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Elmo, the destroyer of Sesame Street

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A red monster destroyed the value of Sesame Street, and that red monster was born, nurtured, and fed, from within. A fascinating and well-reasoned argument on the downfall of the popular children’s TV show from Kevin Wong: There are many antagonistic, odd couple pairings on Sesame Street, just like this one. Bert and Ernie. Prairie Dawn and Cookie Monster. Grover and Mr. Johnson. We loved Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Grover, and laughed at their antics. But at the same time, we knew that we shouldn’t behave like them in public. …Now admittedly, it’s impossible to get a three-year-old like Elmo to

The ‘lost’ right to delete your content

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Of course, the forced replacement of “delete” with “archiving” is presented as benevolent. Yet, if it were truly benevolent, we’d not have the right to lose forever taken from us. It would be offered as a choice. Of course, given that choice, we might well just do that and delete and that would spoil the wishes of the Timeline paranoids – their paranoia based on a fear of gaps, of holes and of empty spaces they do not own and control. Paul Levy, on an issue he marks as “an over-dramatic sounding article about what, at first glance, might look