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That Julian Assange Twitter Account is Fake. No, the Other One.

Julian Assange sent his first tweet ever from a personal account back in February, and has been tweeting away since. But there’s an imposter account that has been gaining steam recently. How much steam? Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted it. The tweet from the fake Assange account reads, “Trump condemned hours ago. Did Obama denounce…

Tech News Matt Novak

If You Eat an Animal That Ate Drugs, Will It Affect You?

Some of our cows and chickens are on drugs. The relative safety of those drugs is the subject of ongoing debate, and some are more common than others. Last month, Bloomberg reported that Sanderson Farms is being sued for allegedly dosing its chickens with ketamine. Your next order of chicken nuggets probably won’t plunge you…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz

You Will Never Forget the Sound of a Stretch Armstrong Toy Being Shredded

Having already smooshed everything imaginable, the internet is ready to leave hydraulic presses behind and now focus its collective interest on weird things you can stick in an industrial shredder. First up is a classic Stretch Armstrong toy ,whose moist, squishy death cries will haunt your nightmares. Featuring a body made of latex rubber filled…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

How to Back Up All Your Songs and Podcasts From SoundCloud

These are troubled times for SoundCloud, with staff lay offs, changing CEOs, and talk of emergency investment securing its future for the time being. As with any service that’s looking shaky, users will be (and should be) worried about getting their stuff out—you may have years of playlists, uploads, and podcasts collected on the service.…

Gadgets David Nield

Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Moves Domain to Google After Getting the Boot From GoDaddy [Update: Google Boots It Too]

About 10 hours ago, GoDaddy—the world’s largest internet domain registrar—sent five identical replies to critics who condemned its role as the provider of domain name services for the one of the most prominent neo-Nazi websites, the Daily Stormer. The white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville this weekend which left three dead and dozens…

Tech News Avery Ellis

White Supremacists Suddenly Very Concerned About Tolerance After Getting Maced

Can’t we all get along? That seems to be the question coming from internet personalities Baked Alaska and Matthew Colligan after they were attacked and doxed while participating in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Matthew Colligan and his friend Baked Alaska, whose real name is Anthime Gionet, have spent the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Godwin of Godwin’s Law: ‘By All Means, Compare These Shitheads to the Nazis’

Any masochist who has spent a second taking part in the eye gouge that is “internet discourse” has heard one of its core tenets, Mike Godwin’s law. That law, as recounted by Wired, goes as follows: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” We’ve all…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Fired Google Engineer James Damore Takes His Case to Reddit

James Damore, the Google engineer who was fired after posting a 10-page memo calling the company an “Ideological Echo Chamber” and arguing women are underrepresented in tech because of inherent differences, has taken his side of the story to one of the friendliest venues imaginable: Reddit. In an AMA session on the /r/JamesDamore subreddit, Damore…

Tech News Tom McKay

Another Great App Went Subscription Only and Everything Is Terrible

I blame Adobe for this. Ulysses, one of the best writing tools available right now, is going subscription only

Tech News Alex Cranz

Doxxed White Supremacist Caught Red-Handed With Torch at Charlottesville Wants to Put That Genie Back in the Bottle

A 20-year-old University of Nevada, Reno student who was caught on camera carrying torches alongside other white supremacists at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia is backpedaling furiously now that his identity has been exposed. Channel 2 News reports that after the photo of Peter Cvjetanovic screaming while holding the torch went viral, they were able…

Tech News Tom McKay

Watch Jason Kessler, Organizer Behind Disastrous White Supremacist Rally, Get Run Out of His Own Press Conference

At a press conference on Sunday, angry citizens ran off Jason Kessler, the organizer of a disastrous rally for white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other members of the so-called alt right in Charlottesville, Virginia that ended in mass violence this weekend. Local paralegal Heather Heyer died and dozens were injured after suspected member of neo-Nazi group…

Tech News Tom McKay

Why Are Neo-Nazis on Twitter So Scared of Being Called Neo-Nazis?

