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the sculptural 'desert house' in joshua tree, california is photographed by lance gerber

photographer lance gerber captures the formal desert architecture of kendrick bangs kellogg and the sweeping interiors by designer john vugrin. nestled among the rocky terrain of joshua tree, california, the house takes the form of an organic object made up of a cluster of sculptural piers. there is an ambiguous relationship between the built space and the extreme landscape as the house navigates between the protruding rock formations. at certain moments these natural elements pierce through to the interior and become a sculptural element of the conditioned space.

all images by lance gerber | IG @lance.gerber | FB @lancegerberstudio

lance gerber, known for his landscape and architectural photography among the california desert, captures the monumentality of the enigmatic house. the ambiguity of the structure is heightened with the imbrication of the clustered piers. because of this technique of overlapping elements, the building’s apertures are not so clearly defined. while these moments of slippage are sealed with set back glazing, there is an implication that the house is left open to the elements. while the construction of the overall building was completed in 1993, interior designer john vugrin continued refining it for several years.

project info:

start of design: 1988
estimated completion: 1993
architect: kendrick bangs kellogg
interior designer: john vugrin
bldg sq ft: 4,643
bedrooms: 3
bathrooms: 3.5
lot size: 10 acres
location: joshua tree, CA

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Facebook is giving users reputation scores.

Facebook Is Rating Your Ability to Flag Fake News

Facebook reportedly assigns a 'reputation score' to users to help it identify bad actors who might be abusing the company's content flagging systems to report real news as fake.

Facebook is assigning its users a "reputation score" to determine whether it should take their complaints on fake news seriously or not, The Washington Post reports.

SecurityWatchReputation scores are designed to help the company identify users who might be abusing Facebook's content flagging systems to report real news as fake, the Post says. "(It's) not uncommon for people to tell us something is false simply because they disagree with the premise of a story or they're intentionally trying to target a particular publisher," Facebook product manager Tessa Lyons told the Post in an interview.

Facebook, however, pushed back today on the Post's characterization of the effort.

"The idea that we have a centralized 'reputation' score for people that use Facebook is just plain wrong and the headline in the Washington Post is misleading," a Faceboook spokesperson told PCMag. "What we're actually doing: We developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news as fake and attempting to game the system. The reason we do this is to make sure that our fight against misinformation is as effective as possible."

In 2015, Facebook began rolling out an option to let people flag false news stories over the platform; go to the "…" icon on a Facebook post and click the "Give feedback on this post" option.

Unfortunately, content flagging systems can also be gamed. All it takes is a mob of online users to report a post is fake news or hate speech to trigger the company to investigate and potentially misinterpret the complaints as legit.

To address the abuse, Facebook created the reputation score over the past year to help it weed out false reports pertaining to fake news. Facebook didn't provide more details, but according to the Post, the score measures your trustworthiness on a scale of zero to one. If you're consistently making false reports, presumably you're score will go down. On the flip side, if you flag something as fake news that is confirmed by a third-party fact checker to be misinformation, Facebook might give you a higher credibility score.

However, the reputation score is only one measurement "among thousands of new behavioral clues" that the company uses to assess whether you're a risk or not, the Post said. How Facebook ultimately determines whether someone is a malicious party or not remains opaque. A big reason why is to prevent abusers from learning how to game the content flagging system. But this can also come at the cost of public transparency.

Earlier this month, Facebook decided to ban conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his controversial show Infowars from the platform for repeatedly violating Facebook's content policies on hate speech. But not everyone is buying that explanation, with critics claiming that the company simply bowed to public pressure.

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How to Turn Off Those Awful New Ads on Netflix - Geek.com

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How to Turn Off Those Awful New Ads on Netflix - Geek.com
Cómo desactivar esos terribles anuncios nuevos en Netflix

Wasn’t the whole point of paying for Netflix that we didn’t have to deal with ads anymore? That we could binge entire seasons of TV with no more interruption than a mildly disapproving …

How to Turn Off Those Awful New Ads on Netflix

UPDATE: Netflix responded, statement attached below.

Wasn’t the whole point of paying for Netflix that we didn’t have to deal with ads anymore? That we could binge entire seasons of TV with no more interruption than a mildly disapproving black screen asking if we’re still watching? (Yes Netflix, I am still watching Supernatural, and I will continue until Jared Padalecki stops looking so damn pretty!) Now, the streaming service is “experimenting” with advertising. For some users, it will occasionally interrupt your shameful binge to show you a trailer for a Netflix original series it thinks you might like. Subscribers who ran into this new… feature were understandably miffed.

