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Following in Twitter and Reddit’s suit, Facebook announced last night that “images shared in revenge or without permissions from the people in the images” will be removed from the site. Business Insider notes that although a large portion of these images would likely have already been banned under Facebook’s restrictions on nudity, the updated Community Guidelines represent the company’s first firm stance against revenge porn.

According to the new guidelines, nude pictures of any kind that “focus in on fully exposed buttocks” or feature “images of female breasts if they include the nipple” may also be subject to removal, although Facebook will always “allow photos of women actively engaged in breastfeeding or showing breasts with post-mastectomy scarring.”

The company “restrict[s] the display of nudity because some audiences within our global community may be sensitive to this type of content,” but admits that “people sometimes share content containing nudity for reasons like awareness campaigns or artistic projects.” Under the new guidelines, photographs, paintings, sculptures and other art depicting nudity will be allowed (earlier this month, the site banned a user for posting a picture of the 19th-century painting l’Origine du Monde).

The updated Community Guidelines also clarify the site’s controversial “real name policy,” explaining that members may use their “authentic identity” rather than their legal name (in the past, the policy has affected drag queens, drag kings, transgender users, domestic abuse survivors, and even Native American members whose legal names weren’t deemed “real” enough). According to Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of global product policy, the new standards will hopefully clear up “a lot of confusion from people who thought we were asking them to use what’s on their driver’s license. We want people communicating using the name they actually use in real life.”

Facebook says that yesterday’s updates merely clarify pre-existing community standards, and that the detailed guidelines took a year to develop.

How do you feel about these updates, friends? Do you think Facebook has done enough to make amends for its real name policy? Are you optimistic about the new nudity and revenge porn guidelines?

Personally, I think the success of Facebook’s stance against revenge porn may depend on how seriously the site takes nonconsensual images of all kinds (for instance, Twitter’s new policies may even address “creep shots,” or photos taken of a woman in public without her permission). And although Facebook’s new revenge porn policy may have been designed with primarily female users in mind, its nudity guidelines still reflect a sexist double standard:

Hey @neilhimself can you signal boost? I just got banned from @facebook for this 1925 Zeigfeld Girl pic. Ridiculous! pic.twitter.com/uCNFDLA0C8

— Colleen Doran (@ColleenDoran) March 15, 2015

Fear of the female body trumps respect for artistic nudity, I guess.

(via The Verge and Re/Code)

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What the hell is Chip Kelly doing?

Just in case you weren't already confused by what Chip Kelly was doing with the Philadelphia Eagles' roster this offseason, here comes some even more befuddling news. The Eagles are working out former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, according to Adam Schefter and it's since been confirmed by the team.

It is just a workout at this point, so probably best to hold off on the fiery takes. Schefter later tweeted:

Tim Tebow has come and gone from Philadelphia. Team is not planning to sign him at this time. We'll see if anything changes.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 16, 2015

Kelly confused the punditry last week when Philadelphia acquired Tebow's fellow 2010 NFL Draft pick Sam Bradford, the first overall pick that year, in exchange for Nick Foles and some draft picks. They also re-signed Mark Sanchez to a two-year deal, giving them an inspiring one-two punch at the position.

Tebow's busied himself most recently as a college football talking head for ESPN. Though successful in that role, he hasn't given up on his goal of playing quarterback in the NFL ... for some reason. He hasn't actually played in a regular season game since 2012 with the Jets. A year after that he did a brief training camp stint with the Patriots, and that's where his NFL career stood.

In the past, he's been adamant about staying at quarterback, in spite of some suggestions that he convert to a tight end or a fullback. Tebow worked out as a quarterback with the Eagles.

It will be interesting to see what Kelly has in mind for the former Heisman winner, IF he gets past the workout and onto the roster.

