Over a year ago, Spotify rolled out a slick new Behind the Lyrics integration on iOS that connected the song you were currently listening to with annotated lyrics from Genius. Like a cross between VH1’s Pop Up Video and a karaoke machine, Behind the…
When you’re sitting during a lecture where the professor is going off on a tangent or are stuck in a meeting where your boss loves to hear themselves talk, your mind wanders. It’s hard not to be restless and start tapping your feet, fingers, and playing with whatever is nearby. You don’t want to be rude, but you also don’t want to be bored, and have to find a common space in between the two so you don’t go insane.
We’ve seen tools like the Fidget Cube in the past, but if that novelty has worn off or it has seen so much use that you need a new one, this Fidget Spinner might be a good replacement. This is a toy that has ceramic bearings that you can spin as much as you want without needing repairs, oil, or maintenance. If your spin is powerful enough, it could keep going for over 2 minutes.
These come in a variety of color options, and there’s even a glow in the dark version for those that need something to distract themselves before going to sleep. It’s only 3 inches in diameter, so it can easily go wherever you do. They’ll cost you around $9 a piece, and should survive constant use from both adults and children alike. If you are getting one for a child, check in with their teacher, as what might seem like a good idea could quickly become a nightmare in the classroom.
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Are you reading this on a smartphone, tablet, or laptop? Yes? Cool. That glowing misery rectangle has the capacity to explode the same way Milwaukee woman Dina Mitchell’s Fitbit Flex 2 did last week. Any lithium-based rechargeable battery can. It’s just extremely unlikely.
Nope. Just nope. You won’t catch me playing the dangerous game of five finger fillet with a robot. I won’t even let a robot hold a knife around me. Are you crazy? Well, this guy must be.
Irfon Automation created this video which shows a subject playing a very risky game of the knife game with their Staubli TX40 robot. The idea is to demonstrate the machine’s speed, precision, and programmability. They also demonstrated how crazy that guy is. Nope. I wouldn’t trust that robot. I don’t care how well programmed it is.
You’ll notice that they didn’t dial up the speed THAT much. Even they don’t trust it fully. I dare this guy to go maximum speed. Just get insurance on your fingers first.
[via The Awesomer via Laughing Squid]
A Thai man filmed himself killing his 11-month-old daughter in two video clips posted on Facebook before committing suicide, police said on Tuesday.
People could access the videos of the child’s murder on her father’s Facebook page for roughly 24 hours, until they were taken down around 5 p.m. in Bangkok (1000 GMT) on Tuesday, or about a day after being uploaded.
“This is an appalling incident and our hearts go out to the family of the victim,” a Singapore-based Facebook spokesman said in an email to Reuters. “There is absolutely no place for content of this kind on Facebook and it has now been removed.”
Last week, Facebook said it was reviewing how it monitored violent footage and other objectionable material after a posting of the fatal shooting of a man in Cleveland, Ohio was visible for two hours before being taken down.
The harrowing footage from Thailand showed Wuttisan Wongtalay tying a rope to his daughter Natalie’s neck before dropping the child, dressed in a bright pink dress, from the rooftop of a deserted building in the seaside town of Phuket.
Wuttisan’s suicide was not broadcast but his lifeless body was found beside his daughter, said Jullaus Suvannin, the police officer in charge of the case.
“He was having paranoia about his wife leaving him and not loving him,” Jullaus told Reuters.
Wuttisan’s wife, Jiranuch Triratana, told Reuters she had lived with him for over a year. At first the relationship had gone well, she said, but then he grew violent and sometimes hit her five-year-old son from a previous husband.
She feared that something was wrong on Tuesday when she found he had left home with Natalie, whose nickname was Beta. She set out to look for them.
“I was afraid he would hurt our daughter even though he loved her,” she told Reuters by phone from the funeral.
VIDEO REMOVED
Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy said it contacted Facebook on Tuesday afternoon about removing the videos, after receiving a police request.
“We contacted Facebook today and Facebook removed the videos,” ministry spokesman Somsak Khaosuwan told Reuters, adding that the government would take no action against the company.
“We will not be able to press charges against Facebook, because Facebook is the service provider and they acted according to their protocol when we sent our request. They cooperated very well.”
After the company faced a backlash for showing the video of the Cleveland killing, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would do all it could to prevent such content in the future.
Thai netizens voiced outrage about the clips of the child’s killing, which were uploaded on Monday, the first at 4.50 p.m. (0950 GMT) and the second at 4.57 p.m. (0957 GMT).
“This is the most evil clip I’ve seen in my life,” said one user, Avada Teeraponkoon. “I couldn’t stand it for more than one second.”
“How can he watch his own child stop breathing?” said another, Rujirek Polglang. “He should have just died alone.”
The killing was the first in Thailand known to be broadcast on the social networking site, said deputy police spokesman Kissana Phathanacharoen.
“It could be influenced by behavior from abroad, most recently in Cleveland,” Kissana told Reuters.
The first video had drawn 112,000 views by mid-afternoon on Tuesday, while the second video showed 258,000 views.
(Additional reporting by Jeremy Wagstaff in SINGAPORE; Editing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Clarence Fernandez and Mike Collett-White)
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President Donald Trump paid tribute to victims and survivors of the Holocaust on Tuesday by pledging to “never be silent in the face of evil again.”
Speaking to a crowd at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Trump responded to the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks and threats against Jewish Americans.
