Tobi Lütke, CEO of online commerce giant Shopify, endorsed banker Eric Thor's suggestion for a "weighted voting proportional to the amount of income tax you pay." Moreover, he wrote, the poor and pensioners should have their right to vote stripped entirely: "Now you are a dependent and that means no voting, just like dependents under age. — Read the rest

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If large corporations are supposed to prefer subtle and well-lawyered forms of misconduct, no-one told Ebay, whose global security team ended up facing criminal charges over their unhinged harassment campaign against Ina and David Steiner, two journalists who criticized the company. — Read the rest

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Having shown the massive star Betelgeuse as an indistinct blob, astronomers at the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert have now imaged its long-suspected companion star, proving that the bloated supergiant is not alone.

"This is the conclusion of a century-long quest," wrote Miguel Montargès of the Observatoire de Paris. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a Microsoft Project Professional 2024 Lifetime License for $44.97 through Aug. 2 (MSRP $1,129) and plan projects with Gantt charts, built-in reports, automatic scheduling, timesheets, and a one-time purchase

Everyone thinks they're good at project management until Task No. — Read the rest

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While it remains unclear whether Raygun was just a classless incompetent with a terrible sense of humor or the world's worst breakdancer, Netflix wants to find out.

Untold Sports, which is described as "critically acclaimed" in the Netflix-authored article where I first heard of it, will be running a segment on the notorious Olympics crasher. — Read the rest

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The Orange Menace's father lived through two world wars, the jet age, the moon landing and the rise of mass commercial aviation.

"There weren't airplanes in those days, I don't think," says the United States Moron in Chief. He's right about one thing: he doesn't think. — Read the rest

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Tourists staged a photo shoot on the railway tracks leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau, where deportation trains carried thousands of people to their deaths.

Video shows a woman posing on the tracks, adjusting her hair and changing postures while two companions photograph her. — Read the rest

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Lil' Marco and Donald clearly hate Iran's anti-war propaganda. The Iranians just keep cranking out bangers…

The LEGO diaper is really a chef's kiss.

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.

Previously:
• Giant participation trophy appears on the National Mall for Trump's Iran War 'effort'
• Unknown traders made a fortune shorting oil 15 minutes before Trump reversed Iran threat
• Trump's war in Iran cancels summer vacation
• Trump's plan for Iran is: ¯(ツ)/¯
• Iran's most effective weapon might be AI karaoke

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Evangelist Whitney Lynn has found the perfect audience: people strapped into seats several miles above the ground.

"I just love a captive audience," she wrote after preaching to roughly 200 passengers trapped aboard a commercial flight she happened to be on. — Read the rest

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With AI datacenters gobbling up all the available memory, spec sheets have stalled and system builders are making the most of what they can get. 8GB of RAM (system or GPU) is fine! But the latest AMD-based video card coming with just 4GB of VRAM in its entry-level model marks a clear step down: it's "the first modern GPU to ship" with so little memory, writes William Judd. — Read the rest

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Three times in Prague's history, a political dispute ended with someone being thrown out a high window. It happened often enough that the English word "defenestrate" — to hurl someone from a window — entered the language describing the Defenestrations of Prague. — Read the rest

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PocketByte is a modular handheld good for retrogaming, listening to music, watching videos or assisting you with your personal digits. It's all very chunky and retro; the keyboard, game controls or clickwheel modules plug into the main unit, which has a 2.8-inch 320×240 display, an ESP32 microcontroller, 8 megabytes of RAM and a microSD card slot for mass storage. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Babbel Language Learning for just $159 through Aug. 16 (MSRP $299) with the StackSocial code LEARN and unlock 14 languages with one payment.

There's a certain confidence that comes from ordering lunch in another language without immediately pointing at the menu and hoping for the best. — Read the rest

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Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can't explain. They call them fast blue optical transients, or FBOTs: blasts as luminous as a supernova, or brighter, but flaring and fading far faster, and glowing a distinctive blue. — Read the rest

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An electronic road sign in Portland, Maine, was reprogrammed Monday to show the message "NO MORE ICE KILLINGS." Staff at WGMA write that the sign was on Brighton Avenue there and belongs to a local sand and gravel company.

Roadsign sign text is often easy to edit. — Read the rest

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When a patient's cornea is too scarred for a donor transplant to take — after a chemical burn, say, or Stevens–Johnson syndrome — surgeons have a fallback: they build a new window for the eye out of one of the patient's own teeth. — Read the rest

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The rules of ferret-legging are simple. You tie your trouser legs shut at the ankles, drop in two live ferrets, cinch your belt so they can't climb out the top, and stand in front of the judges for as long as you can bear it. — Read the rest

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Long Boi was a duck who lived by the University of York's Derwent College and stood noticeably taller than every other bird on the pond — an Indian Runner–mallard cross about 70 centimeters high. In 2021 a Reddit post wrongly billed him as the tallest mallard ever, at over a meter, and he went viral anyway. — Read the rest

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In August 1996, someone posted hundreds of messages full of gibberish into Usenet, the network of discussion groups that predated the web. Each message had the same subject line: "Markovian Parallax Denigrate." Nobody has ever established who sent them or why. — Read the rest

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A 30-foot tree trunk has been floating upright in Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896, when a geologist first wrote it down. Known as the Old Man of the Lake, it's most likely a hemlock, about two feet across at the waterline, and it stands roughly four feet out of the water, its exposed top bleached white and worn smooth. — Read the rest

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Taylor Farms is the suspected source of the "diarrhea lettuce" linked to the ongoing outbreak of Cyclosporiasis, now entering more states as it exits more American guts. Taco Bell was just the first outlet to go public, though, and Taylor Farms has many other customers. — Read the rest

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According to the book of Genesis, the legendary Tower of Babel was built by mankind and destroyed by God. On the internet, though, it's being rebuilt to celebrate Wikipedia: every time someone edits a page, a new brick is added. — Read the rest

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The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of police technology in use across the United States: enter your city, county, state or the name of a local law enforcement agency, and it will tell you what's in their toybox.

Pittsburgh, for example, has the expensive and mostly useless Shotspotter system and dozens of Flock cameras, ostensibly for license-plate tracking but functionally a general-purpose (and widely-abused) surveillance network. — Read the rest

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Electronic Plastic is an online museum with pictures and info of more than 900 handheld electronic games of the retro kind, as collected by Jaro Gielens, who has been collecting them since 1981. Every entry is from his personal library and he kept the original package for all of them. — Read the rest

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Hypercard, the point-and-click software development tool designed by Bill Atkinson for classic Macs, helped a generation of non-coders make and share their own apps and games. Decker is a modern implementation for the web, and goes the extra mile in mimicking the user interface and experience of monochrome-era Macintoshes¹. — Read the rest

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Gray Area in San Francisco hands its Grand Theater to the 1990s techno-counterculture on August 12 and 13, when R.U. Sirius and the crowd behind the cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000 stage their second Deliria gathering — two days of film, talks, music, and performance. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This lifetime license to Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 makes coding a lot easier, and right now it's on sale for just $29.97 (MSRP $499.99) until August 9.

Behind every great app or website is a developer with equally great tools. — Read the rest

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House Speaker Mike Johnson says he grows more confident "with each passing day" that Republicans will retain control of Congress.

His reason: "This is a God thing. We have intercessory prayers who are on the ground at the Capitol praying." — Read the rest

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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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