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Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? - Slashdot

"Despite probing and trolling, a Russian cyberattack is the dog that did not bark in Tuesday's midterm elections," writes national security columnist Eli Lake. This is the assessment of the Department of Homeland Security, which says there were no signs of a coordinated campaign to disrupt U.S. voti...
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The Great Klondike Gold Rush Part 1

68 miners arrived at the docks of Seattle on board the steamship Portland in 1897, and their cargo was one ton of gold. It didn't take long for word to sprea...

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Deflation, explained

Deflation: also known as falling prices. Falling prices may sound like a good thing - stuff gets cheaper. But fall too far, and they can cause a lot of pain,...

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Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe | Genevieve von Petzinger

Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing system...

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Lowkey #Video #History
100 years since WW1: Honour the dead. Protect the living
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Today marks 100 years since the end of #WW1. Lowkey honours the dead with a call to protect the living

According to the Chinese government, however, Shen Yun is the singing, dancing face of Falun Gong – which the government describes as a malevolent “anti-society cult” :awesome:

Cream - Politician :anonymous:

"Hey now baby, get into my big black car. 
Hey now baby, get into my big black car. 
I just want to show you what my politics are."

Ain't nuffin changed!?? :FeelsLifeMan:

the sixth track from Cream's 1968 album Wheels Of Fire

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A Bot Transforms a Pseudorandom Number into a Parodic Art Blog Headline 

A Sao Tomean Tribesman Uses Eleven Hundred Acres of Testosterone to Transform a Building Facade

A Bot Transforms a Pseudorandom Number into a Parodic Art Blog Headline 

Five Hundred Dieselpunk Cartoons in a Curséd Fishpaste Midden by Shahaf Senghor

A Bot Transforms a Pseudorandom Number into a Parodic Art Blog Headline 

Twelve Thousand Grimdark Watercolours in a Disused Skyscraper by Abel Vũ

RT @martijn_grooten@twitter.com: A vulnerability in the GDPR Compliance WordPress plugin being actively exploited has the nice side-effect that GDPR compliance isn't your biggest concern anymore wordfence.com/blog/2018/11/tre
PS if you run this plugin do patch, like, now.

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To judge by the nomadic second half of Welles’ career, which he spent mostly in Europe and in which he made many literary adaptations on a low budget, it’s reasonable to posit that Hearst’s campaign against Welles had some success. Little of that is in the file, however. To read the file is to be transported back...
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Once you get used to the bureaucratic throat-clearing, it makes for very diverting reading. It’s not stated in so many words, but Welles seems to have become a subject of FBI interest after Citizen Kane was made. William Randolph Hearst, thinly disguised subject of the movie, was friendly with J. Edgar Hoover. As is well known, Hearst mobilized his vast network of newspapers against Welles after the movie was released - 2/3

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