The "pick-up artist" community, a sexist self-improvement cult centered around manipulating and bothering women into sex, needs no introduction. Like many of its stars, Adnan "Addy A-game" Ahman is little… Read the rest of the article: 'Pick-up artist' jailed after threatening women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WWrpDqi3wc&feature=youtu.be Last year, Adam Serwer published a phenomenal article about Trump and his supporters titled "The Cruelty Is The Point". His no-nonsense tour of Trumpdom outraged conservatives, who were uncomfortable… Read the rest of the article: The cruelty is the point
Naomi Wolf's formerly forthcoming book, "Outrages", is about the emergence of homosexuality as a concept and its criminalization in 19th-century England. When review copies went out, though, a serious problem… Read the rest of the article: Publisher cans Naomi Wolf book about homosexuality in Victorian England
A notorious "patent troll" — an acquirer of vague or trivial patents whose only real business is to shake down companies that offer implicated products — recently targeted GNOME, developers… Read the rest of the article: GNOME fires back at patent troll
No Maintenance Intended is a snippet of markup (or markdown) you can add to your site or app to ensure that users understand that they're on their own and can… Read the rest of the article: No Maintenance Intended, a badge of intent for your projects
And you thought Facebook was in the bag for Trump! Mark Zuckerberg and his wife have privately made hiring recommendations for Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign, and the recommendations were hired… Read the rest of the article: Bloomberg News: Mark Zuckerberg privately advising Pete Buttigieg's election campaign
Either it's windy in the warehouse today, or there's an extremely muscular poltergeist in occupation. Reagan Steiner: "A table that seems to be controlled by a ghost totally attacks this… Read the rest of the article: Warehouse worker assaulted by "ghost table"
The under-construction New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel partially collapsed last week, killing three people and injuring thirty more, and efforts to dislodge cranes attached to the building didn't go entirely… Read the rest of the article: WATCH: Explosives used to dislodge dangerous cranes at partially-collapsed Hard Rock Hotel.
The Economist reports that a tech startup sells a surveillance and control badge for the workforce. The device monitors workers' conversations and tracks their movements. You can even use it… Read the rest of the article: Electronic badge monitors workers' conversations, toilet usage and posture
There are many articles about nice monospace typefaces, but Programming Fonts lets you see all the good ones live on-screen—and how your work looks in it. I'm a big fan… Read the rest of the article: Test-drive nice programming fonts live on the web
In an important reminder that Republicans are entirely capable of stopping Trump when they actually disagree with him, next year's G7 summit of world leaders will no longer be held… Read the rest of the article: Trump decides not to award G7 summit to own hotel after all
Sunday brought us McKay Coppins' detailed interview with Mitt Romney, the last Republican grandee to hold out against Trump's domination of the party. In it, Romney mentioned in passing that… Read the rest of the article: This unmasking of Mitt Romney's secret Twitter account should win the Pierrelitzer Prize
Pittsburgh is now a hotbed of robotics and machine intelligence, and very likely the place the AIs will eventually sigh and commence the annihilation of humankind. 40 years ago it… Read the rest of the article: The 6-legged walker of CMU (1982)
Police in New York City are hunting a pumpkin smasher who seems bent on ruining halloween for locals. Does anyone recognize this tough guy pumpkin smasher. This happened on 81st… Read the rest of the article: Brooklyn gentleman filmed destroying halloween pumpkins
Only two children showed up to the birthday party of Remi, 5, a young girl with autism. So strangers filled the seats to make it a date to remember. "It… Read the rest of the article: Strangers celebrate birthday of girl with autism after friends fail to show
Since the whistle was blown on Trump denying aid to Ukraine unless it "investigated" his political opponents in the U.S., his position has been that there was no quid pro… Read the rest of the article: White House admits denying aid to Ukraine unless it "investigated" Democrats: "Get over it"
The Doral is a Miami resort one would expect to be sparsely occupied in June, an hour's drive from the beaches in the sticky Florida summer. Moreover, it's failing to… Read the rest of the article: Trump to host G7 summit at own failing Miami hotel
The nine-camera security system included with Tesla cars is the gift that keeps on giving, if not for automobile owners and their insurers. Here's another vandal caught on tape keying… Read the rest of the article: Another man filmed keying a Tesla, by the Tesla
NASA is streaming the first all-woman spacewalk from 8 a.m. eastern time. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are fixing a failed power controller on the International Space Station. LIVE… Read the rest of the article: LIVE: Watch the first all-woman spacewalk
A black security guard at Madison West High School in Madison, Wisconsin, asked a student—also black—to stop calling him the n-word. The school fired the security guard, citing its zero-tolerance… Read the rest of the article: School security guard asked student to stop calling him the n-word. So the school fired him.
