• Instagram has banned suicide.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  If you live-stream your death on Instagram, your post might be taken down and your account suspended without further notice.  So don't do that.
  
  
• Due to weather and California being a fading third-world shithole, oreilly.com is offline.  (oreilly.com)
  
  
• Delays in rolling out GMO "golden" rice has cost millions of lives.  (The Guardian)
  
  That said, it is The Guardian, so the story is probably wrong in at least three major ways.
  
  
• Surprisingly Turing complete.
  
  The list includes the usual suspects like CSS, SVG, OpenType, and printf, but also Pokemon Yellow and Super Mario World.  The former can be programmed to do anything at all by a combination of movements and item purchases, the latter by getting Yoshi to eat something he shouldn't.
  
  
• Sarah Lacy has sold Pando and quit journalism after suddenly realising (after covering it for 20 years) that Silicon Valley is a shithole.  (Pando)

Social Media News

• The Washington Post bememed itself over the weekend.  (archive.org)
  
  
  
  
  They did change the headline, but not the obituary itself, which is if anything even worse, and not before hundreds of people had taken screenshots.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, October 29 2019 08:29 AM (PiXy!)

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