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A Lazy Press Falsely Claims Musk’s Starlink Left Amazon Tribes Addicted To Porn
From the it’s-a-game-of-telephone,-but-somehow-dumber dept.
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Ninth Circuit Dumps Lawsuit Against YouTube Brought By Anti-Vaxxer Whose Account Was Terminated
Why do these lawsuits keep getting filed?
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City Sued For $1 Million After Cop Murders A Tiny Dog For The Crime Of Being Lost
Estimates say cops kill 25-30 pet dogs a day.
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Facial Recognition Still Struggles To Recognize Faces As More People Are Misidentified As Criminals
From the everything-is-fine-say-tech-purveyors-surrounded-by-flames dept
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From the the-land-of-magical-thinking dept
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Brain-Wormed RFK Jr. Sues Meta, Cites AI Chatbot Reply As Proof Of Shadowbanning
From the do-the-lawyers-have-brainworms-too? dept.
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Louis Vuitton’s Opposition To Trademark For Gardening Tools Fails Spectacularly
‘Louis Vuitton asserted that only it could use the letters “L” and “V” in its branding.’
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Appeals Court: Just Because Speech Provokes Negative Reactions Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Protected
From the maybe-address-the-people-that-are-handling-the-speech-poorly dept.
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Flynn Family’s SLAPP Suit Against CNN Slapped Down By Judge
From the where-we-slapp-one,-we-slapp-all dept
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Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public
Cops continue to wonder why people don’t trust them. Go figure. At the center of this latest “we’re better than you” posturing by law enforcement is the raid of the wrong house by self-proclaimed “trained and experienced” officers, who mistook one Arab male for another before rushing into a house and pointing guns at everyone. Now that there’s an […]
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Police Chief Hailed As A Hero For Crashing Into A Car While Fleeing The Scene Of A Shooting
From the let’s-make-sure-everyone-but-taxpayers-get-home-safely dept
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Remember Nick Sandmann? He was the dude who became something of a Rorschach Test for how much your political beliefs (in any direction) influence your views of a short video, when EVERYONE HAD OPINIONS on his MAGA-hat wearing encounter with a Native American demonstrator, Nathan Phillips. Also, everyone magically became experts in reading body language and facial expressions. […]
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From the ‘reconnecting’ department.
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Warner Bros. Had To Have A Tasmanian Football Team Explain Where Its Taz Character Came From
From the in-the-details dept.
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A TikTok Ban Is A Pointless Political Turd For Democrats
From the election-season-seppuku dept.
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Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life
From the pew pew pew dept.
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The Constitution would like a word.