Another public shooting. So it goes.
Daily Archives: February 16, 2014
“We must learn to love together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
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Posted by Stephen Robinson on February 16, 2014 in Social Commentary
America circles the drain…
Bobby Jindal warns about the “silent war on religion.
Nietzsche condemned Christianity as a religion consisting of nothing more than resentment for life and those who enjoy it. The constant victim mentality of late also seems to prove him right.
Fortunately, nothing lasts forever, including a nation founded in violence and maintained with hubris.
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Posted by Stephen Robinson on February 16, 2014 in Social Commentary
Tags: Bobby Jindal, gays, religion
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The Eyes of Facebook Are Upon You…
A piece in The Atlantic describes how Facebook proves we’re all very predictable.
As couples become couples, Facebook data scientist Carlos Diuk writes, the two people enter a period of courtship, during which timeline posts increase. After the couple makes it official, their posts on each others’ walls decrease—presumably because the happy two are spending more time together.
In the post on Facebook’s data science blog, Diuk gives hard numbers:
During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple. When the relationship starts (“day 0”), posts begin to decrease. We observe a peak of 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins, and a lowest point of 1.53 posts per day 85 days into the relationship. Presumably, couples decide to spend more time together, courtship is off, and online interactions give way to more interactions in the physical world.
I suppose if you’re keeping track of this sort of thing, it’s better to be paid for it.
I presume this will allow users the ability to filter out new couples. Although, a more useful filter would be parents who post so many photos of their kids, you’d think they work for Gerber.
Posted by Stephen Robinson on February 16, 2014 in Social Commentary
Tags: Facebook, love, The Atlantic