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You Hurt the PS5 Scalpers’ Feelings

You Hurt the PS5 Scalpers’ Feelings

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You Hurt the PS5 Scalpers' Feelings Apparently some PlayStation 5 scalpers aren’t happy with their public image, Forbes reports. The press has treated them unfairly and misrepresented them, they claim. I’m not sure what rock these scalpers have been living under, but news flash: People hate scalpers for legitimate reasons. They screw people out of…Read more... Go to Source
Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting The Wyvern’s Spur

Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting The Wyvern’s Spur

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Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting The Wyvern's Spur The tale of the magically created sellsword and would-be assassin Alias and her boon companion, the saurial paladin Dragonbait, continues in the second volume of the Finder’s Stone trilogy—which, wait a minute…uh…doesn’t actually feature Alias or Dragonbait? At all. But I’ll tell you what The Wyvern’s Spur does…Read more... Go to Source
Medium Workers Board the Union Train

Medium Workers Board the Union Train

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Medium Workers Board the Union Train With today’s news that workers at Medium have overwhelmingly voted to form a union, it’s hard not to get a little mushy about the labor rights zeitgeist. From Amazon warehouse pickers to developers, workers are collectively deciding that they’re over the techno-utopian bullshit that’s taught us building things online…Read more... Go to Source
A Proposal for Healthier News Consumption Habits

A Proposal for Healthier News Consumption Habits

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A Proposal for Healthier News Consumption Habits I have a nasty habit. Maybe you have it, too. I have a drive to stay up to speed on what’s happening in the world, which is, in itself, a good thing! But this drive can quickly turn into an unhealthy tailspin of compulsive behavior wherein I am refreshing my go-to news websites over and over until I get a bit…Read more... Go to Source
The Stand Ended With a Wheeze, Despite the Hand of Stephen King

The Stand Ended With a Wheeze, Despite the Hand of Stephen King

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The Stand Ended With a Wheeze, Despite the Hand of Stephen King From its earliest episodes, we already knew weren’t all that jazzed on CBS All Access’ new take on Stephen King’s The Stand. But the fact that King himself penned a new prologue as part of the final episode, “The Circle Closes,” made us curious enough to stick with it. Was it worth it? Well...Read more... Go to Source
Apple Watch Can Detect Covid-19 a Week Early, Study Finds

Apple Watch Can Detect Covid-19 a Week Early, Study Finds

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Apple Watch Can Detect Covid-19 a Week Early, Study Finds In the early days of the pandemic, dozens of researchers launched studies trying to see whether wearables of all sorts could potentially identify covid-19 before symptoms began. In one such study, researchers from Mount Sinai discovered that the Apple Watch was capable of detecting the onset of covid-19 up to seven…Read more... Go to Source
Instagram Bans Anti-Vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. For Spreading Covid-19 Misinformation

Instagram Bans Anti-Vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. For Spreading Covid-19 Misinformation

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Instagram Bans Anti-Vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. For Spreading Covid-19 Misinformation Instagram has banned notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for spreading misinformation about covid-19 and the safety of vaccines. Strangely, Kennedy is still doing the exact same schtick on Instagram’s parent platform Facebook, a place where he hasn’t been banned. At least not yet.Read more... Go to Source
Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence

Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence

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Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence The four pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary). Time and again, when prompted by researchers to complete a video game task—guiding a cursor with a joystick, a sort of rudimentary Pong—they did so with impressive…Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Valentine’s Day Gift for a Year Like This?

What’s the Best Valentine’s Day Gift for a Year Like This?

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What's the Best Valentine's Day Gift for a Year Like This? It’s almost Valentine’s Day and we all know what that means. Some poor fool has completely forgotten about the holiday entirely and will wake up in a cold sweat one night with the sudden realization of their folly. There’s going to be a chaotic online shopping scramble over the next few days as partners with terrible…Read more... Go to Source
The Most Iconic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films Streaming on HBO Max

The Most Iconic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films Streaming on HBO Max

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The Most Iconic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films Streaming on HBO Max So, you’ve got an HBO Max subscription. Maybe you got it to watch Wonder Woman 1984 and are gonna hold on to it until Godzilla vs. Kong comes out. Maybe you’ll keep it going until the fourth Matrix or the new Dune. But what can you watch in the meantime? Is there more than just all of HBO’s old shows and some upcoming…Read more... Go to Source
Mark Bittman Explains Why the Next 100 Years of Food Will Have to Be Radically Different

Mark Bittman Explains Why the Next 100 Years of Food Will Have to Be Radically Different

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Mark Bittman Explains Why the Next 100 Years of Food Will Have to Be Radically Different Mark Bittman is most famous for the 30,000 recipes he’s developed in decades of being a food journalist and authoring 30 books focused on cooking and eating. But this month’s Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal is not another recipe book, it’s a deeply researched call to arms to…Read more... Go to Source
Strawberry Mansion Dreams of Mental Taxation Without Explanation

Strawberry Mansion Dreams of Mental Taxation Without Explanation

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Strawberry Mansion Dreams of Mental Taxation Without Explanation Writing-directing duo Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s Strawberry Mansion imagines a world where the time people spend fast asleep isn’t truly their own. Instead, it’s the latest frontier where both businesses and the government see money-making opportunities that people usually only have to deal with in the…Read more... Go to Source
Twitter Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests by Farmers in India

Twitter Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests by Farmers in India

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Twitter Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests by Farmers in India Twitter has blocked the accounts of at least 500 people and groups involved in the current protests by farmers in India at the request of the Indian government, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Some of the accounts have even been permanently deleted.Read more... Go to Source
The 5 Best Ways to Store Passwords Safely

The 5 Best Ways to Store Passwords Safely

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The 5 Best Ways to Store Passwords Safely If you’re using a different password for all the sites and apps you’re signed up for (and you really should), there are only so many combinations of letters and numbers you can hold in your head at once. The good news is there are plenty of tools out there to remember your passwords and secure them for you, and we’ve…Read more... Go to Source