Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige showed up at Disney's D23 Expo in Anaheim today, bringing a first look at next year's Doctor Strange and Captain America: Civil War. Those two comic book movies will kick off Marvel's Phase 3 plan for its cinematic universe, introducing new characters and bringing back a slew of familiar ones.

Feige said that Doctor Strange doesn't start filming until November, but he sated the D23 crowd with a pre-production peek at the magic-fueled movie. Benedict Cumberbatch, who stars as Dr. Stephen Strange in the film, wasn't in attendance, but appeared in pre-recorded video form to talk about his excitement for the character.

Cumberbatch promised girls, explosions and all the trans-dimensional action required of a Doctor Strange movie.

Feige said Marvel's been working on bringing Doctor Strange to film "since before the inception" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He then showed dozens of pieces of concept art in a D23-exclusive video.

Director Scott Derrickson narrated the footage, talking about Strange's origins: He's one of the world's top neurosurgeons, but his hands are seriously injured in a car accident. On a journey to recover, Strange travels to distant lands, eventually meeting The Ancient One — played by Tilda Swinton — who helps heal Strange, but exposes him to so much more.

The concept art Marvel showed was a mix of sleek, modern day city settings that looks consistent with other Marvel Studios movies. We saw Strange and The Ancient One casting mystical spells; concepts of Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor in costume, as Doctor Strange and Baron Mordo, respectively; and the weird, alien dimensions that the characters will travel through in the 2016 film. The concept art looked faithful to the Marvel comic book series, but grounded in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There was some intriguing, physics defying stuff on display, with cities twisted and transformed in scenes that looked straight out of Inception, with cars flying through the air in strange helix shapes.

Feige said Doctor Strange will be "as satisfying, and as weird" as any Marvel movie that's been made.

After the Strange stuff, Feige introduced Captain America stars Anthony Mackie and Chris Evans. They brought with them footage of Captain America: Civil War, Cap's third stand-alone film (joking that they'd learned iMovie on the flight to put it together). As the new footage showed, however, Captain America will share his screentime with plenty of his fellow Avengers.

The Civil War footage started in Africa, with Falcon, Captain America and Black Widow tracking a vehicle, thanks to a remote Falcon drone deployed by Mackie's character. That vehicle, it turned out, was being driven by Hydra soldiers and housed big bad guy Crossbones, Frank Grillo's character from The Winter Soldier. A big brawl between Cap and Crossbones ensued, with Falcon and Black Widow joining in on the (beautifully choreographed) action.

More footage that played a lot like a trailer followed, showing Cap's Avengers allies — and sometime rivals — Iron Man, Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch. We saw Cap confronting his onetime friend Bucky, aka The Winter Soldier, who exchanged words with Cap about his past, then appeared to be cooperating in a later shot. The trailer also gave us our first glimpse of Black Panther, who flexed out metal claws from his fingertips. The trailer also hinted at the Avengers splintering into different groups, with Tony Stark and Steve Rogers trading barbs, and Hawkeye and Black Widow fighting, with Barton questioning Natasha if they were still friends.

William Hurt returned as General Thunderbolt Ross, reprising his role from Marvel's The Incredible Hulk. Ross talks about the country owing Captain America a debt, but that he's also seen by some as a vigilante.

The highlight of the footage was Falcon meeting up with Cap and Scarlet Witch, and introducing him to Paul Rudd's Ant-Man. Rudd played the starstruck, low-level superhero perfectly, shaking Steve Rogers' hand for an uncomfortably long time and marveling at Captain America's size and physique. He fawned, turning to Scarlet Witch and saying, "I know you. You're great too," and saying to the Avengers leader, "You know a lot of super people, so thinks for thanking of me." Rudd was used perfectly as a relatable everyman in the scene, even better than he'd been portrayed in Ant-Man.

The footage did not, however, offer a peek at Spider-Man, who's slated to make an appearance in Civil War.

Marvel Studios has dated Captain America: Civil War for May 6, 2016 and Doctor Strange for Nov. 4, 2016.

A bomb threat in Miami yesterday cleared out and closed down a Society of Professional Journalists panel featuring some of the key figures of the GamerGate movement.

WPLG-TV of Miami reported that Miami-Dade Police responded to the Koubek Center at Miami Dade College around 2:30 p.m., after being tipped off about a bomb threat against the building. The report said someone at the Miami Herald received an email about the bomb threat and sent it to authorities. No explosives were found at the scene.

Polygon has reached out to officials with both the Miami-Dade Police Department and the Society of Professional Journalists Region 3 and will update this story when more information is known.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart.com and one of the principal voices of the year-old movement, tweeted from the scene about the evacuation and its aftermath. Yiannopoulos said "multiple bomb threats were called in to stop this event." A Vine shows him and Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute, another noteworthy voice in GamerGate, leaving the auditorium.

It appears the threat came in just as the event was underway and was successful at canceling it. Yiannopoulos later published the remarks he would have made, "only some of which I managed to get on stage" before the evacuation. Yiannopoulos also shared the remarks Sommers planned to give.

