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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Ivanov told the programme he had been asked “if I’d like to try a new life” and agreed, but quickly came to regret the decision. Unable to leave on his own without breaching his contract and paying a fine, he instead begged viewers to send him home and deliberately performed poorly in the hope of being voted off.
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His pleas went unanswered, however, and he was propelled through three months of competition and 10 episodes, plus supplemental digital content. A fanbase which had taken to his grumpy, anti-celebrity persona, or were perhaps driven by schadenfreude, urged each other to vote for him and “let him 996!” in reference to China’s digital industry culture of chronic overwork - 9am to 9pm, six days a week.
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Stumbled across this the other day and wasn't sure where it really fit, so I suppose this was the best place?

The story is about how a NYT journo scammed hundreds of music artists into paying him to create music for a fake shell company he made that would then be used to promote his book, all for the promise of a concert that may maybe happen at some point but there's no obligation for it to happen so it never will. It's kind of amazing how far journo scum will go to rip people off with their lies, and this story is probably something normies can wrap their heads around much more easily than trying to parse that everything they read in the news is fake.

 
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Animal services officer swims in river to rescue kitten from log

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An animal services officer in Texas swam out into a river in his full uniform to rescue a kitten spotted stranded on a floating log.

Seguin Animal Services posted a series of photos to Facebook showing Field Supervisor Brendon Moore swimming in the Guadalupe River and carrying the kitten back to shore.



Animal services said the kitten had been stranded on a log floating down river near a boat ramp.

The cat was taken back to Seguin Animal Services.

"There's no telling how long it was on the log," an animal services representative told KSAT-TV.

Animal services said the kitten will be put up for adoption if no owner comes forward to claim it.
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After LeBron James' son, there's another person who collapsed, singer Tori Kelly.

Two-time Grammy winner Tori Kelly was rushed in a serious condition to a hospital Sunday after collapsing, sources say.

The country singer was at dinner with friends yesterday in Los Angeles when she passed out after reporting her heart beating unusually rapidly, sources told TMZ.

The sources said the 30-year-old was “out for awhile” and was taken to Cedars-Sinai hospital by her own car rather than ambulance.

Kelly is reportedly being treated for blood clots after doctors discovered them around several of her vital organs.
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A VirusTotal employee "accidentally" uploaded and leaked a CSV file to the websites database which was viewable by all partners and corporate clients. This CSV leak has affected over 5600 businesses who have enterprise accounts with VT. The information leaked includes associated VT group names and names/email addresses of staff working under certain businesses. Some of these businesses are:

US Department of Justice
US Cyber Command
FBI
NSA
Government agencies in Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the UK.
Bundesbank
Deutsche Bahn
Allianz
BMW
Deutsche Telekom

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18-year-old Arizona firefighter accused of setting series of blazes out of ‘boredom’ and for homes being ‘ugly’​

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A teenage firefighter from northern Arizona was arrested last week in connection with a series of recent arson incidents, which the smoke eater allegedly sparked out of “boredom.”

Karson Nutter, 18, of Ash Fork, confessed to setting at least seven of the eight blazes that took place in Ash Fork and Coconino County starting on June 15, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office announced on Friday.

Nutter, a volunteer firefighter with the Ash Fork Fire Department, said he set the fires out of “boredom, retaliation against a former employer, [and] chasing a thrill,” police said.

Four of the arsons were structure fires, authorities stated. During his confession, Nutter also said that he targeted “some abandoned homes for being ‘ugly,’” according to police.

Two of the fires Nutter allegedly set in Ash Fork occurred at the local Mobil Station, while the additional blazes both went up at the county-owned cemetery.
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Yes, his name is actually Nutter, and yes, he looks like Murderface from Metalocacolypse:
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VOYAGER COMMAND GLITCH CAUSES UNPLANNED PAUSE IN COMMUNICATIONS
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Important safety tip: When you’re sending commands to the second-most-distant space probe ever launched, make really, really sure that what you send isn’t going to cause any problems.

