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Former NFL player's support for Jason Collins cost him a job
Former Green Bay Packers safety Leroy Butler woke up Monday morning excited to see that Jason Collins, a 12-year veteran of the NBA, had come out publicly as a gay man in America. Butler was so...
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Tennessee official behind viral Islamophobic rant says he's the victim
Barry West thinks the best way to wink at a Muslim is to swing a double-barreled shotgun in his face. The Coffee County, Tennessee, commissioner spread that message on Facebook with this delightful...
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College student charged with posting rape threat against herself
A student at the University of Wyoming is accused of interfering with a police investigation after allegedly sending a rape threat to herself. Campus police have evidence that a post appearing on the...
View ArticleDoes Wikipedia's sexism problem really prove that the system works?
Wikipedia found itself squirming uncomfortably last week after charges of systemic sexism drew heat from media outlets across the world and sparked widespread outrage on social media. Yet according...
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The Internet Hate Machine vs. 1 angry teenage hacker wannabe
Taunt Anonymous at your own risk. One Australian teenager took to Twitter and public Anon site CyberGuerrilla to write post after post calling the site administrator for the hacktivist hub a "f**king...
View ArticleCompletely anonymous website challenges anyone to expose its owner
At a time when even the CIA has trouble keeping its secrets from hackers, can anyone truly be anonymous online? That's the question being posed to Hacker News readers. One of their own has created a...
View ArticleIs it time to start taking the Syrian Electronic Army seriously?
"Exclusive: Terror is striking the #USA and #Obama is Shamelessly in Bed with Al-Qaeda," the official 60 Minutes Twitter account posted in April, sending CBS scrambling to remove the tweet."Do you...
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KillSwitch and the eternal sunshine of the spotless Web
Six years ago, I broke up with a jerk. The sob story leading up to that point is irrelevant now, but suffice it to say I was crushed and being confronted with his face whenever I signed into Facebook...
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Craigslist ad seeks 44 females for Lil Boosie's prison release party
Administrators at Lil Boosie Release Date, the leading online authority for all things pertaining to Lil Boosie's release date from prison, has it that the cultish Baton Rouge, La., rapper will be...
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This is what happiness looks like on Twitter
A team of researchers have found a way to gauge Twitter's overall happiness on a given day. Their hedonometer tool went live this week and plots the joyfulness levels on a chart, where each point...
View ArticleInternet rallies behind student facing felony charges for science experiment
Kiera Wilmot was expelled from Bartow High School in Florida’s Polk County and is facing felony criminal charges—as an adult—over a harmless science experiment. When Wilmot’s story first made the news...
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Don't bother finding out how much time you've spent on Twitter
If you've been on Twitter at all today, chances are you've come across a tweet like the one below. I have spent 88 hours on Twitter. See how much you have: socialmeter.me— Fidel Martinez (@fidmart85)...
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I signed up for Infowars' dating site for conspiracy theorists
In the “Dating Freedom Lovers” group on Infowars, Alex Jones’ “news site,” nearly 6,000 men and women are looking to meet somebody special. Their profiles usually indicate interests (firearms and...
View ArticleCreepers rejoice! Reddit now available for Google Glass
Because clearly this is a thing that needed to happen, a Glass Explorer has a new app for the Google device that lets users browse Reddit. Called Reddit Timeline, the new app will allow users to view...
View ArticleFans raise $16,000 in auction to help popular fic archive
With fanfic archives like Fanfiction.net and Wattpad becoming infamous for their low-quality writing and love of censoring adult-rated fanworks, Archive of Our Own provides a user-friendly...
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Antoine Dodson renounces sexuality, comes out as Hebrew Israelite
He's Antoine… wait! He's Kevin Antoine Dodson, a one-time YouTube star who's now apparently renouncing his sexuality and coming out as, that's right, a "True Chosen Hebrew Israelite descendant of...
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Star Wars Day fundraiser is a new hope for author's injured son
On Saturday, May 4, Star Wars fans around the world will be wishing each other “May the Fourth be With You” as they celebrate Star Wars Day, a holiday dedicated to the science fiction franchise. But...
View ArticleTwitter teens subvert #followateen with even better #followanadult
What's the only thing funnier than following a teen on Twitter? Following an adult, of course. It started with #FollowATeen, prankster journalist David Thorpe's 2012 hashtag that urged Twitter players...
View ArticleKen Burns documentary inspires petition to fire law professor
A Ken Burns documentary on the wrongful conviction of five minority teenagers has inspired an online petition to get one of the lead prosecutors of the case fired from her current job. On April 16,...
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Sober Serenity—1 click at a time
“Hi, I’m Marc and I’m an alcoholic,” says an older gentleman in a black cowboy hat. Next to him, there’s a queue of people waiting to speak: a woman with long white hair and unruly bangs, a man with a...
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