When Kim Jong-nam was a boy, his father, the dictator of North Korea, sat him on his office chair and said, “When you grow up, this is where you'll sit and give orders.” If the child had fulfilled that promise—if his half brother, Kim Jong-un, had not ultimately usurped his throne—he would have…

On May 31 last year, 25-year-old Safarain Herring was shot in the head and dropped off at St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago by a man named Michael Williams. He died two days later. Chicago police eventually arrested the 64-year-old Williams and charged him with murder (Williams maintains that Herring…

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Auf unserem Twitteraccount veröffentlichten wir vergangenen Sonntag ein Meme, das hohe Wellen schlug. Es bezog sich auf die Verwendung verschiedener Hinrichtungsmetaphern durch die Tamedia-Journalistin Michèle Binswanger. Der Medienkonzern Tamedia kündigte daraufhin eine Strafanzeige gegen uns an.…

Bill’s final semester at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was already difficult enough. He was part of the final graduating class of survivors of the 2018 shooting, and they all had just marked the third anniversary of the day 17 people were killed, nine of whom were Bill’s…

The Oatmeal Home Comics Animations Games Books Subscribe Blog We need to have a conversation about wombats This comic is about a lot of things, but mostly it is about butts. I'm considering writing a science book with comics like this one inside of it. Is this something you'd be interested in? Since…

Die Hammerskins sind eine der ältesten und beständigsten Neonazi-Organisationen in Deutschland. Das seit über 30 Jahren bestehende Netzwerk versteht sich als eine „Bruderschaft“ und „Elite“ der Neonazi-Szene. Ihre straffe Organisation ist Teil einer international eingeschworenen Gemeinschaft, die…

(Quelle: Unsplash) Auch wenn TikTok keine bezahlte Werbung anlässlich der Bundestagswahl 2021 zulässt, hat die AfD schon einen Weg gefunden, ihre Inhalte in dem sozialen Netzwerk zu verbreiten. Mitunter haben die Videos der Partei hunderttausende Views. Dass gerade auch jüngere Wählergruppen…

The future of OpenStreetMap editing is not another JOSM or another Potlatch. What we have is good enough, and there are options for everyone. But 15 years on, the same problems persist in OSM: while it’s very easy to draw things, to add a road, a building, or an amenity, updating the map is so hard…

Capt. Harith al-Sudani’s wife, Raghad Chaloob, center, and their three children, Riyam, Rawan and Muamal, atop their home in Baghdad.Credit...Ivor Prickett for The New York Times BAGHDAD — The driver was sweating as his white Kia pickup truck sped along a rain-slicked Baghdad highway toward a…

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I’m almost 60, and in these many decades I’ve seen people—some of them good friends—taken down by all kinds of things. Alcohol and drugs, mostly. A few years ago, I lost someone to heroin, and hundreds of us sat at his funeral in wordless communion. I know a couple of people who couldn’t shake…

“In a war zone, it is not safe to be unknown. Unknown travelers are shot on sight,” says Isabel Fall. “The fact that Isabel Fall was an unknown led to her death.” Isabel Fall isn’t dead. There is a person who wrote under that name alive on the planet right now, someone who published a critically…

TL;DR: Für alle, die aus einem impffreundlichen Umfeld stammen, ist der Umgang mit Skeptikern im engeren Familien- und Freundeskreis schwierig. Dies ist ein Plädoyer, warum wir trotz der Wut über diese Haltung und trotz der Angst, dass sich unsere Liebsten infizieren (und damit potenziell auch uns),…

Just like that, a white penis has metamorphosed into a jolly butterfly. With hi-vis jackets on their shoulders, two men trace long lines on the tarmac, drawing curves and adding furtive features in a matter of seconds. Intrigued spectators come for a closer look, hands behind their backs. But…

The history of “thinking backwards” Photo by Mac Mullins from Pexels “Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots — what would be the easy way to do it?” T hat might not be what you want to hear from the

BuzzFeedRecherchen Stand: 19.06.2023, 12:43 Uhr Sechsstellige Sponsoring-Beiträge der Pharma-Industrie für Ärzte-Fortbildungen: Für Kritiker:innen verkörpert niemand so sehr das Problem, wie die „Esanum Academie“. © Monika Skolimowska / dpa Hunderttausende Ärzt:innen müssen sich regelmäßig auf…

or... Spaces: The Final Frontier! Matrix (https://matrix.org) is an open protocol for secure, decentralised communication - defining an end-to-end-encrypted real-time communication layer for the open Web suitable for instant messaging, VoIP, microblogging, forums and more. We provide the open…

Ein anderer sehr guter Talk (nebst allen anderen Talks) vom rC3. Arne Vogelgesang verliert sich mal schön in der ganzen QAnon-Paralelwelt. Just follow the white rabbit! ↬ Danke Eli!

