The depths of the ocean are festooned with the most nightmarish creatures imaginable. You might think you’re safe, because these critters live thousands of feet down in a cold dark abyss, but the vampire squid, which looks like a nightmare umbrella, and the frilled shark—a literal living fossil—will live on in the…
In the midst of the ongoing manhunt for Steve Stephens, who allegedly shot and killed a 74-year-old man on Sunday and then uploaded a video of the slaying to Facebook, members of the alt-right are spreading an altered image of the murder suspect under the guise of fighting “PC Culture.”
Check out this nerdy and cool project made Donovan aka “The Beardless Man.” He wanted to make a cool theater so he could enjoy watching movies with his kids. Can you think of a better place to watch Star Wars movie than inside the Millennium Falcon itself?
He built an awesome wooden structure that looks like part of the Falcon, and mounted a tablet inside of it so he and his kids can watch movies while lying on their backs. It is pretty darn adorable to see the kids in this thing watching a movie.
It looks like a fun project that a handy person could do without much trouble. And when you are done, you have a cool little tablet theater to escape into.
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YouTube provided users the ability to stream live from their mobile devices using the Android app back in February this year. However, it did place a restriction. The mobile live streaming feature was only offered to channel owners who had 10,000 subscribers at least. It has stuck to this limit for a few months now but has relaxed it. The YouTube mobile live streaming feature is now being opened up to more users and it seems like soon it will be open for all.
YouTube is surely not the only service out there that’s allowing users to stream live video from their mobile devices. One can argue that YouTube is actually late to the party given that services like Periscope and Instagram Live have allowed users to do the same thing for quite some time now.
YouTube enabled mobile live streaming through its Android app in February this year. However, the only caveat for users was that their channels had to have 10,000 subscribers at least. That’s a daunting figure for someone who is just starting out on YouTube.
The support page for creating a live stream on YouTube has now been updated to reflect that channels now need to have 1,000 and not 10,000 subscribers to stream live video from a mobile device.
The limit doesn’t make much sense now that it has been reduced by 90 percent so it’s quite likely that YouTube mobile live streaming will be eventually opened up to all users.
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Over the past month we’ve noticed a trend in Pokemon GO that could revitalize the game for fans of all ages. Those disillusioned by the influx of hackers and cheaters in the game will be glad to know: there’s a group of players fighting back. While we’ve seen several “ban waves” from Niantic attempting to stop hackers, a group of … Continue reading
Thus far, Square has been a mostly digital payment system, but it may not be long before the company breaks into the realm of physical payment cards. There isn’t a ton of solid evidence at the moment, but one key piece that may signal where Square plans to head. That single piece of evidence comes in the form of a … Continue reading
Newly minted New York Times columnist Bret Stephens has already prompted criticism inside the newsroom, even though he hasn’t written anything for the paper.
Declan Walsh, the Times’ Cairo bureau chief, on Saturday took issue with Stephens having once described anti-Semitism as the “disease of the Arab mind.”
“Not cool,” Walsh tweeted in reference to a line Stephens wrote in an August column for the Wall Street Journal.
In that column, Stephens argued that an Egyptian athlete refusing to shake hands with his Israeli counterpart at the Olympics was indicative of the “long-abiding and all-consuming hatred of Israel” in the Arab world.
Stephens probably wouldn’t have caused much controversy, then or now, if he had gone on to argue that anti-Semitism is prevalent, even pervasive, in the Arab world. But he wrote that the Olympics incident demonstrated “the disease of the Arab mind.” Stephens responded to criticism at the time by saying he used the word “mind” as a “figure of speech, not biology.”
But the conservative columnist’s “Arab mind” characterization has been given a second life since he landed the high-profile position at the Times on Wednesday. And Stephens defended that eight-month-old column on Saturday in tweets to Walsh.
“That’s a fair point,” Walsh responded. “Ascribing a pathological condition to an entire race of people is not.”
“Which the column doesn’t do, except in a tendentious reading of it,” Stephens tweeted, adding that “readers can judge for themselves.”
But the Times’ “Interpreter” columnist Max Fisher also expressed concern with the line.
Opinion writers are never going to please everyone. But it’s unusual for Times staffers on the news side to publicly challenge the work of a new hire in the opinion section. And specifically, the two Times staffers’ criticism with Stephens’ writing stemmed not from a political viewpoint, but from whether the language he used to make it was acceptable.
Meanwhile, the most persistent criticism of Stephens outside the Times has been that his views on climate change are outside the realm of responsible discourse.
At the Wall Street Journal, Stephens called global warming a “mass neurosis” and declared it “dead” two years later. He has mocked liberals’ concerns over climate change, which he has dubbed an “imaginary enemy.” On television, he has dismissed the “the so-called ‘consensus science’ of global warming.”
