Ecoji is like Base64 encoding, but it's Base1024 and uses emojis instead of the alphabet. [via @codinghorror] For example: $ echo "Base64 is so 1999, isn't there something better?" |… Read the rest of the article: Encode Your Data With Emoji

Mtsyry: Octobriana 1976 is a new book from Jim Rugg featuring Octobriana, the Russian superhero star of cult 70s comics which themselves have a strange and confusing history. Rugg's incarnation… Read the rest of the article: Fluorescent blacklight comic book

COPS has glorified police since 1989, riding along as officers chase down, interview and arrest people. It crafted a reality-TV aesthetic of shaky cameras, counterfeit danger and harsh lighting, cruel… Read the rest of the article: COPS cancelled after 33 seasons

Chris Watts killed his pregnant wife and two young children and buried them in a tank. This mini-documentary by Jim Can't Swim (patreon) takes us through the bodycam footage of… Read the rest of the article: Psychology of a killer

Sarah Grossman, 22, died after being tear-gassed by police in Columbus, Ohio, reports the Dayton Daily News. Two days passed between her exposure to the gas and pepper spray and… Read the rest of the article: Ohio protestor dies after being tear-gassed by police

A statue of Christopher Columbus, the slaver, pimp and arriviste who first colonized the Americas, fell and tripped into a Virginia lake last night. Another was beheaded in Boston. A… Read the rest of the article: Columbus statue trips, falls into lake

A striking message from babynames.com today: "Each one of these names was somebody's baby."

Are you a cop so bad you managed to actually get disciplined or charged with crimes for your behavior? Florida needs you! The Brevard County Fraternal Order of Police called… Read the rest of the article: Police union leader invites bad cops to work in Florida

Alice Cutter was a hopeful contestant in the Miss Hitler beauty pageant, but will be unable to compete again soon because she's been jailed as a member of the right-wing… Read the rest of the article: Miss Hitler hopeful jailed

On Twitter, top UK tea brand Yorkshire Tea told a racist to get lost. The racist said they would henceforth drink PG Tips instead. The account of PG Tips waded… Read the rest of the article: British Tea brands tell off Twitter racists

The English language being short of words, Thomas Dimson created an AI-powered word generator. This word does not exist nephromatosis an infectious bacterial infection of the lymphatic system in primary… Read the rest of the article: AI-generated English words

Opinion Editor James Bennet is out at the New York Times, resigning after the backlash to Sen. Tom Cotton's column calling for a military crackdown on Americans protesting* police brutality.… Read the rest of the article: New York Times opinion editor out

Biden soars to 55%-41% in the latest CNN poll of voters, with Trump's approval rating falling and less than a third of respondents approving of his handling of the George… Read the rest of the article: Biden leads Trump 14 points in new poll, but we've been here before

Prosecutors in the U.S. have demanded an interview with Prince Andrew, pal of dead billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew, himself accused of raping one of the then-girls Epstein trafficked, has… Read the rest of the article: U.S. prosecutors demand to interview Prince Andrew over Epstein ties

A half-hour special episode on how police in America respond to protests against police brutality: with greater brutality, armed for war. As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd… Read the rest of the article: John Oliver on police brutality

Cole Carini, a 23-year-old Virginia man who turned up at hospital missing his hands and peppered with shrapnel, claims he was hurt in a lawnmower accident. the FBI, however, says… Read the rest of the article: Incel blows off own hands trying to make anti-cheerleader bomb, still a wanker

After work on the Golden Gate Bridge's sidewalks to bolster their wind resistance, nearby residents of San Francisco are complaining that the 1.7 mile-long structure makes a creepy droning noise… Read the rest of the article: Engineering screwup turns Golden Gate Bridge into creepy wind siren

Itch.io today announced the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, a collection of 744 games worth $3,400. You can download and experience the lot for a minimum donation of $5.… Read the rest of the article: Indie game bundle for Racial Justice and Equality comes with more than 740 titles

This was on Fox News, as reported by a number of reporters and viewers: a chart showing upticks in the S&P 500 stock index after killings of black people and… Read the rest of the article: Fox News graphic: police killing and beating black people is good for the stock market

Walmart is removing guns from shop floors, according to Fox News and CNN. The move was prompted by nationwide protests over the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd,… Read the rest of the article: Walmart takes guns off shop floor