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California’s Policies to Reduce Air Pollution Are Working

California officials have gone to bat for their ability to regulate pollution from vehicles. When the Trump administration weakened auto emissions standards under the Clean Air Act, for instance, the state used its authority to impose stricter ones, and even successfully facing off against former President Donald Trump when he tried to stop it. A new…

Earther Dharna Noor Mar 25

Twitter-Banned Clown Seeks New Posting Crown

Donald Trump has been retired from the U.S. presidency for a good two months now, but the urge to post has only gotten stronger by the day. Banned from his former platform of choice, Twitter, for accidentally-oopsie-woopsie-inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Trump has reportedly been growing restless — and according to recent reports,…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano Mar 24

Pillow Goblin Mike Lindell’s New Social Media Site Is Just Named Frank and It’s a Platform for Americans Who Want to Defend Life, Liberty, and All the Freedoms That Have Marked America as the Longest Running Constitutional Republic in the History of the World

The MyPillow weirdo’s new censorship-free social media network is here and… it’s a website named Frank. Like, it’s actually just named Frank. Mike Lindell is probably best known as the pillow magnate who somehow managed to worm his way into the inner sanctum of Donald Trump’s administration and has subsequently spent most of his time…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 24

Is Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp the New Piss Water?

Things are funny because they’re unexpected. This is the rough gist of the incongruity theory, a centuries-old broadly-shared concept that humor subverts assumptions; as philosopher James Beattie wrote, in 1779: “laughter arises from the view of two or more inconsistent, unsuitable, or incongruous parts or circumstances.” I’m thinking about the Cinnamon Toast Crunch guy, who…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Mar 24

Parler’s Ex-CEO Sues, Claims He Was Told His Shares Were Only Worth Three Buckaroos

Parler, the pro-Donald Trump social media site that’s served as a sort of all-you-can-eat buffet for brain worms in the past few years, is being sued by its own co-founder and ex-CEO. Following the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, which was partially organized on Parler’s violent death threat-laden site, Amazon Web Services booted Parler…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 23

Facebook Missed 10.1 Billion Opportunities to Stop Juicing Hoaxes and Propaganda in 2020, Study Finds

If Facebook had moved sooner to restrict hoax, toxic, misleading, or other content attempting to interfere with the 2020 elections, it could have limited its reach by around 10 billion views, according to a report by the advocacy group Avaaz. Researchers for Avaaz identified the 100 highest-performing pages on Facebook that had shared content classified…

Social Media Tom McKay Mar 23

Novelist Charged After Calling Poland’s President ‘Moron’ on Facebook

Jakub Żulczyk, a TV writer and novelist in Poland, has been charged with calling Poland’s President Andrzej Duda a “moron” on Facebook. Żulczyk faces up to three years in prison over the insult. Żulczyk, a 37-year-old writer whose 2014 novel Blinded by the Lights was adapted for TV and aired on HBO Europe in 2018,…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 23

Sidney Powell Wants Dominion Suit Tossed on the Grounds That What She Was Saying Was Too Stupid to be Believable

After working for months to advance the baseless conspiracy theory that the voting machine manufacturer Dominion had worked with Venezuela to rig the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump, former campaign lawyer Sidney Powell is requesting that the election software company drop its defamation lawsuit against her on the grounds that nobody with half a…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano Mar 22

Hospitals Are Reportedly Hiding Federally Mandated Pricing Data From Search Engines

Starting this year, hospitals across the country were mandated to disclose their rates for certain medical procedures as part of a new federal rule meant to bring a bit more transparency to the public health sector. But according to a new Wall Street Journal investigation, hundreds of hospitals nationwide have found a relatively sneaky way…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Mar 22

Trump Plans to Launch a Social Media Platform and It’s Gonna Be Huge

Former President Donald Trump is planning to return to social media with “his own platform,” his advisor said Sunday. And none of those fake news meanies will be invited. Neener neener neener. OK, so that last part was me, but considering how fiercely we know this man-child holds grudges, I suspect any Trump-powered social media platform…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Mar 21

Senate Considering Hauling in Facebook, Twitter CEOs so They Can All Ramble for Hours About Whatever Bullshit Gripe They Have This Time

If you thought last year’s clusterf*ck of a Senate hearing on social media was a good use of everyone’s time, congrats! The Senate is considering calling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and the rest of the gang back together for another hearing, this time before the Judiciary Committee. Per Politico, Senator Chris…

Internet Tom McKay Mar 19

OK K.O. Creator Ian Jones-Quartey Blames the Show’s Cancellation on Trump’s Beef With CNN

Just as Ian Jones-Quartey’s OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes really began to hit its stride and shift into darker story arcs, the series was rather unceremoniously canceled. At the time, it felt like yet another instance of a beloved cartoon getting the ax even though there was likely more to the story that could have…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 19

The Oil and Gas Industry Is Fighting North Face for Some Reason

The North Face has become the oil industry’s new favorite brand to hate. It all started back in December, when Innovex Downhole Solutions, a company that provides oil and gas well services, placed an order with the North Face for 400 jackets branded with the company’s logo as Christmas presents for his employees. North Face…

Earther Molly Taft Mar 19

Marjorie Taylor Greene Temporarily Suspended by Twitter as Congress Considers Expulsion

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, commonly known as the QAnon Congresswoman, was temporarily suspended from Twitter on Friday. The social media crackdown coincided with the introduction of a resolution to expel the congresswoman from Georgia from the House, but Twitter claims its enforcement was an error. Rep. Greene has been a vocal peddler of grievance, victimhood,…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 19

EPA’s Climate Change Sub-Site Is Back, Baby

The Environmental Protection Agency relaunched its website’s climate change section on Thursday, nearly four years after the Trump administration took it offline in a bid to downplay the threats of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions. “Climate facts are back on EPA’s website where they should be,” said EPA administrator Michael Regan in a press statement. “Considering the…

Earther Alyse Stanley Mar 18

Postal Service Report Confirms ‘Whistleblower’ Mail Carrier Alleging Election Fraud Was Full of Shit

Shocking: The feds have determined that the Donald Trump-loving Pennsylvania mail carrier that made over $236,000 on a Christian crowdfunding platform after claiming to have overheard a U.S. Postal Service plot to steal the state for Joe Biden made it all up. Richard Hopkins, a USPS employee in Erie, claimed in a sworn affidavit shortly…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 18

Social Media Execs Fuel Extremist Violence Globally, Report Finds

Report finds U.S. tech firms complicit in propping up authoritarians, hate groups.

Tech News Dell Cameron Mar 18

9 Conspiracy Theories We Wish QAnon People Would Obsess Over Instead

QAnon is, unfortunately, one of the most popular conspiracy theories in town these days. But let’s not forget that there are conspiracy theories that are way more interesting and far less of a threat to American democracy. For those unaware, QAnon is a conspiracy theory that, in general, claims we are governed by Satan-worshipping pedophiles—which…

Tech News Jody Serrano Mar 17

Russia ‘Amplified’ the Hunter Biden Story and Spread Election Conspiracy Theories, Intel Agencies Claim

Russia wants America to hate Hunter Biden. That, and other odd claims, are at the heart of a newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), meant to examine the role of foreign influence in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. The 15-page report, published Tuesday, says multiple foreign governments used…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Mar 16

QAnon Is a Dangerous Echo of Conspiracies Past

As the tragic events of January 6th, 2021 played out in glaring clarity on our televisions, laptops, and phones, it became remarkably obvious how disparate the goals were of the separate groups involved. Some of the insurrectionists seemed more than happy to wave TRUMP 2020 flags and snap selfies in the Capitol, while others carried…

Politics Jared Yates Sexton Mar 11

California’s Policies to Reduce Air Pollution Are Working

Twitter-Banned Clown Seeks New Posting Crown

Pillow Goblin Mike Lindell’s New Social Media Site Is Just Named Frank and It’s a Platform for Americans Who Want to Defend Life, Liberty, and All the Freedoms That Have Marked America as the Longest Running Constitutional Republic in the History of the World

Is Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp the New Piss Water?

Parler’s Ex-CEO Sues, Claims He Was Told His Shares Were Only Worth Three Buckaroos

Facebook Missed 10.1 Billion Opportunities to Stop Juicing Hoaxes and Propaganda in 2020, Study Finds

Novelist Charged After Calling Poland’s President ‘Moron’ on Facebook

Sidney Powell Wants Dominion Suit Tossed on the Grounds That What She Was Saying Was Too Stupid to be Believable

Hospitals Are Reportedly Hiding Federally Mandated Pricing Data From Search Engines

Trump Plans to Launch a Social Media Platform and It’s Gonna Be Huge

Senate Considering Hauling in Facebook, Twitter CEOs so They Can All Ramble for Hours About Whatever Bullshit Gripe They Have This Time

OK K.O. Creator Ian Jones-Quartey Blames the Show’s Cancellation on Trump’s Beef With CNN

The Oil and Gas Industry Is Fighting North Face for Some Reason

Marjorie Taylor Greene Temporarily Suspended by Twitter as Congress Considers Expulsion

EPA’s Climate Change Sub-Site Is Back, Baby

Postal Service Report Confirms ‘Whistleblower’ Mail Carrier Alleging Election Fraud Was Full of Shit

Social Media Execs Fuel Extremist Violence Globally, Report Finds

9 Conspiracy Theories We Wish QAnon People Would Obsess Over Instead

Russia ‘Amplified’ the Hunter Biden Story and Spread Election Conspiracy Theories, Intel Agencies Claim

QAnon Is a Dangerous Echo of Conspiracies Past

Trump’s Fed Pick Is Knee Deep in Tech and Crypto Investments

The First Trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Takes Terror Stateside

The Trump Phone Still Looks Like Total Trash

‘Masters of the Universe’ Really, Really Wants to Be the Next ‘Barbie’

Samsung’s Micro RGB TVs Provide So Much Color It May Be Too Much

The Crypto Bros Want to Get Their Hands on Anthropic’s ‘Super Dangerous’ Model

This Is What a Music Industry ‘Plant’ Looks Like in 2026

As Starship V3 Lags Behind, Blue Origin Prepares Third Launch of New Glenn

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

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HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

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