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Beatings—er, bonuses will continue at Palantir until morale improves

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Morale is so bad at Palantir, they're slashing their stock price. In addition to cheaper stock options, the data-mining company is also ...

Stock art for a new Gilded Age

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From Spitalfields Life, a scanned set of "elegant cartoons of Regency bankers from 1824 by Richard Dighton in the archive at the Bisho...

Afrofuturist artist creates gorgeous portraits with Deep Dreaming

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Wagner James Au sez, "AI algorithms, as AOC recently pointed out, often have a racial bias inherited by their creators, to the point wh...

Don Jr.'s blocked phone calls before Russia meeting weren't to Trump. Who'd he call?

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Don Jr.'s blocked phone calls right before that “Russian adoptions” meeting with Manafort and the sketchy Russians were not calls to his...

Mueller seized terabytes of data from Roger Stone

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In a federal court filing making the rounds on Thursday, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller says the evidence seized from Roger St...

Charter slashes network spending by $2B, but makes up for it by charging its customers more

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When Trump FCC Chairman (and former telcoms executive) Ajit Pai murdered Net Neutrality, he told us the slaughter was necessary, otherwise t...

Must-have travel gear - inexpensive zipper bags

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Ever since I started using these nylon mesh zipper bags , my travel experience has improved. I have one bag for paper stuff and pens, one fo...

Billionaire "centrist" Howard Schultz tweets column calling Elizabeth Warren "Fauxcahontas"

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Howard Schultz, the Starbucks billionaire and aspiring independent presidential candidate, tweeted a link to a column describing Democrat ca...

The FBI invented a fictitious "abortion extremist" movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it

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Anti-abortion extremists are among the most violent domestic terrorists in America, having murdered and attempted to murder dozens of people...

Warm up with unusual international warm drinks like cheesy coffee and honey-and-bacon brandy

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What makes Ringo a great drummer?

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A German drummer named Sina has a popular YouTube channel about drumming. In this video she demonstrates why Ringo Starr was a great drumme...

Watch: Inebriated gentleman and 2 cops fight and tumble down arena seats during sports game

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An obnoxious gentleman at a Miami Heat game Wednesday who was shouting at people around him didn't take kindly to a couple of police of...

Mallwave: nostalgic synth music for imaginary and abandoned shopping centers

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Mallwave is a microgenre of bedroom electronic music and smooth jazz meant to evoke nostalgia for the vibrant mall scenes of the 1980s and ...

50 examples of product packaging designed to deceive you

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One lesson to be learned from this gallery of 50 evil packages is to peer through the transparent parts of the box at an angle to see what...

This was the first US mainstream television commercial featuring a gay couple

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In 1994, Ikea ran this television commercial in major East Coast US markets. (Interestingly, the commercial's art director was Patrick ...

Ariana Grande's amended tattoo now reads "BBQ finger"

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Ariana Grande got a kanji tattoo on her palm she thought meant "seven rings," but actually means "small charcoal grill."...

Drug trafficker alters fingerprints with skin implants and evades capture for 15 years

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A drug trafficker was able to hide from authorities for 15 years by, incredibly, replacing the skin on his fingertips with micro-implants. T...

In 4 minutes, 100 people explain how they got their scars

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"My child bit me." "I had a boyfriend who punched me in the face." "I tried to cut myself." "Broke my fe...

Woman with wet hair walks outside in the midwest, hair freezes

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Wattie Buchan no doubt envious of how easy it was for this woman to style her hair in subzero weather. leaving the house with wet hair in ...

See Black Panther on the big screen for free

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Black Panther, on the heels of its SAG win and seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, will play for free at 250 movie theaters for ...

As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world's libraries call for its rejection

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The EU's plan to censor the internet with algorithms that block anything that might be a copyright infringement has only days to go bef...

18 months on, kids' smart watches are STILL a privacy & security dumpster-fire, and a gift to stalkers everywhere

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In late 2107, the Norwegian Consumer Council published its audit of kids' smart-watches , reporting that the leading brands allowed stra...

Great deals today on Logitech stuff at Amazon

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Logitech stuff is sharply marked down at Amazon today, so I'm going to give you my recommendations and a couple of nopes too. The links ...

Glossary of Broken Dreams: now available to stream!

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Johannes Grenzfurthner writes, "My film 'Glossary of Broken Dreams' (which is getting more and more relevant, given all the po...

Bassoon Tracker: a fully-fledged 1990s-style music tracker on the web

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For all the web's power, getting Javascript to time multitracked sample playback with the bare-metal precision of an Amiga-era tracking ...

Sinkhole turns out to be tunnel to bank

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Public works employees called to the scene of a sinkhole just north of Miami, Florida quickly found an electrical cord in the ditch. Turns ...

What your name tastes like

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Julie McDowall experiences synaesthesia, a cross-wiring of sensations where sights may have sounds, numbers may spark smells, or, in her ca...

Resident Evil 2 with the facial animation exaggerated 500%

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Resident Evil 2 is a just-released remake of the Capcom classic, updated with ultra-realistic performance-captured animation. DPO23 hacked...

Table saws are dangerous

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Crappy little table saws are marketed as cheap gifts and impulse buys by hardware stores, right there alongside drills and shop vacs. But t...

Apple’s next iPhones and iPads: Triple camera, 3-D back camera for AR, new Face ID, iOS 13 Dark Mode, new cheap iPad

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Rumor has it that Apple is testing a triple camera system for iPhones in 2019, plus other improvements including 'dark mode.' Less e...

Lawyers for Kentucky governor says Kim Davis must pay $225,000 in legal fees

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When Kim Davis was the county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, she refused a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples....

Trump's pastor to flock: Give me all your money for January or God will punish you

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Donald Trump's “prosperity gospel” spiritual advisor Paula White, a pastor who is reported to reside in an 8,000 square foot house and t...

Another Apple engineer accused of stealing autonomous vehicle secrets for China

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For the second time in 6 months, the FBI is accusing a Chinese national engineer who worked for Apple of stealing Apple trade secrets relate...

Kickstarting a gorgeous slipcased edition of War & Peace, illustrated by Dave McKean

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The next tranche of Beehive Books' Illuminated Editions are being crowdfunded now: three gorgeous, slipcased, deluxe illustrated hardco...

Google+ accounts and pages will be shut down April 2nd, says Google

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Google announced last fall it's killing off Google+ because of the social network's laughably “low usage” and “challenges involved ...

How to: make up swears

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The power of fuckbonnet, shitsquib, fuckstumbling, douchenozzle, Fuckface von Clownstick, shitwhistle, cockbucket, can be captured through a...

Hoover killed JFK, RFK & MLK, Brad Pitt’s private hell, and Mick Jagger’s mental disorder, in this week’s dubious tabloids

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Reality packed its bags, cancelled the mail, put its dog in a kennel and boarded a plane to take a long flight as far away as possible from ...

Ex-NSA American mercenaries for UAE used 'Karma' to hack journalists and human rights activists

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