A Sukhoi-34 jet fighter bombed Belgorod, a Russian city 40 miles from the border with Ukraine, in what authorities there describe as an accident. The explosion catapulted a car onto… Read the rest of the article: Oops! Russian warplane bombs own city
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Rob Beschizza Alleged psycho of the day is Robert Louis Singletary, hunted by police after shooting a little girl and her parents after they entered his yard to retrieve a basketball that… Read the rest of the article: Police hunt man who shot 6-year-old girl and her parents after a ball rolled into his yard
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Rob Beschizza Jeffrey Stephenson's Streamline is a masterpiece of useful craftsmanship: a small form-factor PC case that echoes and abstracts classic locomotive design. Colors are Cherokee Red and Storm Gray on a… Read the rest of the article: A tiny 2020s computer case styled after a massive 1930s locomotive
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Rob Beschizza SpaceX today launched Starship, the largest rocket in history. The unmanned vehicle exploded after takeoff–a disappointment to onlookers, but one that came after what SpaceX described as a successful test… Read the rest of the article: Giant SpaceX "Starship" rocket explodes after takeoff: "everything after clearing the tower was icing on the cake"
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Rob Beschizza The headline on the Reuters story "Dead Birds Get New Life" deserves an award. The dead birds are not only taxidermied, but stuffed with drone technology and other mechanical marvels.… Read the rest of the article: Drones installed in taxidermied birds. They even flap, nightmarishly.
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Rob Beschizza Clock, by saharan, is a beautiful, striking example of the capability and expressive potential of modern web technology. It's also an instant headache.
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Rob Beschizza A distinctive feature of English (and the English) is that it, and they, grōwan their glamour through appropriation and assimilation. Even successful invaders end up feeling thoroughly shaken down. But… Read the rest of the article: Anglish: English without the imported stuff
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Rob Beschizza Terry Kristopher Flournoy, 23, was a convicted felon and prohibited from possessing firearms. Terry Kristopher Flournoy, 23, posed with a handgun on social media. Terry Kristopher Flournoy, 23, is headed… Read the rest of the article: Felon poses with gun on social media, gets jailed for 2 1/2 years
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Rob Beschizza Junnn11 has contributed dozens of beautiful, precise yet adorably cartoonish Creative Commons-licensed illustrations of arthropods to Wikipedia. [via Hacker News]
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Rob Beschizza Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., 25, was arrested Tuesday in Elgin, Texas, after shooting two young women who got into his car by mistake. He also fired at two others but… Read the rest of the article: Texas man shoots two women who got into his car by mistake
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Rob Beschizza Twitter users noticed that the company has removed language from its hateful conduct policy protecting transgender users. Deadnaming and misgendering trans people, banned by Twitter in 2018, no longer violate… Read the rest of the article: Twitter quietly removes transgender protections from its hateful conduct policy
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Rob Beschizza Tennessee's Attorney General says he will not prosecute people 18 years old or older who carry guns without a permit, reports Action News 5. In the Volunteer State, those ages… Read the rest of the article: Tennessee to allow teens to carry guns without permits
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Rob Beschizza Sheriff Kevin Clardy of McCurtain County, Oklahoma, was recorded talking about murdering a local reporter and killing black people–a recording made by McCurtain Gazette newspaperman Bruce Willingham, who left his… Read the rest of the article: Oklahoma sheriff taped talking about murdering a journalist and lynching Black people says that recording him was a crime
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Rob Beschizza Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5m to avoid a defamation trial it expected to lose. The case centered on Fox News' broadcasting of lies and conspiracy theories… Read the rest of the article: Fox admitted broadcasting lies and will pay $787.5m to Dominion Voting Systems, but that's not the only lawsuit it's dealing with
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Rob Beschizza Following similar action by NPR and PBS, CBC–the Canadian Broadcasting Company–has suspended use of Twitter after the site attached the "government-funded media" flag to its account there. Though formally accurate,… Read the rest of the article: CBC "pauses" Twitter use after it gets the dreaded government tag
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Rob Beschizza Kaylin Gillis, 20, went into the wrong driveway looking for a friend's house in Hebron, New York. The homeowner shot her to death. Kevin Monahan, 65, was charged with murder… Read the rest of the article: Man who shot woman who pulled into his driveway promptly charged
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Rob Beschizza Black teenager Ralph Yarl went to the wrong house looking for his siblings and rang the doorbell. The homeowner shot him in the head, then shot him on the ground… Read the rest of the article: Man who shot teen who rang his doorbell finally charged
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Rob Beschizza Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis cop who choked George Floyd to death by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes, has lost his appeal against his 2022 murder conviction… Read the rest of the article: Killer cop Derek Chauvin's appeal denied
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Rob Beschizza Paul "Dril" Dochney, the best Twitterer of all, is profiled in The Ringer. Active since 2008, the Dril account—simultaneously known by the profile name "Wint"—with its grainy Jack Nicholson avatar,… Read the rest of the article: Twitter legend Dril profiled
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Rob Beschizza In the case of Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network, there will be a brief delay before the trial begins. In a four-minute hearing, the judge said "Things happen"… Read the rest of the article: Fox News v. Dominion trial delayed. "Things happen," says the judge