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“Will somebody please hospitalize Bill Cosby?”

This was a question asked not in response to the 15 women accusing Cosby of sexual assault, but rather in an otherwise unrelated speech by award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni at the Miami Book Fair International in 2007.

She made her thoughts on Cosby abundantly clear, questioning his character at a time when he was questioning everyone else’s. Giovanni accused the legendary comedian of womanizing and fathering illegitimate children all while he was lecturing the black community about the need for better morality.

Here’s Giovanni’s four-minute rant:

Giovanni wasn’t the only one making these accusations back then. Others also dug into the story, based on statements from Cosby’s alleged victims, but the accusations didn’t gain widespread attention until now.

“It just makes me so mad,” Giovanni said.

Female recruits hoping to join Indonesia’s police force are forced to undergo two-finger “virginity tests," a rights group has found, a practice that leaves the women traumatized, humiliated and in pain.

Uber recently threatened to use the personal data of a tech journalist to destroy her because she dared criticize them. Par for the course, says Olivia Nuzzi.

You’re right.

I APOLOGIZE TO BIRDS!

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Robert McCall’s solar farm concept art

Sabre from YouTube channel Frag Dolls built our PiGRRL Raspberry Pi project and made an awesome video about her build process. She made some note worthy improvements to the build like sanding the printed parts down to make a shine-smooth finish and sealing them shut with acetone. She also drilled holes into the button PCB’s to keep them in place so they aren’t misaligned during extended gameplay. We’re completely chuffed at her serious builder skillz and love her video. Many kudo’s goes to Sabre and the lovely gals from Frag Dolls.

Be sure to check out the PiGRRL guide on the Adafruit Learning System.

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

Ron Miller's new coffee table book The Art of Space is a gorgeous history of scientific illustrations, full of retro rockets and stunning planetscapes. It's also a glimpse back at the cutting-edge astronomy of yesteryear. We've got a gallery of some of the most striking work from the book.

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Buried in a survey on whether or not most of the public in the United States opposes Internet fast lanes—they do, by the way—is a fun little chart showing viewers of which news programs felt they’d heard the most about net neutrality. Surprise! The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Last Week Tonight are by far the top three. Go ahead and have a big belly laugh over Jon Stewart insisting he wasn’t real news on Crossfire all those years ago.

Of course, the data was self-reported in a sample of 900 phone interviews and could have more to do with the demographic of satire news shows feeling informed on this particular issue as opposed to regular news viewers. Still, it’s easy to see how John Oliver’s hilarious, nearly 15-minute net neutrality rant in a once-a-week show could make a person feel more informed than hearing about it in passing a few times along with piles of unimportant nonsense in a now-regular 24-hour news cycle.

Here’s the chart from the University of Delaware survey in all its glory:

The baseline of apathetic viewers who gave a “yeah, whatever, I guess I heard about it” response is about the same across all sources, though the satire shows still hold the top numbers. But the amount of people who got the impression that they’d heard a lot about it is double or more when compared to regular news. I can’t say I’m surprised that the satire viewers feel better informed, as we’ve been pretty pleased around here with their coverage of recent events in, say, gaming recently.

If you’re wondering where the other percents are that add up to 100, they likely fall under the missing “a spider must have crawled on me during that segment, and I was too busy flipping out to hear the TV, so I’ve heard nothing” option. Or they just didn’t watch that episode—but they’re not alone. If you add in people who don’t watch any kind of news, humorous or otherwise, fully 50% of US residents haven’t heard about the issue of the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules at all according to the survey.

When asked point-blank about the idea of letting ISPs charge companies for faster speeds, though, survey respondents overwhelmingly opposed it with 44% strongly against, 37% against, 14% in favor, and 3% strongly in favor. So way to go, comedy news shows. Keep that public informed of issues they’d have a pretty strong reaction to if they ever actually heard about it. You are a bastion of infotainment. Well, either that or your entire audience just watches the clips embedded by every blog in existence the next morning, and it’s very important to them that YouTube doesn’t need to pay for faster data speeds.

Whichever.

(via TechDirt)

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WASHINGTON—At approximately 2 a.m. Thursday morning, White House sources confirmed that Vice President Joe Biden was forcibly pushed out the rear door of a moving 1980 Lincoln Town Car onto the curb outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Apple knew as early as March 2014 of a security hole that left the personal data of iCloud users vulnerable, according to leaked emails between the company and a noted security researcher.

Let's face it, the vast majority of people who both go bald and have beards are men. Is this a coincidence? These scientists think not! In fact, they believe that the reason men go bald is to compensate for the heat they retain by growing a beard. In support of this idea, their study from 1988 found that the area of skin covered by men's beard hair correlates with the area of skin with sweat glands on the forehead and calvaria (the top of the head). Furthermore, for men, the rate of

At 12:30 Thursday morning, a gunman the AP has identified as an FSU alum opened fire in the university's Strozier Library, wounding three people. The gunman was then killed by police who arrived on the scene. In a Facebook post shown here, FSU student Jason Derfuss posted a few pictures of a book that may well have saved his life.

There's a healthy tradition of pranks being pulled ahead of the annual meeting between Harvard and Yale in football.

