Matthew Inman, author of the online comic “The Oatmeal”, has teamed up with video game and card game creators Elan Lee and Shane Small to create Exploding Kittens. They’re not actually literally destroying small animals – that’d be horrible. Instead, they’re creating a card game that goes by the name Exploding Kittens. This game will use The Oatmeal illustrations and … Continue reading
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Today my baby became a little boy. The change has been coming for a while, even if I didn’t quite realize it. His movements shifting slowly. A difference in his stance, his face, his gait. I didn’t see it happen even though I saw it happen, every second of it. That’s the way it always is, isn’t it?
I nursed my baby before his nap today, and when we were done (and we’re almost done now, for good), he had changed. Asleep in my arms, it was clear. In my baby’s place was a little boy: Messy boyish hair, long limbs, lean body replacing the pudgy body I’ve grown used to.
There was no denying it.
And so I held him today for longer than usual. I held him like the little boy that he is now: head heavy on my shoulder, the weight of him substantial. I let him sleep on my shoulder for a long time, knowing that as long as I sat there holding him, feeling the heavy weight of his little boy body, he would stay mine. I could freeze time, just by holding him, just by sitting very still in this one spot. And when I put him down, as I would have to do eventually, the freezing of time would no longer be possible. And just like that, he will grow and grow and grow until he is grown.
There is no denying it.
Enjoy it while they’re little. Everyone says so. They grow so fast. And that phrase seems both so totally true and so totally false at the same time, because in the day-to-day of it nothing seems fast at all. A meal can take an eternity. A sleepless night a lifetime. And yet everyone says so:
They grow so fast.
And so I want to hold him in my arms a little longer today, because already my baby is gone. Already there is a little boy in his place. And one day not too far in the future, there will be an older boy in his place, and then a teenager, and then a young man. And so I keep holding him: heavy on my shoulder, the weight of him substantial, in his nursery where time stands still.
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Literary history was made today with the publication of the first-ever book by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary was finally published with some redactions after years of litigation to declassify it.
Slahi — an ACLU client — arrived at the prison in August 2002. His memoir is a terrifying personal story of abduction, detention, and torture in four countries. It is also an American story, and it is ongoing.
Slahi was arrested in his native Mauritania in the fall of 2001, after he turned himself in for questioning. It is clear early on that his arrest was at the behest of the United States, which suspected him of involvement in the “Millennium Plot” to bomb Los Angeles International Airport — a suspicion that turned out not to be true. He was soon sent to Jordan, where he was held and tortured for almost eight months. That was in the early days of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program, in which it outsourced the detention and torture of suspects to other countries.
After Jordan, Slahi was briefly held in U.S. military custody in Afghanistan, and then sent to Guantánamo, where he remains today. It was in Guantánamo where he underwent systematic and brutal torture, authorized by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld himself. He endured a forced abduction, sexual assault, mock execution, beatings, and psychological terror meted out by military interrogators over the course of several months.
Attempts to connect Slahi to the Milennium Plot and, later, to 9/11 have all failed, and the U.S. has never charged him with a crime. The lack of evidence against him has been corroborated by a former Guantánamo chief prosecutor, Col. Morris Davis. (See his must-read op-ed.) A federal judge ordered Slahi released in 2010. The government, however, appealed the order, and he remains detained. The ACLU is calling on the government to release him without delay.
In the book, we hear directly from Slahi how the absence of evidence of wrongdoing had no effect on his interrogators. The reader follows him as he is nevertheless forced down a sadistic path to false confession, the only way to make the torture stop. The truth became too much to bear:
Whenever I thought about the words ‘I don’t know,’ I got nauseous, because I remembered the words of _________, “All you have to say is, ‘I don’t know, I don’t remember, and we’ll fuck you!’ … And so I erased these words from my dictionary.
