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Pinterest and other tech companies fight back against the anti-vaccination movement

March 6, 2019 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

Despite being discredited by every reputable scientific and medical source, the anti-vaccination movement’s unfortunately still gained steam in recent years. This is in spite of

Study: Banning hate speech from Reddit actually worked

September 25, 2017 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

Photo by Eva Blue (Flickr / CC BY) Recently, Reddit’s tried to clean up the self-declared “front page of the Internet,” by banning some high-profile

My social network usage (Spring 2017)

March 17, 2017 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

I last looked at my social media usage state last fall, when I wrote about how I promote my blog using social media. However, I

Reddit finally shows some backbone, bans some racist subreddits

August 6, 2015 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

Recent events with Reddit have made much of how vocally bigoted some of its subreddits are, and how half-heartedly they’ve handled such, often behind the

Reddit plans to deal with its racist content by… sticking a curtain in front of it?

July 16, 2015 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet,” has been under a lot of fire in recent months. Staff turmoil, an interim CEO leaving, and

A look at my social network usage (Summer 2014)

August 2, 2014 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

As everyone knows, social media networks dominate online life for most Internet users these days, with Facebook and Twitter the dominant ones. I thought I’d

10 pieces of tech I no longer use (and what’s replaced them)

June 2, 2013 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

For fun, here’s a list of ten pieces of technology that I once used, but are now obsolete for my purposes. I’ll also list why

Digg digs its own grave, sold off for parts

July 13, 2012 Anthony Diverse Tech Geek

Today comes news that once-influential social network Digg is basically being sold off in parts to several entities: the Washington Post (its staff), professional social