This is also a wonderful time to read Jon Bois' Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles. A teaser:

SB Nation presents: The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles

mikejuk writes GCHQ, the UK equivalent of the NSA, has created a 66 Raspberry Pi cluster called the Bramble for "educational" purposes. What educational purposes isn't exactly clear but you do associate super computers with spooks and spies. It seems that there was an internal competition to invent something and three, unnamed, GCHQ technologists decided that other Pi clusters were too ad-hoc. They set themselves the target of creating a cluster that could be reproduced as a standard architecture to create a commodity cluster. The basic unit of the cluster is a set of eight networked Pis, called an "OctaPi". Each OctaPi can be used standalone or hooked up to make a bigger cluster. In the case of the Bramble a total of eight OctaPis makes the cluster 64 processors strong. In addition there are two head control nodes, which couple the cluster to the outside world. Each head node has one Pi, a wired and WiFi connection, realtime clock, a touch screen and a camera. This is where the story becomes really interesting. Rather than just adopt a standard cluster application like Hadoop, OctaPi's creators decided to develop their own. After three iterations, the software to manage the cluster is now based on Node.js, Bootstrap and Angular. So what is it all for? The press release says that: "The initial aim for the cluster was as a teaching tool for GCHQ's software engineering community....The ultimate aim is to use the OctaPi concept in schools to help teach efficient and effective programming."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.35.1! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all operating systems. This maintenance release includes fixes for several crashes that users may be experiencing with the 0.35.0 version. Several features are also included in this release, such as corpse dressing and preliminary joystick support. Many bug fixes and improvements are also included, please see the full changelog below.

Known Issues:

• Crash when trying to view cell in render view in OpenMW-CS on OSX
• Crash when switching from full screen to windowed mode on D3D9

Changelog:

• Implemented being able to dress corpses (you weirdos)
• Implemented checking Cmake sets correct MSVC compiler settings for release build
• Implemented default values for mandatory global records
• Implemented basic joystick support
• Implemented a progress bar for Morrowind.ini import progress in the launcher
• Implemented passage of time indicator when training or serving jail time
• Fixed a crash caused by a land record without data
• Fixed creatures with no skeleton base causing a crash
• Fixed engine becoming unresponsive when trying to use equip next/previous with an empty inventory
• Fixed error caused by relying on subrecord order when reading content files
• Fixed sun trajectory
• Fixed stolen items handling to match vanilla Morrowind
• Fixed Divine Intervention sending the player to the wrong place in some cases
• Fixed telekinesis not working to avoid traps
• Fixed combat AI for unreachable enemies
• Fixed object scale being considered in the Move instruction
• Fixed multi-effect spells with different ranges not all applying
• Fixed launcher not responding to Ctrl+C command from the terminal
• Fixed drag-and-drop creating duplicate content files in the launcher when Alt is pressed
• Fixed addon files with no dependencies not showing in the launcher
• Fixed Detect Animal detecting dead creatures
• Fixed Cmake not respecting LIB_SUFFIX
• Fixed changing active magic holstering magic hands
• Fixed switching spells with next or previous while holding shift raising the delete spell dialog
• Fixed regression causing ignored clicks on the HUD mini-map
• Fixed instant restore effect behavior
• Fixed CE restore attribute items permanently boosting the stat they restore
• Fixed being able to fall off the prison ship
• Fixed wrong starting position in “Character Stuff Wonderland”
• Fixed plugin load order being sorted incorrectly when importing Morrowind settings
• OpenMW-CS: Fixed skills saving incorrectly
• OpenMW-CS: Fixed file extension inconsistency

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seattlish:

Yesterday, the Seattle Police Department fired an officer for harassing women he’d come in contact with while on the job. The officer, Peter Leutz, pulled their phone numbers off the reports about their cases — one for a stolen bike report, one during a traffic stop, and one who was possibly a DV victim — and proceeded to pursue them. He even showed up at one woman’s house. 

It’s creepy and gross and predatory behavior…and also it was not the first time Leutz, who once shot an unarmed team and whose wife took out a protection order against him, made headlines.

But the response from the public is…unsettling. On Facebook, the Seattle Police Department shared their blotter report and, naturally, people had things to say. 

[BTW, no, I’m not editing names out of these images because they left public comments on a public Facebook wall run by a public department. There is no need to protect their identities]

A lot of people thought that the news should have been scuttled, and that reporting on the termination was just bringing bad press to the troubled agency:

Others didn’t see what was wrong with Leutz’s behavior. 