As astonishing as the scope of the abuse is Slahi’s enduring warmth, even for his torturers and jailers. His discusses theology and politics with his kinder captors; some teach him English, play chess with him, and bring him books. They all work for the government that has unlawfully detained him for well over a decade. But he views them with extraordinary compassion:
Your family comprises the guards and your interrogators. True, you didn’t choose this family, nor did you grow up with it, but it’s a family all the same, whether you like it or not, with all the advantages and disadvantages. I personally love my family and wouldn’t trade it for the world, but I have developed a family in jail that I also care about. Every time a good member of my present family leaves it feels as if a piece of my heart is being chopped off.
(The Guardian has published additional excerpts, along with an outstanding, partially animated documentary at GuantánamoDiary.com.)
Slahi’s ordeal is at the heart of “Guantánamo Diary,” but the book is about much more. It is a chilling story of the United States’ worst abuses in the post-9/11 era. It is an account of other countries’ complicity in these abuses. It is a terrible example of what happens to innocent people when the rule of law is suspended. In the words of Larry Siems, the book’s editor, it is “an epic for our times.”
President Barack Obama has made some progress, albeit slow, in transferring detainees out of Guantánamo. His administration can do more. In the case of Mohamedou Slahi, we’re calling on Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel not to contest his habeas case.
In April 2010, U.S. District Court Judge James Robinson wrote in his decision that Slahi “must be released from custody.” The time is now.
Cross-posted from the ACLU’s “Blog of Rights.”
There is no shortage of noise in the global startup ecosystem and it’s becoming increasingly more difficult for entrepreneurs to build velocity behind their brands and gain industry recognition. At the same time, social media proliferation and the emergence of content marketing platforms like Medium.com present shifting paradigms for newcomers looking to establish their reputation. As a result, there are more and more companies fighting for reduced dispensable spending directed by decision-makers with shorter attention spans. In this context, being able to capture the elusive brand loyalty of today’s over-stimulated consumer and business influencer has become as difficult as catching lightening in a bottle for many bootstrapped startups.
Building online brand communities that allow customers to engage, share their feedback, ask questions, and establish real touch points with the business can help startups overcome marketing fatigue. Here are some universal tenets of effective community building.
Frame it as a Learning Center — A number of great marketing companies like MailChimp and HubSpot have recognized the benefits of providing useful, add-on resources for their users to draw them into deeper brand engagement. Offering guides, lessons learned, actionable advice, strategies, research and other educational materials is a great way to attract and retain early users.
Admittedly, developing and posting original content is time-consuming for startups with limited resources. To that end, many early stage companies rely on curating industry resources. Free curation services like Scoop.It and FlipBoard make it exceptionally easy to aggregate relevant content and package it in a way that adds value to brand communities. Similarly, visual storytelling tools like Canva allow entrepreneurs to create designed, multimedia-friendly assets for free to pave the way for enhanced user experiences.
Facilitate Nested and Productive Experiences — Just like Rome wasn’t built in a day, online communities also need time to develop and reach critical mass. Most new communities need strong facilitation to jump-start the initial discussions before reaching the point of self-sustained momentum. In order to encourage early engagement, it is important to focus on thought leadership and avoid branded content – share your startup’s unique point-of-view on industry trends and issues, provide answers to common pain points, and drive broader conversations on emerging topics.
The 1-9-90 rule, stating that one percent of your population will create content, nine percent will comment or engage with it, and 90 percent will just browse, is especially relevant in the context of community building. Most successful online communities are rooted in shared experiences, a sense of purpose, and mutual learning.
Don’t Sanitize: Embrace Conflicting Points — Marketing strategists and brand experts often spend a great deal of time laying out restrictive rules and community policies to avoid the potential for conflict or controversy. In reality, the most successful online communities or groups are built on rivalries and ardent debates (think PC vs Mac). Creating policies that limit authentic expression and “smoothing” things over can be counterproductive and goes against fundamental crowdsourcing principles.
Startups that embrace the “rising tide” principle are often more effective in fostering lasting brand communities and transforming them into business assets. If community building is approached as an authentic extension of the startup’s business values (as opposed to a marketing stunt) and focused on meeting the needs of the members, online communities can be powerful drivers of sustained growth.
There is no doubt that social media can be a powerful tool with the potential to connect a business with customers and influencers across the globe. Every day I hear from business owners, “I have all my social media channels set up but how do I actually make them work better so I can achieve my business goals?”
