World News
The largest dark web child pornography site in the world has been taken down after IRS followed Bitcoin transactions
Quebec to offer legal cannabis at $4.49 a gram, beating grey-market price
HK protesters demand CCTV footage from Tiu Keng Leng school following death of 15-year-old student: Chan, a swimmer and a regular participant in the ongoing protests was last seen on Sept 19. Her body was found naked in the sea three days later.
All news, US and international.
US Hearthstone players banned for Hong Kong protest
A Lakers Fan Raised Almost $43k to Hand Out "Stand with Hong Kong" T-Shirts at the Season Opener
Elijah Cummings, esteemed longtime Baltimore congressman, has died at 68
Science
From 2007 to 2017, the number of suicides among people ages 10 to 24 increased 56 percent
The “kids these days effect”, people’s tendency to believe “kids these days” are deficient relative to those of previous generations, has been happening for millennia, suggests a new study (n=3,458). When observing current children, we compare our biased memory to the present and a decline appears.
The largest-ever natural experiment on wealth taxes found that they work as intended — both raising revenue and controlling income inequality. The taxes had the greatest impact on the top .1% wealthiest.
/r/Technology
New Bill Promises an End to Our Privacy Nightmare, Jail Time to CEOs Who Lie: "Mark Zuckerberg won’t take Americans’ privacy seriously unless he feels personal consequences. Under my bill he’d face jail time for lying to the government," Sen. Ron Wyden said.
The Public Is Clearly on the Side of Net Neutrality
Marc Benioff says it's time to break up Facebook
Sadly, this is not the Onion.
8 families find out they have been paying respects to the wrong graves for 39 years
Paris zoo unveils the blob, an organism with no brain but 720 sexes
Mum of 44 kids banned from having any more children
Ask Reddit...
What is something most people need to hear but no one has the guts to tell people?
What would be the worst possible movie quote to yell as you climax?
Successful people who got crappy grades in high school or college - what are you doing now and how did (or didn't) your grades affect your success/career?
Sysadmin
Run from Adobe Creative Cloud
Rant: Make the password "1234"
Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database
Microsoft SQL Server
Favorite resources to learn SSRS and SSIS?
PowerShell
'DarkMode' in Azure Network Topology Visualizer
Best way to start learning Powershell?
PSUrlScanio - Powershell module for using the urlscan.io API. (v1.0 release)
Functional 3D Printing
A simple cover for our laundry room connections, pun added by the missus
Needed a new dog treat lid. Flexible print.
Drilling guide to find the middle of the wood and make a nice vertical hole :)
Data Is Beautiful
[OC] Top 5 accidental causes of death in Chicago, IL
Color-Balancing Vote Margins and Vote Totals in the US Election Map [OC]
[OC] Highly rated horror movies are less likely to have many jump scares
Today I Learned (TIL)
TIL that after years of competition between Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz Pizza, Chuck E Cheese went bankrupt and was bought by Showbiz Pizza, who then proceeded to rebrand their locations as Chuck E Cheese.
TIL 5-10% of Melanesians (a dark-skinned Pacific Island people) have blonde hair. This is not due to mixture with European populations, but rather due to an independently arising mutation.
TIL that according to Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game Risk, especially while on LSD.
So many books, so little time
Anyone else re-read old favourites for stress relief?
Almost finished reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to my son for the first time!
Dracula
OldSchoolCool: History's cool kids, looking fantastic
The note my dad wrote to my mom on the back of his high school portrait when they were seniors. They ended up going to prom together and have now been married for 29 years :)
After the assassination of senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, a lot of Americans went to see his funeral car as it traveled by rail from New York to Washington. A photographer who traveled with the casket took this photo as the train passed through Baltimore.
Kid with Power Glove circa 1989
aviation
Aww, now he can fly with the-
Last flight to land in Jazan airport, saudi arabia before the airport close down due to massive sandstorm.
Layers upon layers
Reddit Pics
Though it has been around since the 1950s, the rockabilly culture is still going strong in Japan!
10 year old kid standing tall after being arrested in Hong Kong for shouting “revolution of our time, glory to Hong Kong”
A shirt I gifted my sister in 2013
.gifs - funny, animated gifs for your viewing pleasure
The true heros of the sea
Where did the human go?
A breathtaking view of Switzerland from this hotel's pool
A subreddit for cute and cuddly pictures
Golden boy gets distracted by another handsome golden boy.
Bobcat after a boy saved him from a fire (not my clip btw)
Does this mean we are Best Friends Now?
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