How to: make up swears Boing Boing

Jan 302019
 

The power of fuckbonnet, shitsquib, fuckstumbling, douchenozzle, Fuckface von Clownstick, shitwhistle, cockbucket, can be captured through a simple formula: the “pyrrhic foot” of a “familiar profanity compounded with a non-profane word of two unaccented syllables.” The formula is especially good for coming up with nongendered swears that are not slurs, which is useful if you’re trying to insult an individual, rather than give offense to a whole demographic category, gender, or nationality. The best of…

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Salvador Dalí reborn as a deepfake at his museum Boing Boing

Jan 302019
 

The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has reanimated Salvador Dalí as a deepfake video experience. The “Dalí Lives” video installation opens in April on screens throughout the galleries. As Dali once said, “[I] believe in general death but in the death of Dalí absolutely not. [I] believe in my death becoming almost impossible.” From a press release: The Museum began this immersive project by collecting and sharing hundreds of interviews, quotes, and existing archival…

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GNU Guile: GNU Guile at FOSDEM What’s New at GNU

Jan 302019
 

GNU Guile will be present this year again at FOSDEM, which is just a few days away. The Guiler’s lair this time (in addition to the Guix Days right before FOSDEM for some of us!) will be the minimalist languages track. Among the great talks this Saturday, don’t miss:Andy Wingo on the upcoming Guile 3, featuring just-in-time compilation—we had a sneak preview with the release of 2.9.1 a couple of months ago!Christopher Lemmer Webber, who is well…

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GNU Guile at FOSDEM What’s New at GNU

Jan 302019
 

GNU Guile will be present this year again at FOSDEM, which is just a few days away. The Guiler’s lair this time (in addition to the Guix Days right before FOSDEM for some of us!) will be the minimalist languages track. Among the great talks this Saturday, don’t miss:Andy Wingo on the upcoming Guile 3, featuring just-in-time compilation—we had a sneak preview with the release of 2.9.1 a couple of months ago!Christopher Lemmer Webber, who is well…

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Trump Says 58,000 Texans Voted Illegally. Here’s What Actually Happened. American Civil Liberties Union

Jan 302019
 

Voter fraud is extremely rare. States using unreliable data to justify purges of eligible voters, unfortunately, is not. The president of the United States is once again spreading unsubstantiated claims about rampant voter fraud and undermining faith in the integrity of our democracy. This time, he’s claiming that 95,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in Texas and more than half have actually voted. These numbers, he concluded, are “just the tip of the iceberg.” Unsurprisingly,…

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Two Democratic Party-Associated Groups Threaten Howard Schultz if He Runs as an Independent Ballot Access News

Jan 302019
 

American Bridge and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee recently declared publicly that they will do everything they can to injure Howard Schultz if he runs for president in 2020 as an independent. See this story. Also, on January 28, Andrew Tanenbaum, who founded the web page electoral-vote.com, wrote “Democrats are not powerless to stop Schultz if they really want to. They have a trifecta in 14 states, including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, New…

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