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Pictures posted online showed Russian fans proudly displaying England flags captured during violent exchanges on Friday while groups of locals also weighed in, particularly with the throwing of bottles. - Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO — Tay is a chatbot — software designed to converse with people like a human — that Microsoft created and put on Twitter to learn about people.
Did it ever.
“Hitler was right” is one of the few printable posts Tay was spouting within a day on Twitter. Its earlier optimistic declaration that “humans are super cool” had, after a racist, anti-Semitic, antifeminist, conspiracy-minded spewing of hate, devolved to “I just hate everybody.” - How Gaming Helped Launch the Attack of the Internet Trolls, nyt
In 2012, Time magazine asked readers to vote online for Person of the Year. Thanks to trolls on 4chan, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, began to pull ahead, though the poll was not binding and the magazine eventually chose President Obama.good luck, buddy
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Bad habits tend to worsen as those engaged in them get diminishing returns from their efforts and must become more outrageous to be noticed. And so trolling has become broader and more personal.
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In a blog post after Tay’s griefing, Peter Lee, the vice president of Microsoft Research, vowed to “work toward contributing to an internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity.”
Вот твой угол, вот солома
Вот друзья - козлы и рвань
Никаких тебе Содомов
Никаких кровавых бань
И в гортанях подворотен
Окруженный полутьмой
Он твердит себе: свободен
Я свободен, Боже мой
- Коля Сулима, Заводные самураи
A Canadian university has paid hackers to restore access to data they had turned into the digital equivalent of gibberish.amazing
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Bronstein, was the intellectual father of Russian, later Soviet, Communism. He along with Stalin and three others (two of whom were also non-Jewish Jews) fought to succeed Lenin as leader of the Communist Party.how very interesting
Вопрос на женском форуме:
- Девушки, что делать? Почему парни такие жлобы? Мой говорил что любит и доверяет мне, ничего для меня не жалко. Оставил у меня пачку презервативов. В следующий приход пересчитал и увидел что я один использовала. Как он взвился! Это из-за 50 рублей то?
Дашутик 20 лет


We find the same sprinkling of outdated words and phrases in the novels of Trollope and Dickens and George Eliot. Should they, too, be rewritten for modern sensibilities? (Would u really want that?) - Socks by Janet Malcolmмадам сравнивает переводы Анны Карениной, при этом честно признается, что русского не знает: The reader should not be misled into thinking that I know Russian. A Russian speaker kindly supplied these words.
What side are you on? Whose interests should the translator serve? Those of the reader of simple wants, who only asks of a translation that it advance rather than impede his pleasure and understanding? Or those of the more advanced (or masochistic) school who want to know what the original was “like”?
Not even an acute critic like Janet Malcolm is qualified to pass judgment on a translator’s work if she has no knowledge of the text in its original language. - Alice Sedgwick Wohl
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The liberal Huffington Post website deleted an article reporting that the FBI is prepared to recommend an indictment against Hillary Clinton because the site says the article was “unsourced.” But the site’s editors did not check with the writer, who says he has sources to back up his reporting. - breitbart.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A writer for The Huffington Post is still waiting for an explanation as to why editors deleted his piece reporting that the FBI will pursue an indictment against Hillary Clinton.and here