Despite gains over the past century in the area of equal rights, equal pay and, in some regions, not having some assclown with a penis dicta...
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Zombie Dancing Squid!
I hate to yuck you out before the holidays … … and I really love Japan … … but this is just gross. It’s a Japanese delicacy called “Katsu...
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Happy Nuke Year! U.S. Strategic Command tweets nuclear war joke on New Year's Eve
Man, the Trump administration's recklessness really makes people feel like they can just say whatever they want with no consequences. ...
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Detaining immigrants is big business
Here's who is getting rich off Trump's immigrant detention camps. A new Daily Beast investigation reveals new details about just ...
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Arizona: People are violently attacking driverless cars from Google/Alphabet's Waymo
People in Arizona are attacking self-driving cars rocks, knives, guns and their own vehicles, with a message to the automated car companies ...
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Man with knife makes bomb threat at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport - suspect 'overpowered'
A man with knife a who made a bomb threat at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam has been 'overpowered' by Dutch police forces, per report...
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Texas: Large Infant Son breaks hospital newborn weight record at 15 pounds
This baby set a hospital weight record at birth. Of course it happened in Texas. Mother and child are reported by CNN to be healthy. CNN ...
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Video: Red Rose Tattoo offers to cover up racist ink at no charge in a stand against hate
Billy Joe White, the owner of Red Rose Tattoo in Zanesville, Ohio is taking a stand against hate. Red Rose Tattoos has an open door polic...
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Iran sacks state TV chief after uncensored broadcast of Jackie Chan sex scene
A broadcast of the 2009 crime drama The Shinjuku Incident cost an Iranian TV chief his job last week, reports the BBC . He forgot to censor...
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San Diego is America's safest city, but Republicans keep claiming that the US-Mexican border is responsible for "gangs, drugs, human trafficking and massive crime"
San Diego and Tijuana are practically a single city, separated by a border, which Donald Trump wants to close, claiming that "The most ...
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In the future we might paint our homes with dead Christmas trees
Lots of folks celebrate Christmas by stashing their presents under the same reusable plastic and aluminum wire Christmas tree every winter: ...
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Video from the launch of the EFF/McSweeney's "End of Trust" project launch with Cindy Cohn, Annalee Newitz, and me!
The End of Trust is the first-ever nonfiction issue of McSweeney's, co-edited by McSweeney's editors and the staff of the Electron...
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White Mirror: How did Microsofts 2009 predictions for the world of 2019 hold up?
In 2009, Microsoft produced a video imagining the world of 2019. They did well with the software aspects of touchscreen interfaces and mach...
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Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years!
Every year, Jennifer Jenkins and Jamie Boyle from the Duke Center for the Public Domain compile a "Public Domain Day" list ( previ...
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The Chinese government is putting tracking chips into school uniforms to watch every move kids make
Just when you thought that the Chinese government's extensive surveillance of the country's citizens couldn't get any creepier o...
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Fallen officer honored
Detective Deirdre Mengedoht was killed when a truck crashed into her police cruiser on Christmas Eve. Some local news outlets experienced ...
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Weekend Tunes: DeVotchKa – Straight Shot
DeVotchKa's latest album, This Night Falls Forever , has been on near constant rotation in our home since I picked it up a few weeks ag...
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Pipes under Portland produce power while they deliver water to homes and businesses
Apparently, this story popped up back in 2015, but it's so cool that it's still worth reading about now: the city of Portland, Oreg...
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Prominent newspapers across the United States come under cyberattack
2018 has been a dangerous year for those who bring us the news: according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 129 journalists were kill...
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Protests after violent seizure of Peking University's Marxist Society
The Marxist Society of Peking University were getting ready to celebrate Mao's 125th birthday when the university administration abruptl...
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Guillotine Watch: weighing the pros and cons of keeping your art collection on your super-yacht
Writing in The Art Newspaper, Andrea Marechal Watson enumerates the up- and down-sides of keeping your millions in art treasures aboard you...
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Scratch is hiring an executive director
Scratch creator Mitchel Resnick -- head of the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindgergarten Group -- writes, "Until now, Scratch has been...
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Barack Obama lists his favorite books, music, and movies of 2018
President Barack Obama released his annual list of favorite books, movies, and songs on his Facebook page yesterday. Remember when we had an...
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Doctor says 'selfie wrist' injuries are on the rise
I'm feeling sad for humanity. "Selfie wrist" is a thing. According to CBSNewYork , San Francisco doctor Levi Harrison is see...
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Teddy Ruxpin won't leave my tortured brain alone
Just now, I tried to recall what I had for lunch the other day. I had to wrestle with it for a few moments before I was able to pin a chick...
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Tesla adds farting mode and other Easter eggs in latest firmware update
Teslas now have built-in "whoopie cushions" thanks to a new firmware update. The vehicles can now make farting noises on demand o...
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Kevin Spacey's creepy Frank Underwood video: now with Director's Commentary
This director's commentary of the bizarre Kevin Spacey video that heralded his being charged with felony indecent assault and battery ...
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More videos from our University of Chicago interdisciplinary seminar series: "Censorship and Information Control"
Between September and December, I collaborated with science fiction writer and Renaissance historian Ada Palmer and science historian Adria...
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How a millionaire slumlord got sweetheart government deals to maintain armed forces housing and then left them to rot
John Picerne is a hereditary one-percenter whose contribution to his family legacy of "real estate development" was to spend milli...
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Find the cuss words in these delightfully subversive 'swearing patterns'
This week, on the same day, I had not one but two friends tell me about designer Sonia Harris' "swearing patterns." Of course,...
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Rug pattern looks like Pennywise
Reddit user Sneegles spotted the unpleasant clown, Pennywise, from Stephen King's It hiding in a rug pattern. Pattern in rug looks li...
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'Metal from the Dirt' - Cool profile of Navajo metalheads, and Diné metal shows on the rez
There's a not-to-be missed profile in High Country News on Diné heavy metal bands on and around the Navajo Nation in Arizona, with inc...
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Doubletree Portland apologizes to racially harassed guest Jermaine Massey, manager will investigate
Paul Peralta, the general manager of the Portland Doubletree where Jermaine Massey, 34, was racially harassed , apologized today. In a stat...
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Trump's shutdown will close Smithsonian Museums, National Zoo, and more
If the government shutdown extends beyond New Year's Day, Donald Trump's political tantrum will close the Smithsonian museums and th...
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Medieval peasant food was frigging delicious
Hollywood would have you believe that if you lived during medieval times and didn't have the good fortune to be born into a noble famil...
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Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook's horrible year was actually pretty good
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on Friday: “proud of the progress we've made.” Yes, they really are that deluded. In his post on Faceboo...
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White House tells furloughed workers to exchange manual labor for their rent
Nearly 800,000 people are hurting financially because of the government shutdown, according to NBC : 420,000 federal employees must continue...
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Trump admin to unpaid federal workers who can't make rent: Try bartering or begging!
The Trump administration is advising people who work for the federal government, who are not getting paid due to Trump's stupid governme...
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The best maker YouTube channels
Over at Cool Tools, Kevin Kelly reviews over 40 YouTube video channels by makers, experimenters, and explainers. It's a great list. I...
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