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Facebook makes my mother miserable. She knows it, and she’s disgusted with herself for nevertheless continuing to spend time scrolling through its endless updates. But I wish she knew that this seemingly self-sabotaging behavior is not her fault — it’s Facebook’s.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica and Internet Research Agency revelations, I realized that I didn’t actually view Facebook’s misdeeds or the evolution of its platform as that shocking or nefarious. Instead, they felt to me as inevitable and bumbling mistakes made by naive and greedy business people; mining all of our data for profit, and underestimating what bad actors could do with that information, was more or less what I expected from them. Read more…

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Despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews, The Last Jedi was still a pretty divisive film.

The portrayal of Luke Skywalker’s character, in particular, seems to have drummed fans into a kind of rage-fuelled frenzy of debate. Was it true to Luke’s character to act the way he did? Was his role badly written?

Even Mark Hamill himself waded in.

The point is, people have pretty strong opinions when it comes to Star Wars.

And Joseph Gordon-Levitt is no exception.

I finally saw #TheLastJedi (okay involuntary BB-8 emoji). Then got sucked down a rabbit hole reading people’s starkly differing opinions about it. Couldn’t help it, had to wade in. So I wrote a thing here… https://t.co/ct3YOgJfgL

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) January 16, 2018 Read more…

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