Several called for Leutz to be rehired because…actually I’m not really sure why. 

Of course, there were plenty of people who commended the department not just for the action, but also the transparency — something both the Mayor and Police Chief O’Toole have emphasized as a priority — but yikes. 

This is a good reminder not just of the uphill battle our city faces in trying to establish a trustworthy police department, but also the public scrutiny that the department faces at every turn.

The decision to be extremely public about this termination is laudable, unless of course you’re a person who thinks it isn’t. 

Four veteran San Francisco Police Department officers are being investigated for having sent racist and homophobic text messages. The messages, exchanged during 2011 and 2012 the San Francisco Chronicle reports, surfaced in connection to a fifth officer, Sgt. Ian Furminger, 48, who was recently convicted in federal court on corruption charges. With more attention being paid to police misconduct and racial bias over the past year, that means in addition to their street interactions, officers' activity online (i.e., Facebook, Wikipedia) and via text are garnering more scrutiny, too. 

In a May 2012 text message exchange between Furminger and an unnamed officer:

...[he] asked whether he should be worried that the black husband of one of his then-wife's friends had come over to his home.

The officer responded, "Get ur pocket gun. Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its (sic) not against the law to put an animal down."

"Well said!" Furminger replied, according to the prosecutors' court filing. "You may have to kill the half-breeds too,'' the unnamed officer replied, adding: "Don't worry. Their (sic) an abomination of nature anyway."

Messages with other officers include the phrases, "White power," and "All n-- must f-- hang."

The four officers, all of whom have at least 10 years on the force, have not been identified according to state law. While they have been reassigned to other duties, one public defender raises the prospect of re-investigating their cases from the past few years.

(h/t San Francisco Chronicle)

radicalqueerbrownboy:

creamsiclesdontaskquestions:

black astronauts who have traveled into space [x]

Can you lead out a constellation in its season
     Or guide the Ash constellation along with its sons?
Do you know the laws governing the heavens,
         Or can you impose their authority on the earth? - Job 38: 32, 33

they should make a documentary series on their journeys. it’d be so dope.

scienceyoucanlove:

Crack baby myth goes up in smoke
A Philadelphia study found no gap in health and life outcomes for babies exposed to crack versus ones who weren’t

March 10, 2015 

PHILADELPHIA – From the moment she was born, much of the country assumed Jaimee Drakewood was doomed. Her mother had her in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. She was, as the politicians dubbed it, a crack baby.

"I immediately get defensive," Drakewood, now 25, says about hearing the term. "It’s another stigma, another box to put me in. It bothers me, because it feels like I already had my life written off before I was able to live it."

Drakewood was born when the war on drugs was in full swing, and the crack baby was the poster child.

“Go to a neonatal unit, if you can get in, there are between 100 and 200 percent capacity up and down the East Coast, and the reason is crack babies being born,” Independent candidate Ross Perot declared during a presidential debate in 1992. “Baby’s in the hospital 42 days; typical cost to you and me is $125,000. Again and again and again, the mother disappears in three days, and the child becomes a ward of the state because he’s permanently and genetically damaged.”

"Like Mr. Perot," then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton intoned, "I have held crack babies in my arms."

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10. NYC ("the Earth Room (a dirt-filled gallery in SoHo), the lift-loving Elevator Historical Society Museum in Queens, and the sports-meets-performance-art of competitive Ping-Pong at Spin"); 9. Seattle ("dogs outnumber children", "Norm’s Eatery & Ale House, where dogs are welcome to join you at your inside table", " Scraps Dog Bakery"); 8. Kansas City, Mo. ("the Arabia Steamboat Museum, where you can see a fascinating array of pre-Civil War artifacts", top 10 for coffee); 7. Baltimore ("quirky dialect", "The American Visionary Art Museum, for instance, shows a wide range of outsider art", John Waters, food trucks; 6. San Francisco ("The city that gave the world hippies and the Castro", wine bars and cocktail lounges); 5. Albuquerque (donuts, Breaking Bad, "the Hotel Parq Central, a former psychiatric hospital that now has the rooftop Apothecary Lounge, with pre-Prohibition cocktails and a full selection of interesting bitters, like blood orange"); 4. Providence, R.I. (the Extraordinary Rendition Band, "ranked highly for both its burgers and its sandwiches"); 3. Portland, Ore. ("legendary community of hipsters ranked at the top of this year’s survey for being pedestrian-friendly—and perhaps, by association, unicycle-friendly", coffee, "mustache wax or a wood-and-leather six-pack holder for cyclists"); 2. Austin ("the recently opened Sfanthor on South Congress—a wax museum celebrating the greatest in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres", "highly ranked bars", "live armadillo races"); 1. New Orleans ("a shoo-in to win the quirky category"; "the Ritz-Carlton offers a VooDoo Massage, complete with chants and scents of absinthe"; "romance and free attractions")

