Twitter Bomb

http://www.diyphotography.net/isis-moron-posts-a-selfie-us-air-force-locates-and-destroys-hq-building/

The US Air Force has destroyed an Islamic State nerve centre after extremists revealed its location in a selfie.

General Herbert 'Hawk' Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, said a ISIS "moron" shared a picture which allowed intelligence analysts to pinpoint his whereabouts.

Just 22 hours later, the Air Force blasted the building with three missiles.


More:
http://defensetech.org/2015/06/03/us-air-force-targets-and-destroys-isis-hq-building-using-social-media/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/american-airstrike-obliterates-isis-stronghold-5821711

A cultural revolution in the making

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid

"I have intentionally adjusted my teaching materials as the political winds have shifted. (I also make sure all my remotely offensive or challenging opinions, such as this article, are expressed either anonymously or pseudonymously). Most of my colleagues who still have jobs have done the same. We've seen bad things happen to too many good teachers — adjuncts getting axed because their evaluations dipped below a 3.0, grad students being removed from classes after a single student complaint, and so on.

I once saw an adjunct not get his contract renewed after students complained that he exposed them to "offensive" texts written by Edward Said and Mark Twain. His response, that the texts were meant to be a little upsetting, only fueled the students' ire and sealed his fate.  That was enough to get me to comb through my syllabi and cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad, texts ranging from Upton Sinclair to Maureen Tkacik — and I wasn't the only one who made adjustments, either."

More:
http://www.yaf.org/slu-cultural-sensitivity.aspx
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/27/saint-louis-university-removes-racist-statue-of-pr/
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Opinion/2015/06/04/Why-College-Professors-Are-Afraid-Teach-Millennials

Take that Singaporeans!

Americans can have math problems that go viral on Facebook, too!  

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A woman named Penny Hayes was a part of a yard sale group and she was attempting to sell some bottles of laundry detergent. She had a pretty good deal going too as she was selling small bottles for $0.35 each or in bulk for a total of 48 bottles for $12.

This is where things began to get complicated.

Read the full story:
http://www.inquisitr.com/2129287/penny-hayes-argument-over-basic-math-in-facebook-yard-sale-group-goes-viral-gets-woman-kicked-out/