For anyone still insisting Elon Musk was merely "sending his heart to the audience", the neo-Nazis on the left of the clip have prepared a demonstration.

The Neo- Nazi footage comes from the September 2023 "Red Shirts March" in Orlando, billed as a show of unity for neo-Nazis. — Read the rest

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Two men rode to the Space Needle's observation deck, changed into BASE-jumping gear in the restroom, climbed over the glass barrier, and backflipped from the 520-foot platform. Their parachutes opened; Seattle police are still looking for them. Yet another great PNW parachute getaway. — Read the rest

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The autopsies were still pending when anti-vax front "Children's Health Defense" filed a lawsuit declaring that vaccines killed Andrea Shaw's twins and that the homicide investigation was itself evidence of medical corruption. Five months later, Shaw was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder. — Read the rest

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Three people allegedly used a rifle, fake badges, tactical vests, and roof-mounted police lights to pull over a driver, force them into an SUV, and assault them. While the victim was at the hospital, a "law firm" began texting about representation for the detention. — Read the rest

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In the 19th-century Kingdom of Travancore, in what is now Kerala, India, every lower-caste person owed a poll tax starting around age 14. The tax on men was called talakkaram, "head tax," or meeshakkaram, "moustache tax." The tax on women was mulakkaram — "breast tax." — Read the rest

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Beata Siemionkowicz had lived legally in the United States for decades when ICE agents grabbed her from a backyard garden and shoved her into a car. She has now spent 51 weeks in detention over misdemeanor cases her family says were cleared up years ago. — Read the rest

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In 2005, scholars revealed a fragment of papyrus 115 containing the earliest known copy of the passage in the Book of Revelation that names the Number of the Beast. It doesn't say 666. It says 616.

Most manuscripts of Revelation 13:18 give the famous 666, and that's the number that made it into heavy metal, horror movies, and highway-exit folklore. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Have more money to spend on fun during your next vacation thanks to this aloSIM Traveler's Mobile Data Plan, now just $69.99 (MSRP $150).

Heading abroad? If you'd like to avoid coming home to a mountain of roaming charges, it's time to consider an aloSIM Traveler's Mobile Data Plan. — Read the rest

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In June 1979, a single called "Ready 'n' Steady" by an artist listed only as "D.A." spent three weeks on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 102. Then it vanished. Chart historian Joel Whitburn, whose company collected every 45 ever to hit the Hot 100 or Bubbling Under charts, spent decades hunting for it — the one record he couldn't find. — Read the rest

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In November 1997,  the world learned that the byte sequence F0 0F C7 C8 would stop any original Pentium, Pentium MMX, or Pentium OverDrive. The Pentium F00F bug made it so that any program that executed the four bytes would halt the processor. — Read the rest

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Early in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987), the player walks into a house in the town of Ruto, where a bearded man in a purple tunic announces: "I am Error." For decades, gamers filed it alongside "All your base are belong to us" as botched translation. — Read the rest

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In early 1900s Germany, a math teacher named Wilhelm von Osten toured the country with Clever Hans, a horse who could apparently add, subtract, multiply, divide, tell time, and answer questions like "If the eighth day of the month comes on a Tuesday, what is the date of the following Friday?" — Read the rest

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Look closely at a lot of 15th- and 16th-century European portraits and you'll find a housefly sitting on the frame, the sitter's sleeve, or a page of an open book — painted so precisely it looks like a real insect that landed on the picture. — Read the rest

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John I of France, called the Posthumous, was born on November 15, 1316, and died on November 19, 1316. He's the youngest person ever to be king of France, the only one to be king from birth, and the only one to hold the title for his entire life. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Pay once for Microsoft Office Pro 2021 and get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and more — plus a free 25-hour Microsoft training bundle — for $29.97.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook — most of us use at least one of them every week. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Go from idea to an optimized prompt in seconds with this lifetime subscription to Prompting Systems, now for only $29.99 (MSRP $360).

AI is only as helpful as the prompt you give it. If you could use some help making this powerful technology work for you, it's time to check out Prompting Systems. — Read the rest

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In 1971 two Northrop-trained engineers in Van Nuys set out to build a flying car called the AVE Mizar, and the design was about as literal as it sounds: they bolted the back half of a Cessna Skymaster — wings, twin tail booms, and a propeller — onto a Ford Pinto. — Read the rest

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The idea that a particular kind of weather — hot, still, and heavy — arrives just before an earthquake is old and stubborn. One geologist has called earthquake weather one of the most common pseudoscientific ways people try to predict quakes. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Give your PC a major productivity boost with this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license, now just $9.97 (MSRP $199) until Aug. 2.

If you've got a Windows device just lying around, don't count it out. Give it another shot with a fresh operating system, Windows 11 Pro. — Read the rest

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Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party legislator in New Brunswick, Canada, delivered a rousing speech last week.

"One of the dangers associated with creating advocacy offices is that citizens often develop expectations that exceed the powers actually granted to those offices. — Read the rest

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Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds has attracted more than $5 million in support from a pro-AI super PAC. He is also losing Republican voters who do not want the industry's data centers in their communities.

One Florida county, Hernando, has already approved a one-year moratorium on data-center applications. — Read the rest

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Half the sea lion pups born this season at La Jolla Cove have died, according to the Sierra Club Seal Society, compared with 10% in the nearby area closed to visitors. The group wants cones marking a 20-foot buffer. A local beach organization considers that essentially a closure. — Read the rest

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Book Corners maps more than 37,000 neighborhood libraries, mostly of the little free kind but also indoor book exchanges at cafés and the like: "The goal is simple: help people discover nearby places where they can leave a book or pick one up." — Read the rest

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The confused old man was honoring the Dodgers when his script handed him a number: 229 days. Donnie Two-Pencils read it, called it a strange fact, disclaimed responsibility for it, and conceded that he did not understand what he was actually speaking about. — Read the rest

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Cop City protester Samuel Tunick was forced to turn over his password during a warrantless search. Tunick gave them his duress password, and Federal agents unknowingly wiped his phone. Prosecutors are going to try to persuade a court that deleting data to prevent a warrantless seizure is a crime. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Save $760 on a Grade A refurbished 2022 HP ProBook 640 G9 with a 12th Gen Intel Core i5, Windows 11 Pro, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD for $439.99 (reg. $1,199).

You don't have to spend four figures to get a laptop that feels built for work. — Read the rest

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America's most stable genius assessed Venezuela's readiness for elections using the diplomatic framework he knows best: pageant results.

Asked when Venezuela would hold elections, The Orange Menace said the country was "not really ready," praised acting president Delcy Rodríguez, and said the United States would be "standing right on top of it" when voting eventually happens. — Read the rest

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Mayhem proceeds apace in the bathrooms of America, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today adding more states to its list of those affected by the Cyclospora outbreak, as noted by Consumer Reports in a revision to an earlier story. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Stream seamlessly and surf securely with iProVPN's advanced encryption ad-blocker for just $19.99 (Reg. $360).

They're called cookies for a reason — they make you crave something you never wanted in the first place. Thanks to cookies, ads, AI crawlers, and surveillance technology, your browser probably serves you up advertisement after advertisement based on your browser history or conversations. — Read the rest

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European police targeted thousands of websites hosting "nihilistic" material this summer, part of an international crackdown on violent content by investigators from nine countries. The Com, a decentralized network of such sites, was the key target, according to a press release from Europol. — Read the rest

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