Today's Internets - The Weekend Roundup.

The 10 Most Compelling Subplots on Your Facebook Newsfeed - BroBible.com: 

"3. The Couple Who Got Married Way Too Early, Have a Kid, and Clearly Won’t Make It Too real/depressing/terrible to mock completely. Only cause the kid though. Key Storylines to Watch: How many times per week is social media employed to publicly declare sentiments of everlasting love? When something is wrong--do we see statuses consisting of profound, substance-heavy statements about people and relationships, with a dark and depressing spin? Is there someone commenting “everything ok?” under that status?"

Bradley Cooper does Christopher Walken.

This is also my job.

Damon does McConaughey.

RIP Joe Weider.

Joe Weider legendary bodybuilding and fitness icon dies at 93 - latimes.com: "Joe Weider, the legendary fitness and publishing figure who popularized the modern conception of fitness and nutrition, and is considered the father of the sport of bodybuilding, died this morning in Los Angeles of heart failure. He was 93 years old. Arnold Schwarzenegger writes on his Facebook page, "Today, I lost a dear friend and mentor, and the world lost one its strongest advocates of living a healthy lifestyle. Joe Weider was a titan in the fitness industry and one of the kindest men I have ever met." "

Michael Caine does Michael Caine.

Norman Reedus, FTW.

Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com: "The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we're being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us on our iPhones and iPads. One reporter used a tool called Collusion to track who was tracking him; 105 companies tracked his Internet use during one 36-hour period."

Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com: "Increasingly, what we do on the Internet is being combined with other data about us. Unmasking Broadwell's identity involved correlating her Internet activity with her hotel stays. Everything we do now involves computers, and computers produce data as a natural by-product. Everything is now being saved and correlated, and many big-data companies make money by building up intimate profiles of our lives from a variety of sources."

Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com: "Maintaining privacy on the Internet is nearly impossible. If you forget even once to enable your protections, or click on the wrong link, or type the wrong thing, and you've permanently attached your name to whatever anonymous service you're using. Monsegur slipped up once, and the FBI got him. If the director of the CIA can't maintain his privacy on the Internet, we've got no hope."

Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com: "In today's world, governments and corporations are working together to keep things that way. Governments are happy to use the data corporations collect -- occasionally demanding that they collect more and save it longer -- to spy on us. And corporations are happy to buy data from governments. Together the powerful spy on the powerless, and they're not going to give up their positions of power, despite what the people want."

Only somewhat surprising, the internet being what it is.

Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com: "So, we're done. Welcome to a world where Google knows exactly what sort of porn you all like, and more about your interests than your spouse does. Welcome to a world where your cell phone company knows exactly where you are all the time. Welcome to the end of private conversations, because increasingly your conversations are conducted by e-mail, text, or social networking sites. And welcome to a world where all of this, and everything else that you do or is done on a computer, is saved, correlated, studied, passed around from company to company without your knowledge or consent; and where the government accesses it at will without a warrant. Welcome to an Internet without privacy, and we've ended up here with hardly a fight."

The Whole Logic Behind the Milk Intervention, Part 1 | Free The Animal: "I took at this milk thing as I take all things Real Food and Paleoish (from a human evolutionary standpoint). Get this into heads: Paleo is not about what cavemen ate, how they moved, slept, fucked, raised their children...or did without Breaking Bad on cable. It's about what we evolved to eat, beginning with the basics and moving out from there. Dairy in all its forms, as a mammalian first essential beverage, is likely the very first logical choice."

The Whole Logic Behind the Milk Intervention, Part 2 | Free The Animal: "It's really that last category—prolonged drug therapy for chronic conditions—that has the most potential for abuse. At the same time, the drug business is a drug...business. So in one respect, it's really kind of non-sequitur to lament that the drug companies aren't out promoting the milk diet—or anything for that matter that's not a drug they can sell to the public. Ford Motor Company doesn't manufacture and promote bicycles as an alternative treatment for transportation. Not their business."

Of course he was.

Cardinal was in physical relationship with accuser | Herald Scotland: "Cardinal Keith O'Brien had a long-standing physical relationship with one of the men whose complaints about his behaviour sparked his downfall as leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland."

Filled with truth.

How Noam Chomsky is discussed | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "One very common tactic for enforcing political orthodoxies is to malign the character, "style" and even mental health of those who challenge them. The most extreme version of this was an old Soviet favorite: to declare political dissidents mentally ill and put them in hospitals. In the US, those who take even the tiniest steps outside of political convention are instantly decreed "crazy", as happened to the 2002 anti-war version of Howard Dean and the current iteration of Ron Paul (in most cases, what is actually "crazy" are the political orthodoxies this tactic seeks to shield from challenge)."

How Noam Chomsky is discussed | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "This method is applied with particular aggression to those who engage in any meaningful dissent against the society's most powerful factions and their institutions. Nixon White House officials sought to steal the files from Daniel Ellsberg's psychoanalyst's office precisely because they knew they could best discredit his disclosures with irrelevant attacks on his psyche. Identically, the New York Times and partisan Obama supporters have led the way in depicting both Bradley Manning and Julian Assange as mentally unstable outcasts with serious personality deficiencies. The lesson is clear: only someone plagued by mental afflictions would take such extreme steps to subvert the power of the US government."

Fuck me.  I have to re-work my whole obsessive-compulsive internettery now.

Like a Dagger to Bloggers' Hearts, Google Just Killed Google Reader - Adam Clark Estes - The Atlantic Wire

This sums it up perfectly.

Equal parts enlightening/disturbing.  Also, all religions are like this.

'Kumare': Fake Guru Exposes Real, Desperate Desire to Believe - ABC News: "Kumare speaks with a thick Indian accent. His hair is long, his beard is full, his feet are bare. Wrapped in a saffron sarong, Kumare effortlessly becomes a spiritual beacon for a curious bunch of truth seekers in Phoenix. But Kumare, whose real name is Vikram Gandhi, is actually a hip 33-year-old filmmaker from New Jersey, who created a fake "yogalebrity" persona but wound up with a real American following."

Teenager falsely accused of rape beaten to death by gang - Telegraph: "Five killers carried out the 'extraordinarily callous, violent and brutal' murder of a teenager after the sister of one wrongly claimed he had raped her, a court heard today."