At least 10 local TV stations ran a "news" report written and produced by Amazon, reports The Courier-News. The video was provided by Amazon, and only one station disclosed that… Read the rest of the article: Watch all these local TV newsreaders chant the same Amazon puff piece (Update: Amazon statement)
Game From Scratch reports a harrowing experience — an anonymous threat to pay bitcoin or have false claims made about their game dev tutorials to YouTube — and a horrifying… Read the rest of the article: Fraudsters are shaking down YouTubers. Won't the company do anything to stop them?
“Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.”
Earlier this spring, more than 20 members of Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos pan flute orchestra left their homes in Bolivia and embarked on a European tour. They arrived in… Read the rest of the article: A touring Bolivian orchestra is stranded in a German castle surrounded by 23 packs of wolves
Remember that guy who traded one red paperclip up to a house in Saskatchewan? Well, now there's an anonymous Bay Area woman on TikTok who is looking to trade a… Read the rest of the article: Can a bobby pin be traded up to a house? A woman on TikTok is trying to find out
Earlier this month, New Yorkers were challenged by their governor's office to create a public service announcement to "help communicate why it is so important to wear a mask to… Read the rest of the article: Winning "Wear a Mask" PSA is a real love letter to NYC
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH The Don's criminal reign becomes even more brazen, as he publicly extorts a state during a pandemic
As promised by the video title, this pooch just loves to chat. UPDATE: The conversation is over, sadly. The video was removed.
In this footage, a workman traipses into a dark entryway only to be startled by a harmless bird. His epithets are not work-safe; the bird knew exactly what it was… Read the rest of the article: Man alarmed by bird
We've been cleaning out and sorting through some stuff we had in storage, which I re-discovered this generous gift that someone (my mother-in-law?) bought me at some point in time.… Read the rest of the article: Is this STAR WARS Cookie Cutter supposed to be a Jawa, or a poop?
It's hard to imagine what places like ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome might have looked like in all of their glory. New Historia tries to shed some light on… Read the rest of the article: Ancient Rome in five-minute animated fly-through
“It’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.” – “Lonesome Dove,” Larry McMurtry If the past few months have taught us… Read the rest of the article: This emergency kit has all the provisions for the day you truly need them
“Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!”
This interview presents a conversation with Grammy-nominated comic book creator, cartoonist and the future of comics history, Benjamin Marra (TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror), NIGHT BUSINESS, AMERICAN… Read the rest of the article: Talking comics with One Man War on Terror cartoonist Benjamin Marra
It's a mandala of crispy fried carbohydrates, and I want to worship every bite.
Apple says it is planning to reopen more than 100 US retail stores this week, and that because the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, most locations will only offer curbside or… Read the rest of the article: Apple says it's reopening ~100 more stores in U.S. this week, walk-in customers OK in some
• “Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness.” • “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools” • GOP operative turned Facebook policy VP… Read the rest of the article: Facebook studied how it polarizes users, then ignored the research
Twitter said Tuesday it's not taking any action on grotesquely abusive tweets by impeached U.S. President Donald Trump about the 2001 death of a woman who once worked as a… Read the rest of the article: Twitter says it won't remove Trump tweets on deceased former Joe Scarborough staffer Lori Klausutis
[Update: Shortly after this post, Trump lashed out at Twitter, on Twitter.] This is huge. Twitter today for the first time labeled a tweet by the President as misleading.
Game of Shrooms, that hide-and-seek/scavenger hunt for mushroom-themed art is happening again! It was started last year by Attaboy of Hi-Fructose and was such a huge success that he's doing… Read the rest of the article: Artists worldwide to play "hide and seek" with mushroom art for "Game of Shrooms"