This is not the first bomb threat against a venue where both were due to appear to discuss GamerGate. In May, a threat against a Washington D.C. restaurant evacuated the first official get-together in the United States for GamerGate supporters.

SPJ Region 3, which hosted the "AirPlay" event featuring these and other speakers, appeared well aware of the potential for disruption to the event. In this post five days ago, Region 3 director Michael Koretzky detailed AirPlay's plans to ward off threats, harassment or disruption, mentioning that he had enlisted "both online and onsite security experts to keep AirPlay safe." Koretzky noted that when the event was initially publicized, the building's management was emailed with a question asking why it was letting a hate group use their facility.

GamerGate has been accused, collectively, of online harassment and making similar bomb threats against its critics and their events, charges its supporters vehemently deny.

The movement, which deliberately has no central leadership, is a backlash to what its supporters perceive as unprofessional or agenda-driven behavior in the gaming specialty press. However, figures like Yiannopoulous, Sommers and others have also sharply criticized feminist and other socially progressive criticism of games and their role in pop culture. Opponents of GamerGate call the movement misogynist and innately hostile to women, minorities and other marginalized groups of persons.

voidwish:

Dick pics are an example of the free market failing utterly in maintaining a supply and demand equivalency. The demand for dick pics is extremely low yet dudes perpetually supply them and flood the market.

Capitalism is always a failure.

Police investigate ‘first cyber-flashing’ case - BBC News

Police are investigating a “new” crime of cyber-flashing after a commuter received an indecent image on her phone as she travelled to work. 

The victim received two pictures of an unknown man’s penis on her phone via Apple’s Airdrop sharing function. 

Lorraine Crighton-Smith, 34, said she felt “violated” and reported it to the British Transport Police (BTP). Supt Gill Murray said this particular crime was new to her force and urged people to report any other incidents. 

Ms Crighton-Smith, who was travelling on a train in south London, told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme: “I had Airdrop switched on because I had been using it previously to send photos to another iPhone user - and a picture appeared on the screen of a man’s penis, which I was quite shocked by.”

goodbyesocialconstructs:

A new study of Harvard Business School graduates from HBS’s Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman and Hunter College sociologist Pamela Stone shows that high-achieving women are not meeting the career goals they set for themselves in their 20s. It’s not because they’re “opting out” of the workforce when they have kids, but because they’re allowing their partners’ careers to take precedence over their own.

The study’s authors interviewed 25,000 men and women who graduated from Harvard Business School over the past several decades. The male graduates were much more likely to be in senior management positions and have more responsibility and more direct reports than their female peers. But why? It’s not because women are leaving the workforce en masse. The authors found, definitively, that the “opt-out” explanation is a myth. Among Gen X and baby boomers they surveyed, only 11 percent of women left the workforce to be full-time moms. That figure is lower for women of colour—only 7 percent stopped working. The vast majority (74 percent) of Gen Xers, women who are currently 32-48 and in the prime of their child-rearing years, work full time, an average of 52 hours a week.

But while these women are still working, they are also making more unexpected sacrifices than their male classmates are. When they graduated, more than half of male HBS grads said they expected their careers would take precedence over their partners’. Only 7 percent of Gen X women and 3 percent of baby boomer women said they expected their careers to take precedence. Here’s what they did expect: The majority of women said they assumed they would have egalitarian marriages in which both spouses’ careers were taken equally seriously.

A lot of those women were wrong. About 40 percent of Gen X and boomer women said their spouses’ careers took priority over theirs, while only about 20 percent of them had planned on their careers taking a back seat. Compare that with the men: More than 70 percent of Gen X and boomer men say their careers are more important than their wives’. When you look at child care responsibilities, the numbers are starker. A full 86 percent of Gen X and boomer men said their wives take primary responsibility for child care, and the women agree: 65 percent of Gen X women and 72 percent of boomer women—all HBS grads, most of whom work—say they’re the ones who do most of the child care in their relationships.

Of course, marital arrangements aren’t the only force holding women back. Part of the reason these women aren’t advancing at the same rate as their male counterparts is that after they have kids, they get “mommy-tracked.” In many ways, they’re not considered management candidates anymore. “They may have been stigmatized for taking advantage of flex options or reduced schedules, passed over for high-profile assignments, or removed from projects they once led,” the authors note. Other studies support these findings, as they have shown that there is a real, substantial motherhood penalty that involves lower pay and fewer promotions for women with kids, because employers assume they will be less dedicated to their jobs (as do, we now know, their husbands).

But the personal piece of the female achievement gap puzzle is important, and it’s something that’s very difficult to shift. The study’s authors note that while millennial HBS grads are a little more egalitarian than their older peers, half of the youngest men still assume that their careers will take precedence, and two-thirds of them assume their spouses will do the majority of child care.

Important info, but I hate the way this was written.

“It’s not because they’re “opting out” of the workforce when they have kids, but because they’re allowing their partners’ careers to take precedence over their own.“ but because they have self-indulgent patriarchal male partners that encourage and expect them to give up their career dreams in favor of catering to their families, something the men themselves are too self-entitled and lazy to do.

