Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart
For the past 11 years, an eternity in internet time, Reddit has touted itself—repeatedly, and loudly—as the place to have “authentic conversations” online. For a variety of reasons, that sentiment has always rang hollow. Now, Reddit, in its goal to be a laissez-faire haven of (relatively) free expression, has been overrun by nationalist trolls. Its staff of volunteer moderators is losing hope in t
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President Obama met with South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye at the White House this past Tuesday, and as major world leaders are wont to do in each others’ presence, handshakes abounded. This three-handed, two-roomed, Photoshop monstrosity, however, was not one of them. What makes this not just bad but inexplicable is that there were plenty of photos taken in which the pair of presidents actual
Hey, It's Been One Year Since the Rapture and Nobody Is Floating Yet
Remember the rapture? You know, that absurd concept that one day all good Christians will physically float to the clouds to meet God? Today is the first anniversary and the nutters who believe that they will physically defy gravity and fly like Superman one day—like evangelist Harold Camping' pictured—are still here, ashamed and/or puzzled.
Apple Claims Android Started With Them
It sounds far-fetched; the bulk of Android's foundational work was completed in the mid-to-late 90s, when Rubin was at General Magic and Danger (the company Google eventually bought, primarily for the operating system). But while extreme, the reasoning may not be as crazy as it sounds, according to FOSS Patents: Apple now asserts—in a filing with the ITC, which means Apple has a legal obligation t
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