All posts tagged "facebook"
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Anne Rice calls out Facebook fans who claim they “don’t care” about gay issues
“The new anti-gay bigotry takes the form of screaming, ‘I don’t care.’ or ‘Don’t tell me about it.’ Or who cares who you sleep with?’...
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Welcome to the Summer Pop Off!
Welcome to the Summer Pop Off! This is your chance to vote tournament style on what will become the summer song of 2014. This year...
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Apple, Google, Microsoft & Facebook: We’ll tell you when the government wants your data
Four of the biggest companies in technology are preparing to defy U.S. authorities. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook petitioned the government last year for permission...
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Washington as the Globe’s Gay Capital
Earlier this month, I shared a post on my Facebook wall regarding Dmitry Kiselyov. The post was critical of the anti-Western, anti-LGBT Kiselyov, taking what...
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Facebook outbid Google by $9 billion to secure WhatsApp
WhatsApp, the smartphone-based messaging system that boasts over 450 million active users per month, has been purchased by Facebook for an incredible $19 billion. Facebook’s...
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Facebook lets users select from over 50 different gender options
Facebook today announced it’s dropping the binary restrictions it previously placed on gender selection. Now, Facebook’s 1.23 billion users can select either male, female, or...
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Outdated Offense
Another January weekend ends, and with it so does the Centaur MC's annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend. Congratulations to Joe Birdwell, Mr. MAL 2014. While everything...
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Facebook implements status editing — about ducking time
If you’re the sort who regularly mistypes a status and only notices after your entire newsfeed has derided you — hey, we’ve all been there...
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Change Is Good
My Facebook identity needs a change. For weeks, my profile photo has been the Trayvon Martin stylized black-and-white hoodie. My cover photo is Evgeny Feldman's...
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Sad Facebook
A new study published in the Public Library of Science “predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults.” Or, to put it more succinctly, Facebook...
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Stein Club Fielding Forum Questions
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club is now accepting your questions. In a recent email blast, the Stein Club, among D.C.'s most prominent local political clubs,...
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App-athy
Jawbone's UP wristband is a fantastic piece of tech.
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The Takei Time
In early May 2012, George Takei was driving along White Mountain Boulevard in Arizona, where he and his husband, Brad Altman-Takei, own a getaway home....
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Can Facebook make you fat, gluttonous and plunge you into debt?
“We have demonstrated that using today’s most popular social network, Facebook, may have a detrimental effect on people’s self-control.” So says Dr. Andrew Stephen, of...
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Facebook’s Helping Hand
I don’t often feel the need to get help while using Facebook — I mean, really, it’s not that complicated — but it’s nice to...
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