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Looks like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman is just using any excuse to get shitfaced. In honor of the company's tenth birthday, he created “Cinco de LinkedIn,” a real company event celebrated by its 3,700 employees.

Not only does it sound moderately offensive, like drunk-sorority-girl-loudly-practicing-her-Spanish-at-Blockheads obnoxious, but it is also numerically nonsensical. At last check, cinco is roughly translated to "five" and not "terrible fucking idea."

Mr. Hoffman, in his own words:

None of this would be possible without all of our LinkedIn employees, past and present, who’ve poured their passion and talents into building this company. In 2003, we were a handful of guys in a living room. Today, 3,700+ employees are celebrating “Cinco de LinkedIn” around the world.

And, perhaps worst of all, if the company's Flickr is to be believed, the party was held on a Sunday. Granted that is the actual day of Cinco de Mayo, but being forced to talk about endorsements and what Mashable stories are going be featured in the LinkedIn Today newsletter on a weekend sounds muy horribles.

We're scared to see how Mr. Hoffman forces his employees to celebrate Bastille Day.

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Care of Uproxx comes Betabeat's new favorite site, Porn SFW, which collects user-submitted images of porn that have been made safe for work by superimposing silly Microsoft Paint drawings overtop of them. Basically, people take screenshots of gross porn scenes and then use Microsoft Paint to make the images ostensibly safe for work (though we wouldn't recommend sending them to your boss any time soon).

There's this girl who's learning to play the drums; this girl who's practicing her DJ skills; and this girl who prefers the pirate's life.

Porn SFW is part of the Hoursehead Network, which also hosts gems such as Tattoo Failure and Japan is Weird. Enjoy?

NO SOPA FOR YOU MR. SMITH.

Including, it would seem, his own.

One of VICE's reporters has taken note of Rep. Smith's website, which—in an earlier iteration—apparently used a background image of some lovely trees.

Which were borrowed without the permission of the image's copyright holder.

Who does not recall ever licensing them to Rep. Smith or his staff for Rep. Lamar's uses, or receiving credit for the images used.

I managed to track that picture back to DJ Schulte, the photographer who took it. And whaddya know? Looks like someone forgot to credit him.

I contacted DJ, to find out if Lamar had asked permission to use the image and he told me that he had no record of Lamar, or anyone from his organization, requesting permission to use it: "I switched my images from traditional copyright protection to be protected under the Creative Commons license a few years ago, which simply states that they can use my images as long as they attribute the image to me and do not use it for commercial purposes."

VICE contacted Rep. Lamar's office and is waiting to hear back. By the standards of SOPA, Rep. Lamar's website could've been shut down (and theoretically, still could be) for being in violation of the law he helped draft. This is how utterly absurd the garbage pile of Hollywood-funded legislation that is SOPA actually, in practice, is.

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Our friendly neighbor to the south, Cuba, is pissed off at Twitter for letting a rumor of leader Fiedel Castro's demise—the same rumor that appears regularly and causes a huge ruckus in Miami among Cuban immigrants and exiles every couple of years—go unchecked.

Via CNN, Cuba's state-run media incorrectly identified the guy who started the rumor, and then, just kind of raged in a really silly way:

An expose published on the state-run Cuba Debate website claimed to track down the origin of the rumor that the leader of the Cuban revolution had died. It's investigation led to Fernandez's Twitter page, where he goes by the handle @naroh.

Of course, the guy wasn't the one who Tweeted it first. That didn't stop them from raging, anyway:

The hashtag #FidelCastro, used to identify the topic of a tweet, on that day became one of the most popular tags, known as a Trending Topic. According to Cuba Debate, the "frustration" of Cuba's enemies to assassinate Castro "has led some to try (to kill him) in the virtual world with the hope of accomplishing what more than half a century of criminal attempts have failed to do."

Maybe if Fidel Castro simply got on Twitter, this wouldn't be a problem. Hey, you either join the machine, or end up getting killed by it. Just ask Rupert Murdoch! He's hip to the game, now.

fkamer@observer.com | @weareyourfek

Not a rhetorical question, to us. But to her, it is. Quoteth @MrsKutcher:

changing my twitter name isn't a top priority right now. sorry it bothers so many of u. should I not tweet until I do?does it really matter?

Funny she should ask (rhetorically). Because a lot of people have a lot of opinions on this. And what are they?

Funny you should ask. Because we've put some of the best ones in a slideshow for you. Rather than throw them in a This, folks, is Twitter wisdom at its finest.

fkamer@observer.com | @weareyourfek