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After Columbo Day last week, I refreshed my childhood memory of the investigator's exploits in late 20th-century Los Angeles, where he exposed the city's most cunning and confident murderers. Lieutenant Columbo, performed by the late Peter Falk, codified the "howcatchem" genre: the audience knows who the killer is, and it's all about how they are exposed. — Read the rest
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If you post a video to TikTok and it gets big, it risks being replicated to the word by AI copies. By deepfaking a new head and voice, the AI spambots avoid automated enforcement. Those being cloned say TikTok doesn't respond to complaints. — Read the rest
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When bishop Calvin Robinson emulated Elon Musk's notorious Nazi salute after a speech, he took care to dial it in just right: hand on heart, then cast wide to the audience, fingers out, His version was gentler and smoother than Musk's, with more deniability and less slap chop. — Read the rest
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Jill Stein has won the coveted endorsement of famed white supremacist David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and latter neo-Nazi. He knows a horseshoe when he sees one!
Duke, a proudly antisemitic white supremacist, endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020, but on his radio show yesterday, he slammed Trump's "subservience to Israel and to the Jewish lobby" and said only Stein would stand up to Israel and its "genocide" against Palestinians.
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In a recent interview, Donald proved that he's as stable as a two-legged chair:
And I came in, and just before I got there, there were people saying in our military that "we have no ammunition." I said, "who are these stupid people that would say that anyway?"
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Exhibit A:
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Exhibit B:
As pointed out on Twitter by MeidasTouch.
Note for readers, fact checkers and Trained Journalists: Mr. Vance's laugh did not mechanically loop three times in the original speech; the repetition was added, presumably, to emphasise his natural charm and public speaking gifts. — Read the rest
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Republicans in congress sank their own border control bill after Democrats signalled they were on-board with it, and now a GOP senator is lamenting how far they went to please Donald Trump: "it was painful to watch," James Lankford (R-OK) told Brett Baier on Fox News. — Read the rest
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In this video, two lads imitate the swirling surreality of AI-generated footage. They nail it so well: the leering, the gurning, the squirming, the wine glass appearing out of nowhere. I don't know who they are, but its watermarked by Chinese video-sharing platform Bili Bili. — Read the rest
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Something about Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance makes people want to shower. Democrats have immediately capitalized on it with the term "weird," as enjoyably compiled below by a stricken Jesse Watters on Fox News. The best part of it is that Watters is trying to squish some fake Twitter thing that no-one except right-wingers and journalists even know about—and completely Streisanding it to his audience of aggrieved seniors. — Read the rest
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As was vaguely the case three days ago in the U.K., tactical voting on the left and center can do wonders to put the right in its place.
There's been a major surprise in France's parliamentary elections, with projections indicating the far-right National Rally (RN) has been beaten into third place because of a tactical pact between the left and the centre.In
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Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, not currently groping a date's genitals in a family theater or dealing with her teenage son's expansive collection of theft charges, says the "10 Commandments" should be displayed in schools to counter leftist efforts to corrupt America's children. — Read the rest
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I love these old VHS tapes of Jordan Mechner's brother David, then 15 years old, performing the moves that would end up as the smoothly-animated Prince of Persia. [via The Verge]
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Mechner took the best runs, jumps and moves, edited to create the appearance of an impossibly athletic and agile hero, and rotoscoped them with pixel-perfect precision. — Read the rest
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An elderly woman was left unconscious on the ground after being slammed into during a violent altercation at Los Angeles International Airport.
The incident, captured on security video, occurred on May 31 near the baggage claim area. As the woman's luggage was being unloaded from a car, two men, one identified as 38-year-old Jasan Givens Sr., — Read the rest
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The UK's governing Conservatives can count on only one in five voters to support them in next month's general election—a loss of about four percentage points over a brief yet unexpectedly repulsive campaign. The Labour party is now all but certain to win, polling at 41%—but has itself slipped a similar amount as voters find little form or function in "political robot" Keir Starmer. — Read the rest
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Many people suspect that guns sometimes function as an emotional support penis for insecure men. A study puts hard evidence against the soft assumption: gun ownership correlates to one's level of satisfaction in the girth, reach and aesthetic quality of one's cock. — Read the rest
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Welcome to "Non-Euclidean Doom," where circles aren't anymore. Jump to 7:33 in the video embedded below for the action. With pi equalling 3, "the walls are a little off, and things are not moving as you might expect." Then pi is set to e, and "things are a little more interesting." — Read the rest
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Electronic drum kits can do wonderful things, but even the best models out there still suffer from the same essential flaw: those god damn rubber1 cymbals.
But a few weeks ago, my friend Chris (drummer for the Roland High Life) and I visited the headquarters of the Avedis Zildjian Company just outside of Boston. — Read the rest
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Southern California's retro game scene is impressive, with dozens of stores catering to every gamer's retro needs, weekly swap events, and one of the largest video game conventions in the United States, the Socal Gaming Expo. Unfortunately, some people have taken advantage of this abundance of classic carts and other memorabilia. — Read the rest
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Earlier this month, a mysterious masked man known only as cheeseballman427 began advertising his actions: at 3pm sharp on Saturday, April 27, in the year of our Lord 2024, cheeseballman427 would stand in the middle of Union Square park in the city of New York — some five miles down the island from where a very different crowd had gathered — and there he would consume an entire jar of cheese balls. — Read the rest
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Just what is a "horological conservator?" Ms. Cox takes care of timepieces, repairs and re-creates antique mechanisms, makes magical automaton birds sing, leads classes in geometric engraving with a Guillochè (think a Spirograph combined with a watchmaker's lathe), and writes and speaks about it all. — Read the rest
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