Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives

timemachineyeah:

bisexilicous:

rosemoo:

obiwanishinaabe:

I will take every opportunity to warn people against these genetics testing “services.” They are huge data mines and prospecting firms, and if you are Indigenous, your submission may be their way around tribal moratoriums against these sorts of collections.

Plus, they don’t mean anything as far as Indigenous identity.

Oh wow, read this. Excerpt, emphasis mine:

“Buried in
the “Informed Consent” section, which is incorporated into the Terms of
Service, Ancestry.com warns customers, “it is possible that information
about you or a genetic relative could be revealed, such as that you or a
relative are carriers of a particular disease. That information could
be used by insurers to deny you insurance coverage, by law enforcement
agencies to identify you or your relatives, and in some places, the data
could be used by employers to deny employment.”

This
is a massive red flag. The data “you or a genetic relative” give to
AncestryDNA could be used against “you or a genetic relative” by
employers, insurers, and law enforcement.

For example, a young woman named Theresa Morelli applied for individual
disability insurance, consented to release of her medical records
through the Medical Information Bureau (a credit reporting agency for
medical history), and was approved for coverage. One month later, Ms.
Morelli’s coverage was cancelled and premiums refunded when the insurer
learned her father had Huntington’s disease, a genetic illness.“

Oh tf wow

Ancestry.com is the woooorst. Don’t use them ever. 

They also are owned by the LDS church, and get all their genealogy information for the genealogy work the members are pressured to do to make sure their extended family (and all of humankind) gets eternal saving ordinances. The church coerces people into providing free labor in genealogy research under the threat of losing your family in eternity if you don’t. They then take that free labor, aggregate it, and sell it for a profit through Ancestry.com. 

So 

like

Ancestry.com exploits the free labor of people to sell it, and also exploits your DNA test results to sell them, so that people can exploit you based on the results of those tests, and they make you pay for the privilege. 

Don’t ever touch that fucking company. 

Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives

truefactsaboutlies:

one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

lawfulgoodness:

snakesneakers:

myurbandream:

I haven’t seen this info floating around Tumblr, so I’m putting it up here.

Starting June 30th, 2017, Tumblr users will no longer be able to log in to Tumblr using AT&T-affiliated email addresses! If that’s you, go get a new email address! The Tumblr Help Center had a list of domains that will no longer work, and instructions on how to switch to a new email address.

This isnt blog related, but most of my followers are on here, and I’m sure a fair chunk of y’all would like to know this

I thought for sure this was some sort bogus scare-tactic BS, but nope, it’s real.

Between this and Verizon forbidding Tumblr from weighing in on net neutrality issues anymore, I think we’ve jumped the shark folks.

fandomsandfeminism:

nearly-headless-horseman:

fandomsandfeminism:

Part of my roadtrip tool me to Atlanta. And, the Civil Rights Center was amazing. Very powerful. They have this one exhibit where you sit at a lunch counter and close your eyes and put on headphones. And It plays sounds like you are at a sit in and people are yelling. And it times how long you can sit there for. I think i lasted almost a minute before i was almost crying.

It…made its point.

And most of those people were being physically assaulted too

That’s a brilliant exhibit

If you make it long enough, the chair actually shakes a little, along with the sound of someone hitting the chair with a bat. It was super intense. (It included a trigger warning for obvious reasons.)

A little chat about your mate

charlie-minion:

HOLY MOTHER
OF CHUCK! I just rewatched 12×02 and noticed something I didn’t when the
episode aired. Lady Toni Bevell insinuated Dean was not straight.

She thought
she knew Sam and Dean. When torturing Sam, there was a moment when she told him
this:

I would
like names and locations of every Hunter… the passcodes to each and every Men
of Letters database held in the bunker, and then – oh, yes – let’s do discuss your relationship with the
demon Ruby.

After the
ridiculous hallucination Lady Bevell gave Sam, it’s not surprising she mentioned
Ruby. She probably thought that sex was the easiest way to get Sam to
cooperate. The interesting thing is that, according to her, she used the same
kind of information with Dean later in the episode. This is what she told Dean:

See, I
thought you might be on for a little
chat about your mate, Benjamin Lafitte. I’m sorry. You called him Benny.
You know, the vampire whom you released from Purgatory and… befriended.

What caught
my attention was the little pause she made before she uttered the word “befriended”.
I know the word “mate” can be used to refer to male friends, but that’s not the
only possible meaning. 

You see? The thing is the contempt Lady Bevell showed
when she said that word along with the ‘befriended’ part. (How many queer people have heard the word “friend” casually said when the conversation is about their partner?)

