Time is a flat circle, and between the quarantine and the never-ending mind-boggling madness of our ever-escalation geopolitical chaos, it's become increasingly difficult to understand our own temporal existence in… Read the rest of the article: Is 2020 over yet? This website will help you figure it out.
It's depressingly fitting that a nationwide spree of protests against racist policing would occur on the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, what's been called the single worst incident… Read the rest of the article: It's the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre that destroyed "Black Wall Street"
It seems weird to be writing about something as frivolous as a game while the world is infected and on fire, but we do need a little distraction and joy… Read the rest of the article: Relicblade launches campaign for new two-player starter set
As anti-police protests raged across the country on Sunday, the official Twitter account of the Sergeants Benevolent Association of the NYPD spent most of the day whining about New York… Read the rest of the article: New York Police Union doxxed Mayor DiBlasio's daughter on Twitter
Image Scrubber is a useful website that removes all the identifying metadata from any photograph and gives you the option to blur out certain parts of the photo. This is… Read the rest of the article: Image Scrubber is a website that removes EXIF data and blurs faces in photos
Climate change, growing inequality, systemic racism, militarized police, rising fascism, Covid-19 pandemic, plagues of locusts. From is2020over.com, a list of 2020's bad news to date. January More than 20% of… Read the rest of the article: Is 2020 over yet?
We all know the drill. As the overlords of the smartphone and tablet markets, the braintrust at Apple very seldom hold sales on their signature devices. So rather than spending… Read the rest of the article: Get a factory-refurbished iPad Pro for under $350
when will the media stand up to the violent antifa Marxist ideology of [checks notes] ah, cat owners pic.twitter.com/h9qWQBurag — Sam Thielman (@samthielman) June 1, 2020 In this clip, a… Read the rest of the article: News anchor disappointed when cinder block turns out to be cat house
The Action Lab's James Orgill writes, "In this video I show you how it is possible to contain the fire from a burning ball of propane in a wire mesh."… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Creating and containing a small explosion in a kitchen strainer
Black Protestor caught 2 White Protestors tagging Starbucks. pic.twitter.com/06LuT4ryb8 — gregarious (@gryking) May 31, 2020 Given the white women's attitude toward a black woman asking them to stop tagging "BLM"… Read the rest of the article: Black protestor tells two white women to stop tagging Starbucks with BLM
In a conference call with US state governors, Trump said people arrested for protesting should be sent to prison for 10 years, and that governors were "weak" for not "dominating"… Read the rest of the article: Trump tells "weak" governors: “If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time”
This Reuters Investigates piece looks at how the US Supreme Court uses a "little-known legal doctrine called qualified immunity" to protect cops who use excessive force to maim and kill… Read the rest of the article: How the Supreme Court uses an obscure legal doctrine to let cops kill with impunity
"Get your fucking knee off his neck!" people repeatedly shout as a cop dares to restrain a man by shoving his knee into the guy's neck. The cop's partner looks… Read the rest of the article: Video: Cop in Seattle pins man down with his knee on neck. His partner doesn't like it.
Archaeologists from the Israel Museum and colleagues found residue of cannabis containing THC on an altar in the ancient Israelite temple of Tel Arad. Apparently, the discovery in this 2,700-year-old… Read the rest of the article: Ancient Israelites got high in temple
Here's a new attack ad against Trump called "Flag of Treason" created by The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump republican group that includes Kellyanne Conway's husband George Conway. The ad starts… Read the rest of the article: The Lincoln Project's new ad: America or Trump?
Multinational mining operation Rio Tinto destroyed an Aboriginal cave north of Perth, Australia last week. Indigenous people lived in the cave as far back as 46,000 years ago. From Reuters/New… Read the rest of the article: Mining company destroys sacred Aboriginal cave in Western Australia. They're "sorry."
Just for kicks, Paul Rule, 66, participated in a study launched by the Cambridge Natural History Society that enlisted citizen scientists and nature-lovers to help deepen knowledge of the flora… Read the rest of the article: Citizen scientist records 500+ animal species in his small city garden
From an interview with Gil-Scott Heron: "The first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and… Read the rest of the article: Gil Scott-Heron explains "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Business planners are clinging to the dream of the open-plan office despite the coronavirus pandemic. I hope that this proposal for a post-Covid shared desk setup is not the final… Read the rest of the article: Post-pandemic desk design may have marketing problem
Officers with Hamilton County Sheriff's Office replaced the U.S. flag with their own "thin blue line" flag Sunday, hoisting the desecrated version over the Justice Center in Cincinnati. ABC News… Read the rest of the article: Hamilton County sheriffs replace U.S. flag at justice center with police "thin blue line" flag