Creating an account on a social media channel is relatively simple, however gaining followers, maintaining a presence and achieving real results can be a challenge.
The first thing I tell anyone who is getting involved in social media is, “Create a social media strategy”. Without a strategy you are flying blind and if you’re blind you will have little chance of being successful.
However, to many this all sounds well and good until they sit down to write their strategy and they have to figure out what actually goes into a strategy. To be successful, a social media strategy needs the following:
1. Plan
Before jumping online, it is important to map out your business aims and goals and how social media channels can help. There are many different motivators for promoting a business online, and each one requires a slightly different approach. Does your business want to promote products, create brand awareness, be seen as a thought leader, support sales, or engage with customers? It is important to plan ahead and decide what it is you want to achieve. This will determine how you engage with your audience.
2. Research
Determine who your target audience is, that is who you want to engage with on social media. By researching the target audience you can identify their characteristics, interests and priorities which can be used to help determine the best social media channel/s to use.
Not all social media channels are the same in how they engage users. Facebook and LinkedIn have different purposes so how you interact with your target audience and what you post should be adjusted to suit the channel.
For example, LinkedIn is designed for professional networking, which makes it more suited for thought leadership rather than promotions. Facebook however, can be used in a somewhat relaxed manner. Depending on the business you can take a more conversational approach to engagement.
3. Content strategy
For a business to succeed on social media, it is imperative that engagement is consistent. To create engagement, identify the main 3-5 topics that relate to your business and your area of expertise that will be appealing to your target audience. Use these topics to create content that you want to be recognised for. A good idea is to have a brainstorming session prior to writing content to come up with story ideas that align with your topics.
When it comes to engaging audiences, images are just as important as the story. An eye catching image can be the difference between your content being engaged with or not.
Also, it is a good idea to put your stories into a content calendar. This will allow you to plan ahead and schedule posts to appear at optimum times of day or night to reach your audience.
4. Measure success
The only way to know if your strategy is working is to review the results. Your analytics will assist in understanding how many people saw, “liked”, shared, commented and clicked on your posts. Social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter have analytic tools within the site, for others such as LinkedIn you can utilise tools such as Hootsuite, which let you know which content was popular. Analytics is vital to understanding what resonates with your audience.
5. Review and assess
Once you have obtained the analytics, it is important to review how you engage with your audience. Once you have an idea of what content works best or even the optimum time to post on certain channels, you can adjust your strategy to get even better results.
A good social media strategy is fluid. What works today may not work in a month’s time. It is essential you review how you are engaging with your audience to ensure the message is being received. Staying on top of online trends and researching the competition will also provide added insights and help to understand what is engaging to your audience.
Achieving social media success is not an easy task. There isn’t a one-size fits all approach to engaging with your audience. Careful consideration needs to be applied before creating an account on any social media channel to decide if it is worthwhile for you and your business. With the right strategy, a social media presence can help you to meet your goals.
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Catriona Pollard is the author of ‘From Unknown To Expert’, a step by step framework designed to help entrepreneurs develop effective PR and social media strategies to become recognised as thought leaders and influencers in their field. www.UnknownToExpert.com. Catriona is also the director of CP Communications, which merges traditional PR tactics with cutting-edge social media strategies that engage consumers as well as business.
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This football player is being lauded as a hero for his recent actions off the field.
On Sunday, Vince Wilfork, a defensive lineman for the New England Patriots, and his wife were driving home from his team’s victory game against the Indianapolis Colts when they came upon an overturned Jeep in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
@wilfork75 lends hand to @MassStatePolice on his way home from @Patriots #AFCChampionship win. http://t.co/ZCYfDsAor5 pic.twitter.com/x2w1U8jGkx
— Mass State Police (@MassStatePolice) January 19, 2015
The NFL player pulled over and discovered that the driver, Mary Ellen Brooks, was trapped inside the vehicle. Wilfork kept Brooks calm until law enforcement arrived, according to a press release from the Massachusetts State Police.
