Jeffrey Toobin, the New Yorker writer who exposed his penis to colleagues on a videoconference call, was today fired by the magazine. Toobin's name quickly became synonymous with online genital exposure after the incident was publicized, and he was suspended shortly after the incident. — Read the rest
My guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week is Tiffany Shlain. Tiffany is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and the author of the national bestselling book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, which was the winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. — Read the rest
In Ohio, Tammy Tunison shot this video of her pet goats with 'I love voting' stickers on their heads, at their Oberlin farm on October 17.
Tunison told Storyful she and her husband had mailed off their absentee ballots on that morning, and she thought it would be funny to put the little "I love voting" stickers that came with her ballot on the pet goats, Alex and Junior. — Read the rest
• "This is just a test call," the voice says in one version of the robocall, "Time to stay home. Stay safe and stay home."
• The automated calls were placed to residents in nearly 90 percent of U.S. area codes. — Read the rest
On Election Day, today, Twitter suspended a handful of relatively new right-wing news accounts for posting false or misleading information about the elections. The accounts suspended by Twitter included FJNewsReporter, Crisis_Intel, Faytuks, and SVNewsAlerts, which had 69,000 followers as of last week. — Read the rest
We're all confronted with hyperbole and grand exaggerated statements every day. However, it's without a hint of embellishment to say that cybersecurity has never been more important — and could shape the direction of world events.
Just days ago, cybersecurity experts identified a hacker selling personal information about nearly 186 million American voters. — Read the rest
Giving up on his government's incomprehensible efforts to contain the pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson today imposed another lockdown in the U.K., where Covid is again rampant.
Even now, there will be gaps in the gate—schools and colleges will remain open, as will workplaces where working from home is impractical. — Read the rest
Election Day is less than one week away now, hard to believe.
Said impeached president Donald Trump just now at a campaign rally in Lansing, Michigan: "I'm also getting your husbands — they want to get back to work. We're getting your husbands back to work." — Read the rest
Is Trump's own staff trolling him, or is he that feeble-minded? Maybe both. President Donald J. Trump, speaking at yet another campaign rally before a maskless crowd today, said something really dumb.
Trump just bragged about the military's "Hydrosonic" missiles.
Hydrosonic is a toothbrush brand. — Read the rest
Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai National Park is the best place in the world to watch brown bears feasting on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. Here's a wonderful live nature cam from EXPLORE, the world's largest live nature cam network.
Who hacked the Trump campaign website?
"I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?"
From the total weirdos at Temponaut Timelapse, an ice-cold glass of cola with lemon timelapse, from the moment it's poured with a slice of lemon to 105 days later. Yep. Gross.
Less than one week remains before Americans go to the polls on Election Day. With this timing in mind, amid a pandemic, the Republican senators who lead the Senate Commerce Committee have decided to urgently compel the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google to answer to unfounded Rethuglican allegations of anti-conservative bias on social media. — Read the rest
The Skeleton Dance was the first in the Silly Symphony series of animated music shorts. Walt Disney produced and directed the film with animation led by Ubbe Eert "Ub" Iwerks. The version above was remastered by Adam Maciaszek who used "human aided AI algorithms to not only upscale the resolution [but also] clear up detail and remove the intense flicker in the original 1929 classic." — Read the rest
PERU: Access to the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu has been all but entirely closed for seven months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Peru's No. 1 tourist draw reopens Sunday, even though coronavirus continues to escalate in Latin America and throughout the world. — Read the rest