bemusedlybespectacled:

“we should stop trying to get kids to go to college and encourage them to go to trade school instead” is one of those things that sounds perfectly reasonable and isn’t inherently wrong or bad but in practice seems like a good way of funneling poor and/or minority students into being a dedicated underclass of service workers 

especially when it’s presented as an alternative to making higher education more financially accessible

like ideally everyone would be allowed to pursue whatever careers they want without stigma or financial barriers but when I get people like Trump pushing vocational schools at the expense of community colleges I am, shall we say,,, suspicious

allofmyloveisforloki:

tariqah:

teuthidactyl:

tariqah:

Why is everyone changing their privacy policy

This is popping up because a European Union set of standards/laws/directive, called General Data Protection Regulation

(GDPR) is going into effect, and is enforceable as of Friday, May 25th, 2018.  The policy basically mandates that internet companies don’t get to collect what’s called
personally identifiable information (IP and MAC addresses, physical addresses, the content of your posts, and so on) without the user’s consent to do so, and that the user can revoke consent at any time. As a result, basically every company on the internet, all of whom rely on collecting and selling this information, are updating their terms of services, particularly if they are based in Europe, or understand you to be European. 

A big challenge for a lot of these companies is a provision called “Right of Erasure” which means if you revoke consent to
have your data processed by a company, they have to delete that data.  
Basically everyone in the industry hates it, but it’s a big win for
consumers, if you’re in the EU, of course.

If you’re outside of the EU, this stuff doesn’t apply to you, but in many cases it’s easier for a firm to change its policies to be GDPR compliant everywhere, or alternatively let everyone know that they have to consent to whatever terms the firm demands if they are to continue using the product.

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I hope you don’t mind me putting your tags on here @thefloatingstone but I think they are important.

groundergirlfriends:

beetlegarden:

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains – we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

2018 mood