Anyone coming here can tell from the commentary I'm getting tired of it....
"Yik Yak app raises bullying concerns" by Bella English | Globe Staff May 14, 2014
Jamie Ciocon recently downloaded Yik Yak, a popular smartphone app that lets users post comments anonymously. A senior at Boston College, Ciocon wanted to keep up with gossip and what was happening on campus, but she was so offended by the “repulsive” posts, she deleted the app four days later.
Ciocon, whose parents are from the Philippines, particularly resented the Asian slurs she read on Yik Yak....
Are you sure they didn't come from Newton?
While on the subject of supremacism, I saw clips of a less-then-Sterling performance and was stunned.
Atlanta-based Yik Yak first caught on at Southern college campuses but has recently spread to the Northeast. It is one of a flurry of hot apps, like Secret and Whisper, that allow users to speak their minds without revealing their identities, and, sometimes, to insult, shame, and threaten.
They don't want “bullying, anonymous comments” -- unless they are a "senior government official who requested anonymity" being quoted in some agenda-pushing, war-promoting piece, of course.
Beyond that, I'm not bullying anyone. This is a one-way street of information-sharing and analysis, and you can leave anytime.
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Yik Yak creators Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll, who are 23, decided to block schools by using GPS coordinates and other measures because they said that their app, created for college students, isn’t appropriate for younger teens.
While “geo-fencing” schools can curtail Yik Yak traffic during the school day, students can still use it off campus. The app is location-aware, accessible to users only within a 1.5 mile radius from their physical location. Those who have downloaded Yik Yak can, from home or elsewhere, post and see feeds within a mile and a half.
It’s not just slurs or rude comments that are causing controversy. On March 4, a Marblehead High School student used Yik Yak to send a bomb threat to the school. Marblehead police worked with Yik Yak to identify the sender, who is a juvenile. He was charged with a bomb threat and disruption of a school assembly. A second threat was received the same day via Yik Yak and remains under investigation, according to Police Chief Robert Picariello....
(At this point blog editor is not listening. Either agent provocateurs and government agents or fictions; that is simply the way one must approach what one reads in the agenda-pu$hing pre$$ these days)
“I think the appeal is that you can say anything anonymously so there’s no responsibility for your words,” said Katie Greer, whose Vermont consulting company provides technology safety training for schools, law enforcement, and others.
Unless they are "senior government officials who requested anonymity."
Anonymity is okay if you are a war criminal or enabler.
Though its founders describe Yik Yak as a virtual bulletin board, it is used mainly as a gossip site. The app earned wide media attention after a student at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., wrote an essay for New York magazine April 28 about the havoc wreaked by Yik Yak posts....
What, they have 9/11 truthers and others liver there?
When the school principal learned of the posts, he addressed the school via loudspeaker, urging them not to look at the site. The reply: off-color posts about him.
Yeah, the "don't do it" thing always backfires.
At Milton High, principal James Jette said he’d never heard of Yik Yak until a recent presentation by Katie Greer and added that he hasn’t had one complaint about the app. He was surprised when a reporter read him some Yik Yak posts about his students.
Yeah, the con$ulting isn't $elf-$erving in any way. Makes you wonder who really yak-yaked the threats.
“Kids are digital natives,” Jette said. “You always try to be one step ahead of them, but it can be hard.”
Buffington and Droll, who were fraternity brothers at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., say they created the app to give college students a platform.
“We saw on our college campus that only a few people really had a voice,” said Droll. “They’re the people with big Twitter accounts, maybe student athletes, who had thousands of followers. My thought was why can’t everyone have this power?”
The men say they’ve added “upvotes” and “downvotes” to posts, to gauge approval and disapproval of readers. When the downvotes overwhelm the upvotes, the post is automatically removed.
Hmmm.
“We rely on our communities to police themselves,” said Buffington. At Boston College, one of the top 10 largest Yik Yak user groups in the country, “inappropriate stuff doesn’t last too long,” he added.
:-(
You don't find racism or any other -ism here; however, I've left it all up anyway.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, and even the whoreporate pre$$ should be allowed to buck lies. It's up to the people to call 'em out and do their own evaluation on the trustworthiness of the ma$$ media. I think the verdict has been rendered: they failed.
But that isn’t exactly true. There are plenty of racist, sexist, and homophobic posts that stay up, so many that FACES, a BC student group dedicated to talking about issues of racism, power, and privilege on campus, recently posted a Facebook video about Yik Yak. In it, minority students read racist posts, women read sexist posts, and gay students read homophobic posts. Their facial expressions reveal their opinions of the words they are reading....
I'm going to stop reading now.
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UPDATE: Attempts to stay anonymous on the web will only put the NSA on your trail
We $ee the agenda at work; they want us all to Face up so we can be chronicled, catalogued, and watched as well as be exposed rather than be part of the (virtual) crowd of free speech.
