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9 effective tips on how to look taller in photos No photoshop required. Anyone can do this.
Despite badly wishing you could be taller, if a short stature is what your genes gave you, you simply can’t become LeBron. But in photos, you can make yourself look taller with a little foresight and knowledge. These tips do not depend on photo editing, so anyone can do this just as long as you have the right cameras and accesories. Here are 9 simple tricks to make you look taller in pictures: 1. Wear the Right Clothing Be mindful of your clothing when you take photos. Wearing clothes can change the proportion of your body, so choose the combination that will make you taller. Follow some of these tips…
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UK to censor global social media with fines, blocks, exec prosecutions Internet to be scrubbed of what passes for "hateful" speech in the UK, and the british public loves it.
The UK government is proposing a new set of laws for social media companies to follow on penalty of fines, nationwide site blocks, and prosecution for executives who fail to act on “hateful speech.” Should the proposal come to pass, it will be an Orwellian nightmare come to life. The UK government proposes setting up a taxpayer-funded regulator to police online platforms with harsh penalties if they fail to remove content it doesn’t approve of “expeditiously.” The government proposes that the regulator be initially funded by the industry, with a plan of setting up a tax or levy to make the department sustainable in the long term. “The internet can…
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Unraveling YouTube’s monkey torture network Psychopath network of monkey torture videos garners millions of views for years on end and nothing is being done about it. Jim investigates.
Warning: this investigation is SFW as long as you don’t click yourself into the rabbit hole, but it’s very media heavy. What compels someone to hate monkeys? To look at a picture of our little cousins and and wonder aloud with your friends how wonderful it would feel to crack their skulls open with a frying pan? YouTube is host to many diverse communities coming together to create, share, and comment on their particular thing. Furries shitting in their diapers or even men living in septic tanks – there’s always a video, always another user with your specific interest looking to connect. Out on the periphery, on the very edge…
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#MyWhitePrivilege is trending on Twitter and of course it’s coming from Portland, OR "it's important we then do what we can to boost the voices of POC, pay them for their [Twitter] labor on here"
#MyWhitePrivilege is lighting up Twitter and boy, do pronoun laden twitterers have some unsubstantiated anecdotes for you today. The top related mentions lead to @Freeyourmindkid – a black nationalist writer for Jewish magazine Forward.com (what?) and creator of an anti-Trump site – as the main busy bee, spreading the pollen of cringe and division across the platform: As TwitterMoments describes it: People are sharing stories of “outrageous” things they’ve gotten away with thanks to #MyWhitePrivilege. (h/t @Freeyourmindkid)https://t.co/zl373u8vUn — Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) March 30, 2019 The tag has spawned a frenzy of stories on personal experiences of purported privilege, many of them well into Poe territory: I went to pay for…
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Read Kiwi Farms’ epic response to NZ police thug demanding identity of everyone talking about Christchurch attack "You're a small, irrelevant island nation barely more recognizable than any other nameless pacific sovereignty."
The administrator of Kiwi Farms today revealed in a forum thread that New Zealand police has contacted him and demanded identifying information on all forum posters who have discussed friday’s New Zealand terror attack. The information sought includes email and IP addresses, and breaking news of a 22-year-old New Zealander being arrested for sharing the livestream from the attack gives you a pretty good idea of the sort of things they’re planning to do with it. Here’s the initial email from a John Michael, Detective Senior Sergeant of NZ police: Good afternoon I am hoping that you can help us with an investigation the New Zealand Police are working on.…
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Christchurch attacker livestreamed shooting spree, posted manifesto to 8chan Brenton Tarrant killed at least 40 in POV filmed mosque attack.
A gunman – now identified as Brenton Tarrant – has massacred unarmed people in a mosque in Christchurch’s Hagley Park (New Zealand), and the gruesome events were livestreamed on Facebook by the shooter himself. Early reports suggest that at least six people have been shot, but the livestream of the incident – copies of which quickly spread to filesharing websites like Mega.nz, AnonFile (kiwifarms mirror), and Zippyshare – show dozens of casualties within and around the mosque. (New reports now back this up, saying at least 40 dead: see bottom of article for updates.) The mass shooter advertised the livestream, as well as a manifesto titled “The Great Replacement,” to…
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Five fast facts you need to know about the Warski/Ralph rift in Internet Bloodsports A state of the disunion.
If you follow YouTube drama at all, you might be aware of Internet Bloodsports. And you’re probably familiar with the main players: Ethan Ralph of Killstream, the now-banned YouTube channel that was outed by the Wall Street Journal for promoting white nationalism; and Andy Warski, the formerly anti-social justice channel-turned talk-show channel for the alt-right. Following Ralph’s deplatforming on YouTube, both Ralph and Warski took to Stream.me, a streaming platform and competitor to YouTube that has since been shut down after threats were made against the owners’ children. But before they were deplatformed, Ralph and Warski managed to earn a little over $4,000 from their paypigs to fund a trip…
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Japanese police arrest teenage girl for Javascript prank The classic infinite alerts loop.
A 13-year-old girl has been arrested in Japan for producing a Javascript-based prank that creates infinite alerts. Police in the Japanese city of Kariya charged the teenager for distributing the malicious code on an online message board. The code, which can be viewed here, creates an infinite loop that pops up an alert message, immediately showing a new message every time you click “OK.” Desktop browsers have no problem closing the page once it’s opened. Chrome, for example, lets you close the tab in spite of the pop-up. On the other hand, mobile browsers are particularly susceptible to this sort of prank, as it is difficult to close the tab…
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Ian McKellen canceled for supporting Kevin Spacey "I’m waiting for someone to accuse _me_ of something."
The actor best known for playing Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, Ian McKellen, is facing the heat for statements about disgraced actor Kevin Spacey and alleged gay sexual abuser Bryan Singer. McKellen shared a controversial theory on why Spacey and Singer allegedly abused underaged men on a podcast called #QueerAF with journalist Evan Davis, who queried him on his opinions about the two gay men. McKellen, an openly gay actor, shared his belief that the entertainers allegedly abused minors because they were unable to be open about their sexuality. “Well, frankly, I’m waiting for someone to accuse me of something,” McKellen joked. “And me wondering whether they’re not telling the truth,…
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Internet Bloodsports: the pay for play troll army terrorizing the internet An army of internet trolls led by youtubers like Andy Warski and Keemstar is destroying my life for a sickening spectacle fueled by donations. Here's what happened.
An army of internet trolls led by youtubers like Andy Warski and Keemstar is destroying my life for a sickening spectacle fueled by donations. Here's what happened.