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Why Didn’t More Candidates Show Up for Environmental Justice?

“We thank everyone who showed up,” said Michele Roberts of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance during her opening remarks for the first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice on Friday. “And for those who didn’t, catch up.” The forum, a three-hour discussion of climate change and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities, was historic, necessary, eye-opening,…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Nov 9

The Newest Teaser for Westworld’s Next Season Is an Ad for a Menacing Tech Company

Incite, Inc. is here to propel you forward to the future. No, don’t think about the name too much. It’s probably not threatening. The new Westworld ad is a doozy, and has ARG written all over it. Released yesterday at a WIRED panel called “The Future of Data: The Promise and Peril,” the ad features…

io9 Julie Muncy Nov 9

Here’s How the Lush Title Sequence For Steven Universe: The Movie Came Together

Have you heard the tale of Steven….’s opening credits sequence? The beautiful intro to the Steven Universe movie is a perfect scene-setter for the self-consciously theatrical film. A curtain opening, a storybook, a song straight out of a classic musical. It’s great stuff. And it took a good deal of effort to put together. In…

Movies Julie Muncy Nov 9

Oh Boy, Mercury Is Gonna Transit the Sun [Update: It’s Over]

Mercury will transit the Sun for the first time since 2016 this coming Monday. It won’t do so again until 2032. The smallest planet’s eccentric orbit means it doesn’t often pass in front of the Sun from Earth’s vantage point. This year, part of the 5.5-hour transit will be visible to much of North America…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 9

Stunned Fishermen Rescue a Deer Swimming 5 Miles off the Coast of Maine

In a fish tale like no other, a crew of lobstermen pulled in young deer that somehow managed to swim a whopping 5 miles (8 kilometers) from shore. Writing on Facebook, Captain Ren Dorr said the deer was spotted in the waters off the Maine coast on November 4, 2019. The deer was in a…

Biology George Dvorsky Nov 8

Why Elizabeth Warren Just Mentioned Redlining at a Climate Forum

At the first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice Friday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren didn’t shy away from how the environment is directly related to other issues that people of color in the U.S. face—like housing. During her time on stage, she called out the legacy of segregation and slavery in the U.S. More specifically, she…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Nov 8

In an Edit Bay Far, Far Away: Star Wars Editor Paul Hirsch on His New Book and Lucas’ Legacy

When thinking of Star Wars, we invariably think of a single name: George Lucas. And while Lucas is a natural-born world builder, many will tell you the influence that gave the franchise its pace and tone of romantic, swashbuckling fun was co-editor, and Lucas’ then-wife, Marcia Lucas. She did so along with editors Richard Chew…

Books & Comics Drew Turney Nov 8

9 Bizarre Films That Make Reincarnation Look Like a Total Nightmare

Reincarnation pops up in rom-coms (see: a young Robert Downey, Jr. in Chances Are), existential dramas (like Cloud Atlas and I Origins), and, perhaps not surprisingly, Bollywood movies. But horror movies have also used the theme, putting a sinister spin on the idea of past lives rising up to haunt the present. With the recent…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Nov 8

I’m a Tech Blogger and I’m Here to Say / The #MAGACHALLENGE Sucks In a Major Way

Are you a sad enough dude to debase yourself for the president? Here’s yet another reminder that for many of your fellow citizens, the answer is absolutely “and how!” The #MAGACHALLENGE started in mid-September by a pro-Donald Trump YouTuber Bryson Gray, who raps under the name “B.Serious” and scored a brief moment of fame in…

Politics Tom McKay Nov 8

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Marvel’s She-Hulk and Moon Knight Shows Just Landed Their Leaders

She-Hulk and Moon Knight may be two of the newest shows Marvel Studios announced for Disney+, but the studio has already begun putting together their creative teams. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Jessica Gao, who won an Emmy for the “Pickle Rick” episode of Rick and Morty, has been hired to develop and…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Nov 8

Let’s All Feed OpenAI’s Predictive Text Generator the Dumbest Crap We Can

This week, Elon Musk-backed OpenAI released to the public the latest version of their GPT-2 predictive text generator, which is capable of taking a writing prompt and continuing based on 40 gigabytes of data pulled from around eight million websites. This is impressive, next-generation technology, and I absolutely cannot stop feeding it the dumbest crap…

Conservation Tom McKay Nov 8

Gender-Reveal Plane Crash Is Perfect Metaphor for Gender-Reveal Parties

The increasingly popular ritual that celebrates the misguided notion of the concept of gender continues to get dumber as expecting parents find new ways to risk lives and destroy property while telling their loved ones the gender they intend to assign their children upon birth. One of the latest gender-reveal catastrophes occurred on September 7…

