{"id":4595,"date":"2016-09-09T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T19:16:49","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from the Trenches #15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply with your requirement to remove this picture. – Aftenposten<\/a><\/h3>\n

\n I follow you on Facebook, but you don\u2019t know me. I am editor-in-chief of the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten. I am writing this letter to inform you that I shall not comply with your requirement to remove a documentary photography from the Vietnam war made by Nick Ut.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Facebook is the world’s largest media outlet. And they’re ill-equipped to handle this responsibility.<\/p>\n

Facebook has responded.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhile we recognize that this photo is iconic, it\u2019s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others,\u201d a spokesman for Facebook said in response to queries from the Guardian.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What they mean is “it’s hard for a computer to understand this.” A human could. Facebook fired its human editors and a fake news story started trending<\/a> Not everything is solvable with software.<\/p>\n

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An Amish Approach to Technology<\/a><\/h3>\n

\n Upgrading to the SE would mean a change of phone plans and additional cost. You see, when the carriers dropped the subsidized payment model \u2014 where you got the phone for \u201cfree\u201d with contract \u2014 it actually allowed them to raise the price. Now, you either buy the phone outright or make monthly no-interest payments but you still pay the same monthly price for most plans as you used to when you got the phone for free. I\u2019ve priced this out and, basically, what it means for me and my family if we take the monthly no-interest payments route is we will me paying about $40 more per month if both my wife and I upgrade. Kind of a big hike.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My last upgrade was from an iPhone 6+ to a Google Nexus 5x on Project Fi<\/a>. The phone cost a quarter of a new iPhone and my monthly phone bill is less than half.<\/p>\n

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The Black Queen<\/a><\/h3>\n