes.
-He loves coca-cola very much, he can differentiate canned cola and bottled ones.
-Aside from acting, Kimura is also a model under the name Sammy.
-At one of his latest live broadcast, all the staff pranked him 5 times. One is where the director was angry at the staff Kimura had to be in between them during a live broadcast.
-One of the staff disguised as a big fan and asked Kimura to sign 50 cards so he can give it to his brothers. He kindly did all 50.
-His ex-girlfriend is called Non-chan. They broke up cause Kimura wants to love another girl.

-Amasaki is an only child.
-When asked why he wanted to be a seiyuu, his answer is : “Cause I was saved…”
-During Amasaki’s school days, he usually get depressed and down, thinking nothing goes right. That’s when he discovered this anime and got amazed by it.
-He thought of entering in the anime industry, and he thought of being a mangaka at first. But it was hard.
-He thought of a way to enter the anime industry with the experience he have in using his voice.

-Haruki doesn’t have a passport.
-In yesterday’s Koharubiyori live where Hayami and Nozuyama guested, there is a question for the 3 about what female gestures turns them on. Haruki answered “when a girl wipes of her sweat around the neck area, and lifts her hair up. I think it’s sexy. He also said that he is inclined to parts that are usually hidden, especially the nape. With that being said Nozuyama joked about how basically everything is covered by clothes and teased Haruki, “Aren’t you fired up?”

-Nozuyama likes long haired girls and then fixing them into different styles.
-Nozuyama also did track and field in his school days, but just for the sport fest.
-He was in the basketball club in his school days.

-Kamio Shinichiro is a stage name.
-He was a magician long before he became a seiyuu. He debuted when he was 30 years old.

[hqscans]

Official Twitter - December 4, 2018