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by Cory Doctorow on (#R2ZC)
From Ape Lad: "I have a shirt up for sale on Cotton Bureau for a couple weeks. Perfect for the disloyal robot in your life!"
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#R2YD)
People in Peru, who were enjoying the spectacle of a bull being tortured to death, had their fun spoiled when the bull jumped over the barrier and made them uncomfortable.
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by David Pescovitz on (#R2RA)
Brooklyn-based artist/designer Scott Albrecht created this fantastic typographical piece with Billykirk, makers of killer bags, wallets, and other leather goods. The release party is tomorrow (10/21) at the Billykirk shop in New York City's Lower East Side. The print, limited to an edition of 25, is just $40. My family has several of Scott's original artworks hanging in our home and I carry multiple Billykirk products with me every single day. I love it when my favorite talents team up."'Don't Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You' was a phrase passed on to Kirk and Chris of Billykirk by their father and I'm super honored to be able to work with them on this," Scott says.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R2RB)
Dan Gillmor has been playing with Google's new Nexus phones, the humungous 6P phablet and the smaller 5X, and he's written a shrewd and thorough review of what these phones do -- and more importantly, what they mean. (more…)
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by David Pescovitz on (#R2NM)
A battle at the Montreal Swing Riot:
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by Xeni Jardin on (#R2E7)
Amid growing fears about safety and security risks from unauthorized drone flights, federal regulators say they plan to require pretty much all recreational drones in the U.S. to be registered. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R2E9)
If you live in a state where Bill Minick and his company Partnersource has done its dirty work, your employer can opt out of Worker's Compensation plan and replace it with one designed by Minick -- he also writes state laws defining the terms for private replacements to Worker's Comp -- and backstopped by his wife Dr. Melissa Ton's medical practice, who gets to decide whether you deserve treatment. If she denies your claims, Minick's company gets a bonus from his clients. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R2CY)
Zero-days -- bugs that are unknown to both vendors and users -- are often weaponized by governments, criminals, and private arms dealers who sell to the highest bidders. The market for zero-days means that newly discovered bugs are liable to go unpatched until they are used in a high-profile cyberattack or independently discovered by researchers who'd rather keep their neighbors safe than make a profit. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R285)
In the EU and the USA, high-profile, high-budget programs are underway to simulate a human brain. While these produce some pretty pictures of simulations, they don't display much rigor or advancement of our understanding of how brains work. (more…)
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by Aaron Stewart-Ahn on (#R27P)
“If at a certain point you were into arthouse movies when you’re young, Wim Wenders was your best friend,†my friend Bilge Ebiri tells me the other day, and I can put it no better way. The German filmmaker secured a legendary reputation early on for the successive one-two hit of his widely regarded masterpieces Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire. Even now, having just celebrated his 70th birthday, he was recently Oscar-nominated for his documentaries Pina and Salt of the Earth, and continues to take photographs & write essays about art and film, with a new volume yet to be translated into English. (more…)
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by Ed Piskor on (#R26V)
Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R26E)
Michael from Muckrock writes, "MuckRock's crowdfunding campaign to fund a series of FOIA requests and an investigation into America's Private Prison industry is in its last weeks, and the project's reporter, Beryl Lipton, has put together a list factchecking the industry's primary talking points, ranging from how they end up costing tax payers more than traditional prisons to how the industry actively works to build up the market by lobbying against policies that would reduce sentences -- and their margins." (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R24N)
No one's exactly sure how fraudsters stole over $680,000 from hijacked chip-and-PIN credit cards in Belgium, because the cards are still evidence and can't be subjected to a full tear-down but based on the X-rays of the tampered cards, it's a good bet that the thieves glued a 0.3mm hobbyist FUN chip over the card's own chip, and programmed it to bypass all PIN entries. (more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#R24Q)
What's worse than courts demanding that poor people pay extortionate fines to the state for minor offense? Asking them to literally pay with their own blood.(more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#R0TT)
On Tuesday evening, Disney released the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. (more…)
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by David Pescovitz on (#R0QT)
"It’s true. All of it. The Dark Side. The Jedi. They’re real."