“That’s the first thing I told her: ‘Don’t panic. I’ll get you out of here,'” he said according to the Washington Post.
Once the cops arrived, a trooper held the passenger door open while the defensive lineman reached into the vehicle and helped to lift Brooks out.
It was a deed that the humble athlete insists is nothing out of the ordinary.
“I think anybody would do the same thing … It wasn’t a big deal; it was seeing someone that needed help and helping. I was just trying to get her to safety,” Wilfork told reporters, according to ESPN.
However the Patriots player says that the experience taught him an important lesson.
“After I drove off, my wife and I kind of talked in the car and said there are things that are a lot more precious in life than games or anything you accomplish in life,” he said, according to ESPN. “There are things out there that are more important … Even though we won the AFC championship, it was life and danger. We were just happy to help.”
According to state police, the driver was arrested at the scene and charged with operating under the influence of alcohol and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
Every time Girl Scout cookie season comes around, we can pretty much count on losing money and gaining a few inches on our waist lines. And even when the season’s over, we can still satisfy our hankering for the delicious cookies by drinking them as milk, ordering them online, and, as of Tuesday, buying them in the form of a candle.
Yankee Candle and Girl Scouts of the USA just announced the Girl Scout Cookies Limited Edition Candle Collection, otherwise known as the tastiest partnership ever AND a great way to get the cookie without the calories. The four fragrances, Thin Mint, Trefoils, Chocolate Peanut Butter and Coconut Caramel Stripes, will be sold on the Yankee Candle website, at over 500 Yankee Candle stores and some special retailers.
Here’s what you need to know::
1. Thin Mints
2. Coconut Caramel Stripes
3. Trefoils
4. Chocolate Peanut Butter
The candles will sell from $15.99 (for the tumbler size) to $27.99 for a large candle. They’ll also last WAY longer than your average cookie, as the candles can burn for up to 50 hours for the small version and 150 hours for the large. If you want cookies for your car, there’s also a Girl Scout Cookie air freshener.
But whatever you do, just make sure you absolutely, under no circumstances eat the candle — no matter how delicious they smell, they’re still made of wax.
Ever wonder about the brain’s white matter microstructure diffusivity? Don’t know what the hell we’re talking about? Well, start paying attention . . . because it may be important in determining our gender identity.
Earlier this month, the Medical University of Vienna issued a press release announcing that “the very personal gender identity of every human being is reflected and verifiable in the cross-links between brain regions,” with distinctions specifically in what’s known as brain “white matter.”
Translation: We now have some proof of a neurological distinction between gender identity and biological sex. Says the report:
“While the biological gender is usually manifested in the physical appearance, the individual gender identity is not immediately discernible and primarily established in the psyche of a human being.”
Led by Georg S. Kanz of the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, the study was composed of 23 trans men, 21 trans women, 23 cis women and 22 cis men. Researchers used a type of MRI (“diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging” is the proper term, should you ever want to sound impressive during a dinner party) to measure diffusion of particles across brain matter. Cis women had the highest diffusivity — which means (bear with me here) that particle movement in white matter brain regions was greatest for this group, followed by trans men. Trans women had lower movement than the former, with cis men having the least.
There is some early evidence, then, that science is catching up with something many of us already assume, and for good reason: Gender identity exists on a scale, rather than in narrow dichotomized groups. In essence, trans people had brain chemistry approaching the middle of the gender spectrum — inherently different from their biological sex and closer to their identified gender. For example, a trans woman has significantly different brain movement than a cis man, despite having the same biological sex. Moreover, trans men and trans women were different from each other, implying that the brain shows a wide range of gender based differences, rather than simply male or female.
While we shouldn’t run wild with this research quite yet, it’s an important finding — and one supported to some extent by past work as well.
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A 2010 study found similar results comparing just trans men with cis men and women. Yet another study found a similar pattern, but in differences in blood flow between genders.