"Yale Football is the 1%." That's pretty funny.

The Game may not usually draw national attention, though it's the College GameDay game this week. But it's a really big deal for both these Ivy League schools. Occasionally, even other schools get involved.

Last year, Harvard students gave fake tours of Yale.

Not bad guys. Good effort. The problem is, it's going to take a lot more to beat this 2004 classic perpetrated by Yale students.

That's so good.

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bodysexgender:

vexednature:

tuxedoandex:

modernvampiresofnewyork:

What girls look for in guys

• brown eyes
• messy hair
• cute nose
• 4 paws
• golden retriever 

but a man looking for a certain thing in girls? misogyny right? guys can’t be like “I look for girls who wear glasses and are thin and like to talk” nope that’s misogyny and it’s horrible. “equality”

oh my god did you even bother reading the post

"not ALL dogs"

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skatedistrict:

Same place, different day.

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deducecanoe:

tamorapierce:

Representative Tammy Duckworth, the physically disabled, 8-month pregnant, Iraqi War veteran has been advised by her obstetrician not to travel until her baby is born.  The thing is, it’s election time for the leadership of the Democratic Party, which is currently held by Speaker Pelosi.  Duckworth wrote to Pelosi requesting that she be allowed to vote by proxy rather than travel to the capital.

Pelosi said no.  She said she didn’t want to set a precedent (allowing a pregnant woman to vote by proxy, or a member, perhaps).

Do you see the wrongs here?  I can’t, because I’m blinded by rage.  Remember that Pelosi is supposed to be a feminist.

Yeah, i think she’s kind of a piece of shit for doing that.

“The heart of the matter is this: A defender of Bill Cosby must, effectively, conjure a vast conspiracy, created to bring down one man, seemingly just out of spite. And people will do this work of conjuration, because it is hard to accept that people we love in one arena can commit great evil in another. It is hard to believe that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist because the belief doesn’t just indict Cosby, it indicts us. It damns us for drawing intimate conclusions about people based on pudding-pop commercials and popular TV shows. It destroys our ability to lean on icons for our morality. And it forces us back into a world where seemingly good men do unspeakably evil things, and this is just the chaos of human history.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Rape Accusations Against Bill Cosby Must Not Be Ignored" (via ethiopienne)

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celestialallegorist:

Okay but check out this on-point campaign my schools starting
((Lone Mountain is one of the buildings on campus and there’s a ridiculous set of stairs to get up to it))

Um whoa, how cool. The school is seriously doing this? This makes me want to visit again haha. 

Do you know what started it?

I’m actually not sure, but the posters say it’s a couple professors from the psych department, design department, and school of management working together on it. The posters should be up next week, I’m stoked

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deng-dong:

Though support for LGBT legal equality continues to climb, that doesn’t mean that Americans are comfortable with LGBT people in their everyday lives. A new study from Indiana University finds that people who identify as heterosexual are significantly less comfortable seeing same-sex couples’ displays of affection than they are supporting those couples’ legal rights.

For example, about 70 percent of straight respondents supported inheritance rights for gay and lesbian couples, which was actually about the same for heterosexual couples. But while 95 percent approved of seeing a different-sex couple exchange a kiss on the cheek, only 55 percent approved the same for a gay couple and 72 percent for a lesbian couple.

The divide was similar for French kissing, which enjoyed 50 percent approval for different-sex couples, but only 22 percent for gay couples and 26 percent for lesbian couples.

Straight men were largely responsible for the split between male same-sex couples and female same-sex couples. They were much more comfortable overall witnessing lesbian behavior than witnessing two men exchanging affection.

That split was also evident on the basic question of marriage equality. The study found that 53 percent supported marriage equality for male couples, but 59 percent supported marriage equality for female couples (99 percent approved marriage for different-sex couples).

The fact that support for public displays of affection was higher than for legal equality is somewhat encouraging, but the gap between what’s okay for different-sex couples and what’s okay for same-sex couples indicates that there are still many cultural barriers to acceptance of LGBT people.

And some of that intolerance is also internalized by LGBT people. The study also interviewed people who identify as gay and lesbian, and they were also less supportive of same-sex couples’ public displays of affection. For example, 45 percent thought it was acceptable for different-sex couples to French kiss in public, but only 39 percent believed it was acceptable for a gay couple to do so. Lead researcher Long Doan told the Chicago Tribune that he believes this suggests that “they’re afraid of the negative backlash that gay and lesbian couples may experience.”

Doan also noted that the disconnect between straight respondents’ support for certain legal rights compared to marriage itself suggests that heterosexuals conceptualize marriage more as about intimacy than about legal rights and protections.

The post Many Americans Still Not Comfortable With Same-Sex Displays Of Affection, Study Finds appeared first on ThinkProgress.

mrmatthewconnor:

My new music video for “Midnight Blue” has arrived! It was directed by my dreamy husband, kennethfrank, and nylonguysmagazine premiered it yesterday here (and compared me to Michael Jackson? whoa). Hope y’all love it! Please share! Sending you spooky vibes on this brutally cold November day.

xoxo. m

i made a thing!

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