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Matteo Salvini

Italy’s Conte gets green light to form new government

Italys President asked Giuseppe Conte to lead a coalition of the 5-Star Movement and opposition Democratic Party (PD) on Thursday, a move could that could improve Italys fractious relations with the European Union. Markets welcomed the prospect of a quick en…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Meet the Israeli political party waging a holy war against the LGBTQ community

The room in Jerusalem’s Ramat Rachel Resort earlier this week was seemingly jammed with a homogenous crowd — bearded Ashkenazi, Orthodox men in a range of ages — for a Noam Party campaign rally. (Latest election polls – click here) >> Subscribe for ju…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

eSports

Razer now makes custom phone cases with 150 designs from popular games

Razer is getting in on the phone case game, but not for the Razer Phone 2. The company has turned its attention to making custom phone cases for a range of Android and iPhone models, all of which are decked out in official art from popular games. To start ou…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg crossed the ocean on a carbon-free sailboat. Can we do it too?

To build a transatlantic ferry that's cheap, clean, and quick, we'll need to, well, build a better boat.

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Recycling

Woman terrifies Nextdoor by asking about the “man with no head”

Nextdoor, for those not familiar, is like a hyper-local Facebookwith all the attendant horrors you might expect that to entail. For the most part, this comes in the form of neighbors incoherently yelling at each other about recycling and coyotes and dildos. O…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Climate Change

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

A call for climate change protest posters and NYC merchandise, and a great reason to watch porn A New Database of Climate Change Protest Posters Creative events producer Glug plans to accrue the world’s largest database of climate change protest posters for a…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Filter Bubble

This app is trying to replicate you

This post was originally published in 2017 as part of the Machines with Brains project. I need to show you an excerpt from probably the strangest interview Ive ever conducted: Person APerson B Hi Mike, hows it goi…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

The truth about Trump’s ‘wall’ – Washington Examiner

Reporters see it as a slam dunk to point out that President Trump has only completed a fraction of the construction of more southern border wall that he promised because, Hahaha, arent his supporters a bunch of suckers for believing hed ever get it done?! Bu…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Why NVIDIA’s Artificial Intelligence Growth Is Far From Over

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) showed a notable improvement in growth across the business in its latest quarter. Besides the strength in the gaming segment, two other areas that stood out in Q2 2020 were the data center and automotive divisions, with both showing an in…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Social Credit Comes to US Shores: Consumers Denied Services Based on Shadowy “Security Ratings”

By Janet Phelan Another blip in what appears to be subtle yet rampant discrimination levied against certain American citizens has emerged on the social radar. As reported recently here, there appears to be another scoring systemother than credit scoreswhich …

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Italy’s Conte gets green light to form new government

Meet the Israeli political party waging a holy war against the LGBTQ community

Razer now makes custom phone cases with 150 designs from popular games

Greta Thunberg crossed the ocean on a carbon-free sailboat. Can we do it too?

Woman terrifies Nextdoor by asking about the “man with no head”

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

This app is trying to replicate you

The truth about Trump’s ‘wall’ – Washington Examiner

Why NVIDIA’s Artificial Intelligence Growth Is Far From Over

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