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Wednesday June 26, 2019. 04:03 AM
Give him the dang treat already, come on. Gravity is confusing. Here's the full video. Treat? [via IMGUR]
Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, in sequential order, in open session on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. House Democrats Adam Schiff (D-CA 28th District) and Jerry Nadler (D-NY 10th District) announced ...
You would almost think that billionaire serial sex-abuser of children and former pal of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, has some kind of secret leverage that keeps him from being brought to justice for his sickening crimes. From the Miami Herald: Suspected sex trafficker...
Tuesday June 25, 2019. 11:53 PM
Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of the United States women's national soccer team did not sing the National Anthem before the Women's World Cup game with Thailand on Tuesday. She does not expect to be invited to the White House, and if she ever is, she made it clear she doesn't...
A hacker calling themself Light Leafon who claims to be a 14-year-old is responsible for a new IoT worm called Silex that targets any Unix-like system by attempting a login with default credentials; upon gaining access, the malware enumerates all mounted disks and writes to...
I've often said that science fiction doesn't tell you much about the future, but it sure tells you a lot about the present: the fact that we're still citing Frankenstein and the Terminator tells you that we're worried about being carried away by our technology, the fact that ...
This excellent Victorinox paring knife is on sale at Amazon for $6.99. It has a 3.25-inch blade and no serrations, so you can sharpen it to split atoms if you wish.
On December 28, 2018 Nkuka Lulendo fled Angola with his wife and four young children. They sought refugee status in Korea, but have been stuck in terminal 1 of Incheon Airport ever since. In the video Lulendo tells the sad story of how he ended up in Korea. He was working as ...
If you have access to a 3D printer, you can make a belt. No assembly required! <em>Image: YouTube</em>
Yesterday, the New York Times published my 'op-ed from the future,' an essay entitled 'I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times,' which tried to imagine what would happen to public discourse if the Big Tech platforms were forced to use algorithms to police...
It's been a crackerjack year, hasn't it? Kids are being held in concentration camps, whole species are disappearing from the face of the earth, our weather is absolutely borked and drinkable water is fast disappearing in many locales around the world. Everything is terrible! ...
You know what's more badass and relaxing at the same time than going on a week-long canoe trip? Going on a week-long canoe trip in a vessel you built your own damn self. What I dig the most about this video is that shows the build process, mistakes and all, from start to...
I'm a volunteer on the board of The Metabrainz Foundation, the nonprofit that maintains the Metabrainz service that produces accurate metadata on music that helps listeners locate the music they love and musicians and services accurately allocate revenues from online...
In The Next Generation of Deep Learning Hardware: Analog Computing *Sci-Hub mirror), a trio of IBM researchers discuss how new materials could allow them to build analog computers that vastly improved the energy/computing efficiency in training machine-learning networks. ...
The security firm Cybereason says that it has identified a likely state-sponsored attack on ten global mobile phone networks that they have attributed to 'the Chinese-affiliated threat actor APT10,' which has been 'underway for years.' According to Cybereason, the...
Sometimes with a cellphone video you'll see cops behave bizarrely, abruptly shouting things like 'stop resisting!' or 'gun!' when it's obvious the suspect is not resisting and is either unarmed or not reaching for a weapon. The point of it is to establish, on less revealing...
One of the griftiest corners of late-stage capitalism is the 'public safety' industry, in which military contractors realize they can expand their market by peddling overpriced garbage to schools, cities, public transit systems, hospitals, etc -- which is how the 'aggression ...
Microsoft's stated values are 'diversity, inclusion, and growth mindset,' but the six of the top ten politicians funded by MSPAC -- which derives funding from voluntary contributions from 4,000 of Microsoft's 140,000 employees -- are far-right Republican extremists,...
After yesterday's news about young Americans' acceptance of queer folk falling sharply, I wanted to take aim at the passivity of mainstream LGBTQ advocacy in the age of Trump. At groups who compromise with uncompromising enemies. At activists who have nothing to say when...
In 1947 actress Gay Gibson disappeared from her cabin on an ocean liner off the coast of West Africa. The deck steward, James Camb, admitted to pushing her body out a porthole, but insisted she had died of natural causes and not in a sexual assault. In this week's episode of ...
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