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by Xeni Jardin on (#R0GX)
“You can do whatever you want to him / He's a Donald Trump Sex Doll.â€(more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R0A2)
As Popehat tweeted: "The #BoycottStarWarsVII tag -- you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, plus people making fun of them." (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R08M)
Verizon got broadband franchise agreements in cities across the USA in exchange for promises to get fiber into residential homes and businesses, arguing that without the exclusive right to wire up cities without competition, it would be unable to justify the investment in new infrastructure. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R07E)
In February, the Guardian reported stories about the Holman Square, the Chicago Police Department's off-the-books black-site, where (mostly black and brown) suspects are denied counsel while being brutalized into forced confessions. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#R01Z)
Just in time for election day, the best show on late-night TV reports on the decade-long reign of error from Stephen Harper's Conservative Party, and finishes on a note of surreal triumph. (more…)
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by David Pescovitz on (#R00W)
Pizza Rat was just the most brazen example of the rats that are apparently ravaging New York City this year. Apparently it's a record year for the number of rodent complaint calls that citizens have made to the city of New York.Manhattan Upper West Side resident Nora Prentice says this about an infestation of hundreds of rats in her neighborhood park:"It's like the Burning Man of rats," she told the Associated Press. "They're just sitting there in a lawn chair waiting for you."Meanwhile city comptroller Scott Stringer has noticed that rodent evolution has apparently gone awry: "I've seen rats walking upright, saying, 'Good morning, Mr. Comptroller,'" he said. "It's unsightly to see rats running through neighborhoods like they actually bought a co-op somewhere."I suggest that the city issue every brave soul a copy of Ike Matthews' 1898 classic book "Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher After 25 Years' Experience."
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by Laura Hudson on (#QZYX)
It's easy to feel like an automaton in the world of modern office labor. The game Human Resource Machine takes that one step further, by imagining an office building that functions like an actual computer. You're an office worker who has just started working in this tower of commerce, and in order to do your job, you'll have to learn how to program it.If that sounds intimidating, it's not. Every day, your tiny, adorable employee will be asked to move various objects from an inbox to an outbox using simple commands. Over time the tasks grow more complicated—maybe you'll be asked to only move some of the boxes, or to combine them in certain ways, and you'll have to figure out how to accomplish that with the limited tools at your disposal. To make things easier, you'll be given spaces on the floor where you can store boxes (aka memory) and more commands that will allow you to manipulate the boxes in different way. Yes, it gets a little brain-melting towards the end, but take it from someone who is totally clueless about programming: actually watching your little office drone walk back and forth through every step makes it much easier to understand, even when you haven't quite figured out the solution.Human Resource Machine is the latest game from the Tomorrow Corporation, and has the same visual look (and bug-eyed protagonists) as its last release, the anti-corporate pyromania simulator Little Inferno. The same looming dystopian air permeates both, as the programming levels are occasionally interrupted by interludes that hint at a darker world outside your building, like ominous news reports about robots massing outside the city for reasons unknown. I haven't finished the game yet so I don't know exactly what it all means, but as soon as I can wrap my brain around these last three levels, I'm sure I'll find out.This certainly isn't the first game to try and teach programming principles, or the first one to point out that programming is a lot like puzzle-solving—Hack 'n' Slash, Spacechem and Code Spells come to mind. But there's something about Human Resource Machine's charming art, carefully constrained challenges and clear visualizations of complex ideas that makes it feel accessible and comprehensible to someone who might otherwise be scared off.Again, I know almost nothing about programming, but by the time I reached the more advanced levels and started constructing scripts full of conditional commands and rollercoaster loops of logic, I remember looking up at what my hands had wrought and feeling like a goddamn genius. From the perspective of a programmer I'm sure it was very simplistic, but I don't really care, because it made me feel smart and cool. If you want people to want to learn programming, is there anything more motivating than that?Human Resource Machine is available on Steam for Windows and Mac, with tablet and Wii U versions coming soon. https://youtu.be/428R_oEjGGI
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by Xeni Jardin on (#QZXT)
A pair of self-described teen stoner hackers say they breached an AOL account used by CIA Director John Brennan, the New York Post reported today.(more…)
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by Critical Distance on (#QZQW)
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a look inside the videogame concerts helping to prop up symphony orchestras, as well as a player discovering her asexuality in Borderlands.First up: at Kill Screen, Jess Joho notes how videogames are keeping the symphony orchestra from obsolescence, with the recent The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses attracting twice the amount of concert-goers than the average classical symphony event:
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by Leigh Alexander on (#QZNB)
