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Get Off Your Computer and Come to Our Social Media Day Party on June 29
For the past four years, Mashable has been celebrating the way social media has changed our lives and our industry with Social Media Day. This year, VICE is partnering up to throw the biggest Social Media Day party yet. It will be a day-long festival showcasing social media's impact on our world with performances, installations, and panels. Full story
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How Many Trees Does It Take to Fill a Mexican Art Space With Printed Websites?
Kenneth Goldsmith, the Museum of Modern Art's poet laureate, wants to print out the entire internet and put it on display in Mexico City's LABOR space. How many trees will have to die for this art? By my count, 56,000. Full story
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CISPA's Immunity Provision Would Allow Corporate Hacking
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the House last Thursday on a 288–127 vote. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to face stiff resistance. President Obama is on record as opposing CISPA, threatening to veto the bill if it doesn't… Full story
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Reddit Wants the Boston Bomber's Blood
Only one day after the Boston bombings, a subreddit was formed to collate and analyze photos of the crime scene, expanding to more than 3,000 users in less than half a day. We spoke to Rather_Confused, one of the subreddit's mods, to get a feel for this new breed of internet warr… Full story
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Is the Chinese Government Spying on us Through the Internet?
Huawei is the largest telecom equipment maker in the world, able to roll out broadband quicker and cheaper than anyone else. However, sometimes things are cheap because there's something a bit off about them. Now the Coalition wants to let them bid on constructing Australia's NBN… Full story
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I'm Starting a Website to End Revenge Porn
Because legislators around the country haven't caught up with the changing technology of the internet, pretty much every scorned ex who wants to degrade their ex-partner by posting intimate photos of them online is totally free to do so without any worry of legal ramifications. Full story
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Why Did a Student in Montreal Get Arrested for an Instagram Post?
A 20-year-old in Montreal was arrested Wednesday for posting a photo taken of a graffiti wheat-paste illustration that showed Montreal's police commander with a bloody bullet hole in his forehead. Full story
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Are Cat Spies Sent by Aliens?
Recent polling shows Americans love a good conspiracy theory. They also love cats. This was bound to happen. Full story
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I Tattooed Porn Websites on My Face So My Kids Wouldn't Starve
In 1990, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, dreaming of a future in which people everywhere could bask in the glory of an interconnected global world. Two decades later, a man had the URLs of multiple porn websites tattooed on his face. It seems as if the internet h… Full story
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Farewell to the 'Phoenix': Working at Boston’s Defunct Alt-Weekly
The easiest way to make something a legend is to kill it. When the 'Phoenix' shut down two weeks ago, after 48 years as an institution in the Boston political and artistic landscape, the internet surged with remembrances from the writers who had passed through its doors—from Char… Full story
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