Colorado and Maine have blocked Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot over his putative insurrection, while other states have not. The U.S. Supreme Court is planning to weigh in… Read the rest of the article: U.S. Supreme Court to review Trump eligibility bans
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Rob Beschizza Mat Duggan writes about being one of the rare official Apple repair techs sent out to people's homes to fix their Macs—the tier of important, rich or angry that doesn't… Read the rest of the article: Fixing Macs door to door in the 2000s
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Rob Beschizza Days before a trial where the NRA will have to explain why it paid for his lavish lifestyle, longtime president Wayne LaPierre announced that he's resigning. Wayne LaPierre, the executive… Read the rest of the article: NRA president Wayne LaPierre resigns days before trial begins
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Rob Beschizza Do you think Neptune is a rich, lapis blue? Fuck you! It's a pale slightly-greenish gray, like Uranus. The BBC, citing research from the University of Oxford, reports that the… Read the rest of the article: Neptune and Uranus more boring colors than most people thought
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Rob Beschizza Pepsi products are being removed from Carrefour's shelves in Europe over "unacceptable price increases," including Doritos and Quaker cereals as well as the company's famed cola. In France, the most… Read the rest of the article: French supermarket giant Carrefour removes Pepsi, Doritos and Quaker cereals from shelves over "unacceptable price increases"
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Rob Beschizza A meta-analysis concludes that "On average, undergraduate students' intelligence is merely average." In the 1950s, college students' average IQ was above 115. Now it's 102, albeit "correlated with the selectivity… Read the rest of the article: Study: undergraduate students now of average intelligence
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Rob Beschizza I keep seeing people refer to copyright, trademark, and plagiarism interchangeably and, while I'm not a lawyer, I know that the expertise is under contract and those talking loudest aren't… Read the rest of the article: Venn diagram for online discussion of AI and law
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Rob Beschizza Having a boss who is always online doing and saying bizarre and disreputable things is a hazard to workers at SpaceX: criticize Elon and you get fired. Some of those… Read the rest of the article: SpaceX sued for firing staff who criticized Elon Musk
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Rob Beschizza Delone Redden, while being sentenced for aggravated battery, launched himself at Judge Mary Kay Holthus after she denied his request for probation. Footage from the court shows Redden leaping at… Read the rest of the article: Prisoner attacks judge during sentencing hearing
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Rob Beschizza Williamsport, Pennsylvania police officer Brandon Wheeler was filmed using the n-word during a public confrontation. Derek Slaughter, the city's first Black mayor, said it was "totally inappropriate," reports Penn Live.… Read the rest of the article: Cop on leave after bystander films him using racial slur
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Rob Beschizza One of my favorite entries in The Meaning of Liff, an exceedingly middle-class British book that assigns place names to shared experiences that there aren't words for, is Louth. LOUTH… Read the rest of the article: You can use your own mug at Starbucks for "nearly all orders"
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Rob Beschizza If you want to hear ambient noises—rain, thunder, wind, water, fire, forests, traffic, trains, arcades, planes, you know—check out Ambiphone, the latest single-serving site dedicated to this oddly recurring purpose.… Read the rest of the article: Ambiphone is a no-nonsense ambient sound generator
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Rob Beschizza Police in Bridgeton, New Jersey, report that NewsBreak published an "entirely false" article about a Christmas Day murder in the town—the latest example of AI-generated fake news going live. This… Read the rest of the article: AI-generated article hallucinates Christmas Day murder in small New Jersey town
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Rob Beschizza A list of people connected to wealthy sex trafficker and abuser Jeffrey Epstein was released this evening, along with many other documents, following a New York judge's order to unseal… Read the rest of the article: List of Epstein associates drops
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Rob Beschizza Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, of Lewes in England, died at a "slap therapy" workshop in which patients are slapped or slap themselves repeatedly. Xiao Hongchi pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, reports… Read the rest of the article: Man charged with manslaughter after woman dies at "slap therapy" worskshop
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Rob Beschizza Italians are furious after a famed chef and pizza maestro Gino Sorbillo put pineapple on a pie. The heretical pizzaiolo added the despised ingredient to his menu in Via dei… Read the rest of the article: Italians upsetti spaghetti over pineapple pizza
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Rob Beschizza The cash-stuffed suits and hidden gold bars of Bob Menendez haven't yet been enough to end his congressional career, but the U.S. Senator has been charged with corruption and now… Read the rest of the article: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez charged over Qatari gifts
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Rob Beschizza Jack Black, fresh off success in The Super Mario Bros Movie, is to star in the forthcoming Minecraft one, purportedly as default player character Steve. "Napoleon Dynamite" filmmaker Jared Hess,… Read the rest of the article: Jack Black to star in Minecraft movie
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Rob Beschizza 1D Pac Man is Kenta Cho's sublime take on the 1980 Namco classic. There's only one button–change direction on the single axis of movement–but unlimited depth. A clever idea, perfectly… Read the rest of the article: One-dimensional Pac Man
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Rob Beschizza TorrentFreak is a news site covering the copyright business. It's the frequent target of abusive takedown notices, even though it hosts no infringing material, and reports that last year every… Read the rest of the article: Every single DMCA notice filed against news site TorrentFreak in 2023 was bogus