A team at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have created a set of foldable, 3D printed robots that are doped with magnetic particles that are precisely aligned during printing; when triggered by a control-magnet they engage in precise movements: grabbing, jumping, rolling, squeezing, etc.
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Court rules that Trump can’t block people on Twitter
A New York federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump can’t block people he doesn’t like on Twitter, because he uses Twitter to communicate his edicts and policies as President of the United States, and the US government can’t exclude communications based on viewpoint, as this violates the First Amendment.
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John Boehner pledged eternal support for imprisoning marijuana users, now he’s in the legal weed business
When John Boehner was Speaker of the House, he described himself as “unalterably opposed” to marijuana legalization, a posture that contributed to the criminalization, imprisonment and ruination of millions of Americans.
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United moves on to literally killing puppies
United Airlines has repeatedly attained viral fame for its mistreatment of its passengers and their belongings, and has even dabbled in pet murder, but now the airline has crossed another item off its worst-airline bucket-list, murdering a passenger’s puppy by insisting that a dog-carrier be stored in an overhead locker during a 3.5 hour flight, despite having received a $125 cabin pet fee and despite the carrier fitting comfortably under the seat.
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The Necronomicon pop-up book
Skinner, a “psychedelic nightmare painter,” created a pop-up edition of HP Lovecraft’s Necronomicon, available in a $50 Earth-Dweller edition and a $200 Elder God edition (with embossed foil casewrap, around a custom, laser-engraved acrylic slipcase and an art-print).
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HOAX Olive Garden “response” to satirical tweet congratulating Olive Garden for no longer selling AR-15s was itself satirical (updated)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory releases 62 declassified videos of nuclear weapons tests
It’s eschatology in motion: 62 tests carried out between 1945 and 1962, of detonations filmed from up to 50 angles. A total of 210 tests were carried out and this tranche is a good slice of them.
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UPDATED French toll road operator wants fire-engines to pay to reach blazes
Update: The news-source has retracted this report after Vinci corrected them: the company is switching to an electronic payment system but affirms that it will continue to comp the fire department.
Vinci operates a network of private highways in France; according to the chairman of the Department of Fire and Rescue of the Var (SDIS 83), the company has rescinded the toll-free status of fire-engines en route to emergencies and will henceforth have to pay when they are risking their lives to prevent fires.
Norwegian Islamophobes mistake bus-seat-covers for burkhas, go bonkers
Members of the Norwegian Facebook group “Fedrelandet viktigst” (“Fatherland first”) mistook a photo of an empty bus whose seats had been draped with black covers for a bus full of women in burkhas and went Brevik-bananas, decrying the rampant Islamification of Norway and generally being easily frightened, fragile Aryans.
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What colors do you get when you spell words in hex?
The hexidecimal color #C0FFEE (192 Red, 255 Green, 238 Blue, on a scale of 0-255) is a pleasing greenish color, while #BEADED is a kind of mauve.
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