Jared Kushner borrowed money to put down tiny down-payments on properties, paid himself millions from the rents generated by those properties, then used aggressive depreciation markdowns to declare an operating… Read the rest of the article: Jared Kushner took home millions, paid little or no tax for years
Just look at it. (Thanks, Greg Cook!)
A leaked police-training presentation from digital forensics company Elcomsoft (a company that made history due to its early run-in with the DMCA) advises officers not to look at Iphones seized… Read the rest of the article: Forensics company advises cops not to look at seized Iphones, to avoid facial-recognition lockouts
California is one of the hot-zones in the world's urban housing crisis, driven by a combination of opposition to highrise/high-density living and the mass purchase of foreclosed properties following the… Read the rest of the article: California ballot measure to reintroduce rent control met with millions in opposition from Wall Street landlords
The first wave of computerized automation caught trade unions flat-footed; already reeling from the Reagan-era attacks on labor, union leadership failed completely to come up with a coherent response to… Read the rest of the article: How trade unions are addressing automation
Monday is the end of the comment period for a sweeping National Park Service proposal that will have a dramatic effect on the ability of Americans to protest in sight… Read the rest of the article: Nation Park Service on the verge of blocking most White House protests: comments due by MONDAY!
Update: The USPTO has withdrawn this from publication for "further review." Michael-Scott Earle, a self-publisher of "pulp harem fantasies" is seeking a trademark on the use of "Dragon Slayer" in… Read the rest of the article: UPDATED: The US Patent and Trademark Office is ready to hand over an exclusive trademark for "Dragon Slayer" for fantasy novels
Hirotakaster's instructions for combining magnets and fidget spinners are a one-way ticket to glorious, chaotic motion, as complex systems emerge from grids of obsolete, post-fad plastic waste. (via Beyond the… Read the rest of the article: Fidget spinners + magnets: glorious chaotic motion
A year ago, Chinese white-label CCTV/DVR vendor Xiongmai announced a recall and security update for its devices, whose weak security meant that they had been conscripted into a massive, unstoppable… Read the rest of the article: A year later, giant Chinese security camera company's products are still a security dumpster-fire
Buy a single item at CVS and you can end up with a 4'–6'-long ribbon of register tape, a kind of orgy of coupons and come-ons.
Some parts of machine learning are incredibly esoteric and hard to grasp, surprising even seasoned computer science pros; other parts of it are just the same problems that programmers have… Read the rest of the article: Amazon trained a sexism-fighting, resume-screening AI with sexist hiring data, so the bot became sexist
Joshua Browder launched DoNotPay when he started his computer science degree at Stanford; at first the app automated the process of fighting traffic tickets, then it expanded to helping homeless… Read the rest of the article: Student's DoNotPay app expands to include pushbutton small claims lawsuits
Japanese artist Miyu Kojima's dayjob is cleaning up apartments whose occupants have died "lonely deaths" (kodokushi/孤独死), where someone socially isolated declines unnoticed for months or years; the scenes of their… Read the rest of the article: Artist creates miniature replicas of the rooms of Japan's "lonely deaths"
When Obamacare came into effect, Notre Dame and other religious institutions forced the administration into a baroque arrangement whereby the US government would insure birth control prescriptions for women otherwise… Read the rest of the article: Notre Dame and 73 other institutions secretly conspired with the Trump administration to deny birth control
Amnesty International's new report on family separations reveals that the Trump administration stole at least 4,000 more children from their parents than the previous total of 2,500-3,000.
If you're worried that your Airbnb host has hidden a camera in the place you've rented, because that is a thing that garbage people do, you can use these handy… Read the rest of the article: Dystopia watch: Guide to spotting hidden cameras in your Airbnb
You remember when HP tricked its users into downgrading their printers by sending them a fake "security update" that actually made the printers refuse third-party and refilled ink cartridges?
The world has long celebrated the "critical hit" D20 face, the elusive 20 that doubles the damage and sets the players around the table baying with elation; but consider its… Read the rest of the article: "Critical Failure" D20s, whispering what's in every roller's heart
The EU's catastrophic new Copyright Directive is steamrollering towards completion, and that should worry every internet user, not just those in the EU.
San Francisco's giant fleet of semi-illegal electric scooters have come to symbolize the tech industry's worst excesses, inspiring all kinds of creative resistance
