Thursday, November 12, 2020

🀯 How Quibi Imploded In Less Than Six Months

People Are Prank Calling Donald Trump's Election Fraud Hotline, Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented The World's Crappiest High-Speed Rail, Grizzly Bear Stands Up, Blows Hunters Away With Her Height
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BURSTING BUBBLES
CROSSING THE STREAMS
How Quibi Imploded Less Than Six Months After Launch
theverge.com
Inside the final days of Quibi, the $2 billion streaming platform that didn't even last six months.
A ROAD TO NOWHERE
Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented The World's Crappiest High-Speed Rail
defector.com
In an incredible breakthrough for American mass-transit engineering, the transportation technology company Virgin Hyperloop this past weekend successfully moved two people 500 meters across the barren Las Vegas desert at a top speed of just over 100 mph.
CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG
How Most People Got SchrΓΆdinger's Cat Thought Experiment Wrong
todayifoundout.com
The thought experiment has been either misquoted and even sometimes twisted to prove something unrelated to physics entirely.
RACE TO THE BOTTOM
Here's How Poorly Each US State Is Handling The COVID-19 Pandemic, Visualized
digg.com
Nearly every state in America is now experiencing an uncontrolled spread of COVID-19, according to data from covidexitstrategy.org.
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STRANGER THAN FICTION
MONETIZE THE MOMENT
From Obscure To Sold Out: The Story Of Four Seasons Total Landscaping In Just 4 Days
npr.org
The Philadelphia business was the location of a bizarre press conference by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani last weekend. The business is cashing in on its newfound fame and has even run out of merch.
WES IS MORE
What A Home Office Would Look Like If It Were Designed By Famous Movie Directors
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Here's what a home office would look like if it came from the imagination of directors like Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola and David Lynch.
'IS YOUR REFRIGERATOR RUNNING'
People Are Prank Calling Donald Trump's Election Fraud Hotline
dazeddigital.com
The president has set up a phone line for voters to report incidences of "voter suppression and irregularities," despite there being no evidence of fraud in the 2020 US election.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
BEAR NECESSITIES
Grizzly Bear Stands Up, Blows Hunters Away With Her Height
youtube.com
It's not every day that you get to see a grizzly bear stand up to her full height.
IN THE NEWS
Biden Moves Forward Without Help From Trump's Intel Team
The US Reported The Most Single-Day COVID-19 Deaths Since May
At Least 50 People Reportedly Beheaded By Islamic Extremists In Mozambique
Jeffrey Toobin Is Fired By The New Yorker
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The Hidden Signs That Can Reveal A Fake Photo (2017)
bbc.com
A picture may say a thousand words, but what if the photograph has been fabricated? There are ways to spot a fake — you just have to look closely enough.
WHITE LIKE ME
I Wanted To Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked (2019)
nytimes.com
My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.
Fun fact: Grizzly bears can run up to 35 mph.