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Scan of the Month features X-ray computed tomography of everyday items such as game controllers, plants, shavers, minifigs, a Gameboy, an instant camera, sneakers and so on.
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The NABU Personal Computer is so obscure it doesn't have an entry at old-computers.com. 2,200 of them have been recovered from an old barn in Massachussets, in deadstock condition in their original boxes. To save the barn from collapse, they were all dumped on eBay for $60 each, where they were eventually noticed. — Read the rest
Wikipedia is moving to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, from the old version it's used for years. What's the difference? It means that other v4-licensed material can be added to Wikipedia verbatim, it's written with international law in mind, it has simpler attribution requirements, and is easier for laypersons to read and understand. — Read the rest
Taylor Goodridge died in agony at the Diamond Ranch Academy in Utah while staff at the "troubled teen" camp allegedly told her to 'suck it up' as the easily-treated intestinal infection she endured there killed her. There will be no charges for those responsible, say local prosecutors. — Read the rest
California "mom influencer" Kathleen Sorensen was sentenced to three months in jail after falsely accusing a Latino couple of trying to kidnap her children. Sorensen posted in December 2020 that the pair tried to take them from the parking lot of a Michaels craft store in Sonoma County, but surveillance footage from the scene showed she was making it up and she was ultimately convicted of knowingly making a false report of crime. — Read the rest
A 34-year-old man died of his injuries after diving from an embankment into the shallow end of Lake Gladewater in Texas. The embankment was 40 feet (12m) up, but the water was only 4 foot (1.2m) deep. Local police report that numerous witnesses saw him jump headfirst into the water and tried to help him, and that alcohol might have been a factor. — Read the rest
Trouble's brewing, what with all the unreadable AI dreck turning up in search results. Soulless and repetitious generated text is forcing out everything from the old machine-written junk (like those those gadget spec-comparison sites) to things that expensive humans write. — Read the rest
A woman kidnapped in New York was "found dead" after a shootout between her captor and police. The use of passive voice and exonerative language in the report makes it sound an awful lot like the cops think they killed her, and NBC News doesn't let hardly a paragraph pass without appending something like, "according to police." — Read the rest
Among the layoffs at Meta, the company formerly known as and dependent upon Facebook: the staff whose job it was to manage and support influencers. If one is tempted not to care–it suggests that these influencers' fame and their participation in it were marketing campaigns that have now ended–there are broader consequences: scammers, imposters and harassers are running riot in the comments and once they're done with these uncelebrities everyone else is next. — Read the rest
Swimmers at Berlin's pools may now get their boobs out, reports the BBC. The change in policy comes after women there were punished for doing so and challenged the sexist laws in court.
— Read the restAuthorities agreed they had been victims of discrimination and said that all visitors to Berlin's pools were now entitled to go topless.
2023 DW, first spotted in February, is unlikely to hit Earth on Valentine's Day 2046. But it's been added to NASA's official "risk list" of potential collisions. At 50 meters wide, the same size as the body suspected in the Tunguska Event, it would certainly be quite the romance. — Read the rest
You can sue for anything, even if all you can win from the effort is an unblock and the public learning once again that you're an attention-seeking cockalorum.
— Read the rest"She wants to kill babies but she's still beautiful. You look very beautiful in that dress.
ToonHeads: The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever was an unaired 2003 Cartoon Network Special [via Metafilter, where you should read John Harris's notes]. Hanna-Barbera, Ruby Spears and Filmation have much to answer for! For all the Scooby-Doo knockoffs and corporate zaniness, though, there's an experimental quality to much of it (at least within the bounds of what was possible on network television) and some surprisingly weird imagery. — Read the rest
Halli Thorleifsson, a 45-year old manager at Twitter hired when he sold his design agency to it, was locked out of his work accounts but could find no-one at the company to say why. Eventually he challenged the new boss, Elon Musk, on Twitter. — Read the rest
Gangs within the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department are a "cancer" on the county's law enforcement, says a 70-page report by the Civilian Oversight Commission's special counsel. Wikipedia has a list of the gangs.
— Read the restThe report by the Civilian Oversight Commission condemned the groups, whose members engage in "egregious conduct" like using excessive force and threatening colleagues, as a "cancer" that must be banned immediately.
A Neo-Nazi online propagandist known for encouraging acts of far-right terror and celebrating the killers was exposed as Dallas Erin Humber, a 33-year-old dildo saleswoman from Sacramento.
— Read the restEvidence compiled by a coalition of anonymous antifascist researchers — including from SoCal Research Club, @WizardAFA, @SunlightAFA and @FashFreeNW — and published this week on Left Coast Right Watch, an investigative news outlet, reveals that one of the Terrorgram Collective's main propagandists is Dallas Erin Humber, a 33-year-old woman living in Sacramento, California.
The headlines say "$30 million worth of Funko Pops are headed to the landfill," but isn't the point that they are in fact worth nothing, which is why they're off to the landfill? Funko's stock "fell off a cliff" after revealing the news in its latest earning call. — Read the rest
Andrea Serrano, 31, of Fountain, Colorado, raped a 13-year-old boy–a fact without question because she became pregnant as a result. But Serrano cut a plea deal with prosecutors that means she'll only have to serve probation and register as a sex offender. — Read the rest
Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene made a transparently stupid mistake yesterday, trying to blame President Joe Biden for fentanyl deaths that occurred during the administration of Donald Trump, his predecessor. He did not resist the invitation to mock her today. — Read the rest
— Read the restA South Carolina jury has found disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son at their country estate in 2021. The jury deliberated for about three hours Thursday before returning the four guilty verdicts in connection with the murders of Maggie Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh.
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