This wasn’t part of the deal. We pay the money, we don’t have to watch commercials. For many of us, that was the entire reason we subscribed in the first place. With Hulu, at least you can justify it. They get new episodes the day after they air. We expect there to be some compromise in the form of ads. (Though if I hear that QuickChek Summer Subs jingle one more time, I’m going to murder somebody.) Plus, there’s an option to pay more and remove the ads altogether. On Netflix, we’re already paying a premium for an ad-free experience and now we’re going to get ads anyway. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to opt out. For now.

The whole process should only take a few seconds. You just need to have access to the desktop version of the site. You can’t do it through your streaming device or smart TV app. First, go to netflix.com. (Man, remember when we only watch streaming movies on our laptops like this? Simpler times.) Then, click on your profile icon in the top right corner. Select “Account” from the drop-down menu. Scroll down to the “Settings” section, and click on “Test Participation.”

That will take you to a page that looks like this.

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Click that switch into the “Off” position, hit “Done,” and that’s it. No more ads. If enough of us do this, hopefully Netflix will get the message that this is an awful, terrible idea.

UPDATE: After this article ran, Netflix reached out with a statement clarifying the feature they are testing out. Specifically, video recommendations of series. They especially wanted to point out that even if you don’t turn the feature off using the steps outlined here, users are able to skip any of these previews. Statement from Netflix follows:

At Netflix, we conduct hundreds of tests every year so we can better understand what helps members more easily find something great to watch. A couple of years ago, we introduced video previews to the TV experience, because we saw that it significantly cut the time members spend browsing and helped them find something they would enjoy watching even faster. Since then, we have been experimenting even more with video based on personalized recommendations for shows and movies on the service or coming shortly, and continue to learn from our members. In this particular case, we are testing whether surfacing recommendations between episodes helps members discover stories they will enjoy faster. It is important to note that a member is able to skip a video preview at anytime if they are not interested.

Watch NASA’s historic Sun probe mission launch: here’s how

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Watch NASA’s historic Sun probe mission launch: here’s how

NASA is preparing to launch its Parker Solar Probe in the early hours on Saturday morning. This historic event will send the probe “to touch the Sun,” the space agency says, which anticipates setting a new “fastest spacecraft” speed record. Among other things, the spacecraft will carry a microchip with more than a million names on it.

If everything goes as planned, the Parker Solar Probe will reach its first close point to the Sun this November, resulting in the first batch of data in December. The probe, which is described as the size of a small car, features a 4.5-inch thick carbon fiber and foam shield that will help protect the spacecraft from the Sun’s intense heat.

Though the side facing the Sun will reach 2500F, the probe itself will be cooler at 85F, says NASA. NASA will send the probe off on its mission with 55 times more energy than would be needed to reach Mars, the space agency explains. During its elliptical orbit, the Parker Solar Probe will make it up to 430,000mph, which would be a new speed record.

To help the public visualize the incredible speed, NASA says something traveling that fast could go from Philadelphia to Washington DC in a single second. The probe will orbit around the Sun 24 times, its closest point ultimately being 3.8 million miles. NASA plans to use Venus to slow down the probe, helping set it on the right course for its mission. The spacecraft will make a total of seven orbits around Venus.

Talking about the mission is Goddard solar physicist Nicholeen Viall:

All of our data on the corona so far have been remote. We have been very creative to get as much as we can out of our data, but there is nothing like actually sticking a probe in the corona to see what’s happening there.

The launch will take place at 3:33AM ET tomorrow;

you can watch it live on NASA TV here.

SOURCE: NASA

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Blood moon 2018

Pictures are just coming in from Australia where the eclipse started and could be seen in Brisbane. Photograph: Jono Searle/Getty Images

Watch live : NASA shows the blood moon from different countries all over the world

This combination of pictures shows the full moon during the eclipse as seen from Dambulla in Sri Lanka. Photograph: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images

Tonight’s lunar eclipse is the longest of the 21st Century.

The total eclipse will last 1 hour, 42 minutes and 57 seconds.

The partial eclipse preceding and following means the moon will spend a total of 3 hours and 54 minutes in the earth’s umbral shadow, according to Nasa.

The fullest eclipse (at 20:22 GMT) was visible from Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, much of Asia and Australia, though clouds blocked out the moon in some places.