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Friday February 8, 2019. 07:27 PM
Candace Owens of Turning Point USA, speaking in London: 'But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize.” Here is video of Candace Owens' full answ...
Elizabeth Olsen and Graham Greene star in Wind River. THE PLAN was that every time a person watched 'Wind River,' a portion of royalties from the movie would go to The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, which works to “enhance the safety of Native women and...
'Under what circumstances and to what extent would adults be willing to sacrifice robots to save human lives?' That was the question posed by researchers at Radboud University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich....
Here are three two lateral thinking puzzles that were new to me. They're from the book, Lateral Thinking Puzzles (1991), by Paul Sloane. Death in the Field A man is lying dead in the field. Next to him is an unopened package. There is no other creature in the field. How...
Facebook loves 'zero rating,' when an internet provider takes bribes from online services to exempt them from data charges on their networks: Facebook says that having a roster of (Facebook-approved) services that are free-to-use benefits the poorest people in a country (and ...
As Naomi Klein documents in her classic and seminal book The Shock Doctrine, disasters and upheavals are the bread-and-butter of global looters, who use the collapse of civil society or the default of debtor states to privatize state assets at pennies on the dollar, then...
On the left is a screenshot of YouTube on Chrome. On the right is a screenshot of the same video with an extension called 'Distraction Free for YouTube' activated. Below is a screenshot of the extension's options. [via 5-Bullet Friday]
Cold is slow to worsen. Then it's fast. A large ice jam formed and released on the Ausable River at Au Sable Forks, NY on January 12, 2018. The ice jam was caused by a combination of rapid snow melt with moderate rain in abnormally warm temperatures. The gauge peaked at...
As the technology that drives them evolves, the tasks you can accomplish with Microsoft's suite of Office tools is growing every year. That's great news for the businesses who already rely on that software, but its individual users have that much more to learn. The best way...
On MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell show tonight, Roig Franzia of the Washington Post said the security and legal team representing Jeff Bezos believes it's possible the leaks of the Amazon CEO's texts, with accompanying intimate photos, were politically motivated -- and that a...
[Source unknown?] UPDATE: It's apy.malt on Instagram. [Thanks, fake_gojira!]
This week started with a terrifying bang, when German and French negotiators announced a deal to revive the worst parts of the new EU Copyright Directive though a compromise on 'Article 13,' which requires copyright filters for any online service that allows the public to...
Unless you are a Nazi, you probably don't want a pillow with Hitler's face and a swastika on it. From the Fresno Bee: When the Very Rev. Ryan Newman bought the pillow on walmart.com in November, he could see it featured large images of a bicycle and the Eiffel Tower, and the ...
Germany's Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, the country's antitrust regulator) has ruled that Facebook can't combine user data aggregated from different sources (Facebook usage data, data from pages with Facebook Like buttons, data purchased from third parties, etc),...
Mlem, mlem, mlem. You're missing it, doxie! XD And below, another post of this same pupper doing a big frighten with his eyes. Ummm so this is how my dog was sleeping today. XD [XD by MatthewHolder123 on IMGUR]
First: The dog who bounced into the guy's foot is fine! Dog didn't get hurt, nor did human. “Tried to make snow angels,” says IMGURian Automatvapen. “One of my dogs had a different kind of idea.” Tried to make snow angels. On of my dogs had a different kind of idea.
Amazon sometimes dipped into tips earned by contracted delivery drivers for its 'Flex' service to cover the base pay they'd been promised, a Los Angeles Times review of emails and receipts shows. They're not the only contractor-supported delivery giant playing hinky with...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today took the highly unusual step of publishing correspondence with Trump-allied tabloid publisher AMI, which owns the National Enquirer. The Amazon CEO says this correspondence reveals threats made by AMI to publish nude intimate photos of Bezos,...
The gay dating app Jack'd, which has more than a million downloads in the Play store, stored images that users marked 'private' and posted in 1:1 chat sessions *on an unsecured AWS server.* The site is HTTP-accessible. Ars Technica first posted the story, and confirmed...
In an extraordinary post on Medium, Jeff Bezos has revealed threatening emails he received from attorneys for The National Enquirer, after Bezos refused to call off an investigation into how the paper got access to his private text messages. 'In the AMI [owner of the...
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