Subterfuge is a mobile group battle among submarines, all fighting for might and territory on the bottom of the sea. One game can last around a week, during which you manipulate, negotiate and often betray your friends in an arms race for "Neptunium". You would not believe how consuming and harrowing it is—in my timezone-spanning game with several friends, our relations grew strained, people woke in the night to check the board, and some of us quit from the stress.I was a quitter. I didn't even properly use the game's "resign" function, but simply erased the app from my phone while capering around the apartment, laughing uneasily. I'm just not very good at strategy games. It's never been my genre. I struggle with number and spatial concepts; I lack a natural confidence. After being wrung raw by Subterfuge I am never going to play it again.But I think you should, even if you are like me. Everyone should have an experience of play like that just once. And the great thing about Subterfuge—the reason I really wanted to give it a try—is that it understands that my lack of acquaintance with its system is partially the genre's unconscious biases, and it's tried to do something about that.[caption id="attachment_428733" align="alignnone" width="350"] "The Admiral", from Subterfuge [/caption]It's thought that strategy games have a mostly-male audience, which is a sensible assumption, given that the player is often asked to play as a battalion of noble old white dudes of history, spreading into conquered territories. When I interviewed Susana Meza-Graham and Sara Wendel-Örtqvist of deep strategy game publisher Paradox Interactive, though, they said one of their titles in particular had a player base that was nearly 40% women, the highest of any of their games at the time—Crusader Kings 2, a game about family dynasties.Crusader Kings 2 isn't just a game about sending troops to change more chunks of the map into your own color, but instead focuses on the rulers of your territory and their families. Your king has a customizable portrait, you decide who he marries, and you watch your children squabble among themselves, one of them eventually bidding for your own throne. Hopefully they wait until you die first. It adds some color and humanity to what's normally a series of territorial calculations, and it's thought that this helps welcome more women players. Fans have even made a popular mod that breaks the game's "historically accurate" gender succession rules.[caption id="attachment_428734" align="alignnone" width="350"] Subterfuge's Engineer[/caption]Subterfuge, too, has gone to great lengths to humanize its chilly subterranean world of numbers versus numbers. It's an aesthetically-beautiful game, with abstract representations of factories, generators and undersea mines in unique colors—the kind of coffee-table style players of tablet and touch-screen games now prefer. But it's also full of frankly-awesome looking people—the game's "specialists" whom you hire for additional perks and abilities feel like fully-realized humans, and they were designed with intention.Ron Carmel, who designed the game along with Noel Llopis, has said the characters were designed to intentionally countermand stereotypes. He told me one of his goals for the game was explicitly to create women characters who were defined by non-physical attributes, even in a world where those attributes have to be communicated through a character portrait. "We want the first thing that people think to be something other than 'she's pretty' or 'she's not pretty'," he said.[caption id="attachment_428735" align="alignnone" width="350"] The General [/caption]The art you're seeing in this post is Subterfuge's specialists, each one a beautifully-drawn individual. The game is not only made more unique and attractive by its attention to diversity for both its men and women characters, but this extra focus helped invite me into a genre that usually signals that it isn't designed for me. Even though I struggled in a group of friends who play games like these more often, I was able to have a memorable and uniquely-challenging experience of play because Subterfuge made me this invitation.If you give it a try yourself, be warned: it might occupy your days and test your friendships! You can also play the game with strangers, which seems both more mysterious and less stressful—on one hand, it's tougher to estimate who you can trust in negotiations, but on the other, if you stab someone in the back you (probably) never have to talk to them again. I still haven't spoken to any of my friends since they've invaded me. Hmph![caption id="attachment_428736" align="alignnone" width="300"] The Martyr [/caption]Hey, games are cool, yeah? Check out some of my favorite character portraits from Subterfuge below, and learn more about the game here.[caption id="attachment_428737" align="alignnone" width="350"] The Minister of Energy[/caption][caption id="attachment_428738" align="alignnone" width="300"] The Foreman[/caption][caption id="attachment_428739" align="alignnone" width="350"] The Navigator[/caption][caption id="attachment_428742" align="alignnone" width="350"] The Helmsman[/caption][caption id="attachment_428743" align="alignnone" width="350"] The Princess[/caption][caption id="attachment_428744" align="alignnone" width="300"] The Revered Elder[/caption][caption id="attachment_428745" align="alignnone" width="350"] The Sentry [/caption]
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#QZFF)
We recently got a new car, and I opted not to get the built-in car navigation. It's never as good as Waze, Google maps, or iPhones. It's a waste of money. My wife is the primary driver of the car and she hasn't been happy with any of the phone mounts she tried. So on the weekend I got the Spigen Air Vent Magnetic Car Mount Holder for $7 on Amazon and I think it is going to do the trick. I like it so much I bought another one for our other car. The mount attaches to the car's air vent and has a strong neodymium magnet in it. The kit comes with two very thin metal plates (0.013 inches thick according to my digital caliper) with adhesive so you can stick them on the back of your phone or the case. The phone feels secure when you put in on the mount. I like this much more than the springy pinchers my other phone mounts use. At $7, this was a great deal.