The Times editorial board, by comparison, argued last month that the “rock-solid scientific consensus” on climate change demands “swift action.”
Times editorial page editor James Bennet told The Huffington Post on Friday that Stephens is not a “climate denialist,” as he’s been described by some critics. In a statement to HuffPost, Stephens identified himself as a “climate agnostic.”
“To pretend like the views of a thinker like Bret, and the millions of people who agree with him on a range of issues, should simply be ignored, that they’re outside the bounds of reasonable debate, is a really dangerous form of delusion,” Bennet said.
But Joe Romm, the editor of ThinkProgress’s “Climate Progress” vertical, responded Saturday by saying that certain views should be dismissed, even if they’re shared by millions.
“With that ‘logic,’ the Times could hire as a columnist former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke — or a flat earther or someone who thinks vaccines pose a health hazard,” Romm wrote. “After all, millions agree with them.”
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A powerful new series from Broadly is offering an intimate look at the lives and adolescences of three transgender young people, as well as the impact anti-trans policies and legal battles have had on them and their families.
“Youth, Interrupted” is hosted by Broadly writer and correspondent Diana Tourjee and features three trans youth: Trinity Neal, Vinnie Holt and Gavin Grimm. Earlier this year, Grimm became the public face of a high-profile battle for transgender rights ― a case that was set to be heard by the Supreme Court until Trump rescinded an Obama-era guidance protecting the rights of trans students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity and it was sent back to a lower court.
Tourjee told The Huffington Post that she hoped to shift cultural dialogue surrounding transgender rights away from “bathroom bills” to the lived impact of anti-trans discrimination on real people in America.
“The series attempts to capture real American stories, to show the human beings behind an overly politicized debate,” Tourjee told HuffPost. “Gavin Grimm told me that ‘discrimination stems from a lack of knowledge,’ and that it is important for people to ‘meet trans people as people first,’ in order to reduce discrimination. I agree with him. This generation is the first generation of trans youth who are coming of age during a time of liberation for transgender people. They are our leaders, and people should look to them for understanding, rather than rely on outdated preconceptions about what gender means or how the world is supposedly supposed to work.”
Tourjee went on to say that by framing arguments about transgender rights around privacy and safety, the real conversation being had is about the right of transgender people to literally exist in public space.
“I hope that people set aside their preconceptions about gender and privacy scares and social norms about sex segregation and what makes someone a boy or girl ― and take a moment to listen to these young people speak for themselves,” she continued. “It became clear to me while I was on the road that you don’t know what its like to be a transgender teen today unless you are one. I am transgender myself, but even I cannot speak for these kids. My generation lived in total cultural darkness ― we didn’t have the hope these young people have today, but we also weren’t burdened with what they are burdened by. Trans teens of this generation are forced to be in the spotlight, with scarlet letters slathered across their backs.”
Check out a portion of Touruee’s interview with Grimm above, as well Neal and Holt below.
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Essence magazine is recognizing 100 woke women in a special anniversary issue solely focused on sisterhood and empowerment.
On Monday, the magazine revealed its full list, which includes women Essence believes exemplify the best of what it means to be woke. The feature is part of the magazine’s special collector’s May issue and highlights women from all walks of life in the cover story.
The cover itself features striking black-and-white photos of 12 prominent and phenomenal women like MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid, Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, activist Tamika Mallory and TV extraordinaire Shonda Rhimes:
“To me being woke means that you recognize the world is not a simple place, that everything is not all equal and that justice has not happened yet to everyone and that there is a lot of work to be done,” Rhimes said as she sat alongside activists Sybrina Fulton and April Reign ― both of whom are featured in the issue ― in a video posted by Essence.
Essence, a magazine focused on black women and their experiences, published its first edition in May 1970. In the decades since, the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Vanessa De Luca says the publication has not wavered from its mission of amplifying incredible women who have done inspiring work.
“Advocacy is a part of Essence’s DNA ever since, for 47 years, ever since its inception,” De Luca told Reid on MSNBC Sunday. “So we understand the role that we play in the community and making sure that our voices, especially the voices of women of color, are not squashed down, that they’re given a platform.”
The special issue will be on newsstands everywhere this Friday.
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Well, it happened.
Even though it appeared the president had to be reminded to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem, and the Easter Bunny is still a thing of nightmares, the Trump White House managed to host its first Easter Egg Roll on Monday, and it wasn’t the pastel-toned catastrophe that some people were expecting.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump both appeared at the event, a tradition that started on the White House grounds in 1878. White House press secretary Sean Spicer wasn’t the Easter Bunny this year, but he did read How to Catch the Easter Bunny, by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton, to some children in the reading nook.
See photos from Monday’s Easter Egg Roll below:
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