However, researchers often contend that if hormone therapy is involved, it could influence such brain chemistry. For example, someone who has had hormone therapy may have very different results (likely more similar to their gender, rather than sex) in brain composition than someone who has not (the Vienna study did take hormones therapy into account). Furthermore, some research shows that gender identity and sexuality are interrelated. In these studies, sexual preference was an important factor in brain chemistry, even within a subgroup of, say, trans men. Specifically, there are brain-based differences between trans men who are attracted to women and trans men who prefer men.
It’s probably not a great idea to make massive jumps in what this data actually means — all it really can confirm is that there may be some brain-based evidence to support that gender indeed exists on a spectrum. But beyond the brainy jargon and particle-meshing matters, it is, if nothing else, cool to know that these issues are being studied at the forefront of neuroscience research.
The press release says, “As the brain is responsible for our thoughts, feelings and actions, several research institutions worldwide are searching for the neural representation of gender identity.”
Stay tuned ya’ll.
This story by Amanda Koehn first appeared on Ravishly.com, an alternative news+culture website for women.
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After killing in Paris, religious fanatics are demonstrating in Grozny, killing in Niger and burning french flags in Pakistan. For what? A drawing of forgiveness which has nothing to do with “gratuitous violence” but everything to do with an act of courage, a pacific reaction to a massacre.
The globalization of insanity is nothing new. It is a well-known trap: Blame French cartoonists for a pacific response to a crime when it is obvious that we should be blaming those who would kill because of a drawing which they have probably not even seen.
The right to blaspheme is part of the fight for secularism. But the lack of secularism is the reason for these religious pogroms which can flare up for the slightest pretext, as we see in Niger. Did the Pope reflect for one second before comparing mockery of religion to an insult which merits a “punch in the face”? In Pakistan it is in the name of this obscurantist “philosophy” that Christians are thrown in prison, like Asia Bibi. Simply proclaiming one’s faith is felt as an insult towards the religion of the majority and can even be prosecuted for “blasphemy.” Charlie defends the right to blaspheme, therefore defends Asia Bibi, contrary to the Pope whose declaration is an irresponsible encouragement of violence.
Yet those really responsible are the perpetrators of these acts of violence, the reactions of a tiny minority (until now…) of those referred to by certain commentators as THE Muslim world, whereas it is a highly diverse community, 99% of whom reacted peacefully. The one percent left is still too much, but less than in the late 1980s against Salman Rushdie’s book in Pakistan… And far fewer than in 2006 when the publication of the Danish cartoons served as a pretext to burn down embassies and murder over 150 people.
There is a price to pay for standing firm, but there is a meaning to that price. How many lives, how many rights would be lost if we capitulated? That is the question we must ask ourselves instead of transforming the trial into one against the “irresponsibility” of the victims.
Terrorists not integrated in society?
Talking about irresponsibility, we were left speechless by the flood of clichés about France in the USA during these terrible attacks.
Ignore Fox News, which confused priority urban areas in France with lawless Muslim areas resembling Baghdad or Kabul, or the maps of “no go areas” highlighted in red, or their pseudo expert who at least made us laugh during this terrible time.
But Fox News is not the only news channel which outrageously and indecently oversimplified. Even Obama, who couldn’t find time to come to France, verged on the indecent when he explained that terrorism is linked to poor integration of Muslims… not like in the USA of course… As if there have never been any American terrorists. May we remind him that social discrimination rarely explains, and can never justify, terrorism?
Did the son of a billionaire Osama Bin Laden really finance the 9/11 attacks and want to attack Charlie Hebdo because he was “poorly integrated”? Or was it because the Algerian GIA islamists were “poorly integrated” that they provoked a bloodbath in Algeria throughout the 1990s? Or that the Iraqi and Syrian jihadists created the Islamic State?
How can one say in the same sentence that Muslims are the first victims of terrorism, which is true, while explaining terrorism by their “lack of integration”? According to this “logic” it is because they are not sufficiently integrated in their Muslim countries that Muslims kill each other. So Muslims are racist towards Muslims and this racism would explain how radical political Islam came to be in Egypt of Pakistan?
Is it because they were born in France that the Kouachi brothers wanted to take up jihad against the Americans after Abu Ghraib and an American war against terrorism which was more destructive than effective?
