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Trump’s ‘Tremendous Work’ on Superfund Sites Includes Not Funding Their Cleanup

Trump’s ‘Tremendous Work’ on Superfund Sites Includes Not Funding Their Cleanup

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Trump's 'Tremendous Work' on Superfund Sites Includes Not Funding Their Cleanup The Environmental Protection Agency under Donald Trump promised to clean up the most polluted sites in the U.S. Remember former administrator Scott Pruitt? He loved to go on and on about doing this when he wasn’t grifting. Well, turns out the EPA is doing a worse job under this dumb-ass president than it has in…Read more... Go to Source
Todd Philips Thinks It’s Joker’s Themes, Not the Character, That Made It a Hit

Todd Philips Thinks It’s Joker’s Themes, Not the Character, That Made It a Hit

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Todd Philips Thinks It’s Joker’s Themes, Not the Character, That Made It a Hit One of the most mindbogglingly strange things about Todd Phillips’ Joker is how unfunny the movie’s titular clown criminal is, something that’s in rather stark contrast with the character’s depiction in other media. The Joker’s a deranged mass murderer, yes, but he’s always been able to crack a legitimate joke here…Read more... Go to Source
TikTok Owner ByteDance Has Reportedly Been Working on a ‘Safer’ Deepfake Feature

TikTok Owner ByteDance Has Reportedly Been Working on a ‘Safer’ Deepfake Feature

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TikTok Owner ByteDance Has Reportedly Been Working on a 'Safer' Deepfake Feature ByteDance, the owner behind TikTok, has been secretly building a deepfake feature that would allow users to insert their faces into videos they’re not actually in, according to a TechCrunch report. While the feature is not live yet, it would appear that TikTok and Douyin—TikTok’s sister app in China—both feature code…Read more... Go to Source
No, Graffiti Did Not Appear Overnight in Iran Thanking President Trump

No, Graffiti Did Not Appear Overnight in Iran Thanking President Trump

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No, Graffiti Did Not Appear Overnight in Iran Thanking President Trump Have you seen the photo above doing the rounds on social media today in the wake of the assassination of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani? The Trump regime took credit for killing Soleimani overnight, and some conservatives claim that Iranians are thankful that Trump killed him. According to folks on Twitter,…Read more... Go to Source
Everything You Need to Know About the Darksaber, the Black Blade That Freed Mandalore

Everything You Need to Know About the Darksaber, the Black Blade That Freed Mandalore

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Everything You Need to Know About the Darksaber, the Black Blade That Freed Mandalore Death Stars. Starkiller Base. The Final Order. The Lightsabers of Jedi and Sith legacies alike. Star Wars is full of incomprehensibly powerful weapons, be they the tools of heroic and villainous individuals or the combined military might of Empires. But none have become more important or interesting to the galaxy far,…Read more... Go to Source
Everything That Happened in Iran While You Were Sleeping

Everything That Happened in Iran While You Were Sleeping

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Everything That Happened in Iran While You Were Sleeping The U.S. assassinated a high-ranking Iranian official in a targeted airstrike at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq early Friday, local time. The strike killed Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as at least seven other people. And now there’s concern that the…Read more... Go to Source
Google Suspends Xiaomi’s Nest Integration After User Appears to Pick Up Strangers’ Camera Feeds

Google Suspends Xiaomi’s Nest Integration After User Appears to Pick Up Strangers’ Camera Feeds

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Google Suspends Xiaomi's Nest Integration After User Appears to Pick Up Strangers' Camera Feeds Google has cut off access to its Nest Hub and Assistant for Xiaomi devices after a user was reportedly able to view still images from other camera owners upon linking his Xiaomi camera to his Google account. Android Police first reported on the incident after a Reddit user posted about the disturbing encounter.Read more... Go to Source
Trump Tweeted Twice as Much Bullshit This Year

Trump Tweeted Twice as Much Bullshit This Year

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Trump Tweeted Twice as Much Bullshit This Year If it’s seemed like America’s toilet-challenged chief of state has been ranting on Twitter more often than usual, it’s not just your imagination. In 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted 7,700 times to his 68 million followers, nearly doubling his count from the previous year, 3,600, according to a recent New York Post…Read more... Go to Source
A Quick Look At What Made 2019 A Huge Year For Electric Cars

A Quick Look At What Made 2019 A Huge Year For Electric Cars

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A Quick Look At What Made 2019 A Huge Year For Electric Cars In a few years, when much of the world’s highway system is dominated with electric cars, we’ll all look back upon 2019 as a pivotal year. Perhaps not the pivotal year, but an important one nonetheless in the automobile’s transition away from internal combustion. Let’s have a quick peek at what happened in the EV world…Read more... Go to Source
Amy Klobuchar Might Tell Us About UFOs