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by Jason Weisberger on (#QZE1)
There was some serious excitement in our home this weekend, as my daughter and I prepared to watch Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal, and then the Season Two opener.Star Wars: Rebels may be my very favorite storyline in the Star Wars universe, and Season 2 starts off with a bang! Rebels rejoins the dissatisfied crew of the Ghost several years after the fall of the Republic, as their struggle against the Empire continues! This is a dark time for the galaxy and a worse one for the Rebels, as they've caught the attention of Darth Vader.This is no later-in-life, maybe considering the path he's taken, willing to hear Luke's pleading Darth Vader. This is Vader at the very prime of his evil! A Vader who orders mass murder like it is just another Tuesday. The Vader we knew existed but barely got to see. Darth Vader.This is my favorite cast of Star Wars characters. The writers are doing an amazing job at growing them, and bringing back some folks we really wanted to see. I haven't been this excited about a TV series in a while. C1-10P, Zeb, Hera, Sabine and Kanan Jarrus are wonderful! Ezra is your stock Star Wars whiny teen dude about to become a Jedi, but they seem to be trying to develop him.Siege of Lothal is a wonderful 44 minute mini-movie that sets the new season up beautifully. Season 2 is now airing Wednesdays on Disney XD, but as I watch everything via the internets I'm streaming from Amazon.We'll be waiting for each episode!Star Wars Rebels: the Siege of Lothal via Amazon InstantStar Wars Rebels Volume 2 via Amazon Instant
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by Wink on (#QZBG)
See more photos at Wink Fun.Pengoloo is a fun game that encourages memory and color recognition. Young players will love the game design, with 12 adorable penguin characters and colored eggs (6 colors, 2 of each). The penguins are hollowed out wood pieces that sit on top of the eggs to hide them. Players take turns rolling two colored dice to determine what color they’re looking for. Then they pick up two penguins to see if the eggs underneath match the dice. You put matching penguins on your iceberg scoreboard; the winner is the first player to fill their iceberg (or whoever has the most after all the penguins have been picked). The game gets more fun as you try to memorize egg locations to gain an advantage.Both kids and adults will enjoy Pengoloo. Kids get a kick out of the cute little penguins and the thrill of finding the right color egg. Even children who don’t fully grasp the memory aspects of the game will enjoy playing with the penguins. Adults will like playing a game without having to compensate for their child’s lack of skill; luck is just as important as memory and it’s entirely possible for your child to win just by picking up penguins at random. This makes the game enjoyable for children of all ages and skill levels.The game is also well put together for something so simple: you get 12 penguins, 12 eggs, 4 scoring icebergs, and 2 dice in the box. All the pieces are made out of a sturdy wood that holds up well after several games. Pengoloo is sure to make a great addition to any family game night!– Alex StrinePengoloo
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#QZ8Y)
Fiverr.com is a website where people will do all sorts of things for as little as $5. People will draw illustrations, fix problems with website code, promote things on their blog, or compose a podcast jingles. Some people offer to write a 5-star review for any book or product on Amazon for $5. It is against Amazon's rules to write shill reviews, and now more than 1000 alleged shill reviewers are getting sued. Amazon has sued websites that offer shill reviews in the past, but this is the first time the company has gone after individuals.From CNN:
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#QZ7J)
https://youtu.be/Y_b2i_FvYPw"One month a year, giant Himalayan bees, the biggest bees in the world, come to collect nectar from a poisonous flower, giving the honey they make certain medicinal, aphrodisiac, and hallucinogenic properties."In this short documentary, filmmaker Raphael Treza meets with a Nepalese tribe to learn about this honey, and how they use it. During the making of the film, the translator eats too much of the honey and falls unconscious.(more…)
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#QZ5F)