The truth is that islamist terrorism, just like war, provides a meaning and adrenalin to the frustrated who dream of firing a Kalashnikov and having sex slaves. The visceral and patriarchal explanation is more valid than the social explanation, which is not to say that better social policies are not called for in order to reduce hormonal temptations.
The response to terrorism is not to apologize, but to stand firm on ideals and principles. And that is why the censorship of Charlie Hebdo by certain American and British newspapers is such a serious issue.
Anglo-Saxon censorship
The editorial staff debated, they supported Charlie, but the editors decided… Most of them censored the front page of Charlie Hebdo, just as they censored the Danish cartoons in 2006, claiming that they could offend Muslims.
Today some say that it is for security reasons. It’s a step forward. But would we be in danger if the world media had simply published the Danish cartoons or the “front page” of Charlie instead of making a taboo of them, instead of giving the impression that they justified extreme reactions?
Their refusal to inform reveals a huge cultural gap concerning secularism and freedom of expression.
America founded her democracy on freedom of religion, France was founded on freedom of conscience (freedom to believe or not to believe) and secularism. As for England, it is neither a republic nor secular, but a parliamentary monarchy with a State religion. This privileged religion makes her more careful when dealing with the sensitivities of others minority religions, in the name of a religious ban which does not even exist.
The Quran does not ban the representation of Muhammad. It bans idolatry, i.e. exactly what the fanatics do by worshiping him and killing in his name in order to prevent his image being desacralized… in Charlie Hebdo.
Even if the Quran were to ban the representation of Muhammad, the ban would not apply to non-Muslims and secular democracies. Or if we follow this logic to the extreme, we would have to ban for everyone, everywhere, all representations of the prophets of Islam. As Jesus is one of them we would have to ban Jesus on the Cross in churches and films about Jesus in cinemas. And why stop at religions? Logically, to avoid giving offense, we should also ban Hollywood films which upset the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and, to go completely global, we should import the laws of dictators and fanatics into our democracies to destroy them.
America understood what was at stake when threats were made against the movie The Interview. They stood up to North Korea. But where religion is involved they lose their bearings.
The situation wouldn’t be so serious if we had not adopted these Anglo-Saxon criteria ourselves. These criteria govern the new world media, iTunes and Facebook. They can block or censor jokes about religion or images of naked breasts, whereas incitement to hatred via these media is in constant progress.
Why Dieudonné is not Charlie ?
Meanwhile instead of defending freedom of expression and fighting against incitement to hatred, as Charlie did, media celebrities were spreading confusion. Like Jon Stewart, celebrity host of the Daily Show, who found nothing better to do than accuse the French media of “hypocrisy” for not respecting fully the freedom of speech of the anti-Semite Dieudonné, to the delight of extreme right websites and/or French pro-islamists (these two groups are not at all incompatible, especially among the supporters of Dieudonné).
This confused conception of freedom of expression is not only irresponsible and consternating, it also serves the enemies of freedom.
When Dieudonné was a comedian and made fun of all religions, including Judaism, no one dreamed of imposing fines on him, which he doesn’t pay anyway. At that time he was funny and supported. But that Dieudonné no longer exists. Today he is the leader of a political party, created with a man who defines himself as “national socialist,” whose stock in trade is anti-Jewish racism. He no longer laughs at religions. He minimizes or even denies the Shoah, makes fun of beheading and identifies with the assassin of a black policewoman and customers of the kosher store.
The difference between Charlie Hebdo and Dieudonné is that Charlie makes fun of terrorists whereas Dieudonné laughs with terrorists. It is the difference between humor and hatred, between letting democracy breathe and wanting to kill it.
It is highly disturbing that Anglo-Saxon journalists, internet users or young children do not make this distinction. This confusion is a deadly poison for democracy. We cannot stop all the bullets. But we must look for an antidote and clarify our ideas rapidly before we ourselves give in to those who threaten us, without them even having to fire a shoot.
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Caroline Fourest is a specialist on Muslim fundamentalism and the extreme right, former journalist at Charlie Hebdo, author of a special issue of Charlie Hebdo’s on Blasphemy.
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