Alex Shams on Twitter
“Turkish is a gender neutral language. There is no "he" or "she" - everything is just "o". But look what happens when Google translates to English. Thread:”
Lemi Orhan Ergin on Twitter
“Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a *HUGE* security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with empty password after clicking on login button several times. Are you aware of it @Apple?”
Hasnain says:
I'm at a loss for words. You can just login as root by providing no password
Posted on 2017-11-28T20:35:14+0000
What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market
We’re almost 10 years out from the financial crisis. Here, the pros share their thoughts on what could happen next.
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Posted on 2017-11-28T16:17:15+0000
More than 180 Women Report Sexual Assaults at Massage Envy
Across the US, people go to Massage Envy spas in search of a soothing, affordable escape. More than 180 people say what they got instead was sexual assault. But the billion-dollar company says that’s
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Posted on 2017-11-26T19:41:20+0000
The Old West’s Muslim Tamale King
How a South Asian immigrant became a Wyoming fast-food legend and received American citizenship—twice.
Hasnain says:
This was one of the most interesting things I've read in a really long time.
Covers American history, immigration, islamophobia, the struggles of an immigrant, small town life, food, and much more in just one piece.
"Over and over, we forget what being American means. The radical premise of our nation is that one people can be made from many, yet in each new generation we find reasons to limit who those “many” can be—to wall off access to America, literally or figuratively. That impulse usually finds its roots in claims about who we used to be, but nativist nostalgia is a fantasy. We have always been a pluralist nation, with a past far richer and stranger than we choose to recall. Back when the streets of Sheridan were still dirt and Zarif Khan was still young, the Muslim who made his living selling Mexican food in the Wild West would put up a tamale for stakes and race local cowboys barefoot down Main Street. History does not record who won"
Posted on 2017-11-26T06:40:02+0000
More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked
I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the…
Opinion | Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last
The crown prince has big plans to bring back a level of tolerance to his society.
This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
Goodbye, cold, flat Earth.
CEO of HQ, the Hottest App Going: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host
The trivia app has become a sensation on the app store and a darling for media prognosticators. Its CEO threatened to fire its star host for talking to us about salad.
Sex matters in experiments on party drug — in mice
Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers.
Hasnain says:
"Suspecting that scent was involved, the researchers put the animals inside a fume hood so that the mice couldn’t smell who was injecting them. This completely eliminated the effect of the ketamine, regardless of the experimenter’s sex. When Georgiou and her colleagues placed a t-shirt worn by a man next to the mice in the fume hood, mice injected with ketamine swam for longer than those injected with a placebo. This suggested that male odour was necessary for the drug to work."
Posted on 2017-11-22T06:03:39+0000