The procession is about to begin. Just outside the convention center ballroom, King Pokémon stands hunched, his tall frame bent forward, anticipating. With his warm eyes and smooth jowls, he’s more gentle giant than monarch. And dressed as he is, in sweatpants and sneakers, he’s more common folk…

Social Media ist voll mit Fotos von kleinen, süßen Affenbabys. Stars und Influencer:innen posen und kuscheln mit Orang-Utan- oder Schimpansen-Babys. Doch dahinter steckt unfassbares Leid: Affen-Babys werden ihren Eltern entrissen, damit Menschen ihnen ganz nah sein können. Tiertrainer:innen wie der…

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Elements Using just her eyes and memory, Elisabeth Bik has single-handedly identified thousands of studies containing potentially doctored scientific images. June 23, 2021 Illustration by Kailey Whitman In June of 2013, Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist, grew curious about the subject of plagiarism.…

Oops, sie haben es wieder getan: Ein alter weisser Mann hat öffent­liche Kritik an über­holten patri­ar­chalen und rassi­sti­schen Macht­struk­turen – oder: „Cancel Culture” – mit einem Konzen­tra­ti­ons­lager vergli­chen. Auf die Frage von Mode­rator Yves Bossart, ob heute eine gewisse Tole­ranz…

“The Martian” by Andy Weir, and its film adaptation directed by Ridley Scott, remain some of my all time favorite science fiction works. Way back in the day I wrote a technical commentary. I last read the book in 2015 (until 2 weeks ago) and watched the film in 2018. More recently I’ve been…

In the spring of 1998, Kipland Kinkel, then 15, shot and killed his mother, his father and two students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. He wounded 25 others. At the time, the country was only beginning to fear that mass shootings at schools might actually become a trend. A shooting…

Only 15 months ago — March 13, 2020 — COVID-19 became a national emergency in the United States. My assumption at the time was that COVID lockdowns could extend as long as five years, the previous spe

I can no longer feel the top of my head. Apparently it takes 3-5 months to regain sensation up there, and some people never get the feeling back. Oh well, what do you need to feel things from the top of your head for anyway? But, it’s truly bizarre touching the top of my head and only getting…

One afternoon in late November of last year, Timnit Gebru was sitting on the couch in her San Francisco Bay Area home, crying. Gebru, a researcher at Google, had just clicked out of a last-minute video meeting with an executive named Megan Kacholia, who had issued a jarring command. Gebru was the…

Fussball: Wenn die Linke «Goooaaaaaal!!!» schreit Nr. 26 – 1. Juli 2021 Von der offensichtlichen Unfähigkeit der Linken, sich angesichts eines Balls auf grünem Rasen vom Patriotismus abzusetzen. Eine Replik. Von Der Versuch von Adrian Riklin (den ich nicht nur als Journalisten sehr schätze), sich…

Frage 1 Herr Keuner hörte von einem Dorf, einem Dorfkönig und einem Kritiker. Der Kritiker sagte zu Herrn Keuner, der Dorfkönig sei korrupt, geldgierig, machtbesessen und zutiefst unsympathisch. Einmal im Jahr machte dieser Dorfkönig seinem Renommee zuliebe ein grosses Fest mit Essen, Trinken und…

I know that you know you’re being watched. But I’m not sure you realize the extent of it, or its implications. Hundreds of corporations that you’ve never heard of, as well as many governments around t

During a pandemic, no one’s health is fully in their own hands. No field should understand that more deeply than public health, a discipline distinct from medicine. Whereas doctors and nurses treat sick individuals in front of them, public-health practitioners work to prevent sickness in entire…

On a recent trip to Cuba I brought with me a smartphone and hoped to get Internet access either via WiFi or 3G. I managed that (at a price) but also saw for myself how Cubans get access to an alternat