You can say that of
course she would see Dean’s friendship with Benny as something worth of rejection. Dean was
a hunter and he became friends with a vampire, a monster that Dean was supposed
to kill, no questions asked.

But… don’t
you see the parallel? Tony Bevell mentioned Ruby and that was a call back to Sam’s
sexual relationship with her. Then she mentioned Benny and that was a call back
to Dean’s…buddy-buddy relationship with him?

All I’m
saying is that, subtextually, even the British Men of Letters thought Dean wasn’t
straight.

legally-bitchtastic:

freewillandphysics:

stonebutchgender:

digoxin-purpurea:

foxnewsfuckfest:

brainstatic:

brainstatic:

brainstatic:

The play was Julius Caesar. By Shakespeare.

Delta believes firmly in the annexarion of Gaul and stands with the Julii. 

Fine, so perhaps this adaption might have chosen some modern iconography. But it’s still a play about how stable governments fall apart very easily. Also it’s Trump so who gives a shit. 

Oh cool, we’re normalizing censorship now. Great.

IT IS JULIUS FUCKING CAESAR. IT HAS BEEN ADAPTED FOR USE AS POLITICAL COMMENTARY EVERY GODDAMN TIME IT’S BEEN GODDAMN ADAPTED. THIS IS NOT NEW.

Considering Fox News didn’t say SHIT about people LITERALLY hanging and burning Obama in effigy they need to shut the fuck up about this. Also, it’s a fucking play adapted happens all the fucking time. Grow the hell up.

There have been depictions of Obama as Caesar, and not only did conservatives not care, they found it “riveting”.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/shakesblog/obamas-ides-of-march/

Would you look at that…

paintmeahero:

lindsaymaknae:

moansmisha:

pecanpiedean:

deancasheadcanons:

bibros over here bein like “my post got 58 notes so eveyrthing i say is right” meanwhile i made a post once about dean and cas playing scrabble and it has 3,000 notes

i wrote a fic where dean broke his dick in half and it has ten times that many notes

I wrote a fic were Dean seduces Cas with Shake It Off by Taylor Swift that has double that attention

This back and fort on who gets more notes almost has more notes

The Hulk Princes Cake post has over 2000 times the notes they do. 

I think The Hulk can be a Wayward Sister. 

dorkilysoulless:

ibelieveinthelittletreetopper:

dinosaurrainbowstarfish:

wingsandimpalas:

ibelieveinthelittletreetopper:

auntjj:

Wayward Sisters…

The spin-off no one wanted.

except you know, all of us who did. You know, most of the fandom

your so sassy and I love every second of it

REBLOG IF YOU WANTED WAYWARD SISTERS

Let’s show em how much we want it. You know what to do, babes.

Imagine hating women on Supernatural (and in Supernatural fandom) so much you have to piss on something that came into being because of fans pushing for it and engaging with actors and creators in a context of joy, enthusiasm, mutual positivity, and creativity.

justanotheridijiton:

hypable:

Female-led ‘Supernatural’ spin-off ‘Wayward Sisters’ greenlit for backdoor pilot

Wayward Sisters? After months of subtle teasing, it’s finally confirmed: Supernatural’s fan-demanded female-led spin-off will get a true backdoor pilot during season 13.

“[W]hat strikes me most strongly about this victorious development is that, in the most positive way possible, this project was pitched and greenlit bespoke at fandom’s request, specifically to highlight the female stars and female viewers of a male-dominated show. Fans identified what they wanted more of, they vocalized the support that they would offer in the eventuality that this was created for them, and the Powers That Be saw both moral and monetary value in that. Fans have saved mainstream television shows from cancellation, or revived them from the grave, but I can’t say I have any recollection of them outright creating one before.”

“Wayward Sisters represents a shift in the relationship between media and audience – far from mere “fan service,” this feels like a realistic acknowledgement of what has made Supernatural successful: women. Despite being male-centric on screen, Supernatural is a show most overwhelmingly loved and supported by women of all ages. Women who aren’t just tuning in for the eye candy, women who deeply value the relationships, the writing, the lessons and themes of what the 12-season behemoth of genre has offered up. Women have kept this show alive and relevant and have remained connected and empathetic to the lead characters – all finely, complexly drawn men, but men nonetheless – and made its female guest stars into beloved convention celebrities. We’ve been patient, accepting the status quo of Sam and Dean’s Supernatural for what it is while expressing, loudly and lovingly, that we’d like to see this world expanded to include the stories of the women who exist within it.“