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Rough times in San Francisco.

My niner fan uncle burning kaepernick jersey hahahahaha pic.twitter.com/oKjFSmfoTS

— ♊️brendo (@bdiiddy) December 8, 2014

Colin Kaepernick is under fire in San Francisco. By some accounts, he's literally ON fire. A number of 49ers fans have been seen burning the quarterback's jersey.

49ers fans burning Colin Kaepernick's jersey after yesterday's loss to Oakland. Well, that's reasonable. pic.twitter.com/90BpBolzf3

— Doug Russell (@DougRussell) December 8, 2014

Just found a burnt Kaepernick jersey in the street after SF lost to Oakland #dobetter pic.twitter.com/ncJzyb3c2n

— Mats (@MatPlural) December 8, 2014

Overreaction? Sure. But the frustration is at least a little understandable. Kaepernick has thrown only one touchdown to four interceptions in his past two games. To make matters worse, the 49ers dropped to 7-6 on Sunday after losing to the Raiders. The Raiders!

H/T to CBS Sports

angry tapir writes: If you patched your sites against a serious SSL flaw discovered in October you will have to check them again. Researchers have discovered that the POODLE vulnerability also affects implementations of the newer TLS protocol. The POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) vulnerability allows attackers who manage to intercept traffic between a user's browser and an HTTPS website to decrypt sensitive information, like the user's authentication cookies.

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Today, General Mills announced the return of its only French-themed cereal. The timing could not have been more perfect.

A cadre of well-connected attorneys has honed the art of getting the Supreme Court to take up cases — and business is capitalizing on their expertise

On the heels of a nasty dispute with Amazon over the sales of e-books, Hachette is cultivating the growth of a new online bookseller: Twitter.

With the Senate gearing up to release a sharply critical report about the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation and detention practices, a group of former senior intelligence officials is planning to rebut those criticisms with a flurry of op-eds, media interviews, and newly-declassified documents. The backbone of the media campaign will be a newly-launched website with a rather blunt and straightforward title: “CIASavedLives.com.”

Side effects include: seizures, loss of awareness, eye strain, eye or muscle twitching, involuntary movements, altered, blurred, or double vision or other visual abnormalities, dizziness, disorientation, impaired balance, impaired hand-eye coordination, excessive sweating, and on and on.

The life of Ann Casey, a once mythic figure on the budding women’s wrestling circuit of the '60s and '70s, is the stuff of pulp-fiction dreams. Born in rural Alabama, she escaped abuse and poverty to become one of the most glamorous and fierce wrestlers in the country. She kissed Elvis, survived an assassination attempt and died on an operating table before becoming a champion. Her long, strange tale is undeniable and unforgettable.

Bundesen declined to comment on her cat's specific earnings. She said she is considering how and when to give a full interview to set the record straight. She said her TV deal with Lifetime likely meant she would provide additional details to that channel. Grumpy Cat's agent, Ben Lashes, who calls himself a "meme manager," did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Huffington Post.

So, this past Wednesday night, that ^^^^ happened.

(L to R — Erin Morgenstern, Some Jerk, Margaret Atwood, Neil Fucking Gaiman, Lev Grossman.)

Holy shit. I know, right?! Ahem. Yeah. So, I was invited to speak at the Happy Birthday, Margaret Atwood event at the 92Y, and to call it “surreal” is like suggesting the ocean is “damp,” or outer space is “chilly.” Upon arriving at the 92Y, I was ushered into the green room where Neil Gaiman (an unsurprisingly lovely person) was just… you know, sitting there? Chilling out? And then Lev shows up (he’s brilliant), and Erin after that (a good friend and an amazing writer), then finally the woman of the hour (the year, the decade, the century) appeared: Margaret Atwood.

She has great presence. She’s funny and wry and happy and yet, takes utterly no shit at all.

Erin did not make cakes with cake material but rather, she made cakes with words (75* of them, which is to say, *not 75 of them). Lev gave an arresting reading of The Handmaid’s Tale. I spoke of those things You Likely Did Not Know About Margaret Atwood, and also assured the audience that she was not my girlfriend. (You pesky gossips, all of you.) And Neil and Margaret had a conversation on stage that was billed as an interview but was far humbler and more comforting than that — it had that rare feeling of sitting in an adjacent room listening to two people just talk rather than sitting in an audience watching two people put on a show. Intimate, warm, curious, writerly. I was lucky to be there to see it, much less be a part of it. I mean, seriously, how privileged to be with such giants. Not literal giants, but literary ones. I tried very hard not to single-handedly diminish the literary legacies of all those attending.

I’m still not certain it actually happened.

My life is super weird, you guys.

Bonus: I got to hang after with some great friends, including my wife, my agent Stacia, my serial killer friend Dave, and awesome humans Eliza and Emma, both of whom flew in from Australia just to see the thing. (Plus, I got to meet Rita Meade from Book Riot, and frankly, anything and anybody associated with Book Riot is badass.)

