Religious people make more porn than you’d think
Snow days are for children. I wish that weren’t true, but since remote log-ins and work chatrooms and teleconferencing became things, there’s really no legitimate reason for weather to keep an office-working adult from doing her job. Silver lining: when you’re working from home, in the cold of your dreary snowed-in apartment, without the convenience of your second monitor or the office coffee machine, you can sing along to the “Her” theme song. And read this newsletter. Like so:
1. What tear gas can teach you about Twitter. Zeynep Tuvekci’s long dispatch from the Gezi Park protests, tech academia and the wide void in between raises some harrowing questions on surveillance, big data and democracy.
2. This Facebook post ruined a life. Justin Carter’s life, specifically. He’s 18 years old and faces 10 years in jail -- despite the weirdly incomplete nature of the digital evidence against him.
3. Roosh V, a.k.a. Internet Villain #1, is one of those guys who doesn’t improve once you get to know him.
Best way to spend a day off = fishing in furs.
Postscripts: The economics of online dating. The dumbest/most hilarious job titles in tech. Facebook to embrace your “authentic self.” America according to @interior, and Chicago according to your tweets. Is binge-watching House of Cards bad for you? Is being lonely good? Today in porn: Porn addiction is not a real thing, perceptions of porn addiction relate to religion, and religious people make more porn than you’d think.
Reminder: Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. (You’re welcome/I’m sorry.)
Until then,
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