According to NASA, that’s just what happened to Voyager 2 last week, when uplinked commands unexpectedly shifted the 46-year-old spacecraft’s orientation by just a couple of degrees. Of course, at a distance of nearly 20 billion kilometers, even fractions of a degree can make a huge difference, especially since the spacecraft’s high-gain antenna (HGA) is set up for very narrow beamwidths; 2.3° on the S-band channel, and a razor-thin 0.5° on the X-band side. That means that communications between the spacecraft and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex — the only station capable of talking to Voyager 2 now that it has dipped so far below the plane of the ecliptic — are on pause until the spacecraft is reoriented.

Luckily, NASA considered this as a possibility and built safety routines into Voyager‘s program that will hopefully get it back on track. The program uses the onboard star tracker to get a fix on the bright star Canopus, and from there figures out which way the spacecraft needs to move to get pointed back at Earth. The contingency program runs automatically several times a year, just in case something like this happens.

That’s the good news; the bad news is that the program won’t run again until October 15. While that’s really not that far away, mission controllers will no doubt find it an agonizingly long time to be incommunicado. And while NASA is outwardly confident that communications will be restored, there’s no way to be sure until we actually get to October and see what happens. Fingers crossed.

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/voyager-command-glitch-causes-unplanned-pause-in-communications/
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Space bros, there's a non-zero chance this is it and we've lost contact with Voyager 2. We'll have to see in October.
 
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With what governor Pritzker plan for Illinois, I just want to said WTF!?

In his latest effort to change the way the criminal justice system operates in Illinois, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed into law a measure that loosens restrictions on people who remain under state supervision after being released from prison.
The new law modifies the conditions required to complete the final steps of a sentence, also known as parole and mandatory supervised release, which have historically ranged from mandatory drug testing to the need for permission to leave the state.
The measure is part of a larger pattern of reforms championed by Pritzker and his progressive allies in the Illinois General Assembly that are meant to combat mass incarceration and make the justice process more fair. One of the most controversial of those changes, the elimination of cash bail, was upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court earlier this month.

Unlike many of those measures, however, the legislation Pritzker signed Friday garnered bipartisan support as it breezed through both chambers of the Democratic-controlled General Assembly this spring.
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Confidence in U.S. Military Lowest in Over Two Decades​


STORY HIGHLIGHTS​

  • Public confidence in the U.S. military continues to decline
  • Drops seen across party groups, but Republicans remain most confident
  • Independents least likely to express confidence this year
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans are now less likely to express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. military, with a noticeable decline that has persisted for the past five years. The latest numbers are from a June 1-22 Gallup poll that also captured record lows in public confidence in several public institutions.


At 60%, confidence in the military was last this low in 1997, and it hasn’t been lower since 1988, when 58% were confident. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s -- during the Cold War and amid threats to U.S. power, including the Iran hostage crisis -- between 50% and 58% of Americans were confident in the military. Confidence generally improved during Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s. It then surged after the Gulf War victory (to a record-high 85% in 1991) and again after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Confidence generally held above 70% for the next two decades, until dipping to 69% in 2021 and declining further since then, following the poorly executed exit from Afghanistan.

Republican Confidence in Military Slumps​

Throughout nearly all of the past 48 years, Republicans have been the most likely to express confidence in the military, and they remain so today -- but the rate has declined by over 20 percentage points in three years, from 91% to 68%.
Independents’ confidence has dropped nearly as much -- by 13 points, from 68% to 55% -- and now independents have less confidence than Democrats do. While Democrats’ confidence rating did rise after President Joe Biden assumed office, those gains have disappeared in the past year.


Bottom Line​

Public perceptions of the U.S. military have fluctuated dramatically over the past five decades. The aftermaths of the Gulf War and 9/11 were followed by resounding upticks in confidence in the military. The latter of these surges ushered in an era of elevated confidence lasting nearly two decades.
Now that the U.S. has completely withdrawn from both Iraq and Afghanistan, the two most significant military legacies of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., confidence in the military has continued to decline among the public. The declines this year were across all party identification groups, with Republicans remaining the most likely to express confidence and independents becoming the least likely.
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