Other things I no longer want to talk about:
"Record high temperatures were likely through midweek from Southern California north to the regions around Monterey and San Francisco bays, the National Weather Service said, wildfire roaring through as a high-pressure system brought unseasonable heat and gusty winds to the parched state....
Fires tend to make things hotter, yeah. And with the California drought, that won't help.
Spring is the prime season for climbing Mount Hood because the weather is not so warm that the ice melts and rocks fall more readily. The peak is notorious for loose rocks in warm weather....
The dredging of Boston Harbor got a critical boost Tuesday when funding for the $310 million project was included in the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, legislation that authorizes water projects throughout the country."
Looks like the potholes are being fixed.
"April retail sales soft, rising 0.1%" Associated Press May 14, 2014
WASHINGTON — US retail sales growth slowed in April, with consumers shopping less online and cutting back on purchases of furniture and electronics.
The Commerce Department said Tuesday that seasonally adjusted retail sales rose just 0.1 percent last month, after surging 1.5 percent in March following a harsh winter that had curtailed shopping.
Several economists said the April figures might have been depressed because of seasonal adjustments connected to a later-than-usual Easter. Still, the modest sales suggest that consumers may remain cautious during the still-slow economic recovery. Higher sales would help drive faster growth because consumers account for about 70 percent of the economy.
Auto sales increased 0.6 percent in April, and purchases at clothing stores were up 1.2 percent. But most of those gains were offset by declines in spending at restaurants, online retailers, and furniture and electronics stores. Excluding autos and gasoline, retail sales fell 0.1 percent last month.
Wages have not budged much during the recovery, and growth has struggled to eclipse 3 percent, the average annual gain after World War II.
The Commerce Department previously reported that the economy grew just 0.1 percent in the January-March quarter. That figure could slip into negative territory as the government revises it, according to several economists.
Related: Jobs Report a Joke
It's not funny anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the brutal winter depressed the economy during the first quarter, and economic indicators since then have pointed to stronger growth.
And, we are told, the put-them-in-the-black holiday $eason of last year's fourth quarter!
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Amazing how they blame the bad economy on bad weather, then turn around and holler global warming. Just forget about the snowstorm that dumped 3 feet of snow and focus on the false cries of drought instead (that upstream snowstorm should help when it soon melts).
Yeah, the hell with this:
"Alan Dershowitz, an internationally known scholar and high-profile defense and civil liberties lawyer who retired from Harvard Law School in December, said he has been following the black mass controversy.
Dershowitz had a 50-year run on Harvard’s faculty and continues to provide consultation on legal cases from his office in New York.
While Harvard administrators, the archdiocese, and others called for the black mass to be canceled, no coercive pressure appears to have been used, Dershowitz said. The student club said it decided on its own to relocate and eventually call off the event.
“I’m glad it was canceled, and I’m glad Harvard didn’t ban it outright,” Dershowitz said. “The free speech of the marketplace prevailed.”
I didn't know FREE SPEECH was a COMMODITY, did you?
And I was told they did the mass at another location, but that's all water under the bridj (by George?). Just going to keep quiet about the bolger in the pants.
I guess I will just leave you with a message in a bottle:
"New letters reveal more intimate side of Jackie Kennedy" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff May 13, 2014
Jacqueline Kennedy was questioning her faith. She was no longer certain there was a God and, if there was, why he would steal away her young husband.
“I am so bitter against God,” she wrote a few months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“I think God must have taken Jack to show the world how lost we would be without him,” she wrote “But that is a strange way of thinking to me – and god will have a bit of explaining to do to me if I ever see him.”
The letter, one of several shared with the Globe in the last several weeks, is one in a trove of secret correspondence that the former first lady had over nearly 15 years with Father Joseph Leonard, an Irish priest. Kennedy, who was elegantly mysterious for so long, divulges in great detail some of her most intimate feelings. Over the course of more than 30 letters, she questions the faithfulness of her husband, mourns the death of her son, and shares excitement about her first job as a journalist at Washington Times-Herald....
She also had a description of her mother-in-law, Rose Kennedy.
“I don’t think Jack’s mother is too bright – and she would rather say a rosary than read a book,” she wrote....
Mothers-in-law.
Her early letters are conversational and chatty --even flirtatious -- as she divulges details....
Her later letters are more somber, dealing with questions she has of her faith and the loss of life....
Web was a bit different than print. Hmmm. She's angry at God, I'm angry at the Globe for the endless games of censorship in whatever form.
The letters, which for decades have sat in a drawer at All Hallows College in Dublin, are now coming to light after being discovered, sold, and prepared for an auction....
You can stay for the bidding.
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Her husband was about as close to a saint as you get.
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