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jeudi 13 mars 2025, 18:24
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently announced the passing of Mark Klein, the AT&T whistleblower who exposed the NSA's mass surveillance program nearly two decades ago. Klein worked as a telecommunications technician at AT&T for 22 years when he discovered...
Convicted felon #47 is enacting a disruptive, potentially disastrous, campaign of vengeance over Maine Governor Janet Mills insistance upon complying with the law. Maine has two transgender athletes. Bigoted Donald Trump wants to service his angry MAGA base and insisted...
Watch as Aggie the cat is reunited with her owner, 82-year-old Katherine Kiefer. 'The one thing my mom asked was: 'Did you get Aggie?' Carolyn recalls. Many pet owners struggled to reach their domesticated animals during the frantic rush to evacuate from the wildfire...
Since 1882, Manhattan has been pumping hot steam through a 105-mile network of underground pipes to heat buildings. According to Jamie Rumbelow writing in Works in Progress: Steam functions like any other utility: produced centrally, metered, and delivered into homes and...
Having swallowed the pill Democratic consultants are selling about abandoning the progressive left, term-limited California Governor Gavin Newsom is suddenly chummy with noted anti-semites and conspiracy theorists. Gov. Newsom has a new podcast. He has already...
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk take a chainsaw to jobs and the economy, Senator Tommy Tuberville hopes to shred the First Amendment by outlawing protests — at least the ones he doesn't agree with. 'When it comes to protestors, we gotta make sure we treat all of them the...
Alan Slattery, 67, took it upon himself to rob the Nationwide Building Society in Eastbourne, England, but the handwriting in his demand note was so bad that staff there could not decipher it and he left empty-handed. An attempt at the St. — Read the rest The post Bank...
Elon Musk is an overwhelmingly successful entrepreneur with the gift of the gab, but even the 'weird nerd' of internet lore knows now that he was never an engineering genius or even a competent programmer. If his technical reputation took years to fade, all it took for the...
Carl Lundstrom, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, died Tuesday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Slovenia. Lundstrom was the site's Nazi sugar daddy; the more likeable co-founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm were its operators and front men. —...
When baseball hat company New Era released a new line of 'Overlap' hats, bearing a Major League Baseball team's logo overlapping with its home city/state, it must have thought it had a cute innovation in the baseball apparrel field. What they didn't realize is that the...
Back in May 2021, we brought you news that might have left you feeling deflated: COVID-19 can cause erectile dysfunction (ED). The study we cited, published in May of 2021 in The World Journal of Men's Health, was the first to 'demonstrate the presence of the COVID-19...
Will there ever be another game like Disco Elysium? Two competing game studios have simultaneously answered yes, but I'm not so sure. It is hands down one of the best RPGs ever made, at once darkly comic and fiercely, bitingly poignant, but its studio all but fell apart...
According to the University of Colorado Health (UCHealth) system, a concerning number of individuals are confusing nail glue or eyelash glue for eye drops and, well, you can imagine the rest. 'There are times when we have to cut the lashes if they're glued together, and...
TL;DR: Choose from 56 different languages to learn from (or master them all!) for a one-time price of $39.99 with Qlango Language Learning (reg. $119). Whether you hope to brush up on that language you learned in high school after someone asks, 'Hablas espanol?' — Read the...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sounded the alarm on Donald Trump's zealous tariff push, telling CNN today, in part, 'The economy is weakening as we speak.' 'The collective impact in the short run is that people are pausing, they're pulling back,' the conservative billionaire said...
For two decades, a big boulder sat in the corner of the main office at Bileola state high school in Queensland, Australia. Now, scientists discovered that the boulder boasts more than 60 fossilized dinosaur footprints from 47 different dinosaurs. And it was all hiding in...
mercredi 12 mars 2025, 20:19
You've seen it countless times: A person in a movie holds binoculars up to their eyes and the scene shifts to show what they're supposedly seeing. But it isn't quite right. Instead of showing one clear image, we sees two separate circles, which is not what happens in real...
Last month, Donald Trump was full of bravado as he told reporters that the U.S. 'would take over the Gaza Strip' and turn it into a resort. And to fulfill his dream, he said he would 'resettle people permanently.' He even promoted his fantasized Trump Gaza resort in a...
Scientists have finally solved the mystery of the physics behind the sound you hear when you clap your hands! The mechanism at work is a Helmholtz resonator—the same effect you get when you blow across the top of a bottle and produce a sound. — Read the rest The post A...
Bluey and Cocomelon are the top kids' animated shows worldwide. Bluey is a hand-made family soap that appeals to children and adults alike and layers relatable tales with observational humor and craft. Cocomelon is crude 'algorithmic slop' whose creators proudly optimize for ...
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