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1. Fundraising to save Burbank's horror bookstore Dark Delicacies
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Burbank's amazing quarter-century institution Dark Delicacies is a horror book-, memoribilia- and clothing-store that is a community hub for genre creators, hosting a wonderful stream of events, signings, ...

2. Mob of young MAGA hat wearers surrounds Native American elder and mock him
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Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School's Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts are on lockdown this morning after a video was posted that shows a mob of students intimidating a Native American elder ...

3. Facebook's latest attempt to court teens is a 'cringey' meme library
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Facebook is once again trying to court the kids, this time with a meme-filled app called LOL. Facebook confirmed the existence of the LOL to TechCrunch. The app, which offers an endless feed of videos ...

4. Facebook might be facing a hefty fine from the FTC
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Since reports revealed last March that Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica to access the personal information of 87 million of its users, there's been a fair amount of fallout. CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...

5. Facebook’s simplified Messenger app interface is rolling out to users
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Facebook teased a Messenger redesign at its F8 conference back in May and then started slowly rolling out the simpler interface last October. Now, The Verge reports, the redesign is becoming available ...

6. Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents' credit cards
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In 2012, Facebook settled a class-action suit with parents who claimed that their kids were being tricked into spending real money on game items, thinking they were spending virtual in-game currency; ...

7. A megathread of dirty industry secrets that you'll be glad you know even as you wish you didn't
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... getting laid like crazy * Starbucks' rulebook is full of gotchas that let managers discriminate against troublemakers, racialized people, and anyone else they dislike * Billion dollar battleships are ...

8. Trailer for "Lords of Chaos," the horror-thriller about Norwegian black metal and murder
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... non-fiction book, is a new film coming to theaters February 8 that tells the story of those loud, weird, dark times. Jonas Åkerlund directs and the cast includes Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, ...

9. ASUS Affidabilità Garantita: rimborso totale
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ASUS rilancia il programma Affidabilità Garantita per tutti i suoi notebook che prevede un rimborso totale in caso di guasto nel primo anno. The post ASUS Affidabilità Garantita: rimborso totale appeared ...

10. Two GOP reps meet racist troll Chuck Johnson 'to discuss genetic testing and DNA'
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... are genetically different in their propensity for rape.'” ”Asking me to defend my views on Facebook is a little absurd,” he told NBC. Excerpt from Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny's report: Chuck Johnson ...

11. Facebook employees caught leaving five-star Amazon reviews for Portal
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Facebook released its Portal and Portal+ smart displays two months ago, at the tail end of a scandal-ridden year in which data leaks and privacy incidents were abundant. So, the company faced a tough battle ...

12. The right to own a gun does not imply competence of any sort
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Sho nuff! (via 10NEWS WTSP/facebook) Read the rest Read all  ...

13. Peng Shepherd's "The Book of M" is a dystopian love story
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Peng Shepherd's The Book of M delivers the confusion and frustration of massive world change by playing on the strings of your heart. Magical realism certainly collides with prepper fantasy novel in ...

14. To do in San Francisco this Sunday: Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Hendrix, and Cecelia Holland at SF in SF
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... of funds), at the The American Bookbinders Museum (355 Clementina). Read the rest Read all  ...

15. Mattel's free 'Uno' mobile game is now available worldwide
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While third-party Uno apps have been around for some time, Mattel released its own mobile version of the classic card game in certain countries and on Facebook Instant Games last year. Now, the toymaker ...

16. AGCOM, 42 milioni di utenti al giorno su internet
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Giornalmente in Italia si collegano a internet decine di milioni di persone e Facebook è il primo social network con 35,7 milioni di utenti unici. The post AGCOM, 42 milioni di utenti al giorno su internet ...

17. Rethinking Capitalism: like the Feynman lectures but for economics
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... market-sceptic economists of our age, whose instant-classic 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths upended the debate over the supposedly efficient and innovative ...

18. The glass is half-full (of bile over Facebook's business-model)
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While it's true that the Pew Center found that most US Facebook users don't understand how they're being tracked and targeted, the more important fact is that the number of Americans who do understand ...

19. Facebook cancella 471 Pagine di propaganda russa
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Continua la guerra gli account e pagine false legate alla Russia che spargono notizie false per avvelenare l’opinione pubblica. The post Facebook cancella 471 Pagine di propaganda russa appeared first ...

20. Facebook lancia Spectrum, ottimizza le immagini
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Spectrum 1.0.0 è una libreria open source di Facebook che consente di comprimere e ottimizzare le immagini per il caricamento. The post Facebook lancia Spectrum, ottimizza le immagini appeared first on ...

21. This boot camp cracks the code of social media marketing
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... how those rules apply to some very different arenas. You'll get lessons devoted to marketing not just on Facebook, but on its Groups and Marketplace channels. You'll be able to raise a buzz on crowded ...

22. WhatsApp batte Facebook: è l’app più popolare
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WhatsApp cresce in popolarità e download superando Facebook a livello mondiale secondo le stime di App Annie. The post WhatsApp batte Facebook: è l’app più popolare appeared first on Webnews.  ...

23. Facebook purges more than 500 Russian-led disinformation pages
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"Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior" is such an anodyne way of describing weaponizing information to poison attitudes and democracies. That's the euphemism that Facebook is employing to talk ...

24. Facebook makes its image compression tech available to all
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Most applications need to compress the photos you upload, because better cameras also mean bigger image files. The larger the file is, the more data you use and the longer the upload takes. Facebook is ...

25. Checking out Bexim's Bazaar, a wonderful new zine for tabletop game crafters
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... miniatures, and much more. One of my maker pals, James Floyd Kelly (a tech book author and long-time Make: contributor), jumped onto the game crafting bandwagon last year when he launched his Game Terrain ...