It starts with a child parroting false comparisons to the flu. And then it keeps getting worse. This meme doesn't even really sum it up: A Significant Portion Of The American Public Has Gone Absolutely Bugf*ck [Evan Hurst / Wonkette]

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Wealthy democracies have a lower-than-ever opinion of the United States, according to a 13-nation survey by the Pew Research Center. The country's handling of the pandemic is partly responsible for the decline. Its president also figures into the poor rating. A majority of the 13,000 people surveyed said they trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin and [&]

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For a president who has told over 20,000 "false or misleading claims" while in office, as The Washington Post reported in July, finding a Trump truth is like finding a needle in an ocean made of hay. But super PAC MeidasTouch succeeded to do just that. "It just seems that the economy does better under [&]

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"There's an old saying about arguments: when you resort to ad hominem attacks, you've already lost." That's what Matt Tillotson wrote in his essay analyzing entrepreneur/gadfly James Altucher's blog post about the end of New York City and Jerry Seinfeld's weak, hypocritical rebuttal in the NY Times. From Tillotson: [Seinfeld wrote:] The last thing we [&]

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Honoring the longstanding Boing Boing tradition of enjoying vehicles not quite making it under a bridge: we present to you this train.

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Because Trump is an enemy of science. "Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now," tweeted the publication today. "The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you to vote for health, science and Joe Biden for President." Excerpt: The evidence and the science show [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/15/scientific-american-endorses-j.html

The Trump Make America Great Again Committee released this "Support our Troops" ad last week. Thing is, those jets dramatically flying over the troops are Russian MiG fighter jets. And the "soldiers" are Russian models. The image is a stock photo available at Shutterstock.com. From Politico: &The creator of the image, Arthur Zakirov, confirmed in [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/15/trump-ad-says-support-our-tr.html

Martin de Thurah blended sculpture, animation, and live action to amp up the dread in the video for Active Child's "Color Me." On the project's site, de Thurrah says, "I wanted to make something frightening, and I know it is very hard. To create a film in which someone was physically penetrated by their own [&]

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Despite USDA warnings, hundreds, maybe even thousands, of Americans planted those mystery "innocuous" Chinese seeds sent to addresses in all 50 states, according to Motherboard's Jason Koebler. Some even ate them. What he learned through reading internal documents obtained from state departments of agriculture and the USDA through the Freedom of Information Act is fascinating [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/13/hundreds-of-americans-planted.html

Are you an espresso person? A cold brew fan? Or are pour overs your thing? Or are you looking for some new avenues of Java exploration? With your favorite barista now sequestered behind a mask and trips to Starbucks a little more difficult to navigate, maybe it's time to invest in some new home coffee [&]

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Domo is a pink cat who has a lot of misadventures, each in a different animation style, like this 3D adventure where Domo sings. The series is part of Adult Swim smalls, which showcases short-form experimental animation. This one reminded me a lot of the classic comic Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, made into one [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/13/watch-the-trippy-domo-animatio.html

The latest edition of NPR's Tiny Desk Home Concerts features singer/songwriter/National Treasure Phoebe Bridgers, who found a pretty incredible way to elevate the artform — first with the delightfully tacky Green Screen rendition of the Oval Office, and then, at the end, when it all falls apart in a cathartic collapse. (Seriously, it's worth watching [&]

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The enveloping close harmonies of Jacob Collier's "He Won't Hold You" meld perfectly with animator Daniel Bruson's depictions of loss, moments both small and large. Jacob's band did a super-chill Tiny Desk (Home) Concert this summer if that struck you as a wonderful thing. Image: YouTube / Jacob Collier

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With dozens and dozens of services offering virtual private network (VPN) protection for PC and mobile users, an overwhelming majority of those providers are working under the same model. Their approach is simple: connect to our private network and let us protect you.  Despite all the similarities between all those companies, there are a few [&]

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Malinda Herman posts wonderful performances of popular songs with her trusty companion Jewjam by her side. Here's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." Sometime Jewjam perches a foot or two on the neck of the guitar, as in this cover of "Hey Jude": Other times, they put their heads on each others' shoulders, as in "Put Your Head on [&]

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Public speaking is a fate worse than death. Literally. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety around speaking to a crowd, otherwise known as glossophobia, impacts nearly three out of every four people. In fact, fear of public speaking is statistically more nerve-wracking than spiders, heights or even the fear of death itself. [&]

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Artists at Visual Suspect draw on the groundbreaking aesthetic of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi and Philip Glass's soundtrack for same in Circulatory Systems, described as "the major highways, the arteries and veins of our cities. " It's always worth checking in with the film Koyaanisqatsi, which now has a retro feel to the "modern" section. Here's [&]

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Mark Yohalem has worked both on his own projects and as an offsite senior or lead writer for BioWare, inXile Entertainment, TimeGate Studios, S2 Games, Nikitova Games, and Affinix Software.  As co-founder of Wormwood Studios with two friends (artist Victor Pflug and programmer James Spanos) in 2010, he developed Primordia, a classical point-and-click adventure game [&]

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So what's your biggest overall concern about that wad of credit cards and cash you've got stuffed into your pocket?  Are you worried that crooks will use radio-frequency identification (RFID) to read and swipe information stored on the chip attached to your card? Are you fretting about the bacteria and other viral matter that could [&]

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A teacher at Grand Mountain School in Colorado Springs called the police on a 12-year-old Black student after noticing—over a video call—that he was "waving" a toy gun—specifically, a Zombie Hunter Airsoft Pistol, according to The Washington Post. That student, Isaiah Elliott, received a five-day suspension, according to local news outlet KDVR. As noted in [&]

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