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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
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
Best double check those Roman numerals in your copyright notice...
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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
After he became a vocal Trump supporter, Dilbert said he lost 30% of his income (and most of his friends). It looks like becoming a vocal racist is having a similar outcome for him, with his "Scott Adams" cartoon reportedly being dropped from newspapers across the country. — Read the rest
ABC News reports that Charles McGonigal, a former FBI agent in a senior counterintelligence role, was arrested over suspicions he helped a Russian billionaire violate sanctions.
— Read the restHe was arrested Saturday afternoon after he arrived at JFK Airport following travel in Sri Lanka, the sources said.
Twitter unceremoniously shut off access to most third-party apps nine days ago—a crude evening failure followed by rushed-out policy changes to suggest, if nothing else, that it was at least intentional. Most imagined a late-night Elon Musk "decision" which allowed for no forethought, finesse or planning; some imagined a hasty effort to cover for a breakage that the company no longer has the on-staff expertise to repair. — Read the rest
It would be fair to say that Square Enix has had its fair share of missteps lately, and among them is the disastrous Marvel's Avengers —a licensed live-service game that feels like the worst parts of any given Marvel movie with the serial numbers filed off. — Read the rest
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