Weekend Random Stuff…

Firefox 58
Not officially out but you can download it:
Firefox 32-bit
Firefox 64-bit
All downloads (58 not available as of this post)
Release Notes (when available)

Social Media Sucks
Apple CEO Tim Cook when speaking about his nephew, “There are some things that I won’t allow; I don’t want them on a social network”

iGen
“the clearer it became that theirs is a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, members of this generation are growing up with smartphones, have an Instagram account before they start high school, and do not remember a time before the internet…It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones…But only about 56 percent of high-school seniors in 2015 went out on dates; for Boomers and Gen Xers, the number was about 85 percent…But iGen teens aren’t working (or managing their own money) as much. In the late 1970s, 77 percent of high-school seniors worked for pay during the school year; by the mid-2010s, only 55 percent did…when she does spend time with her friends in person, they are often looking at their device instead of at her. “I’m trying to talk to them about something, and they don’t actually look at my face,” she said. “They’re looking at their phone, or they’re looking at their Apple Watch.” “What does that feel like, when you’re trying to talk to somebody face-to-face and they’re not looking at you?,” I asked. “It kind of hurts,” she said. “It hurts. I know my parents’ generation didn’t do that. I could be talking about something super important to me, and they wouldn’t even be listening.”

GET OFF OF FACEBOOK
Facebook is asking users to rank the trustworthiness of news sources.
This is not high school. News isn’t a popularity contest. It is factually correct or it isn’t. It is unbiased or it isn’t. Allowing the masses to rank news only allows people to down-vote sources of news they don’t like or that don’t promote their own personal biases.
Then again, if you get your news from social media you are part of the problem.

*Sigh*
“What people don’t know about or see about Facebook is that polarization is built in to the business model,” Harris told NBC News. “Polarization is profitable.”