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Federal government gives Ontario $54M to fight illegal guns and gangs

The federal government is giving Ontario $54 million over the next three years to combat illegal gun and gang activity, with the funds earmarked for specialized prosecutors, policing projects and intelligence-gathering efforts in jails. Federal Crime Reducti…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Google

How to Report Fake Listings on Google Maps

Does your neighborhood have strange joke listings on Google Maps? Are you living next to a Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Fake Google Maps locations are surprisingly common, and these fictional locations and pop-cultural references can even come …

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Times Square

Red Tape Is Keeping New York City’s Landscape Stuck in the Past

To remind myself why New York has so much trouble growing into the modern city it should be, I find it helpful to follow my dog down the block. If he urinates on the trash bags that get strewn on the curb as per our primitive waste-collection system, hes comm…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Virtual Reality

Director Roger Ross Williams On Emmy-Nominated VR Film ‘Traveling While Black’: “It’s A Big Moment”

The medium of virtual reality has been marshaled to explore everything from nature to outer space, roller coaster thrills, the human body and fictional stories, but it’s never been put to use quite in the way of Traveling While Black. The Emmy-nominated VR f…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Skateboard

Seth Rogen Taps Ilana Glazer, Anderson.Paak for Hilarity for Charity County Fair

Seth Rogen has enlisted Broad City’s Ilana Glazer, Anderson .Paak, Nick Kroll and more for the first Hilarity for Charity County Fair, taking place September 14th at Skylight Row DTLA in Los Angeles. Rogen announced the event with a ridiculous video in which…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Silicon Valley Is Building A Chinese-Style Social Credit System

Companies in the United States, and more specifically, Silicon Valley, are building a social credit system for individuals. Much like the social credit system communist China uses to control its population, this authoritarian control is different in one way:…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Holocaust

Dave Daubenmire: My Bible Suggests Millions of Jews Didn’t Die in the Holocaust

Christian Right activist Dave Daubenmire, who believes Jews are “no longer God’s chosen people” because they hate Jesus, said on his Pass the Salt Live webcast today that there’s no way six million Jews died in the Holocaust — and he had proof! That proof? A…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Drones

FAA makes warning about weaponizing drones

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Recycling

Minimalist Tube Wallet

If you like minimalist wallets and recycling this is the wallet for you. This design was inspired by this Kickstarter product with some personal modifications. This wallet can hold around ten credit cards, paper money bills and even small change. The build p…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Greta Thunberg

BBC’s nature Prom tells children they are in the midst of mass extinction to ‘amplify discussion’

When buying tickets for a classical music concert based on the lost words of nature, parents may have expected a simple, poetic celebration of bluebells, conkers and otters. Families who attended the BBC Proms this weekend were instead confronted with catas…

bubmagAugust 26, 2019

Federal government gives Ontario $54M to fight illegal guns and gangs

How to Report Fake Listings on Google Maps

Red Tape Is Keeping New York City’s Landscape Stuck in the Past

Director Roger Ross Williams On Emmy-Nominated VR Film ‘Traveling While Black’: “It’s A Big Moment”

Seth Rogen Taps Ilana Glazer, Anderson.Paak for Hilarity for Charity County Fair

Dave Daubenmire: My Bible Suggests Millions of Jews Didn’t Die in the Holocaust

FAA makes warning about weaponizing drones

Minimalist Tube Wallet

BBC’s nature Prom tells children they are in the midst of mass extinction to ‘amplify discussion’

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