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lundi 18 juin 2018, 19:24
[Update 6/18/2018 10:52am PT - Drudge replace this photo for another without explanation] Look at these Central American kids brandishing handguns on the front page of Drudge Report. Thank goodness Trump and Sessions are caging these menaces to America! The only thing is,...
When a large corporation in the United States has committed massive fraud, the CEO usually retires with a large bonus and the corporation receives a modest cost-of-business fine. But Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, was actually arrested and detained this morning in his role in the...
I have friends in the US seriously looking into moving to Germany. One reason - crimes rates are going down fast. From Politico: The new figures show a drop in crime of 5.1 percent over the previous year, with 5.76 million crimes reported. “The number of crimes committed...
The children that Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump are locking up in enclosures are not actually cages, said a host on Fox and Friends Fox & Friends. They simply 'built walls out of chain-link fences.' No, these aren't cages, @SteveDoocy says. The authorities simply "built...
George Lakoff, a cognitive scientist and linguist that studies propaganda, says the way the media reports on Trump's lies actually helps Trump. “Trump needs the media, and the media help him by repeating what he says,” he told The Washington Post. He says stories can...
Article 11 is the EU's bizarre proposal for transferring money from Google and Facebook to newspapers: it creates a special copyright over links to news stories and bans services from linking to the news unless they pay for a license to link. (more…)
An invasive plant species with an appropriately unappealing name, giant hogweed, has been found growing in Virginia. If its clear sap gets on your skin, exposure to sunlight can cause 3rd degree burns, even years after contact. If the sap gets in your eyes, you could go...
Jason Davies created a voronoi diagram of the world's airports projected onto an interactive 3D globe. Easter Island's airport claims the largest partition. Most Remote Airport Mataveri Airport at 27°S, 109°W is the most remote; 2,602km from the nearest airport, Totegegie...
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador the front-running candidate for president of Mexico on a largely progressive ticket (tuition breaks, increased aid to seniors, drug war amnesty, though it's a mixed bag, reflecting the weird coalition of left-wing and right-wing parties he's...
Boston Dynamics finally took a step too far with its new model, 'Jalen Rose.' (Note: video contains NSFW language. Note: Rose is in fact neither a robot nor a coach) [via Reddit]
Here's Smooth Criminal, arranged and performed by Patrick Mathis. Something about this suggests to me that there is a machine that turns midi into those rolls; I couldn't find it, but Virtual Roll is a physical gadget that pretends to be a paper roll in player pianos, kind...
Sculptor Jud Turner (previously) writes, 'Been playing with shiny chrome parts in the studio lately (motorcycle parts, mostly) to conjure up things that are currently scaring me: 'Stanislav the Russian Boar' and 'Hera the Mud Dauber Wasp.' Don't worry, I'm using plenty of...
BeauHD, a Slashdot moderator, has Crohn's Disease, and he lives in an age of modern miracles, which means that he can have his small intestine surveyed by swallowing a tiny pill-sized camera, rather than having a scope threaded up his rectum or down his throat, or having his ...
Jenny Robins interviews Alex Norris... NORRIS: My comics have always largely been about exploring the link between joy and sadness, and finding humour in despair, so I think when I started this format the mix of heartbreak and silliness just sort of came naturally and I...
At Ursula, an immigration facility in McAllen, TX, 500 children separated from their families are crammed 20 to a cage. It's home to kids of all ages, from toddlers to young teens (once a teen turns 18, they are magically converted into a criminal and moved to the adult...
Remember Doom? Remember Magic Eye puzzles that required you to unfocus your eyes and see forever in a field of stereographic static? Now you can do both at once with OMDO, a free download at Itch. OMDO plays just like DOOM, except every frame is a random dot autostereogram....
Unlike most of the GOP, former first lady Laura Bush is not afraid of Trump. His policy of taking children from their parents and putting them in detention centers, she writes, is 'eerily reminiscent' of internment camps. 'Our government should not be in the business of...
Hey, remember last month when that group of United States Air Force personnel lost a box of grenades? It apparently fell off the back of a vehicle on a public road while the Airmen responsible for the grenades were being transported between one site and another. These are...
On June 20, the EU's legislative committee will vote on the new Copyright directive, and decide whether it will include the controversial 'Article 13' (automated censorship of anything an algorithm identifies as a copyright violation) and 'Article 11' (no linking to news...
dimanche 17 juin 2018, 23:28
You'll recall that self-published romance author Faleena Hopkins undertook the sociopathic step of registering a trademark on the word 'Cocky' in the titles of romance novels and then had her rivals' works removed from Amazon, threatening to sue any writer who used the...
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