Florida's Manatee County School District confirmed Thursday that it had "removed" a teacher from class after a racist tirade went viral on Tik Tok. The video shows a teacher haranguing… Read the rest of the article: Teacher removed from Florida school after racist outburst goes viral
Tesla is recalling more than a million vehicles in the U.S., it announced, over fears the windows might pinch fingers on their way up. No-one, the company says, has reported… Read the rest of the article: 1.1m Teslas recalled over fear windows may pinch fingers
Philadephia police officer Eric Ruch Jr. shot an unarmed black motorist dead, seconds after arriving at the scene of a 2017 car accident. A federal jury found him guilty of… Read the rest of the article: Philly cop Eric Ruch convicted of manslaughter in killing of unarmed black motorist
Imagine how grim it is in the Belk in Columbia, S.C., for the presence of a corpse—one of the store's own workers—to go unnoticed for four days. The Lexington County… Read the rest of the article: Belk department store worker died in bathroom there and wasn't found for four days
Thomas Lane, the Minneapolis cop who held George Floyd's legs while Derek Chauvin choked him to death with his knee, was sentenced to three years imprisonment Wednesday on state charges… Read the rest of the article: Cop who helped Derek Chauvin kill George Floyd gets 3 year sentence, drops f-bomb
News of prominent, wealthy or ostensibly powerful officials dying in falls has become a crunchy drumbeat to Russia's disastrous invasion of Ukraine. The latest defenestration is of Anatoly Gerashchenko, retired… Read the rest of the article: Top Russian scientist dead in mysterious fall at Moscow Aviation Institute
Shaun King is like spam: its obviousness to the many is precisely why it works on the few. It selects the ignorant and vulnerable and Sen. Cory Booker and becomes… Read the rest of the article: Shaun King nonprofit exposé at The Daily Beast
Two colleagues of Wayne Couzens, the London police officer convicted of raping and murdering Sarah Everard, have themselves been found guilty of "sharing offensive messages" over group chats the men… Read the rest of the article: Cop colleagues of sex killer convicted over "grossly racist, sexist, misogynistic" messages shared with him
Voicechanger.io makes it a snap to change your voice to sound like an alien, chipmunk, demon, or many other options. Just upload an audio file or give it permission to… Read the rest of the article: Website changes your voice
The ultimate manhole covers website features 8107 different covers, from 63 countries and 576 cities, yet is far from complete. Under the city's surface there is an underground city, a… Read the rest of the article: Manhole covers meticulously catalogued
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is in "big, big trouble". Gone in 2022 is $71bn of Mark Zuckerberg's own wealth, tied up in the social network even as… Read the rest of the article: Zuckerberg's wealth slides with Meta's value, but he's still the world's twentieth richest person
Migrants flown by Ron DeSantis from Texas to Martha's Vinyard in a spectacular if hardly successful political stunt are suing him, reports NBC News, claiming they were tricked into the… Read the rest of the article: Migrants tricked into flying to Martha's Vinyard sue Ron DeSantis
Officials in Montana, says Judge Michael Moses, have engaged in "legal gymnastics" and "calculated violations" to avoid complying with an earlier court order to update transgender people's birth certificates. Moses… Read the rest of the article: Montana officials to process birth certificate gender changes after judge threatens contempt charges
It sounds like Lady Diana, people are saying. On one hand, it sounds much more like a crude technical error with feeds and tracks. On the other hand, she would… Read the rest of the article: Mystery woman whispers "The death is irreversible" on ITV broadcast of Queen Elizabeth's coffin run
Max Woolf: "The Ugly Sonic object concept, once loaded into the text encoder, can be invoked by including <ugly-sonic> in the prompt where you'd normally include an object. Let's test… Read the rest of the article: AI knows what we want when we ask it for Ugly Sonic
Here's one to file under "mistakes": dreassing up as The Joker, "threatening" people in a bar, and landing yourself in the clink for months awaiting trial only to be given… Read the rest of the article: Man sentenced for making "threat" while dressed as The Joker
The Atacama Desert is home to mountains of fast fashion garments, the final resting place for clothes made in the developing world, unwanted both by American consumers and customers of… Read the rest of the article: 30,000 tons of unwanted clothes head each year into Chile's fast fashion landfills
In this footage, you'll see a simplified but fully functional 3D version of Minecraft running on a 1MHz CPU running inside Minecraft, complete with a monochrome display. The output is… Read the rest of the article: Minecraft running on a computer running in Minecraft
The UK's daylong funeral services in the UK for Elizabeth II are being broadcast live by the BBC online (open to worldwide viewers). David Dimbleby: These are the final moments… Read the rest of the article: Queen Elizabeth II's final journey
Sundial Zone offers instructions on crafting a DIY sundial. You'll need a printer, a pair of scissors, a sheet of paper, your rough location, and an unoccluded main-sequence star. You… Read the rest of the article: How to make a sundial
