Facebook’s mind control experiment.

So… Facebook’s been having research parties with our posts. Yep. Your favorite digital therapeutic soap box has been tinkering with your think muscles by tweaking your feed. Ya know, I got used to the whole privacy invasion thing a while ago (sort of) when I finally realized that privacy settings are only for those who don’t know the workarounds. Or own Facebook. Or who pay the guy who owns Facebook… Read More

Fat tax for massholes

So, the government’s taxing soda to battle obesity. So they say. Last week, a family member and I were riding around town together and I listened to him describe the circumference of a corpulent woman’s thigh he’d seen in a meeting – eating a donut. The disgust with which he detailed this human creature was almost palpable. I may never have been overweight myself, but I’m no stranger to the.. Read More