That's a fellow named Scott Park at halftime of the Notre Dame-Duke semifinal ACC Tournament game, and he really did have a chance to win a million dollars. He came up way, way, WAY short, and oh, did the Internet laugh. ... Park, now 56, underwent open-heart surgery in 2007. Shortly afterward, his body began breaking down; five organs shut down. The prognosis was so dire that doctors prepared his wife Ellen to say goodbye to him. Park was suffering from Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome, or CAPS, a blood disorder so rare that only 400 people have ever had the disease. But Park, if you'll pardon the clumsy sports metaphor, scored on a long shot far more difficult than a half-court heave. He became the first person ever to get an organ transplant while suffering from CAPS. He now takes nearly 40 pills a day, but has suffered no further complications aside from a bit of obvious weakness.

Winston has had his share of controversies over the past few years, so it wouldn't be a surprise if the crowd on hand had a mixed reaction when Winston walked across the stage. It certainly wouldn’t be the best look for the NFL if the top pick was met with a chorus of boos.

bobcronkphotography:

Keep Portland Pink - Waterfront Park. The Cherry Blossoms are in bloom.

Small Buddha statuette from North India dating from 6th century AD; found in Viking’s grave in Helgö, Sweden.

gaydicks420:

john greens whole “date nerd boys” thing isnt just annoying its incredibly fucked up and unsafe the presentation of “nerd boys” as kind, intelligent boys who would never hurt you is something that abusers have latched onto and presented themselves as and i really fucking wish that someone had told me that before i had to figure it out for myself.

James Harden showed up for the Rockets game today dressed like this:

You might recognize this shirt as what your parents spanked you for doing to the walls when you were 4.

Scotch
Macillin
Bollantones
Johnnie Runner
Black House
All Dipper

We're running out of adjectives for the Pelicans' star.

Get used to hearing the phrase "Anthony Davis is ____," because the dude's not slowing down. Actually, he keeps getting better -- which is scary because he's only 22-years old. This isn't hyperbolic fear, it's real cold-sweats, what's going to happen next, dear God he could take over all of basketball fear. On Sunday night he did just that, almost posting a QUADRUPLE DOUBLE against the Nuggets.

Before you try to write this off as a result of double-overtime, think again. Davis was close to the mark midway through the fourth quarter. Yes, New Orleans wasn't able to get the W, but his numbers defy belief.

36 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists, 9 blocks

The stat-line is eye popping, but let's put these numbers in some context, shall we?

• Davis played 50 minutes on Sunday, more than any other player. The ENTIRE Pelicans' bench played 89 minutes.
• His 0.571 field goal percentage was second among all players on the floor.
• Only Tyreke Evans and Ty Lawson had more assists -- both guards.
• The combined stat lines of the other four PFs who played only scored 3 more points and pulled down 10 more rebounds than Davis.
• Davis' nine blocks equaled every other player on the court combined.
• Think all his points were gimmes? Davis scored 10 of his 16 field goals outside the paint.

  

toriealeksandria:

Remember when jimmy neutron knew Egyptians were black

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hank: Walter! I have fooled you! of course you are not at fault

Original Script Text

[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]
[SHUDDERS]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
I got it.
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OED Word of the Day: busk, v.4. In its earliest use, to go searching or seeking for something

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