“We will confront anti-Semitism, we will stamp out prejudice, we will condemn hatred,” he said. “I will always stand with the Jewish people … and the state of Israel.”
Also present at the event was the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, who is Jewish. Trump’s daughter Ivanka also converted to Judaism when she and Kushner married.
Monday marked Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Trump was criticized in January after he failed to mention Jewish people in a tribute he delivered on U.S. Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Trump also honored the late author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, whom he referred to as “the gentle spirit of an angel” on Tuesday. Wiesel died in July, just hours after the then-GOP presidential candidate tweeted an anti-Semitic image originally featured on a white supremacist website.
Trump defended his use of the image, but it was only the beginning of his campaign’s problems with the Jewish community. His decision to hire former Breitbart exec Steve Bannon, who has ties to white nationalism, as a top White House adviser, caused further frustration.
Holocaust remembrance groups (including the museum Trump spoke at on Tuesday) have also repeatedly criticized his ban on refugees, which has drawn comparisons to the U.S.’s treatment of Jewish refugees during World War II. The president’s “America First” slogan also has roots in 1940s anti-Semitism.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer certainly didn’t help his boss’ case earlier this month when, unprompted, he told reporters that Hitler had never used chemical weapons. Spicer has since apologized for that error.
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Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green (R), President Donald Trump’s choice to be the next Army secretary, has finally broken his silence about the strong opposition he has faced for his positions and comments about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
In a Facebook post Tuesday, Green went after the “liberal left” for making him out to be a “hater.”
“I believe that every American has a right to defend their country regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion. It’s the radical left that won’t allow the latter,” he wrote.
As the civilian head of the Army, Green would oversee a force that’s been fully integrated since June, when the Pentagon ended its ban on transgender people serving openly. If confirmed, he would stand in significant contrast to the previous Army secretary, Eric Fanning, who was the first openly gay person to serve in the position.
Some of Green’s past comments and positions, to which he alluded in his Facebook post:
– Anti-LGBTQ Legislation: As a Tennessee state senator, Green recently sponsored a bill that would bar government entities from taking “discriminatory action against a business entity on the basis of the internal policies of the business entity” in the state.
Tennessee’s nondiscrimination protections currently do not cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, although some municipalities do have stronger rules protecting LGBTQ government employees.
Green’s bill, however, would block local governments and public universities from considering companies’ internal policies (such as whether they discriminate based on gender identity or sexual orientation) when doing business or giving out contracts ― because the legislation considers that to be discriminatory.
The measure passed the Tennessee state Senate, but the House deferred it until next year.
– Being “Transgender Is A Disease”: In September, Green told a Tea Party gathering that he believes being transgender is a disease: “If you poll the psychiatrists, they’re going to tell you that transgender is a disease. It is a part of the DSM-6, I think it is, the book of diagnostic psychological procedures or diagnoses. It’s very interesting to see what’s happening in government, or in our nation.” The medical community actually does not agree with Green. Watch the entire exchange here.
– A Mission To “Crush Evil”: In June, Green said he opposed allowing people to use the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity, rather than the sex assigned at birth. He told an online radio show he believed the matter should be left up to the states rather than the federal government, and then cited the safety of women as a key reason he personally opposes transgender equality in public accommodations.
Green also cited the Bible for his opposition to such policies, saying he needs to “crush evil”: “The government exists to honor those people who live honorably, who do good things ― to reward people who behave well and to crush evil. So that means as a state senator, my responsibility very clearly in Romans 13 is to create an environment where people who do right are rewarded and the people who do wrong are crushed. Evil is crushed. So I’m going to protect women in their bathrooms, and I’m going to protect our state against potential infiltration from the Syrian ISIS people in the refugee program.”
It’s already illegal for men to sexually assault women, whether it takes place in a bathroom or any other place. Such policies change nothing in that regard. And leading organizations dedicated to fighting sexual assault say they support transgender equal access.
The LGBTQ rights group GLAAD, which first shared the audio of Green with HuffPost, hit back on Green’s assertion that his words had been cut and spliced:
“GLAAD unearthed and shared the full, unedited audio interview in which Mark Green called transgender Americans an ‘evil’ that must be ‘crushed,’” said Sarah Kate Ellis, the group’s president and CEO. “Mark Green can try and blame others, but it’s his own words that make him unfit to be the next Army Secretary.”
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Funny is coming.
Actor Jack Gleeson made quite the lasting impression with his portrayal of the ruthless baby king Joffrey Baratheon in Seasons 1 through 3 of “Game of Thrones.”
His performance was so good that it’s hard for many “GoT” fans to separate the actor from the character.
This means that when Gleeson posted a photo of himself hugging a pug on Twitter in January 2016, it’s hard to not see Joffrey, a powerful, bloodthirsty brat, cuddling an innocent animal.
On Monday, the picture made its way to Reddit’s popular Photoshop Battle thread, and, let’s just say Reddit users also had a hard time separating Gleeson from the Iron Throne.
The result is a bunch of Photoshopped versions of Gleeson’s pug picture that are a straight-up Greyjoy for any “GoT” fan to behold.
For instance, there are a few pretty innocent photos with pretty blatant references to the HBO show:
Then, there are few that are a little more esoteric. For example, the caption on this one is, “Nymeria still keeps biting me!”
And this picture boasts the hilarious caption: “Oysters, Clams, and Pug.”
One Redditor went there with a Ned Stark beheading reference:
Then another Redditor decided to reference a completely different kind of king:
Oh, internet, don’t ever change.
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