Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Fake Fighting Is Real Dumb

When Josh Damigo finds out his brother is the new face of the white nationalist movement, finding the roots of radicalization becomes personal.
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BAD BLOOD
'NATHAN WON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE'
My Brother, The White Nationalist
psmag.com
When Josh Damigo finds out his brother is the new face of the white nationalist movement, finding the roots of radicalization becomes personal.
READY PLAYER DUMB
'Ready Player One' And Carl's, Jr. Try A Fake Feud Viral Marketing Stunt, Fail Miserably
digg.com
Are Steven Spielberg and a burger franchise butting heads? No, of course not. Here's what they should've done instead.
MARQUIS DE FRAUD
The Sadist's Revenge
esquire.com
In death, the Marquis de Sade has gone from enemy of the French state to national treasure — a transformation capped in 2014, when the scroll bearing his "120 Days of Sodom" sold for $10 million. Now that manuscript is at the center of France's biggest fraud case.
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IT GETS WORSE
WHO'S BEHIND THE WHEEL?
What To Read About Uber's 'Unquestionable Failure' In Arizona
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​Since an Uber vehicle in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona a little over a week ago, many questions about the incident have been answered — but many tougher questions remain.
MIN-MAX SCAMMIN'
How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute The Internet
bloomberg.com
Affiliates describe watching their ad campaigns lose money for a few days as Facebook gathers data through trial and error, then seeing the sales take off exponentially.
SCROLLING OURSELVES BLIND
What Are Screens Doing To Our Eyes?
wired.com
Every vocation carries consequences for eyesight. Ice fishermen can go snowblind. Welders suffer arc eye. Ships' lookouts hallucinate. Academics develop myopia. And texters — call it an avocation — have blurred vision.
POWERING UP
Fueling The Future
aeon.co
Fantasies about new power sources for human ambitions go back a century or more. Could these past visions energise our own future?
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THAT'S A BOATLOAD OF WATER
This Water Deluge System At The Kennedy Space Center Is Something To Behold
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This water deluge system at Launch Complex 39-b is designed to flow during NASA's SLS rocket liftoff to help mitigate the sound and heat created by the rocket thrust. It's pretty impressive to watch the system, which shoots water up to 100 feet in the air, do its thing.
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We hope you don't get in a fight today, real or fake.