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[asiteforsoirees]

The Power of Names

Studies suggest the existence of a sort of linguistic Heisenberg principle: as soon as you label something, you change how it’s perceived.

[mauriciolema]

How to Tell Someone That She Is Dying

Elizabeth’s breast cancer had already spread to her bones and was now invading lymph nodes in her right armpit, causing painful swelling that kept her up…

[casmong]

Lavabit, an e-mail service prized for its security, went dark.

Post Privacy Age

It is interesting when you look closely at a statement made by the authorities and the NSA with regards to Edward Snowden. Mr Snowden has made it very public that he would like to return to the US and the authorities say that he can return and that they can only promise to essentially not execute him on sight at the airport. Even more important though is the fact that the authorities say they would like to interrogate Mr Snowden to find out exactly how much he knows. Anyone following this will be amazed by that statement because it is implying that with all the details that was disclosed by Mr Snowden, there may be a whole lot more capabilities that Mr Snowden may not be privy to or may not have revealed!

I read a few years ago that there are surveillance capabilities available that enable surveillance to continue beyond a hard disc format, KillDisk or a Department of Defence Wipe delete. This is because the [virus] infects the bios chip of the hard disk itself. This is an entirely new type of capability that the public have become aware of, and who knows what else is out there. Many vendors were 'asked' to put back doors in their hardware and/or software. Those who refused to comply were forced to close down while those who complied were allowed to continue to do business. It is interesting how the only way the US Attorney General could think of in order to actually have a private conversation with Bill Clinton was to meet at an airport, standing on the tarmac next to the airplane, while jet engines were running. That is very telling indeed. I can see paper cash becoming the next target in the ongoing war against people having any sort of privacy of anonymity. 

[ticstime-blog]

💶La ley de fraude y abuso de computadoras es la ley criminal más escandalosa de la que nunca has oído hablar …📊🗄🗞🗃🗳🗓📑

[dontbepartoftheproblem]

Lean Out: The Dangers for Women Who Negotiate - The New Yorker

Research suggests that women who stand up for themselves in negotiations may not get what they want. The tactic may even backfire.

Don’t blame women for not acting more like men.  Remember they often get punished if they do.  

[jlmaloney1-blog]

The unplugging movement, which encourages us to disconnect from technology, is unsustainable and misguided.

Some reasons why it makes sense to occasionally unplug from the Internet:

To escape the everyday

To live more productively

To be more authentic 

Some reasons why it does not make sense to occasionally unplug from the Internet:

To socialize

To stay connected

To relax

[shelbypsychiatricdrugs-blog]

The Psychiatric Drug Crisis - The New Yorker

Psychiatric drugs have become yet another commodity that we have learned to live with or even enjoy, like S.U.V.s or Cheetos. Yet the industry is in …

“Despite the BRAIN initiative recently announced by the Obama Administration, and the N.I.M.H.’s renewed efforts to stimulate research on the neurocircuitry of mental disorder, there is nothing on the horizon with which to replace the old story. Without a new explanatory framework, drug-company scientists don’t even know where to begin, so it makes no sense for the industry to stay in the psychiatric-drug business. And if loyalists like Hyman and Friedman continue to say out loud what they have been saying to each other for many years—that, as Friedman told Times readers, “just because an S.S.R.I. antidepressant increases serotonin in the brain and improves mood, that does not mean that serotonin deficiency is the cause of the disease”—then consumers might also lose faith in the myth of the chemical imbalance.”

There is a lot of articles about how harmful psychiatric drugs are, there seems to be quite few defending the use of prescription drugs. 

[thingsdarrenfindsinteresting]

I Don’t Want to Be Right - The New Yorker

To change false beliefs, appealing to a person’s sense of self may be more important than the facts.