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How Facebook Is Killing Comedy

While You Are Tweeting About the Nunes Memo, Russia Is Plotting Its Midterms Attack

“The point is distraction. And it’s working dangerously well.”

Nintendo Labo Toy-Con Garage lets you make your own custom playthings

Even more interesting ideas attached to the Labo concept.

Deep learning technology is now being used to put Nic Cage in every movie

It didn’t take long to find the best use for this technology.

Toronto serial killer suspect now faces five first-degree murder charges

What I Wish the iPad Would Gain from the Mac

All good points.

We Fought for Our Democracy. Now Turkey Wants to Destroy It.

On Turkey’s unprovoked invasion of Kurdish-controlled Afrin, Syria

Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance

Our Tony Scott future inches closer

Apple Watch Is a Bridge to the Future

Halfway between touchscreens and voice/AI (via birchtree)

Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit

Starting to get the sense that this Trump fellow may not be the sharpest tool in the shed

Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown denies sexual misconduct allegations from two women

We Are Truly F#%ked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now

Canada Proud: Canadian-Made Games on the Switch

There are an awful lot of great indie games being made in Canada, and a great number are available on the Switch. Bonus fact: did you know that Canada is the third biggest video game producing nation after the US and Japan? I didn’t!

Dean Allen, R.I.P. – Om Malik

What a terrible loss. This site ran on Textpattern for quite some time and I found its grace almost as inspiring as the writing he posted to Textism.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Bd3HUMkyU

Nintendo is so impressive to me. This idea is out of nowhere and is just so clever.

Behold, Steve Bannon’s Hip-Hop Shakespeare Rewrite: ‘Coriolanus’

What.

XCOM’s  creative director on Mario + Rabbids

a must-read for turn-based tactics fans

There is no strategy to Trump’s Twitter feed; he is not trying to distract the media. He is being distracted. He darts with quark-like speed from topic to topic in his tweets because that’s how cable news works.

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

This is the excerpt from the upcoming book and it is NUTS.

Edward Snowden made an app to protect your laptop

The real reason Trump allies are attacking Mueller

To make any future pardons go down easier

Someone Explain To Me The Alien Alloys Before I Fucking Explode

I’m an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why.

So if you are concerned about the growth in population, make yourself a champion of female empowerment in the developing world. You will be contributing to the most effective solution to the problem without any of the moral baggage.

Scarborough Subway Escapes Scrutiny Despite Mistakes and Missteps

What an embarrassment