Also big shoutout to all those millennial male HBS grads that are still patriarchal and entitled. And by shoutout I mean fuck you.

This happens. Even when it’s not mustache-twirling Evil Patriarchal Men, it just…happens. I made more money than Darius for a like hot minute a while back, and it wasn’t long after that happened that he suddenly realized he wanted to switch jobs because he was underpaid and undervalued and it was time to start looking. Which was all true! So y'know. It’s not a contest, it’s just that certain things feel off if they’re not a certain way, I guess. (And I’m very glad for it because that new job’s new salary was enough for us to live on when I had to quit working for a while due to health madness.)

But also when it comes to kids, one of us grew up babysitting and nannied for a summer, and one of us has literally never been alone with a child under three or changed a diaper. It’s very hard when you’re coached your whole life as a woman to make men feel better (this is a thing, trust me) to not step in and Solve The Problem and if the Problem is “my child is crying”?? Oh brother. I can only imagine. My spouse wouldn’t even stand a chance, good luck logging hours practicing getting comfortable handling an infant on MY kid, rookie. That mindset would be really hard to shake off. Even with all the love and trust and respect and so on…whatever, MY BABY IS CRYING. I assume there are hormones involved as well, but I get overly invested in other peoples’ pets, so I’m not a hard sell already.

So much toxic crap to unlearn. So much further toxic messaging dumped on you. And then job fuckery on top of that. Plus the usual “men can’t figure out how to do laundry or not poison themselves when they use a microwave lol men! [fart sound]” messaging that comes with New Dads, so he’s getting a medal every time he puts food in the right hole, and she can do literally nothing right according to someone, somewhere.

[very long sigh]

5th Fire Brigade, all gone; 112 bodies found, mostly fire fighters and policy, some only 19 yr old #TianjinBlast pic.twitter.com/SRHBhXqBdo

— ChinaStreetTalk (@ChinaStreetTalk) August 18, 2015

assbutt-in-the-garrison:

itsbenedict:

game where the protagonist’s wife gets killed and he is thus motivated to swear vengeance out of grief, but he’s so useless at getting revenge that his wife comes back as a ghost and goes “if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself” and possesses his body to do her own dang avenging

prostheticknowledge:

I-Flip

Proof of concept installation by mediafront combines projection with mechanical flipbooks to create digital and analog animations in the same space:

Link

Have you ever wanted to just cut and paste some of that legacy COBOL code from mainframe applications into your latest Web application? No? Well, Romanian Web developer Bizău Ionică has developed a way to do just that, creating a COBOL bridge for Node.js, the JavaScript-based cross-platform runtime environment that has become a go-to technology for server-side Web development. The plugin is an attempt to breathe new life into the programming language derived from the work of computing pioneer Admiral Grace Hopper.

Published under the “Kindly” license (as in, if you want to use it in a commercial application, you should “kindly ask the author”), Node COBOL requires you install GNUCobol along with it. COBOL code can then be embedded in JavaScript. Here’s an example provided by Ionică:

// Dependencies
var Cobol = require("cobol");

// Execute some COBOL snippets
Cobol(function () { /*
       IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
       PROGRAM-ID. HELLO.
       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
       DATA DIVISION.
       PROCEDURE DIVISION.

       PROGRAM-BEGIN.
           DISPLAY "Hello world".

       PROGRAM-DONE.
           STOP RUN.
*/ }, function (err, data) {
    console.log(err || data);
});
// => "Hello World"

Cobol(__dirname + "/args.cbl", {
    args: ["Alice"]
}, function (err, data) {
    console.log(err || data);
});
// => "Your name is: Alice"

// This will read data from stdin
Cobol(function () { /*
       IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
       PROGRAM-ID. APP.
      *> http://stackoverflow.com/q/938760/1420197

       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
       INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
       FILE-CONTROL.
       SELECT SYSIN ASSIGN TO KEYBOARD ORGANIZATION LINE SEQUENTIAL.

       DATA DIVISION.
       FILE SECTION.
       FD SYSIN.
       01 ln PIC X(64).
          88 EOF VALUE HIGH-VALUES.
       WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
       PROCEDURE DIVISION.
       DISPLAY "Write something and then press the  key"
       OPEN INPUT SYSIN
       READ SYSIN
       AT END SET EOF TO TRUE
       END-READ
       PERFORM UNTIL EOF
       DISPLAY "You wrote: ", ln
       DISPLAY "------------"
       READ SYSIN
       AT END SET EOF TO TRUE
       END-READ
       END-PERFORM
       CLOSE SYSIN
       STOP RUN.
*/ }, {
    stdin: process.stdin
  , stdout: process.stdout
}, function (err) {
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
});
// => Write something and then press the  key
// <= Hi there! // => You wrote: Hi there!
// => ------------

Ionică notes on his GitHub page that Node COBOL is ready for use in production—though he knows of no one who is doing so as of yet.