After St Louis police officer Jason Stockley, killed an unarmed black man named Anthony Lamar Smith with an unauthorized AK-47, planted a pi...
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Trump OKs seismic tests in Atlantic that can harm thousands of dolphins & whales
Trump's about to make a bunch of whales, turtles, and dolphins go deaf. The Trump administration is about to take a preliminary step to...
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Astronomea: a gorgeous, handmade, astronomy inspired desk lamp
Art Donovan ( previously ) writes, "Delivered. A very special design commission for the Project Director of NASA's James Webb Space...
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Cop who shot neighbor in his own apartment indicted with murder
Amber Guyger, the Dallas cop who killed an unarmed neighbor in his own apartment then claimed she had thought she was in her apartment , wa...
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Tavi Gevinson is folding up Rookie, after seven years: part mediapocalypse, part moving on
At the age of 15, Tavi Gevinson was the prodigy founder of Rookie, a latter-day second-coming of Sassy Magazine -- a smart, funny, critical ...
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Two huge earthquakes hit near Anchorage, causing major infrastructure damage
A 7.0 earthquake hit eight miles north of Anchorage, AK this morning, followed by a 5.8 earthquake. The earthquakes caused buildings to crac...
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Hate crime numbers reach an all-time high in Canada
It's becoming more difficult by the day to recognize the nations we live in as the same ones we grew up in. Men and women, terrified of ...
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Watch: Woman whoops would-be purse snatcher's ass
There are few things more satisfying in life than watching someone who attempted to do something awful being handed their ass by their woul...
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Electric vehicle makers serving up customer location data to China on a silver platter
There's been quite a bit of bad ink surrounding Tesla electric vehicles this year: delays in production, growing rumors about subpar cus...
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Putin high-fives MBS: Russian leader and Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman bro down at G20
Watch. So chilling. Find someone who is as happy to see you as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman, who high...
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Ted Cruz whines after Trent Reznor dissed him and insists he didn't "drink all of his beer"
After Trent Reznor dissed Ted Cruz at his Nine Inch Nails concert a few days ago, telling his audience that the "pain-in-the-ass"...
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Pastor floats over congregation to deliver sermon
On Sunday, Pastor Bartholomew Orr of Southaven, Mississippi's Brown Baptist Church flew down from the rafters to deliver a sermon about...
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A list of real songs about fictional songs (e.g. "Jailhouse Rock")
On Making Light, Avram Grumer is compiling a list of real songs about fictional songs , like "The Time Warp," "Jailhouse Rock...
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New game played using sensor that you swallow
As part of their research on the future of play, RMIT University's Exertion Games Lab demonstrated a game based around an ingestible se...
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Code recreates Pfizer's 1956 effort to procedurally generate drug names
Procedural generation isn't just for video game landscapes and galaxies. The technique for creating vast amounts of realistic but uncann...
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New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape kits, then sent debt-collectors after them
New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood has concluded that seven New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape...
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Space station astronauts have a new floating AI robot companion
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have switched on CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN), a new AI companion robot bui...
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Walmart shopper shoots self in groin
Blue light special in his pants. Newsweek : The local police department tweeted on Tuesday officers were working what appeared to be a “s...
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Watch runners cheat in big Shenzhen half marathon
More than 200 runners in last weekend's big Shenzhen Half Marathon were caught cheating by traffic cameras as they snuck through trees,...
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Wild tricks advertisers use to make food look appealing
Even though now I know how it's done, that food still looks so damned delicious. (via Kottke ) from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2rfPH...
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Peak indifference has arrived: a majority of Republicans say climate change is real
Five years ago , I coined the term " peak indifference " to describe a moment when a public health problem -- like climate change,...
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Marriott-Starwood data breach: 500 million guests may be affected, hackers active since 2014
How bad is the Marriott/Starwood breach disclosed today? "Unauthorized access to the Starwood network since 2014 … For approximately 32...
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Trump-Putin meeting at G20 is...back on? Says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
It's on? After important legal news in the Trump-Russia investigation broke on Thursday, Donald Trump canceled a planned one-on-one meet...
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Conan's Japanese rent-a-family is told to laugh at all his jokes
You may remember that, in Japan, you can rent fake family members to fight loneliness (or for other reasons, like you want your kid to have...
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DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather fined over posts promoting fraud-tainted cryptocurrency
DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather both pitched deals to their followers, but did not disclose or admit they were paid to do so. Both are being ...
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Man made $2500 in a day buying Monopoly for Millenials at Walmart and selling them online
Monopoly for Millenials , an edition of the game noted for its surprisingly contemptuous mockery of younger generations, was perfectly-des...
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The EU took the word "filters" out of the Copyright Directive, but it's still all about filters
Some drafts of Article 13 of the pending EU Copyright Directive no longer contain the word "filters" -- because the world's l...
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An online market of goods made by the XOXO community
Want to skip Amazon and support independent artists this holiday season? Head to the online market put together by the good folks of the XO...
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Marriott admits hack exposing "as many as 500 million" travelers
Stayed at a Starwood hotel in the last five years or so? Every one of you— as many as 500 million people, says owner Marriott —are implicate...
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Fancy apothecary-style jars to hold your peyote, hash, LSD, and shrooms
These porcelain druggist jars by Jonathan Adler are certainly conversation starters but do you really want to label your drug stash so obvi...
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How to wrap a gift without tape
The best part of this marvelous guide is the " draw the rest of the owl " moment halfway in where you must perform an act of ori...
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The Dyslexie Font makes reading easier for people with dyslexia
They say to create solutions for the problems you have and that's just what graphic designer Christian Boer did. He has dyslexia and, fo...
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One More For the Road: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats are back!
Back in 2007, Adam " Apelad " Koford created a marvellous, funny, weird alternate history for the then-viral phenomenon of LOLcats...
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Calamityware now makes porcelain ornaments with its signature disaster scenes
If you're not familiar with Don Moyer's Calamityware , you should be. His series of blue-and-white porcelain pieces look like ordina...
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Internet of Shit mattress is stuffed with sensors, including a microphone, and you consent to being spied on by setting it up and sleeping on it
Sleepnumber is an adjustable "smart" mattress whose sensor-package include a microphone and weight sensors; the microphone collect...
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Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT)
Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros because he gave a speech boldly critical of the social media giant as a “menac...
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