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Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought.

Renee Holland sent her Facebook friend thousands of dollars. She became entwined in a global fraud that the social network and the United States military appear helpless to stop.

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How to Delete Facebook and Instagram From Your Life Forever

Lost faith in Facebook and Instagram after data leakages, breaches and too much noise? Here’s a guide to breaking up with the social network and its photo-sharing app for good.

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Kelly Marie Tran: I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment

The “Star Wars” actress was “brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person’s approval.” Now she’s taking a stand.

I honestly don’t know what to say, other than that I write this in tears because one of my favourite actresses just wrote a NYT piece on why representation matters and nothing has resonated with me so much. 

For so long, I hated my black hair, my dark brown eyes, and my tan skin that wasn’t a pretty beach tan it was just a weird dark shade. For so long I haven’t been able to speak Vietnamese because I was embarrassed of my culture’s tongue and so I gave it up. For so long, I didn’t like people knowing m Vietnamese name and I hated saying it loud because of the way it sounded butchered, as if people’s inability to pronounce my name was my fault and therefore I should be the embarrassed one. For so long I held a self-hatred towards myself that was subconsciously grown from the western culture I was surrounded by and the lack of representation I saw and it only led to one conclusion, “I’m just not good enough to be seen.”

I fortunately realized a while ago that it doesn’t have to that way, change can happen and we will be seen. I realized I don’t have to hate my Asian identity and honestly, I rarely hear anyone calling me my English name anymore. Don’t get me wrong, its not that I didn’t need Loan to get me to that realization, but to see that a woman of her achievements felt the exact same way as me, it makes me feel less embarrassed and alone. 

You don’t have to like Rose Tico, you don’t. It sucks that you don’t, but that’s your opinion to have. Except I hope we all can agree that Loan is an incredible human being who deserves only love and respect. So Loan, if you happen to read this, I love you and I love what your representation has done for me and I’m so thankful. 

Also,

Goddamn, what a fucking line. 

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The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie

These selfies, taken with an ultra-wide-angle lens, aren’t fussed over. Sometimes they are just “distorted and crazy.”

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The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie

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In Joshua Tree, Are 1,818 Airbnbs Too Many?

In Joshua Tree, Are 1,818 Airbnbs Too Many?

Tonya Hansel, 36, who has been living in the area since she was 4, shares this concern. For the past eight years, she has been cleaning short-term rentals. She often works seven days a week to make ends meet. Still, when it comes to seeing her 14-year-old daughter, it’s better than her previous gig as a body piercer, she said. But last month, she lost the thing that allowed her family to survive…

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Art School Looked Like a Lot of Fun In the ’90s

A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram.