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Reddit Quarantines Its Biggest Pro-Trump Community

With three-quarters of a million subscribers, r/The_Donald has been a gleefully pro-fascist eyesore on the larger Reddit community, which, for reasons no one seemed able to justify, had evaded any sort of meaningful enforcement of site-wide policies. Well, the needle finally budged today, and all it took was anonymous yahoos threatening to shoot cops. Set…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jun 26

Oregon Climate Bill Appears Dead After Some Ridiculous Bullshit You Can’t Make Up

A landmark climate change bill that appeared on the brink of passing the Oregon state legislature last week now seems to be dead. The state’s senate was set to take up a vote on a cap-and-trade bill that would have used a market mechanism (favored by conservatives) to reduce carbon pollution when Republicans deserted their…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jun 25

Oregon State Police Are Searching for Republican Lawmakers Afraid of Voting on Climate Policy

Democrats hold supermajorities in both houses of Oregon’s legislature and the governorship. That means that they can pass basically whatever the hell they want unless, of course, Republican legislators decide to desert the capital. With a vote due today on a bill that would create a carbon cap and trade system—a market-based climate solution favored…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jun 20

Amtrak Train Stranded in Oregon for 36 Hours Honestly Seems Pretty Chill

National news broke early this morning that an Amtrak train near Oakridge, Oregon on its way to California had been stranded with 183 people for over 30 hours. And many people reasonably assumed that it would be an apocalyptic situation by now. But aside from some modest inconveniences, it actually sounds pretty relaxed now 36…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 26

136 People Have Died in Measles Outbreak in the Philippines Linked to Vaccination Fears, Official Says

Thousands of people have been infected in a measles outbreak that has been linked to the deaths of 136 people, according to the Philippine health secretary on Monday. The Associated Press reported that most of those who died were young children, with roughly half between the ages of 1 and 4. Health Secretary Francisco Duque…

Health Catie Keck Feb 18

Watch These Serene Elephants Smash the Shit Out of Some Gourds

Every year leading up to its annual Halloween festivities, the Oregon Zoo kicks the party off with a grand display of gourd-smashing, officially titled the Squishing of the Squash. But lest you thought it was children or even people squashing the gourds, you would be mistaken. Instead, the zoo unleashes its resident elephants on the…

Biology Catie Keck Oct 20

Following Years-Long Investigation, Tesla Coughs Up $13 Million in Oregon Settlement

Capping off a probe launched in 2015—instigated by reporting from Oregon Live—Tesla Energy Solutions has agreed to pay $13 million back to Oregon after the investigation concluded the cost of 14 solar power projects in the state had been inflated to qualify for higher tax credits. While Tesla Energy Solutions (then known as SolarCity) did not…

Tech News Avery Ellis Oct 11

There Is Now Just One Blockbuster Left in the US

The last two Blockbuster stores in Alaska are shutting their doors for good next week according to the Anchorage Daily News, which means there is just one remaining relic of the video rental giant still up and operating in the entire United States. The final Blockbuster storefront standing is located in Bend, Oregon. It outlasted…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jul 12

The Trump Administration Can’t Seem to Stop the Climate Kids’ Lawsuit [Updated]

It’s not often you celebrate going to court, but 21 kids are doing just that after a federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to halt a landmark climate change lawsuit on Wednesday. https://gizmodo.com/those-kids-suing-for-climate-action-might-soon-get-thei-1821218998 First brought in 2015 in Oregon, the lawsuit asserts that the government has violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights by failing…

Environmental Justice Ari Phillips Mar 8

Oregon’s Botched Google Tax Break Shows Why You Don’t Bend the Knee to Tech Giants

As city officials around the US continue to carve out incentives that might convince Amazon to build its new headquarters in their town, lawmakers in Oregon are having regrets about their own efforts to please Big Tech. A new bill there would repeal tax breaks that were intended to lure Google to deploy high-speed fiber—but ended…

Tech News Rhett Jones Feb 23

The Entire West Coast May Soon Have a Price On Carbon

Oregon and Washington state are both considering bills in their 2018 legislative sessions that would put a price on carbon. If passed, the bills would create a West Coast block, including California and Canada’s British Columbia, of states and provinces that all have a carbon pricing scheme. “The hope was that we’d have the whole…

Conservation Renee Lewis Feb 12

A/S/L? Oregon Wants to Celebrate a ‘Day of Cyber’ With You

Oregon Governor Kate Brown, having apparently never used a chatroom in the ‘90s, declared November 20th to be a statewide “Day of Cyber.” While I would infer this to mean she wants everyone to wank to steamy AIM messages, the day is really meant to herald the launch of the Cyber Oregon Cybersecurity Awareness Initiative…

Tech News Alex Cranz Nov 20

Thief Stole Backpack and Wedding Ring From Dying Portland Hero After Terrorist Attack [Update: They Arrested Him]