Culture Jennings Brown Nov 8

An Even Smaller Lego 1989 Batmobile Races Into the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the best new toys we’re salivating over on the internet. This week, we’ve got a very neat take on one of Netflix’s Ultraman stars, and Batman gets to not only crack nuts in the most uncomfortable looking way possible, he gets yet another sweet Lego take…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Nov 8

Trump Says U.S. Will Change Vaping Age to ’21 or So’

As the United States grapples with the ongoing crisis of rising use of vape products among teens and youth, President Donald Trump said that new restrictions will bump the age limit for e-cigarettes from 18 to 21. Or so! “We’re going to be coming out with a very important position on vaping. We have to…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 8

We Now Have Direct Evidence That Vitamin E Is Behind Vaping Illness Outbreak

On Friday, federal health officials announced a breakthrough in solving the mystery of why people are getting seriously sick from vaping. They detected vitamin E acetate—an oily, synthetic form of the vitamin commonly added to black-market THC vape products—in lung fluid samples taken from all of the patients they’ve tested so far. For months now,…

Health Ed Cara Nov 8

How to Make Your Social Media Feeds About More Than Just Your Boring Friends

Remember when opening up social networking apps was exciting? Now, all your friends seem to post about is politics / their baby / their side business / what they’re eating. The good news is that the best social apps go way beyond your friends and family—there’s interesting content out there if you know where to…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 8

You Can Now Control Your Roku From the Apple Watch

If you happen to be somewhere in the intersection of Roku and Apple Watch owners, good news. Today, Roku launched a free app for your wrist that features voice controls, and the ability to find your remote. To get the app, you just have to update the Roku mobile app to version 6.1.3 on your…

Tech News Victoria Song Nov 8

The Black Mage‘s Daniel Barnes and DJ Kirkland Unpack the Meaning of the Book’s Magic

Oni Press’s The Black Mage, by writer Daniel Barnes and artist D.J. Kirkland, tells a story that’s unique to the young, black magic-user at the center of the comic. But the story is familiar to any person from a historically marginalized background that finds themselves suddenly thrust into the eternally weird world of higher education.…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 8

The Walking Dead’s Carol Prods Daryl About His Love Life in This Exclusive Clip

For years, fans have loved the bond between Carol and Daryl on The Walking Dead—at this point, they’re some of the few remaining strands left to the show’s earliest, zombie-laden years. The new season may be more about people wearing zombie skin than it is the zombies, but as this exclusive clip from the next episode shows,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 8

AT&T Is Handing Out ‘Bonus’ Data Nobody Asked For—And Charging Customers a Fee for It

AT&T has seemingly managed to dream up a whole new way to fuck with its customers, namely by giving them data that they didn’t ask for and charging them a fee for it. A 15 GB data hike and accompanying charge, reported Wednesday by the Verge, affects some Mobile Share plan customers. According to a…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 8

Why Didn’t More Candidates Show Up for Environmental Justice?

The Newest Teaser for Westworld’s Next Season Is an Ad for a Menacing Tech Company

Here’s How the Lush Title Sequence For Steven Universe: The Movie Came Together

Oh Boy, Mercury Is Gonna Transit the Sun [Update: It’s Over]

Stunned Fishermen Rescue a Deer Swimming 5 Miles off the Coast of Maine

Why Elizabeth Warren Just Mentioned Redlining at a Climate Forum

In an Edit Bay Far, Far Away: Star Wars Editor Paul Hirsch on His New Book and Lucas’ Legacy

9 Bizarre Films That Make Reincarnation Look Like a Total Nightmare

I’m a Tech Blogger and I’m Here to Say / The #MAGACHALLENGE Sucks In a Major Way

Marvel’s She-Hulk and Moon Knight Shows Just Landed Their Leaders

Let’s All Feed OpenAI’s Predictive Text Generator the Dumbest Crap We Can

Gender-Reveal Plane Crash Is Perfect Metaphor for Gender-Reveal Parties

An Even Smaller Lego 1989 Batmobile Races Into the Best Toys of the Week

Trump Says U.S. Will Change Vaping Age to ’21 or So’

We Now Have Direct Evidence That Vitamin E Is Behind Vaping Illness Outbreak

How to Make Your Social Media Feeds About More Than Just Your Boring Friends

You Can Now Control Your Roku From the Apple Watch

The Black Mage‘s Daniel Barnes and DJ Kirkland Unpack the Meaning of the Book’s Magic

The Walking Dead’s Carol Prods Daryl About His Love Life in This Exclusive Clip

AT&T Is Handing Out ‘Bonus’ Data Nobody Asked For—And Charging Customers a Fee for It

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