merelygifted:

Facebook offered a revealing explanation to lawmakers for why it continues to track users’ locations even after those users turn Facebook’s location tracking services off.

Responding to a letter from Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-MO), and Sen. Chris Coons, (D-DE), Facebook said it needs that extra location data to target ads, and for various security functions.

The two senators asked Facebook last month to “respect” users’ decisions to keep their locations private.

Coons and Hawley now say that Facebook needs to give users more control over their data.

I say, delete Facebook.

  

Once again, more Scheißberg than zuckerberg

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(via Colbert delivers a dramatic reading of Trump’s letter to Pelosi / Boing Boing)

As if merkin von bankrupt could define or spell egregious

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 5 October 1976, auto workers won a 3-week strike against Ford for more vacation days and better retirement and unemployment benefits.
43 years later, members of the United Auto Workers are again on strike against Ford https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1227444807440667/?type=3

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On this day, 19 December 1925, Lepa Svetozara Radic was born in Bosanska Gradiska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lepa became a communist and joined the anti-Nazi partisans aged 15 in 1941. She was captured in 1943.
The Germans offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded that she was not a traitor and her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.
The executioner subsequently reported that the “bandit” had “shown unprecedented defiance”.
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howtogrowthefuckup:

I get asked for this guide a lot. The library has so much to offer you and it’s almost always free (and if it isn’t, it’s because you’re not paying for libraries in your taxes). As a librarian, I am, of course, biased, but I believe the library is the last true democratic institution, created solely for all people and it’s quickly becoming one of the few places you can go without spending money. In fact, the public library can save you lots of money a year and improve your overall quality of life. Here’s how.

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workingclasshistory:

On this day, 21 September 1976, Chilean socialist refugee Orlando Letelier and think tank worker Ronni Moffitt were murdered in Washington DC by a car bomb planted by Pinochet’s secret police. The killings by agents of the US-backed dictator General Pinochet were part of Operation Condor, a Latin American anti-communist program supported by the US which killed up to 60,000 working class militants, socialists and anarchists. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1215954675256347/?type=3