Anyway, thanks to the 92Y, Random Penguinhaus, and Margaret for having me.

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In case you were born in the 90s and don't remember the infamous AIG bonus controversy of March 2009, it was a bizarre moment in our nation's history when it seemed like everyone in America was angry about the same thing. And that particular thing was the crux of the "problem" — a microcosm of everything else that had gone wrong with Western civilization. Today, thanks to a lawsuit being argued in Washington, we now know how comprehensively we were duped.

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Speaking, for reasons unknown, at the Sky Women in Television and Film Awards, Steven Moffat confirmed that one day the Doctor will be a woman—but it won’t be any time soon.

“We’ve been laying the possibility for an awfully long time, but you don’t cast that way,” said Moffat. “I know I’m going to get in trouble for saying that—you cast a person, you don’t cast the gender.” Moffat also went on the record last August, saying that casting a woman “didn’t feel right to [him], right now” because not enough people wanted it.

“We did just make ,” added Moffat to BANG Showbiz. “She turns up and the Doctor doesn’t say anything about it, he doesn’t react at all, he thinks that’s perfectly normal. It’s not impossible, no, it is entirely down to who the best person is.” So I guess there just hasn’t been a “right” woman in fifty years. What are the odds?!

But Doctor Who doesn’t only have a gender imbalance problem in front of the camera—the series hasn’t had a female writer in approximately eight years. Speaking at Trinity College in Dublin, Moffat confirmed that he has been attempting to get women to write Doctor Who as well as direct, and seemed perplexed as to why it just hasn’t worked out. “I don’t know why. I chase both sexes. There are many [female writers]. I think a female voice would be fantastic. But we’re getting no luck there. I have a folder of women. They all said no!”

The Nerdist has reported that Torchwood‘s Catherine Treganna has signed on for season nine, so we can only hope Moffat looks through his folders and binders full of women to gain a few more. Neil Gaiman would totally help.

(via RadioTimes)

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The lesson here is that innovation is built on the shoulders of failure, and sometimes, the line between the world’s biggest success and the world’s biggest flop is a matter of timing or logistics or tools or infrastructure or luck, or — and here’s the lesson that today’s high flying startups should take to heart — scope of ambition.

The International Olympic Committee approved a wide-ranging reform package Monday that includes rewording of its non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation — a move that followed the controversy over Russia’s law against gay “propaganda” ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

We are told, by the legal system and the military, that we don’t belong. It’s time for trans people like me to tell the world something different: we exist.

A former Apple executive who made millions by selling information about the firm to its suppliers has been sentenced to a year in jail. Paul Shin Devine must also repay almost $4.5 million of the money he made.

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Judge Drops Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Against Cop In Aiyana Stanley-Jones Shooting:

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Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against the Detroit police officer accused in the 2010 fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, reports the Detroit Free Press.

As previously reported by NewsOne, Officer Joseph Weekley failed to follow his training when he stormed a house looking for a murder suspect with his finger on the trigger and shot Aiyana who was asleep on the couch, according to prosecutors.

All sides acknowledge that Aiyana Stanley-Jones’ death was not intentional. But prosecutors say Officer Joseph Weekley’s actions were a crime because he handled his submachine gun in a reckless manner.

“You have to use ordinary care in the exercise of your duties,” prosecutor Rob Moran said. “He didn’t follow ordinary care. … If he didn’t pull the trigger, Aiyana would be alive.”

Here’s the opportunity to prove that black girls lives matter as much as black boys lives.

Where is the national movement against this judge who dropped the charges against the cop who killed seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she lay on a couch in her home? Where is the demand from the people that the cop be locked up?

A cop who was frontin’ for the cameras of the reality series that was being filmed at the time, who was all gassed up on that “Look at me! I’m a cop on TV” shit and wound up killing our baby girl.

They charged him with some bullshit-ass, slap-on-the-wrist “involuntary manslaughter” and not even that shit could stick.

Baby girl is dead.

And there’s not a whisper or a tear.

I don’t believe it when people say they love black girls.

I have zero evidence of that assertion.


(H/T Kristen M. Muldrow)

holy FUCKING SHIT

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

A COP KILLS A 7 YEAR OLD LITTLE CHILD WHO WAS SLEEPING ON A  FUCKING COUCH

AND DOESN’T EVEN GET INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER

Yall

YALL SHE WAS A DAMN BABY

so what’s the excuse now??? did they claim she charging at him too???? did they describe her as some sort of hulk hogan demon spawn as well???? what the fuck was the excuse??

YOU CAN FUCKING GET IN A CAR ACCIDENT AND STILL GET CHARGED WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER BUT A COP DELIBERATELY ACTS LIKE RAMBO AND KILLS A BLACK GIRL AND NOTHING.