NEWS YOU CAN USE: A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes.

Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people to review how Facebook applies data from the web to target them with ads, and surface the sensitive profile info they share. Facebook will also allow European and Canadian users to turn on facial recognition after six years of the feature being blocked there. But with a design that encourages rapidly hitting the “Agree” button, a lack of granular controls, a laughably cheatable parental consent request for teens and an aesthetic overhaul of Download Your Information that doesn’t make it any easier to switch social networks, Facebook shows it’s still hungry for your data.

Surprising exactly no one, except perhaps for EU regulators.

I’ve just dipped a toe in the water at MeWe, which promises “No Ads. No Tracking. No BS.”

We’ll see.

THIS IS THE ENCAPSULATION OF OUR CURRENT AGE:

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Proposed Student Loan Cap Could Cause 20-30 Law Schools To Close Within Five Years.

HMM: Mitt Romney Fails to Get Senate Nomination at Utah GOP Convention. “Has the Republican Party of Trump passed Romney by?”

NO, NO YOU’RE NOT. A reader emails: “Am I the only person who would like to know if any secret FISA warrants were issued in order to surveil any members of the Romney campaign?”

YEP:

I AGREE. CONSIDERING ALL THE YEARS THIS AND THAT TAKES, WE WERE ALL BORN DEAD ALREADY:  Adding The Years.

AND I AGREE:  Earth Day? Again?

THE POINT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT:  De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

THESE ARE THE TIMES WE LIVE IN:  Woman helps cop, kills bad guy – then gets sued.

SO ARE WE ALL, SISTER, AND THE LEFT HATES IT:  Candace Owens’ Moment: I’m Not Far Right, I’m Free.

A LOT MORE PEOPLE WOULD BE DEAD IF IT WEREN’T FOR HIM:  Sunday’s Hero: James Shaw, Jr.

GOOD LORD, IT’S MCMUFFIN, THE REPRISE:  So You Want to Challenge the President: a Note to Brad Thor and Others.

PINEAPPLE PLANTS?  Clean the air in your home with these NASA-approved plants

WHEN THEY JOINED THE ARMY THIS WASN’T WHAT THEY EXPECTED TO BE FIGHTING:  Indonesia is struggling to unclog this plastic-filled river.

BEING GOOD WITH YOUR HANDS WINS:  Singles say people with these jobs are the sexiest.

SENATE DEAL TO CONFIRM EEOC NOMINEES?:  That’s what Paul Mirengoff hears.  A deal could package Chai Feldblum (originally an Obama-appointee) and Trump nominees Daniel Gade (a non-lawyer disabled vet) and Janet Dillon (General Counsel to Burlington Stores).

MAKING ALUMNI EMBARRASSED TO ADMIT TO THEIR ALMA MATER IS NOT SMART:   Bush-bashing professor has Fresno State scrambling to keep its donors.