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jeudi 6 juin 2019, 14:55
Australia 'may well be the world's most secretive democracy,' writes Damien Cave in The New York Times. It's cracking down on journalism that embarrasses the government, using arrests, raids and expansive warrants to chill reporting to an alarming extent. The journalist...
Quick Fix is an art installation—a vending machine—that sells likes and followers for your social media accounts. The products in the machine are easy to change. It can sell likes and followers for the following platforms: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. The coin...
You can't get close to God on commercial. Prosperity gospel preacher and measles aficionado Kenneth Copeland is closing in on his first billion dollars made. “If I flew commercial, I’d have to stop 65 percent of what I’m doing, that’s the main reason,” he said....
Just because you're roughing it outdoors doesn't mean you need to make things any rougher. The next time you're out camping, feel free to assert your status as a tool-using biped - and boy, do we have the best tools. Here are eight pieces of essential gear for survival or...
Japanese artist/musician doooo created this fantastically creepy coin purse so he can really put his money where his mouth is. Previous works include the flesh phone case and a finger hanko (stamp), below. 人肉小銭入れ作りました pic.twitter.com/k6SIDETWD5— doooo...
On Memorial Day weekend, this 8.5-million-pound boulder rolled off a cliff and destroyed part of a highway between Cortez and Telluride, Colorado. Blowing it up to clear the way would cost the state $200,000 so instead Governor Jared Polis turned the bug into a feature. The ...
Oakland, California is now the second city in the United States, following Denver last month, to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms. Oakland City Council unanimously passed the resolution on Tuesday. From NPR: Oakland's resolution is broader than Denver's. Denver's...
mercredi 5 juin 2019, 22:00
Federal convict and Trump crony Paul Manafort is to be held in solitary confinement at the notorious Riker's Island prison while he faces trial for fraud in a New York court (solitary confinement is standard procedure for high-profile prisoners); Congresswoman Alexandria...
A new Pew Research Center survey out Wednesday says 50% of Americans think made-up news is a very big problem today. That's more than the 46% who said the same about climate change. The survey, which you can read in full here, also found that 68% of Americans say made-up...
They demonetized Stephen Crowder for 'egregious actions.' Then they said he can re-monetize if he stops selling those SOCIALISM IS FOR FAGS t-shirts. Canada-based hate personality Steven Crowder won't be able to earn more of Google's money from his YouTube channel after a...
Philadelphia's Mutter Museum (previously) is one of my favorite museums in the world: built from the private collection of pathologist Dr Thomas Dent (who aggregated the collections of many other pathologists), it is a solemn and moving place to see the incredible breadth of ...
CNC Kitchen's 18-minute video on nozzle wear in 3D printing involves sending abrasive filaments (the abrasiveness comes from pigments and additives like carbon fiber, etc) through a variety of nozzles (mostly cheap ones from China), then measuring the results with a...
Do you want to paint your house the color of cyberspace? Sherwin Williams has you covered (also available: 'Web gray, African grey, software, network gray, grey screen.' (via Bruce Sterling)
A 1997 New Jersey law allows telcoms companies to stop paying taxes while continuing their access to municipal infrastructure (poles, land, lines, etc) if they serve fewer than 51% of the people in a city; in 2008, Verizon started to claim this exemption, by 2015, it was...
Tinder has been added to the Russian 'Register of Information Dissemination Organizations,' a regulatory designation that requires companies to turn over user data on request, without a warrant, to Russian law-enforcement and state agencies (America has a similar regime with ...
Last week, Geraldine DeRuiter tweeted a short, sharp alternate character arc for The Joker: 'The Joker should have been a woman. And she finally went insane because too many random dudes told her to smile, so now she perpetually smiles while terrorizing Gotham.' The tweet...
I hope Funko Lion Force Voltron is the only Voltron Funko makes! I seriously can not remember the name of a single member of the Voltron Vehicle Force. That show was trash. Funko Pop 6' Animation: Voltron-Voltron Collectible Figure via Amazon
Every year, activist investors try to get Mark Zuckerberg to resign for the good of the company, citing his incompetent handling of the company's endless string of privacy scandals and his inability to steer the business towards a scandal-free, sustainable future: in 2018,...
LA has the nation's worst homelessness problem, a (literal) epidemic so terrible it distorts the national statistics. Unsurprisingly, LA is also home to a speculator-driven real-estate bubble (badly exacerbated by Airbnb), which has placed affordable housing outside of the ...
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