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This “Ask First” thong showed up in this Victoria’s Secret in Miami What’s this?? An “Ask First” thong on Victoria’s Secret’s display rack? Did Victoria’s Secret get the message, join the revolution and start making consent-themed panties? “Nope,” says FORCE, “It’s us.” Over the weekend international consent-enthusiasts teamed up with FORCE to deploy “operation panty…
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This “Ask First” thong showed up in this Victoria’s Secret in Miami What’s this?? An “Ask First” thong on Victoria’s Secret’s display rack? Did Victoria’s Secret get the message, join the revolution and start making consent-themed panties? “Nope,” says FORCE, “It’s us.” Over the weekend international consent-enthusiasts teamed up with FORCE to deploy “operation panty…
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How do social media tools benefit (or hurt) activist campaigns like this one? (Also: Why/how did Twitter block @loveconsent — is this legal?) During the fashion show the main Twitter handle for the consent campaign @loveconsent was suspended. The account is still blocked and its tweets have disappeared from the Twitter feeds including #loveconsent and…
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How do social media tools benefit (or hurt) activist campaigns like this one? (Also: Why/how did Twitter block @loveconsent — is this legal?) During the fashion show the main Twitter handle for the consent campaign @loveconsent was suspended. The account is still blocked and its tweets have disappeared from the Twitter feeds including #loveconsent and…
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underpaidgenius: Rock Hill Herald, in Rock Hill NC, runs gun ad on the page reporting the massacre in Newtown CT. Inadvertent error, according to the editor. key word algorithmic ad placement?
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Bientôt l’été – Loneliness, desire and despair, coyness and cruelty Filip Visnjic, creativeapplications.net More than 3 years after their previous title, Tale of Tales’s new videogame is now available for download. Much like its predecessors The Path and The Graveyard, Bientôt l’été is a game following the’ “notgames” philosophy that seeks to employ the…
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theatlantic: “We’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics,” Obama said during a brief address from the White House, where he repeatedly wiped away tears. “We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. Each time I learn the…
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Roger Ebert on the media’s coverage of school shootings
jkottke: From his review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a fictionalized account of a Columbine-like school shooting, here’s Roger Ebert on the media’s behavior while reporting these kinds of events. Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a…
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The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children… Adam Gopnik on the Newtown shooting, and the madness of guns: http://nyr.kr/Z6u6UZ (via newyorker)