Judge Thomas ''This is a circus.."I mean, just go on and kill me and get it over with,"

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Found: An Ancient Roman Comic Strip With Speech Bubbles

“Alas for me! I am dead!”
Read more: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-first-comic-strip?source=Snapzu

The Zombies - Time Of The Season (with lyrics) official

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Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying

Senior professors among 300 people alleged to have bullied students and colleagues
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/28/academics-uk-universities-accused-bullying-students-colleagues?source=Snapzu

Tom T. Hall "Old Dogs Children & Watermelon Wine"

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How one article capsized a New York literary institution

A controversial piece by Jian Ghomeshi in the New York Review of Books cost editor Ian Buruma his job and sparked a debate about free speech
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/29/new-york-review-of-book-ian-buruma-jian-ghomeshi?source=Snapzu

Richest people work system to pay less tax than those on average wages

More than 80 of the country's wealthiest people are paying the same or less income tax as the average worker, a shocking report has revealed. Ten years on from the economic crash, a combination of clever accounting and loopholes is allowing some of the country's richest individuals to minimise their contribution to the State's coffers. The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) reviewed how 480 people, classified as 'High Wealth Individuals' (HWI), interact with the Revenue Commissioners.
Read more: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/richest-people-work-system-to-pay-less-tax-than-those-on-average-wages-37366457.html?source=Snapzu

FBI: We can’t listen to Facebook Messenger voice calls. Judge: Tough luck

A federal judge in Fresno, California recently denied prosecutors’ request to force Facebook to wiretap voice calls by suspected gang members conducted over Messenger. According to a Friday report by Reuters, despite already having substantive traditional wiretaps and intercepting Messenger texts between alleged MS-13 gangsters, the government wanted further access.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/facebook-cant-be-ordered-to-wiretap-messenger-calls-judge-rules/?source=Snapzu

Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing

Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is an editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs terse and consistent HTML.
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Yuval Noah Harari: the myth of freedom

Governments and corporations will soon know you better than you know yourself. Belief in the idea of freedom has become dangerous
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy?source=Snapzu

Web inventor Berners-Lee creates a new privacy first way of dealing with the internet

First, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the web, now he wants to save it.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/web-inventor-berners-lee-creates-a-new-privacy-first-way-of-dealing-with-the-internet/?source=Snapzu

Former ‘Miss Baghdad’ Shot Dead as She Drove Through Iraqi Capital in Latest of Series of Attacks on Women

Iraqi social media star and model Tara Fares has been shot dead in Baghdad, security officials confirmed to CNN. The death of Fares and other recent killings prompted Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to order an investigation on Friday. The former Miss Baghdad, and first runner-up for Miss Iraq, was killed on Thursday after gunmen opened fire on her in the capital's Camp Sarah neighborhood, according to a statement by Iraq's Interior Ministry, which is investigating the incident.
Read more: https://ktla.com/2018/09/28/former-miss-baghdad-shot-dead-as-she-drove-through-iraqi-capital-in-latest-of-series-of-attacks-on-women/?source=Snapzu

The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle

How instant noodles, now 60 years old, went from a shed in Japan to global success.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_instant_noodle?source=Snapzu

After judge's ruling, Confederate monument in San Antonio park is history

A monument to Confederate soldiers that stood in a San Antonio, Texas, park for more than 100 years is now history.
Read more: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/20/after-judges-ruling-confederate-monument-san-antonio-park-history?source=Snapzu

Frank Rich: The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Were a Case Study in GOP Misogyny

The Senate hearing was a travesty — at once tragic, corrupt, and hateful.
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/ford-kavanaugh-hearings-were-a-case-study-in-gop-misogyny.html?source=Snapzu

1,100 Classic Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade: Play Them Free Online

Once we could hardly imagine such things as video games. Then, all of a sudden, they appeared, though for years we had to go out to bars — and later, purpose-built 'arcades' filled with video game machines — in order to play them, and we paid money to do so.
Read more: http://www.openculture.com/2018/09/1100-classic-arcade-machines-added-internet-arcade-play-free-online.html?source=Snapzu

Yes, Healthcare's Data Breach Problem Really Is That Bad

Over an eight-year span, healthcare organizations reported 2,149 data breaches affecting 176.4 million records to the federal government, with almost every year bringing more privacy incidents, according to new research. The findings, published today by the JAMA Network, further support the argument that healthcare is particularly vulnerable to hackers. The rise of electronic health records appears to have worsened the situation, placing patients at risk and healthcare providers...
Read more: https://www.hcanews.com/news/yes-healthcares-data-breach-problem-really-is-that-bad?source=Snapzu

New Research Finds that Caravaggio Died of Sepsis, Not Syphilis

Before established a certain cause of death for the Baroque painter, scientists first had to find his body.
Read more: https://hyperallergic.com/461573/new-research-finds-that-caravaggio-died-of-sepsis-not-syphilis/?source=Snapzu

Facebook Network Breach Affects Up to 50 Million Users

The company was hacked at one of the most difficult times in its history. It still faces fallout over its role in a Russian disinformation campaign.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html?source=Snapzu

Postman Pat creator John Cunliffe dies

John Cunliffe, the author and creator of the much-loved children’s TV shows Postman Pat, and Rosie and Jim, has died, aged 85. Cunliffe’s family placed a death notice in their local newspaper, the Ilkley Gazette, announcing that he died on 20 September and was buried after a private funeral on Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/27/postman-pat-creator-john-cunliffe-dies?source=Snapzu

You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads.

Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information. Contrary to user expectations and Facebook representatives’ own previous statements, the company has been using contact information that users explicitly provided for security purposes—or that users never provided at all—for targeted advertising.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads?source=Snapzu

Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519

When is the last time you created your SSH key? If you’re still using RSA with key-size less than 2048 bits long, It’s time for an upgrade!
Read more: https://risan.io/upgrade-ssh-key-to-ed25519.html?source=Snapzu

Students raise money to send a janitor on the first vacation he's had in almost a decade

Custodian Herman Gordon has been spreading kindness at Bristol University for more than 11 years. This summer, students of the UK university decided it was time to return the favor. Students launched a crowdfunding campaign to send Gordon, originally from Jamaica, on a weeklong trip to Kingston to see his family for the first time in nearly a decade. "I started it because I know everybody loves Herman for his happy energy," said medical student Hadi Al-Zubaidi, who had the idea for the fundraiser. "I thought sending him to his home country of Jamaica would be a beautiful way of giving back for all that he does."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/27/health/students-raise-money-to-send-janitor-on-vacation-trnd/index.html?source=Snapzu

A black student refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance — challenging Texas law requiring it

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined a lawsuit to defend the Texas law requiring students to cite the pledge.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/26/black-student-refused-recite-pledge-allegiance-challenging-texas-law-requiring-it/?noredirect=on?source=Snapzu

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information

Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways. I was helping him test the theory by targeting him in a way Facebook had previously told me wouldn’t work. I directed the ad to display to a Facebook account connected to the landline number for Alan Mislove’s office, a number Mislove has never provided to Facebook. He saw the ad within hours.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-co-1828476051?source=Snapzu

Feinstein: Kavanaugh misled about grand jury secrecy in Vince Foster probe

The California senator questions the way the ex-Starr aide pushed back on a claim a witness was asked a sexually explicit question. By Josh Gerstein.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/kavanaugh-confirmation-starr-vince-foster-842530?source=Snapzu

The Real Cost of Working in the House of Mouse

How the world’s most famous theme park became a distinctly unmagical place to make a living. By Jaeah J. Lee.
Read more: https://www.topic.com/the-real-cost-of-working-in-the-house-of-mouse/?source=Snapzu

Eating junk food raises risk of depression, says multi-country study

Eating junk food increases the risk of becoming depressed, a study has found, prompting calls for doctors to routinely give dietary advice to patients as part of their treatment for depression. In contrast, those who follow a traditional Mediterranean diet are much less likely to develop depression because the fish, fruit, nuts and vegetables that diet involves help protect against Britain’s commonest mental health problem, the research suggests.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/26/eating-junk-food-raises-risk-of-depression-says-multi-country-study?source=Snapzu

Why Do We Pledge Allegiance?

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country. By Jack David Eller.
Read more: https://bostonreview.net/politics/jack-david-eller-pledge-allegiance?source=Snapzu

When the Muzzle Comes Off

Even if Kavanaugh prevails, women are expanding the boundaries of what kinds of stories must be taken seriously. By Rebecca Traister.
Read more: https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/kavanaugh-sexual-assault-deborah-ramirez-christine-ford.html?source=Snapzu

The Senator Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy When No One Else Would

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to serve both the House and the Senate and always defended her values, even when it meant opposing her party. By Lorraine Boissoneault.
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/senator-who-stood-joseph-mccarthy-when-no-one-else-would-180970279/?source=Snapzu

We didn’t call it rape

The Kavanaugh Allegations Are Upsettingly Similar to What I Saw at D.C.’s Prep School Parties in the ’80s. By Alexandra Lescaze.
Read more: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/kavanaugh-judge-prep-school-parties.html?source=Snapzu

Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take On Company

A former research scientist at the tech giant said a project to build a censored search engine was a “catastrophic failure of the internal privacy review process.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/technology/google-privacy-china-congress.html?source=Snapzu

In Baseball, Lessons in Loyalty and Tolerance

When we moved from Cambridge to New York, we promised our son we would never switch sports allegiances. But he could make friends across enemy lines.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/well/family/in-baseball-lessons-in-loyalty-and-tolerance.html?source=Snapzu

Teacher says she was fired for giving zeroes to students who didn't turn in their work

A teacher in Port St. Lucie, Florida claims she was fired for refusing to give students partial credit for work that is never handed in. “I got fired. I was packing my stuff, and I was not going to see the kids,” Diane Tirado said.
Read more: https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/teacher-says-she-was-fired-for-giving-zeroes-to-students-who-didnt-turn-in-their-work-09-25-2018-134627104?source=Snapzu

Cherry Creek [Colorado] School District to pay $11.5 million to 5 students who were sexually assaulted by a teacher

District failed to address early complaints about former Prairie Middle School teacher Brian Vasquez. By Noelle Phillips.
Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/24/cherry-creek-schools-sex-assault-settlement/?source=Snapzu

Tinder gives extra control to women with 'My Move' feature

The setting allows women to start the conversation, and it's currently being trialled.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/tinder-gives-extra-control-to-women-with-my-move-feature/?source=Snapzu

'Most adorable random act of kindness ever'?

