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Politicians demanding the removal of videos of Kirk’s killing pushed tech companies to gut the very systems they now expect to protect them.

The post Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident appeared first on The Intercept.

“For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. That’s, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever, that you feel you can’t tough it out, you can’t do it. I guess there’s that. It’s a small number of cases, I think. But if you can’t tough it out, if you can’t do it, that’s what you’re going to have to do.” — Donald Trump

Common cold
Gently pinch the bridge of your nose, press on your upper lip, and avoid looking at the sun.

Low-grade fever
Eat a McFlurry in an ice bath full of bleach.

Back pain
We have two words for you: booty massage.

Cramps
Try not complaining. Men get cramps, too, you know.

Migraines
Botox. Despite it being a toxin, we aren’t worried about Botox, because according to science, it makes women hotter.

At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.

The post Who Wants to Join ICE? We Went to Utah to Find Out. appeared first on The Intercept.

We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas will find new lives. Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures. 

The post Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures.  appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

Should you never make promises you don’t intend to keep? What philosophers say about the ethics of breaking your word

- by Aeon Video

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In logic, validity is prime. If you want to make valid arguments, or sniff out invalid ones, here’s what you need to do

- by Robert Trueman

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Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?

The post Extraterrestrials are People, Too appeared first on Nautilus.

For all the noise they make about it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that free speech was something that the far-right championed unconditionally. But last week, that illusion fell apart, demonstrating that the movement’s definition of free speech comes with terms and conditions. Following his comments about the assassination of the right-wing political activist Charlie […]

Anti-racist protests that outnumber the racist March for Australia rallies can demoralise them and make the racists less confident to come back.

The post Fighting racism and the far right—how can we beat back March for Australia? first appeared on Solidarity Online.

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think we’ve made a lot of strides. I wish it was done a long time ago.

Today, we’re delighted to be joined by America’s top medical and public health professionals as we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism. Horrible, horrible crisis.

I want to thank the man who brought this issue to the forefront of American politics, along with me. And we actually met in my office, is it like twenty years ago, Bobby? It’s probably twenty years ago in New York. I was a developer, as you probably heard, and I always had very strong feelings about autism and how it happened and where it came from. And he and I—I don’t know, the word got out. And I wouldn’t say that people were very understanding of where we were, but it’s turning out that we understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it, we think. And I say we think because I don’t think they were really letting the public know what they knew.