10 weeks after his lost Facebook internship made international news, 21-year-old Harvard student Aran Khanna still seems flummoxed that his attempt to fit in with Facebook’s declared “Hacker Ethos” got him booted. When he launched Marauders Map, a browser extension that scraped location data from Facebook messenger and plotted it on a map—and which ultimately lost him the internship he’d lined up—he said he was doing so to highlight privacy concerns.

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I will tell you a big secret. The command center is a PR ploy; a large waste of money that could be spent on actually doing something useful for the customer. However useless command centers are, today they are becoming increasingly popular. Many of today’s biggest brands have them, and they love to show them off. Like a newsroom for social media this is a place where employees can watch what people are saying about the brand. However, if you really think about the command center, you begin to realize how half-baked this idea actually is. Brands get millions of mentions, sometimes in one single day. How could a few people sit at the command center, cranking their head up to large screens and process hundreds of thousands of tweets, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram messages and more?

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I had played Destiny for quite a while before I had any idea that Nathan Fillion was in it. This isn’t because he’s doing a voice or anything — once I read it somewhere, I recognized him right away. It’s just that he only his character in the base game is essentially a vendor, with no more than a few throwaway lines and no role in the plot. It’s a bizarre decision, and one that speaks to the broader issues with the story in Destiny: here Bungie has one of the most beloved actors in the nerdosphere, and it basically decides not to use him at all. Luckily, a new teaser trailer for Destiny’s “Year Two” makes it look like he’s finally going to get involved in the plot.

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