Ricky John Best was one of two men who died at the hands of a white supremacist on a Portland train last week. Best intervened when he saw the terrorist, 35-year-old Jeremy Christian, shouting hateful things at Muslim teen girls on the train. But Best suffered another indignity after being stabbed to death by the…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 2

Customer Microwaves Urine at 7-Eleven, Microwave Explodes

Some poor beleaguered souls working at a 7-Eleven in Oregon were just trying to serve up some Big Gulps and hot dogs when their microwave suddenly exploded. They called the cops, and when the proper authorities checked out the situation, they didn’t find a bomb. Instead, they say it contained a urine sample. https://gizmodo.com/how-do-chemical-handwarmers-work-1670218718 According…

Tech News Rhett Jones May 31

Somehow There Were No Injuries From This Terrifying Plane Crash Caught on Dashcam

Driver Simon Li was in the right place, at the right time, for his vehicle’s dashcam to capture what looks like a terrifying and deadly crash of a Piper PA32 single-engine airplane. But it turns out both the plane’s pilot and passenger were able to climb out of the plane’s wreckage and walk away afterwards,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 3

Holy Wow, Oregon Looks Gorgeous From Up Above

Hot damn, the state of Oregon is beautiful. Like, maybe the most beautiful state in this country beautiful. Like, you should probably go to Oregon when you need some sort of adventure or guidance in life beautiful. This video from Michael Shainblum shows the natural wonders of it all: the gorgeous green, the mirrored lakes, the…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 23

Hospital Ward Gripped by Mysterious Hallucinations Quarantined After Five Fall Ill

This week, an emergency room in the Pacific Northwest was briefly quarantined after five people—including two police officers and a hospital worker—experienced mysterious hallucinations from an unidentified illness believed to be spread by touch. According to Oregon Live, the enigmatic incident began early Wednesday morning when a 54-year-old caregiver in North Bend, Oregon, called police…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Oct 16

TLDR: All the Paleofuture Stories From 2015 You Swore You’d Read Later

The internet is a big place. There’s so much to read and watch and listen to that it can be overwhelming. We all have those stories that we start, get distracted for one reason or another, and promise ourselves we’ll finish later. Well, if any of those stories were on Paleofuture, here’s your second chance!…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 16

Long Ago, a Ship Entered a Lake And Became an Island For The Lost

On these small islands, spindly rock formations are the only hints of the dark magic that transformed the original ships into monuments to angering the local mages. Alternately, it’s an island called Phantom Ship located in Crater Lake in Oregon. Lots of inspiration in both the island and lake names. Contact the author at [email protected].…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jul 1

Damn, This Fake Orca Sucks At Being a Fake Orca

The small fishing village of Astoria, Oregon, tried to scare off a pesky sea lion colony with a large fake mechanical orca. It was a cunning scheme, one that pitted the sly artifice of man against whatever it is sea lions have. But alas—nature won. The plan to unleash the fiberglass orca—which is actually a…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Jun 5

Reddit Quarantines Its Biggest Pro-Trump Community

Oregon Climate Bill Appears Dead After Some Ridiculous Bullshit You Can’t Make Up

Oregon State Police Are Searching for Republican Lawmakers Afraid of Voting on Climate Policy

Amtrak Train Stranded in Oregon for 36 Hours Honestly Seems Pretty Chill

136 People Have Died in Measles Outbreak in the Philippines Linked to Vaccination Fears, Official Says

Watch These Serene Elephants Smash the Shit Out of Some Gourds

Following Years-Long Investigation, Tesla Coughs Up $13 Million in Oregon Settlement

There Is Now Just One Blockbuster Left in the US

The Trump Administration Can’t Seem to Stop the Climate Kids’ Lawsuit [Updated]

Oregon’s Botched Google Tax Break Shows Why You Don’t Bend the Knee to Tech Giants

The Entire West Coast May Soon Have a Price On Carbon

A/S/L? Oregon Wants to Celebrate a ‘Day of Cyber’ With You

Thief Stole Backpack and Wedding Ring From Dying Portland Hero After Terrorist Attack [Update: They Arrested Him]

Customer Microwaves Urine at 7-Eleven, Microwave Explodes

Somehow There Were No Injuries From This Terrifying Plane Crash Caught on Dashcam

Holy Wow, Oregon Looks Gorgeous From Up Above

Hospital Ward Gripped by Mysterious Hallucinations Quarantined After Five Fall Ill

TLDR: All the Paleofuture Stories From 2015 You Swore You’d Read Later

Long Ago, a Ship Entered a Lake And Became an Island For The Lost

Damn, This Fake Orca Sucks At Being a Fake Orca

How Should We Prepare for the Looming Quantum Encryption Apocalypse?

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Artemis 2 Day 10: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

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