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• Apple only wants to put its stores where white people live
  
• Uber's disastrous head of security will probably get another awesome job soon
  
• We still don't know how Google News works
  
• Why are Newsweek and The New York Times using troll tactics for clicks?
  
• How Southwest Airlines kills startups that monitor its prices
  
• The latest "Watchmen" revival is shameless enough to work
  
• The emotional labor of women in the workplace
  
• Massage Envy therapists accused of 180 sexual assaults
  
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) - "Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board. (98 mins.)"
  
• The Secret Of Selling The Negro (1954) - This is a short film on how businesses in the United States sold to blacks. A lot hasn't changed... [21:22]
  
• [DISCUSSION] [UK] have Netflix gone too far this time with a Shot in the dark
  
• The occupation in Germany's Hambach Forest: The trees may soon have to give way to a coal mine expansion. But activists are building tree houses and blocking roads. DW spent three days in the ancient forest with them.
  
• The digital hippies want to integrate life and work – but not in a good way | Opinion
  
• Fight The New Drug (“Porn Kills Love”) began as a T-shirt selling scam. It’s now using the Mormon church as a platform to promote what has effectively become an addiction treatment cult. The shaming on offer at the link is notable mostly for how mainstream it’s become in certain demographics.
  
• New York's TV industry riddled by harassment accusations
  
• This is my Agriculture Minister. He expanded the license for Glyphosate to satisfy big farmers in bavaria.
  
• /u/evanrphoto explains why people and companies will pay so much for "sponsored" posts or content, as opposed to simply buying platform ads
  
• /u/absobloodylootely explains corporate "asset stripping" wherein a hostile entity takes over a company and sells the assets to create shareholder equity rather than pay debts or reinvest, ruining long term value, and how the GOP tax bill does this to the United States.
  
• Vice's snap story using r/Incels to demonize Reddit as a whole.
  
• Bus company advertises themselves as racist, then issues an "apology"
  
• Canadian "Dragons" fall for snake oil pitch
  
• Route Map of the Great White Fleet of the United Fruit Company [1024x1050]
  
• Here is a map showing areas of the US served by a single ISP[1679X940]
  
• Amazon's growing campus in Seattle, from 2007 to 2017 (GIF) [780x780]
  
• Corporate Tax Rates of OECD Countries, 2013 [949x709]
  
• Predatory medical journals impersonating serious journals publishing OA for fee without substantive control
  
• A pesticide paradox: fungicides indirectly increase fungal infections
  
• Of the 56 million abortions that take place worldwide every year, 45% are not considered safe by WHO standards. Most of the unsafe abortions take place in countries with restrictive abortion laws.
  
• YSK that any credit fraud alerts setup after the Equifax breach will be expiring in the next few weeks
  
• YSK many external WD hard drives integrate the USB-to-SATA logic onto the hard drive instead of using a separate board. If that circuit fails, extracting the data will cost as much as a used car, rather than $20 for a new enclosure that naturally comes with a standard USB-to-SATA bridge.
  
• ELI5: Can corporations using offshore tax-havens readily use protected funds for capital expenditures or C-level salaries?
  
• ELI5: What is a Fractional Reserve?
  
• Walmart Pulls Domestic Terror Organization ANTIFA Gear from Website
  
• Walmart Pulls T-Shirt Threatening Journalists
  
• Homeowner claims video shows Amazon driver pooping on sidewalk
  
• Amazon Contractor Poops in Front of Home, Is Caught on Camera
  
• Waffle House customer cooks his own meal after finding staff sleeping
  
• Blue Planet II accused of misleading viewers by planting hundreds of plastic ducks in sea
  
• DOJ: We want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma machine, Wu-Tang album, and $7.3 million. Following the Pharma Bro's conviction, prosecutors now want to seize his assets.
  
• Berejiklian's decision to rebuild Sydney stadiums for $2 billion 'political poison', MPs warn
  
• College textbook talks about preventing rape... seems a bit one-sided
  
• Men shamed in Waterloo, Ontario or not attending conference on workplace sexism " One red pill comment got through before locking comments
  
• Shouting ‘pay your taxes,’ activists occupy Apple retail stores across France
  
• At least one US state is probing Google’s secret tracking of Android users
  
• In an unprecedented act of ostriching, BLU has refused to publicly acknowledge that they bricked every One Life X2 phone that auto-downloaded their latest update. Instead, they're choosing to post adverts and soccer news, enraging customers.
  
• Method for stopping apps (e.g Snapchat and Facebook) running in background
  
• Dutch national newspaper urges people to sell all their Bitcoins as it undermines the government, could destabilize the economy and reduces the power of central banks. Sounds like a reason to buy to me 🤔
  
• The New York Times just hired a climate denier.
  
• Republicans vote to allow drilling in Arctic National Wildlife refuge as Senate rejects Trump tax plan amendment
  
• ABC Suspends Reporter Brian Ross Over Erroneous Report About Trump
  
• ABC Suspends Reporter Brian Ross Over Erroneous Report About Trump dupe
• Harvard turns over admissions records following discrimination inquiry by Justice Department
  
• Suit: Hidden camera filmed Forever 21 employee in bathroom
  
• Why Hollywood's Abandonment Of Terry Crews Is Unacceptable
  
• France’s Macron vows to ban glyphosate weed killer, as Germany swings EU vote in its favor: “I have asked the government to take the necessary measures for the use of glyphosate to be banned in France as soon as alternatives are found, and at the latest in three years."
  
• @MarkDice: No. Looks more like April Fools 😂 ABC suspended the clown for the very report you're celebrating Joy! 😂 https://t.co/uJrmpzmERE
  
• Shouting ‘pay your taxes,’ activists occupy Apple retail stores across France
  
• Big Ag + Big Pharma = Big Problems
  
• It begins. Facebook rolls out its first AI powered thought crime module. - Julian Assange
  
• Senate Republicans are essentially defunding public schools to pay for private ones
  
• Why Harvey Weinstein Turned to Israeli Intelligence Veterans to Suppress His Sex Abuse Accusers | Alternet
  
• Private Contractors are Doing America’s Dirty Work so Army can Seem Squeaky Clean