Amy Klobuchar Might Tell Us About UFOs

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Amy Klobuchar Might Tell Us About UFOs For years, one New Hampshire paper has been quietly but doggedly pressing politicians and candidates for their stances on a bipartisan issue which could conceivably be a single-issue issue if more journalists cared to pursue it: will they declassify UFO stuff? It’s a question Gizmodo has asked before, and we’re…Read more... Go to Source
NY Governor’s Veto Outrages Activists Fighting for Medicaid Patients Who Need Opioid Addiction Treatment

NY Governor’s Veto Outrages Activists Fighting for Medicaid Patients Who Need Opioid Addiction Treatment

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NY Governor's Veto Outrages Activists Fighting for Medicaid Patients Who Need Opioid Addiction Treatment Activists and lawmakers in New York are furious over a New Year’s Eve decision by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill intended to make it easier for low income residents on Medicaid to access medication-based treatment for opioid addiction—while signing a similar bill that does expand access to these…Read more... Go to Source
Uber’s Suit To Block California’s Independent Contractor Law Is A Story Of American Misery

Uber’s Suit To Block California’s Independent Contractor Law Is A Story Of American Misery

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Uber's Suit To Block California's Independent Contractor Law Is A Story Of American Misery Back in September, California passed AB5, a law that, depending on who you talk to, either clarifies existing labor law to make the definition of an independent contractor clearer or perverts the entire concept of labor law in a gross constitutional violation. The one thing everyone can agree on is AB5, which went…Read more... Go to Source
Tax Ghouls Like TurboTax Can’t Hide Your Free Filing Options on Google Anymore

Tax Ghouls Like TurboTax Can’t Hide Your Free Filing Options on Google Anymore

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Tax Ghouls Like TurboTax Can't Hide Your Free Filing Options on Google Anymore The Internal Revenue Service has announced that tax filing companies with which it has agreements to offer free filing tools are barred from hiding those programs from consumers in online searches and must be transparent about where to find them on their sites. In other words, they’re now required to do the absolute…Read more... Go to Source
For My New Year’s Resolution, I’m Preparing a Climate Doomsday Kit

For My New Year’s Resolution, I’m Preparing a Climate Doomsday Kit

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For My New Year's Resolution, I'm Preparing a Climate Doomsday Kit I spend a lot of time thinking about the impending climate apocalypse. I mean, c’mon, I write about it for a living. However, with this clear understanding of where humanity is headed if we don’t get our shit together comes a lot of fear and anxiety. How do I deal with such feelings? Why, plans and preparation, of…Read more... Go to Source
ExxonMobil Wishes Australia a ‘Fun’ New Year as Country Burns in Climate Crisis

ExxonMobil Wishes Australia a ‘Fun’ New Year as Country Burns in Climate Crisis

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ExxonMobil Wishes Australia a 'Fun' New Year as Country Burns in Climate Crisis ExxonMobil sent out a heartwarming tweet yesterday, wishing the good people of Australia a “safe” and “fun” New Year. Well, maybe heartwarming isn’t the right word. Perhaps “idiotic” is more appropriate, given the fact that large parts of Australia are currently on fire thanks in part to ExxonMobil’s history of…Read more... Go to Source
The MacBook Pro 16 Needs to Be the Future of Apple Laptops

The MacBook Pro 16 Needs to Be the Future of Apple Laptops

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The MacBook Pro 16 Needs to Be the Future of Apple Laptops If you’ve bought an Apple laptop in the last few years and you try out the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, you will be furious. It’s so good. It works precisely as a laptop should—the issues that have plagued Apple’s laptops in recent years seem absent. Everything about the device seems to follow an age-old Apple edict the…Read more... Go to Source
Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today

Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today

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Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today Today isn’t just a day to nurse your hangover from New Year’s Eve—it’s also a day to celebrate the public domain. Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today, meaning that you’re free to download, upload, and share these titles however you see fit. And it’s completely legal.Read more... Go to Source
Julian Assange Says He’s ‘Slowly Dying’ in Prison During Christmas Eve Phone Call: Report

Julian Assange Says He’s ‘Slowly Dying’ in Prison During Christmas Eve Phone Call: Report

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Julian Assange Says He's 'Slowly Dying' in Prison During Christmas Eve Phone Call: Report Julian Assange is slurring his speech and worried about dying in prison, according to a new report from British journalist and former Army officer Vaughan Smith. The journalist spoke with Russian state TV network RT on Tuesday and revealed that Assange called him over the phone from Britain’s Belmarsh prison on…Read more... Go to Source
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