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[pete]

IN THE 85 YEARS that humankind has known of Pluto’s existence, the dwarf planet has yet to complete a single revolution around the sun. So far is it from the sun and from Earth that even the most powerful telescopes see it as a blurry disk. Decades of calculating—and speculating—by astronomers have created only a sketchy portrait of the icy rock.

That all changes on Tuesday morning.

New Horizons' Long, Dark, Amazing Journey to Pluto...And Beyond | WIRED

 

[pete]

Welsh government uses Klingon to respond to serious UFO questions | Ars Technica

 

[east hastings]

21 People Who 100% Did Not Meet A Celebrity

 

[nooleen]

Man creates Donald Trump butt plug after offensive comments about Mexican immigrants | Metro News

‘I usually make Butt plugs to insult dictators, homophobes and politicians. However, when I heard [von Clownstick’s] remarks about Mexicans and Latinos from South America I was extremely angry.

 

[pete]

A programming language based on the one liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger


More on Github

hello.arnoldc
IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

ArnoldC

 

[east hastings]

looks like it would be a bit of fun

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[pete]

Commodore Is Back, Baby, With a … Smartphone? | WIRED

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

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[pete]

 

[nooleen]

looks like gawker have fucked themselves bigshtyle

Interview With The Gay Porn Star Behind That Gawker Article | The Daily Caller

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

looks like gawker have fucked themselves bigshtyle

Interview With The Gay Porn Star Behind That Gawker Article | The Daily Caller

It's been a mad few days over there.

Been crazy to watch the thing play out. Incredibly out of touch.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

It's amazing how these large but ultimately niche online communities like Gawker and Reddit treat their little worlds like they're real news. 7NT is the only person I know of either online or in real life who mentions gawker, is it a big thing in the US or is it like Twitter in that people on it think that it's more interesting and important than it really is?

 

[nooleen]

it's like a scaled-up thumped

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

is it a big thing in the US or is it like Twitter in that people on it think that it's more interesting and important than it really is?

I guess it's a pretty big thing, hard to gauge. Most people tuned into media/culture in any way here know what it is.
It's a big collection of sites - Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Lifehacker, i09, Gizmodo and loads more. All pretty engaging with generally sharp writers.
I don't know that I have a good metric for how interesting or important something 'really is'. It's not the NY Times.
It has topics I like most days and generally top notch comment sections. Some major league smart arses on there. And super smart fuckers too.

It's what Journal.ie is modeled on.

I think Twitter is probably pretty important, like don't governments and all sorts of big deals use it as a platform for public relations? They announced the Greek deal over Twitter during the week.
Like POTUS isn't on Gawker, but he's sure as heck on Twitter.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Sorry, I'm not saying that Twitter is not important (it is a game changer and has far more reach than any news site) but more the thing of taking Twitter spats and outbursts as being newsworthy or remotely interesting. I've disengaged from Twitter purely because it comes off more and more as a hype platform with my feed dominated by paragraph long think pieces about why the gender politics of subsaharan bee populations is important in this season of meet the lardashians* on Mars. Too much going on for me to sift through into finding anything worthwhile. My impression of gawker was always that it was like Heat magazine but updated every few minutes. I can't imagine ever having enough spare time to have run out of other stuff to read on the internet. I mean I haven't even gotten halfway through Wikipedia yet!

*typo deliberately left in because it's funny.

 

[pete]

The Biggest Facebook Publishers Of June 2015 | The Whip

 

[pete]

This is straight up sorcery

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[dudley]

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Fuuuuuuuuuck!

 

[pete]

This is straight up sorcery

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this is still really bothering me. how the fuck...