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vendredi 31 octobre 2025, 17:50
A Tennessee man spent 37 days in jail for reposting a Facebook meme. Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer, was arrested in late September after sharing a meme referencing a school shooting while commenting on the murder of Charlie Kirk. — Read the rest The...
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, is defending the platform against Elon Musk's cartoonishly vapid attacks. In a recent New York Times interview, Wales dismisses Musk's accusation that Wikipedia is 'woke' by pointing to the site's actual mechanisms for transparency. 'You...
Democrats 66 (D66), a liberal centrist party, has narrowly beaten Geert Wilders' right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands' general election. With all but a few thousand votes yet to be counted, D66 will receive 27 seats to PVV's 26—a sharp decline for the...
Author, editor, activist, and podcaster Susie Bright is one of the smartest and funniest people I know. I think I first came across her work in The Whole Earth Review in the late 1980s. After that, we often participated in many of the same forums on The Well and became...
Budimir Šobat set a world record by holding his breath underwater for 24 minutes and 37 seconds. According to Outside Online, Šobat, who lives in Croatia, trained for years, motivated by caring for his daughter, born with brain damage and later diagnosed with autism. —...
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Miles Edelsten, a former Associated Press journalist, has created a video guide for navigating Tokyo's Kabukicho district, one of the world's largest red-light districts. His walk-and-talk documentary draws on years of reporting to explain the unique dangers lurking in this...
Puppy slayer Kristi Noem swears no American citizens have been detained in Trump's immigration crackdown. This is a bold statement considering ICE's own files read like a Kafka anthology. From Miami to Montana, hundreds of U.S. citizens have been jailed, deported, or...
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania told Bill Maher that his stroke made him 'free' to say whatever he believes, which apparently means quoting the Joker, mocking Gaza protesters, and embracing border crackdowns. The man once hailed as a tattooed progressive is now the...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to have streamlined its operations: arrest the parents, forget the child. Witnesses in Aurora, Illinois, say ICE agents detained a couple and then left their toddler in the car: alone, crying, and confused. For an agency that insists ...
England has Stonehenge. Virginia has Foamhenge — a life-sized replica built entirely from styrofoam by artist Mark Cline. The idea struck him in 1998 when he spotted 16-foot-tall foam blocks at a local insulation manufacturer. Six years later, on April Fool's Day 2004,...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is widely considered the weakest entry in the long-running series. It's less 'cute life simulator' and more 'cute endless grind,' putting quite a bit of time into maintaining the aesthetic of Animal Crossing while leaving the gameplay sorely...
Strike 3 Holdings is often in the news for suing downloaders of the pornographic movies it owns, and whoever there monitors IP addresses must have thought it was Christmas: a network of thousands of IP addresses that ultimately led to the corporate network of Meta, the...
A company named 'The Knights of Ni' in apparent tribute to Monty Python and the Holy Grail was charged with Medicaid fraud, reports The Alaska Beacon. A criminal complaint filed in Anchorage's district court details seven counts including a scheme to defraud, first-degree...
A Kentucky woman who ordered medicine opened the package to find that it contained 'arms and fingers,' reports Fox 19 News there. It sounds like the setup to a bad joke—'the mistake involved an airline company, a freight company and a courier'—and no further details are...
jeudi 30 octobre 2025, 23:14
The U.S.'s Mariner 2 flew by in 1972. In 1975, a Soviet Venera probe was the first to return an image from the surface of another world, but in Venus's hellish atmosphere functioned for only a few seconds. Since then, there were more successful Soviet and American trips, the ...
TL;DR: Windows 10 is officially dead, so keep your PC alive with Windows 11 Pro for just $14.97. Windows 10 is basically a zombie OS now; no more updates, no more patches, and definitely no more protection. If you're still running it, it's time to move on before hackers...
Prince Andrew, who would now be king now had brother Charles been hit a little harder by that bus in the 1960s, will lose his formal princely title and must vacate the Royal Lodge. He will be known henceforth as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. — Read the rest The post Prince...
While millions of Americans wait for paychecks that aren't coming, FBI Director Kash Patel apparently decided that a romantic weekend in Pennsylvania was a matter of national security. Patel hitched a ride on a taxpayer-funded jet to see his girlfriend perform at a wrestling ...
Forty-two million Americans will lose SNAP benefits on November 1st as the federal government shutdown continues, NPR reports. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent letters to states on October 10 telling them to halt November distributions due to insufficient funds. SNAP...
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