Yoda's never been so funky as he is in this amazing 4-minute music video for "SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)," a masterpiece from the Bad Lip Reading project, whose virtuosity is… Read the rest of the article: Bad Lip Reading Empire Strikes Back: the funky seagull mix
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Cory Doctorow Trump International Golf Links was built on the site of a protected 4,000-year-old sand dune; he bullied anyone who wouldn't sell their homes to him to build it and then… Read the rest of the article: To see what Trump will do to America, look to his disastrous walled Scottish golf course
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Cory Doctorow Floyd Brown invented the Reagan-era Willie Horton lie, helped create the Citizens United group, and now owns Liftable Media, including sites like Conservative Tribune (50th most-trafficked site in the USA)… Read the rest of the article: Trump's presidential hires and advisors own a hell of a lot of fake news sites
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Cory Doctorow Prepare a turkey as usual, but add a prosciutto-wrapped pork loin with spaghetti teeth into the just-split chest cavity of the bird, garnished with dye-enhanced gravy and cranberry sauce —… Read the rest of the article: Chestburster roast turkey
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Cory Doctorow Gilad Lotan — our favorite fake-news sleuthing data-scientist — writes about the problem of not-quite-fake news, which is much more pernicious than mere lies: it's news that uses attention-shaping, one-sided… Read the rest of the article: Beyond fake news: the "constructed realities" of the polarized world
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Cory Doctorow "'Disobedient Electronics' is a zine-oriented publishing project that seeks submissions from industrial designers, electronic artists, hackers and makers that disobey conventions, especially work that is used to highlight injustices, discrimination… Read the rest of the article: Call for submissions for Disobedient Electronics
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Cory Doctorow Even though disgraced Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has left the building, his most outrageous legal theories live on: on Wednesday, the company filed a motion in a federal court… Read the rest of the article: Wells Fargo says that its customers gave up right to sue by having their signatures forged
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Cory Doctorow Before the deregulation bonanza of the 1980s, corporations were expected to use debt and the public markets as the capital of last resort: they would pay "normal" dividends, then use… Read the rest of the article: Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion
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Cory Doctorow Even though the majority of American workers would like to join a union, America's anemic labor laws scare them away from it — after all, if you're fired for attempting… Read the rest of the article: If blue-collar workers want better jobs, they need unions, not Trump
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Cory Doctorow Last June, a group of business-friendly right-wing politicians staged a legal coup and had president Dilma Rousseff removed, putting convicted fraudster Michel Temer in her office, which he used as… Read the rest of the article: The neoliberal politicians who impeached Brazil's president and took over are imploding in spectacular corruption scandals
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Cory Doctorow Tennie White is a lab owner who became a relentless crusader for environmental justice for black towns and neighborhoods where giant corporations dumped toxic chemicals and walked away scot free;… Read the rest of the article: The only person to go to prison for a string of corporate pollution scandals was a crusading scientist who exposed them
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Cory Doctorow Sandra Jansen was elected to the Alberta Legislative Assembly as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, but now she sits with the left-leaning New Democratic Party, who took the… Read the rest of the article: Conservative Alberta politician changes sides over Trumpism, gets gendered death threats and slurs from the Tory base
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Cory Doctorow Last June, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a neo-Nazi who was outraged by her anti-Brexit stance; that man is now on trial.
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Cory Doctorow The MT Washi Masking Tapes come in 20 colors for $16.35, 10 meters of each color, with hundreds of positive reviews from crafters and customizers (caveat: this is "decorating" tape,… Read the rest of the article: Washi masking tape in 20 colors
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Cory Doctorow Atheist Shoes (previously), the stylish German shoes whose souls soles bear atheist messages ("Ich Bin Atheist") are getting ready to relaunch with a tweaked new design called DAS SNEAKER, which… Read the rest of the article: Atheist shoes experience a miraculous transformation
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Cory Doctorow Richard Ankrom's "Figurines" series mix "found ceramic objects, synthetic rubber, zipper (studs, buckles, etc.)" (via JWZ)
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Cory Doctorow Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is very sorry that his office cited the 1857 Dred Scott case, which established that the descendants of enslaved black people were not US citizens,… Read the rest of the article: Kansas Attorney General apologizes for citing Dred Scott decision in abortion-ban brief
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Cory Doctorow Alex Halderman has clarified his earlier remarks about the integrity of the Wisconsin election: in a nutshell: voting machine security sucks, hackers played an unprecedented role in this election; there… Read the rest of the article: Alex Halderman: we will never know if the Wisconsin vote was hacked unless we check now
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Cory Doctorow Melbourne's Deakin University commissioned me to write a science fiction story about the design and regulation of self-driving cars, inspired by my essay about the misapplication of the "Trolley Problem"… Read the rest of the article: Car Wars: a dystopian science fiction story about the nightmare of self-driving cars