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"We suspect there has been an unreported purge of voters in Pennsylvania."
Start f*cking drinking now, folks.
This, plus the electronic voting machine error… it’s gonna be a long night.
Reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
Everything you need to know about Election Day
Bookmark this for tomorrow, it’ll come in handy:
Don’t forget to go out and vote today!
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New York appeals court strikes down Defense of Marriage Act
New York (CNN) — A federal appeals court in New York became the nation’s second to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, finding that the Clinton-era law’s denial of federal benefits to married same-sex couples is unconstitutional.
Meanwhile in New York…
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So what I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.
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Missouri Senate candidate: “Legitmiate” rape victims can’t get pregnant
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Missouri Rep. Todd Akin said in a Sunday interview. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin, who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, then claimed that even if these biological mechanisms don’t work, the perpetrator, not the child, should be punished. Kind of tough to defend that.
We don’t even. Akin, you may remember, was a co-sponsor of the House GOP’s plan to redefine rape.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Donate to Senator Claire McCaskill’s campaign here. Keep Rep. Todd Akin far-the-fuck away from Missouri’s senate.
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NBC cut a moving five-minute memorial tribute out of its US telecast of the Olympic ceremonies.
Reportedly to show a Ryan Seacrest studio interview with swimmer Michael Phelps.
A new low in television, sports, and humanity.
Watch what NBC/Comcast didn’t feel like showing you here.
(Producer Matthew points out that Deadspin’s post, linked above, may have misidentified the aim of the memorial. But not its power, or its omission from the NBC telecast. More on the moving memorial hymn’s singer here.)
I tuned into the online livestream earlier today just in time to catch the end of this. I was confused when I didn’t see it on NBC, but glad there’s an explanation. I thought I was just misremembering something I saw a few hours ago! (PS. That Ryan Seacrest/Michael Phelps interview they aired was pretty fucking lame.)
Reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
As per usual, fuck the police.
Reblogged from The Coquette
North Korea on Friday launched its controversial rocket carrying a weather satellite, South Korea’s Defense Ministry and U.S. officials said.
A spokesman for the Defense Ministry in Seoul told reporters at a briefing that the launch at taken place at 0739 local time (2239 GMT) and that South Korea and the United States were checking whether it had been a success.
This is important.
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Tumblr to Continue Allowing Browser Extensions
Many Tumblr users and supporters of extensions like Missing e and XKit contacted Tumblr regarding their upcoming changes to their Terms of Service. Recently, a number of them have received a response from Tumblr similar to the one you’ll find below.
They have clarified their changes in a positive way. Although the new terms do give Tumblr a stronger position from which to come down on extension developers and users, they have made very clear statements indicating they will continue to allow Tumblr browser extensions!
Thanks so much for your support, folks! Continue using Tumblr browser extensions to your heart’s content!
Here’s the full text of the reply Tumblr has been sending to concerned extension users:
Thank you very much for taking the time to write us. Your feedback really does a tremendous amount to help us develop better policies for our community.
To answer your concern: We aren’t introducing any new policies regarding browser plug-ins.
Here’s some further clarification:
(1) The relevant language being updated appears in the draft Terms of Service under “Limitations on Automated Use”:
You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services: … (c) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by Tumblr… (d) scrape the Services, and particularly scrape Content (as defined below) from the Services, without Tumblr’s express prior written consent
This is not a new restriction. You’ll find much harsher language in our current Terms of Service:
Subscriber shall abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Services. … Other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement, Subscriber may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, upload, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as provided in this Section), create derivative works based on, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Content, software, materials, or Services in whole or in part.
We think the updates go a long way towards making the terms fairer and easier to understand.
(2) Similar language is standard for just about any web product out there. You’ll find similar clauses in the legal terms for using Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Kickstarter, to name a few.
The language is important for websites because it ensures, legally, that things like phishing attacks, DoS attacks, and automated crawling/repurposing of content (read: splogs) aren’t allowed. The restrictions shouldn’t reach applications that are built on top of those services in ways that positively enhance those platforms or communities.
(3) Most importantly: We obviously don’t want to take any punitive action on your account unless you’re doing something really bad. Anyone saying that “your blog is going to be deleted for X” or “reblog this or your account will be suspended” is almost certainly a troll. Suspensions usually happen because of things like spam and impersonation, as discussed more in our new Community Guidelines. We try to apply all of these policies with a tremendous amount of care and fairness.
(4) If you’ve used a browser plug-in with Tumblr before, you’ve probably seen how we’re already enforcing this policy. Users are asked to acknowledge the added risks associated with unsupported plug-ins – namely around privacy and reliability – and to accept the extra provision that our Support team will be unable to assist with any issues that arise. That’s it, and you’re back to blogging!
(5) This also doesn’t mean anything new for developers. We already block plug-ins that we catch doing anything egregious – that is usually stealing passwords or injecting ads.
“Page scraping”, which is a way of circumventing our developer tools to do things Tumblr doesn’t support, is always a grey area. We have to talk to developers occasionally when they step over the line by, for example, mishandling user data (re: privacy or integrity), introducing behavior that poisons our community (e.g., mass-messaging and unfollow notifications), or interfering with paid or promotional features.
The bigger consideration is that, as long as a developer is hacking Tumblr rather than using our developer tools, there’s no guarantee that those hacks will keep working properly.
While we’ve always been within our rights to deny access to anyone making unsupported modifications to Tumblr, we do our best to err on the side of openness. The more enthusiastic developers and happy users, the better.
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TL;DR: No plans to suspend accounts for using plug-ins, and our current policies on plug-ins aren’t changing.
We hope this was helpful. Please let us know if you have any more thoughts or questions!
This has been a special announcement from the Savior of Tumblr, Jeremy Cutler.
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