Or maybe they got mass reported by angry Isreali people. The Facebook auto moderator is always going to be vulnerable to abuse, and any controversial figure is likely going to spend some time locked out of their account while the manual moderators evaluate the situation. The accounts got brought back as soon as…

It kind of feels like Facebook can’t win on this one. If people curate the trending news section, someone will accuse them of bias. If it is algorithmically curated, we’ll have to reckon with how horrible people are because the feed will end up hosting conspiracy theories, racist propoganda, anti-vaxer bullshit, and…

There’s more than one kind of free. In software we usually talk about “free as in beer” and “free as in speech”. Free as in beer implies that something doesn’t cost you money. Free as in speech, in a software context, implies that the source code is available to the public with a liberal license so that others can…

Without the draft, the salary cap wouldn’t enforce parity. Like it says in the article, shitty franchises would have to pay a premium to convince talent to join their teams. The act of overpaying for a volatile asset like rookie players would keep those shitty teams shitty.

Gizmodo has a pretty broad definition of what it means to be a “white male.” Most tech diversity reports lump in engineers from China, Japan, India, Korea, and elsewhere under an Asian category, and they always seem to be counted as white for Gizmodo’s purposes. This is an advanced physics program at Stanford, they…

Just a heads up, you can put a passcode on Alexa. It makes ordering stuff a bit more cumbersome, but it’ll make things a little more secure. It still won’t help if you order things in front of people and they remember your pin, but it can help.