The Donotpay bot will help you sue Equifax in small claims court

mostlysignssomeportents:

Joshua Browder (previously) is the delightful teen computer science student who created a the Donotpay to fight parking tickets that saved millions for its users, then repurposed it to help homeless people apply for benefits.

Now, Donotpay will help you sue Equifax in small claims court, in any of the 50 US states. The bot fills in all the necessary forms, but you still have to serve them on Equifax and show up in court. Depending on which state you live in, you can sue Equifax for between $2,500 (Rhode Island, Kentucky) and $25,000 (Tennessee).

Browder hopes that his bot will bankrupt Equifax, the credit reporting agency that dumped dox on 143 million Americans, tried to trick its victims into subscribing to a lifetime of for-pay credit monitoring, lobbied to take away your right to sue the company (and tried to trick you into giving up the right in order to check whether you were breached), while its execs merrily liquidated their stock in the firm.

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/12/ddos-equifax.html

Judge sends Martin Skreli to jail for Facebook post offering bounty for Hillary Clinton’s hair

zamaron:

This timeline is so wild

Matsumoto said she didn’t find anything funny about either Shkreli’s posts about Clinton, or his online boasts during his trial in July that he would get to “f—” a female journalist with whom he has feuded since January, as well as female political pundit, once his trial ended…

Asked if he had ever seen a defendant in a criminal case who had been convicted made such a public spectacle of himself as Shkreli has done since early August, Lefcourt said, “No.”

“He is just incapable of controlling himself,” Lefcourt said.

Judge sends Martin Skreli to jail for Facebook post offering bounty for Hillary Clinton’s hair

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bimuslimhoe:

Leola One Feather is a Lakota grandmother and activist. She has 13 different grandchildren on the rez she has to take care of. Their ages range from 3-17. Please help out this family in need by buying school supplies from their wishlist. Its all going directly to them!

Ok so update on Leola and her family. Almost everything has arrived and they are so so grateful to everyone who donated and want to thank each and every one of you personally!!!!!! 😁💜💙💚💛🌸🌺💐 And right on time because school is starting tomorrow!

There are basically only the laptops left on Leola’s wishlist. Leolas has two 17 year old half Lakota half Black granddaughters who are both going to college next year. There are used versions of the laptops we are trying to get them. The total comes out to $341.22. If everyone gave only $1 we could quickly raise that money!!!

The wishlist if someone just wants to buy them: http://a.co/1Fmf0w0

Leolas paypal: https://www.paypal.me/leolaonefeather

Ok so the second laptop’s order was cancelled. I had never realized it and finally just talked to Leola to check in on them. We are currently $89.57 away from getting the second one used on Amazon. There are other things on the list as well if you want to help that way.

Please donate to Leola’s paypal so we can quickly get the laptop to her other granddaughter or buy other things from the list!!! I also set up an ebay account for her to sell her beaded jewelry on if anyone’s interested.

http://www.ebay.com/usr/kiksuyaleola

$83.07 away!!! And there are things on her list you can help her out with!!!

$73.07 away now! Thanks yall 😊💖

$53.07 away!!!! Come on if 6 people give 10 bucks we there!!!! Or 3 people give 20!!!! Please boost and help this young lady prepare for college next year!!!!

And help the entire family by buying the things on the list. Leola makes clothes for everybody so that’s why there’s sewing things on it.

hobbitsaarebas:

swingandswirl:

hollahollagettchalla:

heckyeahwinterpanther:

hollahollagettchalla:

I feel like there needs to be some kind of post for MCU fans on How To Write About Africa because I feel like there’s a lot of people out there who want to write about Wakanda and T’Challa but are worried about being problematic and that makes me sad because there’s SO MUCH GREAT meta to be had about T’Challa and Wakanda but at the same time there’s a lot of legitimate concerns about perpetuating racist stereotypes and yeah.

T’Challa and Wakanda could be such a great way to introduce people to amazing sci-fi concepts that people should know

This is SO needed. 

It’s so easy to be like ‘just try it!’ but the problem with this website is that people don’t think its okay for people to make mistakes. I’ve gotten messages from people who want to write about T’Challa/Wakanda but are nervous about how their work will be perceived and its so sad. 

We really need to gather some people who’d be interested in writing a nice little info post!

I’ll start

How to Write About Africa

How to Write About Africa II: The Revenge

Wikipedia – Afrofuturism

An Afrofuturist Reading List

We Are Wakanda

Writing With Color

You Don’t Know Africa 

also, this post should not be taken as permission to write your white faves having power in Wakada, seducing all the Wakandan charaters because your white faves are just So Irresistibly White, being given free rein in Wakanda, etc. 

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muscleluvr2:

the moral of frankenstein is if youre going to build a monster out of dead body parts dont make him like 8 feet tall and super strong

or just love your super strong 8 feet tall son

Like, don’t abandon him because you are scared of him. Like you met him a second ago. He just wants a family

The moral of the story is that you need to be prepared for the realities of parenthood before you commit. Sometimes you get what you expected, sometimes you get an eight foot tall super strong patchwork zombie child, sometimes you get neither of those things. No take-backs.

One of the funniest things about this is that the creation is supposed to be “hideous”, but he’s described as looking like some kind of huge goth prince and… really doesn’t sound so bad.

That’s not what’s meant by “hideous” in the text. The creation is not “hideous” as in “aesthetically ugly”, it’s “hideous” as in ghastly, terrifying, shocking, unnatural, wrong, uncanny. Aesthetically the creature is described as “beautiful”, the way Victor painstakingly designed him. That’s why he’s described as sounding like a tall goth prince, and if you interpreted “hideous” to mean “ugly looking”, I can see why it would be confusing. 

Moral of Frankenstein: love your giant goth son