Yesterday’s rally of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and so-called “alt-right” activists predictably devolved into violence. One anti-fascist protester and two police officers are dead, and dozens more were injured by neo-Nazis in a fascist rally at the University of Virginia. But after the streets were cleared, far right thugs who participated in the demonstration seemed only concerned…

Tech News Matt Novak

Neo-Nazis Praise Trump’s Response to Charlottesville: ‘He Said He Loves Us All’

President Donald Trump on Saturday condemned violence that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, where thousands of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, and other pieces of human trash gathered brandishing guns, torches, and Confederate flags. But to the elation of Nazis online and armed militiamen in the streets of Charlottesville, Trump declined to distance the White…

Tech News Dell Cameron

One Dead, Dozens Injured After Car Slams Counter-Protesters at White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville [Updating]

Amid the chaos of a canceled “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia attended by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other members of the so-called alt-right on Saturday, a man who has now been arrested drove a car directly into other vehicles and a crowd of people protesting the march. According to the AP, at least…

Tech News Bryan Menegus & Tom McKay

Richard Spencer Claims Virginia Restaurant Was Refusing Service. It Wasn’t Open.

Yesterday as white nationalists flooded into Charlottesville, Virginia for the Unite the Right rally, headlining speaker and key organizer Richard Spencer had the time to complain on Twitter about a local restaurant supposedly refusing service to himself and the pale turds who follow his example. Embarrassingly, the restaurant simply wasn’t open. Based solely on the…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Study: North Korea’s Missiles Built For Show, Can’t Hit US Mainland Yet

Are we on the brink of all-out nuclear war with North Korea? Experts say no, probably not. But according to a new technical analysis of North Korea’s missile technology in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, even if it did come to that, the closest to the heartland Kim Jong Un can strike is Anchorage,…

Tech News Tom McKay

What the Heck Is Going on With the HBO Game of Thrones Hack?

Episode 5 of the penultimate season of Game of Thrones will air on Sunday. As with episode 4, an outline of the script has been circulating online in what seems to be the latest leak from the huge HBO hack. And suddenly, it seems like the “cyber incident” that some people—including this blogger—thought would be…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

A certain portion of the internet is freaking out over a change to an important list used by ad blockers that facilitates their function. Popular coding repository GitHub received a DMCA request (the same tool copyright holders use to remove links to pirated music and movies online) to remove a domain name from the ad…

Tech News Rhett Jones

That New Pro-Vegan Documentary on Netflix Made Me Want to Die

If there’s one thing you should always remember about science, it’s that fact and truth are established after multiple studies converge on an answer. Even after that, further research might turn over what you thought was true of the other studies, because you were looking at it through too narrow of a lens. Single papers…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

As Trump Tweets World Into Nuclear Standoff, Bomb Shelter Sales Are Booming

After North Korea threatened to launch an “enveloping strike” at Guam, the territory’s office of civil defense posted emergency guidelines on Friday, explaining what citizens should do in the event of a missile attack. (“Do not look at the flash or fireball—It can blind you. Take cover behind anything that might offer protection.”) The advisory followed…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

That Julian Assange Twitter Account is Fake. No, the Other One.

If You Eat an Animal That Ate Drugs, Will It Affect You?

You Will Never Forget the Sound of a Stretch Armstrong Toy Being Shredded

How to Back Up All Your Songs and Podcasts From SoundCloud

Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Moves Domain to Google After Getting the Boot From GoDaddy [Update: Google Boots It Too]

White Supremacists Suddenly Very Concerned About Tolerance After Getting Maced

Godwin of Godwin’s Law: ‘By All Means, Compare These Shitheads to the Nazis’

Fired Google Engineer James Damore Takes His Case to Reddit

Another Great App Went Subscription Only and Everything Is Terrible

Doxxed White Supremacist Caught Red-Handed With Torch at Charlottesville Wants to Put That Genie Back in the Bottle

Watch Jason Kessler, Organizer Behind Disastrous White Supremacist Rally, Get Run Out of His Own Press Conference

Why Are Neo-Nazis on Twitter So Scared of Being Called Neo-Nazis?

Neo-Nazis Praise Trump’s Response to Charlottesville: ‘He Said He Loves Us All’

One Dead, Dozens Injured After Car Slams Counter-Protesters at White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville [Updating]

Richard Spencer Claims Virginia Restaurant Was Refusing Service. It Wasn’t Open.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Study: North Korea’s Missiles Built For Show, Can’t Hit US Mainland Yet

What the Heck Is Going on With the HBO Game of Thrones Hack?

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

That New Pro-Vegan Documentary on Netflix Made Me Want to Die

As Trump Tweets World Into Nuclear Standoff, Bomb Shelter Sales Are Booming

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SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

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Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

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