Accuracy in Media (AIM) has removed Wayne Simmons (62) from its Benghazi commission after he was arrested on "charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government," including allegedly falsely claiming he worked for the CIA, reports Media Matters. Simmons is the guy who scared the wits out of Fox news viewers by telling them fantastical tales such as the one about "at least 19 paramilitary Muslim training facilities in the United States."Simmons was a frequent guest on Fox News, where he pridefully boasted about his expertise as a former CIA officer, while Fox News anchors like Neal Cavuto lapped it up. Now Simmons is sitting in jail, facing 35 years in federal prison. The charges against him include major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government.The wire fraud charge alleges that Simmons "defrauded an individual victim out of approximately $125,000 in connection with a bogus real estate investment."AIM describes Simmons as having "spent 27 years working with the CIA to combat terrorism, narcoterrorism and narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling, counterfeiting, cyber-terrorists, and industrial and economic espionage," and that he "has been a Terrorism Analyst for the Fox News Channel since 2002."Fox News spokesperson Irena Briganti told CNN that he "was never a contributor for Fox News," and described hims as a "non-paid guest."
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by David Pescovitz on (#QZ5G)
Mudhoney, the Seattle punk band that emerged in the late 1980s from the ashes of Green River and inspired the entire "grunge" genre, are performing a livestreaming concert today at 2pm PDT on PressureDrop.tv. To whet your appetite, above is Mudhoney's classic "Touch Me I'm Sick" (1988). (Thanks, David Katznelson!)
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by David Pescovitz on (#QZ3S)
This looks much more fun to me than whatever's coming next year. (YouTube)
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by Glenn Head on (#QZ2A)
An excerpt from the new book Chicago, "A Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Young Virgin Living in Suburbia, Featuring Cameo Appearances by R. Crumb, Muhammad Ali and the Author’s Suicidal Thoughts." Published by Fantagraphics.
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by Jackie Fuchs on (#QZ0G)
Actually, there are a lot of things men shouldn’t say to women in bed. But it’s this innocent-sounding statement that wounds us most:“That’s never happened before.â€Sooner or later, “it†– erectile dysfunction – happens to pretty much every sexually active male on the planet. For one reason or another, you just aren’t feeling it.If erectile dysfunction is long-term, it’s time to see a doctor. But short-term erectile dysfunction (short-term ED), while potentially embarrassing, isn’t serious. In fact, it is considered normal for a man to have trouble getting or maintaining an erection as much as 20 percent of the time.Numerous factors can lead to short-term ED, including stress, anxiety, fatigue, alcohol or medications.But still… you’re embarrassed. You don’t want your partner to think she’s chosen a lemon. So you say those four or five innocent-sounding little words: “That’s never happened before.â€Only here’s what we hear:“I’ve been able to get it up for every other woman I’ve been with. You’re the first woman I haven’t been able to perform with.â€In other words, it’s us, not you.Even if it is, however, we don’t need to hear it. Telling us just makes you a total dick.So, how can you express to us what’s going on in way that lets us know it’s not something we did, or worse, who we are?The key is to examine the situation honestly and try to determine what’s going on.Are you tired, stressed or anxious? We understand that. You can tell us. You don’t even have to be specific. Were you with us on a rebound? We won’t be thrilled, but we understand that, too.Even if you simply changed your mind before you got us home, make it about the situation, not about us personally: “I saw you in the bar and you really turned me on. But now that I’ve sobered up/had time to think about it, I’m not really comfortable doing it like this. It feels disrespectful.†(You don’t have to say to whom). Let’s face it -- you made a mistake. So find some deeper truth.Because if you say nothing but those four or five words we find so awful, we will carry around the certainty that we’re unattractive, or we have a terrible personality, or we smell bad, or we look fat or old without our clothes. To put it bluntly, we become convinced we’re unfuckable.You’ll be home in a few minutes or a few hours. Your momentary embarrassment – (it is momentary, right? If not, it’s time to see a doctor) – is, to us, a statement on our worth. We’ll remember it. We’ll remember you. Your temporary embarrassment becomes memorable.So, guys… tell us about your shitty day. Tell us you’d rather hang out and get to know us first. Tell us you’d be thinking about your ex and feel really guilty afterwards. Tell us anything.Just don’t tell us it’s never happened before.