Parking restrictions spark frustration more often than delight, but a newly-installed sign in Wiesbaden, Germany has been declared "the most adorable act of random kindness ever" as social media users shared the story online. Food and travel writer Christie Dietz, whose four-year-old son has parked his bike by the same lamppost "just about every day for the last year", discovered the space had now been reserved just for him.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45639136?source=Snapzu

U.S. Divorce Rate: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married. New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on.
Read more: https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2018/09/25/millennials-are-causing-the-u-s-divorce-rate-to-plummet?source=Snapzu

'Blood was everywhere': Flying mackerel cuts woman's throat

Belinda Bingham was lying on the floor with blood streaming from her throat when husband Neil turned around from baiting his line. A 10-kilogram, metre-long mackerel had launched itself from the ocean, at a height of more than a metre and a half, and cut her throat. "It sure had some momentum. It just knocked me off my feet. [I] didn't see it coming, didn't see a thing," Mrs Bingham said.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-25/woman-cut-by-fish-in-northern-territory-mackerel-neck/10301902?source=Snapzu

Mayonnaise is disgusting, and science agrees

A lot of Americans can’t stand mayonnaise, here’s a look at why.
Read more: https://www.popsci.com/mayonnaise-disgust?source=Snapzu

Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut

Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was working alone in a ‘rompong’ when heavy winds snapped its moorings
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/indonesian-teenager-survives-49-days-adrift-at-sea-in-fishing-hut?source=Snapzu

Pakistani Christians demand equal rights, abolition of blasphemy laws

Pakistani Christians living in Europe and the United Kingdom gathered in front of Palais Wilson, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, and demanded justice and equal rights for the minorities in Pakistan. Holding placards which read "Save Pakistani Christians", "Stop Human Rights Violations against Christians in Pakistan" and "Abolish Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan", they shouted slogans against the Pakistan government to demand justice for Asia Bibi, a victim of Blasphemy law.
Read more: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/pakistani-christians-demand-equal-rights-abolition-of-blasphemy-laws201809230710090001/?source=Snapzu

Baby punched when fight breaks out at restaurant over extra plate, report says

Police in Texas are searching for two women who allegedly attacked a restaurant server and punched a baby while fighting over a plate. When officers arrived at the El Matador Restaurant in Denton Tuesday, the two suspects had already left the establishment, KDFW reported. The waitress told police that two women had asked for an extra plate and then became angry over how long they had to wait for it.
Read more: https://www.kctv5.com/baby-punched-server-attacked-when-fight-breaks-out-at-restaurant/article_1bafd5a2-8f62-56c6-b862-0d63d7008630.html?source=Snapzu

Bethesda Grants Wish of 12-Year-Old Boy With Rare Cancer To Play 'Fallout 76'

Bethesda -- the makers of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout -- has granted the wish of a 12-year-old boy named Wes with a rare type of cancer to see Fallout 76 by bringing the game to his house to play months before release. Wes has been in a fight against stage-four neuroblastoma for most of his life after being diagnosed with the form of cancer at just five years old.
Read more: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/09/23/fallout-76-bethesda-helps-12-year-old-boy-cancer/?source=Snapzu

Opinion | Let Teenagers Sleep In

Starting schools before 8:30 a.m. shows a tragic disregard for both the mental health of children and for science.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/sunday/sleep-school-start-time-screens-teenagers.html?source=Snapzu

The untold story of the vegetable peeler that changed the world

Smart Design’s Davin Stowell shares the origin story of the OXO Swivel, one of the great icons of 20th-century industrial design.
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/90239156/the-untold-story-of-the-vegetable-peeler-that-changed-the-world?source=Snapzu

Nobel Prize winner and Hong Kong native Charles Kao dies, 84

Hong Kong on Sunday mourned the passing of the city’s Nobel Prize winner in physics, Professor Charles Kao Kuen, whose seminal work on fibre optics laid the groundwork for the development of modern communications. He had battled Alzheimer’s for over a decade before death claimed him at 84. Tributes flowed with chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor among the first to offer her public condolences.
Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2165405/nobel-prize-winner-and-hong-kong-native-charles-kao-dies-84?source=Snapzu

Don't send a man to the grocery store!

Jeanne Robertson
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Shelter's new approach reunites dog with owner

A new program at the Kent County Animal Shelter is working to save more dogs from being put down, using Facebook to place them in good homes. It's already working. A man who lost his dog on the other side of the state was able to find her though one of the posts. "I wish she could talk so she could tell us what happened," owner Arthur Watson said. "Me, my mom, my dad, we are just sitting here going, 'How?'"
Read more: https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/shelter-s-new-approach-reunites-dog-and-owner/1462519480?source=Snapzu