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Okc_ebooks: Pick-up artists trying to chat up a robot horse:

I wrote a piece for Slacktory about PUAs desperately hitting on an OkCupid account that spits back meaningless @horse_ebooks quotes. Okc_ebooks (a Tumblr you should follow right away) provides an excellent case study for how scripted PUA routines by design objectify women. When PUAs plow through scripts written by other PUAs with women whose responses are irrelevant, how is that in any way actual interhuman communication? Replace the woman with @horse_ebooks, and you’re left with two robots talking to each other.

MeCam $49 flying camera concept follows you around, streams video to your phone

For the first time, a massive data set of 10,000 porn stars has been extracted from the world’s largest database of adult films and performers. I’ve spent the last six months analyzing it to discover the truth about what the average performer looks like, what they do on film, and how their role has evolved over the last forty years.