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#QYXK)
https://youtu.be/zgat4a1TrEMOgo is a battery powered wheelchair that has a hands-free control system. The creator says people can even mow their lawn while sitting in it. They say "we are currently in the preproduction set up, and are expected to be up and going soon." (Thanks, Matthew!)
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#QYVJ)
https://youtu.be/9PprNdIKRawThis walking robot has its own eye in the sky - a flying drone that surveys the landscape to give it the best path to get from point A to point B.
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by Rob Beschizza on (#QYNY)
These $40 stickers go onto your high-end and give it a wonderful new look. There's an entire collection of the coatings, in fact, designed to look "leathered" but which, with that faintly glistening texture, are inevitably reminiscent of mammalian excrement. This is the second-best way I can think of to hide the value of expensive lenses in plain sight. Peel on, peel off!
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by Richard Kaufman on (#QYP0)
Imagine this flying down the street after you on a dark Halloween night, while you run screaming and drop all your candy! [via Popular Mechanics]
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by Cory Doctorow on (#QYH9)
When the wonderful science fiction writer Ellen Klages (previously) tells a fantastic tale about a shuttered library where seven eternal librarians tend the shelves, it doesn't come out reminiscent of Borges's library, nor Pratchett's -- rather, like all of Klages's work, it becomes a story about human affection and destiny. (more…)
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by Futility Closet on (#QYHB)
In the 1850s, settlers in western Nevada were cut off from the rest of the world each winter by deep snow. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll learn about their lifeline, Norwegian immigrant John Thompson, who for 20 years carried mail, medicine, and supplies through 90 miles of treacherous snowdrifts on a pair of homemade skis.We'll also hear listener contributions regarding prison camp escape aids in World War II and puzzle over how lighting a cigarette results in a lengthy prison sentence.Show notesPlease support us on Patreon!
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by Rob Beschizza on (#QYGB)
Someone has put high-quality signs on park benches in a fancy British town to mock its contemptuous treatment of locals, especially the poor. The signs have been removed, on the grounds that they might be "offensive."
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by Rob Beschizza on (#QYBV)
Cracked's Adam Tod Brown takes us through the evidence that cheesy 1990s Scandinavian pop band Ace of Base are obviously, totally a Nazi band. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#QY12)
Philippe Lang is looking for $140,863 from fellow Amiga enthusiasts, which he'll spend producing a run of new cases for Amiga (and Amiga-alike) computers, in 12 colors of UV-resistant plastic. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#QXZH)
Harvard Medical School's Per-Olof Hasselgren moved from Sweden to the USA more than 30 years ago, and ever since he got here, he's been noting down the large and bizarre universe of anatomical idioms in the glorious hairball that is the English language. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#QXYF)
The Guardian's story about wealth therapists, who help one percenters cope with the stress of being rich in an era of widening wealth inequality, features quotes from some really awful-sounding, clueless people who compare the plight of the wealthy to the discrimination experienced by black people. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#QVY9)
In IEMI Threats for Information Security: Remote Command Injection on Modern Smartphones, French government infosec researchers José Lopes Esteves and Chaouki Kasmi demonstrated a clever attack on smartphones that sent silent voice commands to OK Google and Siri by converting them to radio-waves and tricking headphone cables into acting as antennas. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#QVP5)
The $825,000 Z Backscatter Vans the NYPD drives around the city look like regular police vans, but are equipped with powerful X-rays that can see through walls and vehicles. US Customs uses these things to scan cars and freight-containers, but only after they're sure there are no people around. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#QVNS)
When The fraternal organization was founded in 1892, it was a racist, sexist club for men associated in some way with the lumber industry. Today, Hoo Hoo International accepts members of all genders and backgrounds, and does good works related to tree planting, as well as generally promoting responsible forestry, which is quite an improvement. (more…)
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