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A Wyoming senator may have already apologized for insensitive comments about a man in a tutu, but it was too late to stop a tutu rebellion in his state.

Republican Mike Enzi told a group of middle school and high school students in the town of Greybull on April 20 an anecdote about a man who goes to bars wearing a tutu and “is always surprised that he gets in fights,” reported the Greybull Standard. Enzi added: “Well, he kind of asks for it.” 

The comment was especially thoughtless because of the savage fatal torture in Laramie, Wyoming, nine years ago of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, who was attacked because he was gay. Strangely, Enzi made his comments as he was encouraging a “little civility” among people when he was asked what he was doing for the LGBTQ community. He noted, however, that “you can be just about anything you want to be, as long as you don’t push it in somebody’s face.”

He has since apologized for his comments.

The Wyoming Democratic Party quickly blasted Enzi’s remarks. “Tell Senator Enzi that no one is ‘asking for it’ when they wear the clothes that make them feel authentic in their sexual orientation or gender identity,” stated a post on the party’s Facebook page.

Activists and supporters quickly girded for battle — in tutus. Students, teachers and other professionals are showing up at school, work, church and in bars in tutus as part of a popular new #LiveAndLetTutu movement, reports National Public Radio. The logo for the movement is an image of a buffalo bearing the state seal — and wearing a tutu.

Supporters are arranging family game nights, tutu pub crawls and other events — and posting lots of selfies on Twitter. People from other states are tutu-ing it in solidarity.

One group, likely inspired by the homemade pussy hats of the women’s march on Washington early this year, offered a tutu-making workshop in Laramie on Thursday. 

Though the upstart movement was done in a spirit of high-energy and brash fun, activists also cautioned that the activity has a serious message, noted NPR.

“Some of us ‘wear tutus’ on a daily basis and I would really appreciate it if you didn’t try and make a joke out of yourself while wearing one,” wrote Ezra Hanson in a post on the Facebook page for the movement. “Respect the cause, respect the oppressed.”

The senator issued an apology for his remarks on Tuesday.

“I regret a poor choice of words during part of my presentation,” Enzi said in a statement. “None of us is infallible and I apologize to anyone who has taken offense. No offense was intended. Quite the opposite in fact, and so I ask for your understanding as well.”

He added: “No person, including LGBT individuals, should feel unsafe in their community.”

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Buffalo is gearing up to launch their newest line of USB 3.1 Gen.1 portable SSDs, the SSD-PLU3. Available in three different storage capacities: 120GB, 240GB and 480GB, these pocket-friendly SSDs come with a slim enclosure (11.5mm thick) and a micro-USB 3.1 Gen.1 connection interface, and support for Windows 10, 8.1, 7 and Mac OS X 10.10 or later operating systems.

In addition, you can download ‘SecureLock Mobile 2’ and ‘Disk Formatter 2’ software for free. Performance-wise, the SSD-PLU3 portable SSDs can deliver high speed file transfer of about 340MB/s when reading and 320MB/s when writing.

The Buffalo SSD-PLU3 portable SSDs will hit the market from mid-May for around $135 (120GB model), $198 (240GB model) and $349 (480GB model), respectively. [Product Page]

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By now, you’ve probably heard the of Fyre Festival.

It was billed as a multi-weekend luxury musical festival, thrown by Ja Rule on a private island in the Bahamas. It would be sprawling with models in bikinis and social media elite. Ticket packages reportedly cost anywhere between $1,200 to up to $250,000. Yachts would somehow be involved.

The festival didn’t turn out that way. Ticket holders were met with a desolate, unorganized mess. Tents were half-made, catering served sliced bread and cheese, and headlining talent Blink 182 dropped out last minute. Guests who didn’t immediately head for the airport to escape were stranded in what some called “a disaster tent city.”

Some claimed the U.S. Embassy had to help get people home.

Now, Billy McFarland, the 25-year-old head of Fyre Fest, said he’s considering trying again next year ― to which we can’t help but wonder: This has got to be a joke, right?

In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone, McFarland, who had previously launched a sketchy credit card company aimed at millennials, attempted to explain his festival’s rise and demise. He started with the history of his bromance with Ja Rule.

“Together, we became friends and business partners,” McFarland said in the article, which was published on Friday, roughly when hundreds of people were probably scrolling through the sarcastic memes and bleak photos posted with the #FyreFestival hashtag.

“We were a little ambitious,” McFarland continued. He explained that the undeveloped island had no water or sewage. By the time guests arrived, he said, a storm had ruined tents and water pipes, causing check-in delays. Then, he added, they decided to pull the plug on the event and offer refunds to guests.

“We were a little naïve in thinking for the first time we could do this ourselves,” McFarland admitted. “Next year, we will definitely start earlier. The reality is, we weren’t experienced enough to keep up.” 

McFarland even offered a tentative date for the Fyre Fest re-do: May 2018.

“Next year, we will definitely start earlier.”
Billy McFarland, on the disastrous Fyre Fest.

It’s not clear why McFarland and Ja Rule think the festival-going public will trust them again. But, for what it’s worth, McFarland seems committed to his future, hypothetical event. He even offered to donate a portion of each ticket ― $1.50 ― to the Bahamian Red Cross.

“The one change we will make is we will not try to do it ourselves,” McFarland said. “We will make sure there is infrastructure in place to support us.”

Ja Rule, for his part, apologized for the failed event and wrote on Instagram: “this is NOT MY FAULT.”

Read McFarland’s full interview with Rolling Stone here.

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Unlimited data plans are awesome, but we’ve seen how some users have abused the system where they have gone above and beyond their data usage where it is no longer considered reasonable. This is why carriers have in the past tried to cut out unlimited data plans, or were forced to introduced throttling.

Unfortunately for AT&T customers, you guys can expect similar throttling being applied to your services. The carrier has recently sent out emails to customers on grandfathered unlimited tablet data plans and have informed them that the unlimited status is being eliminated on the 24th of May, 2017.

What this means is that after the 24th of May, if you were to exceed more than 22GB of data during a single bill period, you could experienced slowed down internet speeds during times of network congestion. This is a huge change considering that before this, users did not have a cap in place, so for those who never really paid attention to how much data they are consuming, this is something they’ll need to start monitoring on their own.

No doubt this is a bummer for tablet users out there, but like we said carriers are starting to crack down on unlimited data plans and also users who are taking advantage of it, so this move shouldn’t really come as a surprise.

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Google Maps is one of Google’s more popular services and for good reason. Not only is Google Maps very detailed and useful with turn-by-turn navigation services, traffic updates, and more, but it is also free and free of ads. This means that users can use the service without worrying that ads might pop up and get in the way.

However that could change in the future, assuming that Google’s CEO’s words are anything to go by. Speaking to a Wall Street analyst who inquired about Google possibly turning Maps into a moneymaker, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai replied by saying, “I’m sure you have noticed changes in Google Maps with the last few months.”

“If you open Google Maps, you’re traveling or out on a Friday evening, we start surfacing a lot more info about what you can do, places to eat and so on. So those are beginning to get good feedback from users and I think that gives us an opportunity to add value there overtime as well.”

Pichai wasn’t explicit about saying that ads will be coming, but some have interpreted his words to mean just that. Exactly how these ads might surface remains to be seen. It could come in the form of suggested locations that pop up when you are searching around the area, or maybe it could be similar to how Google is serving ads up in search results, but either way we’ll just have to wait and see, but hopefully if and when ads do come to Google Maps, it won’t be intrusive.

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