“La Cucaracha” a Spanish-language announcer deadpans as the gruesome insect casually propelled itself along what appears to be a beam next to the artificial playing surface in Tokyo.

A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves.

In his teens, Bragg was saved by books. He’s now spent more than fifty years championing the joy, value, and fascination of knowledge.

“Our guidance in May said that fully vaccinated people could take off their masks safely, and that unvaccinated people should continue to wear them. Unfortunately, that’s not how it played out,” Walensky said in a phone interview with McClatchy. “Unvaccinated people took off their masks as well. And that’s what led us to where we are today.”

New Zealand has introduced legislation to ban conversion therapy, insisting the horrific practice has “no place in modern New Zealand”. The bill, likely to pass under the country’s Labour majority, would make attempts to change a person’s gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation punishable with up to five years in prison. Anyone who subjects a minor or a person who has impaired decision-making to the debunked practice would face three years behind bars, while conversion therapy that causes “serious harm”, regardless of age, would be punished with five years. While introducing the legislation on Friday (30 July), New Zealand’s minister of justice Kris Faafoi said: “Those who have experienced conversion practices talk about ongoing mental health distress, depression, shame and stigma, and even suicidal thoughts. “Conversion practices have no place in modern New Zealand. “They are based on the false belief that any person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression is broken and in need of fixing.” “Health professionals, religious leaders and human rights advocates here and overseas have spoken out against these practices as harmful and having the potential to perpetuate prejudice, discrimination and abuse towards members of rainbow communities,” he added. Although New Zealand is set to leap ahead of many countries where conversion therapy is still legal, including the UK, activists have expressed concern over some of the wording in the bill. Shaneel Lal, an anti-conversion therapy activist and survivor of the practice, told The Guardian that the term “serious harm” was problematic. They said it “implies that it is OK to cause harm, if it is not serious harm”, and questioned how survivors would prove that the harm they had experienced should be considered “serious”.

A former darling of Occupy Wall Street, Tim Pool has racked up more than a billion views and millions in earnings while dangerously whitewashing the far right.

YouTube has confirmed it has banned Sky News Australia from uploading videos or streaming onto its platform for 7 days. In a statement provided to 6 News Australia, who broke the story, the media giant says it does not allow content that denies the existence of COVID-19: “We have clear and established COVID-19 medical misinformation policies based on local and global health authority guidance, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm. We apply our policies equally for everyone regardless of uploader, and in accordance with these policies and our long-standing strikes system, removed videos from and issued a strike to Sky News Australia’s channel. Specifically, we don’t allow content that denies the existence of COVID-19 or that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus. We do allow for videos that have sufficient countervailing context, which the violative videos did not provide.”

ARNHEM, Netherlands (Zenger News) — A dark gray-brown Bean goose flying upside down was snapped by an amateur photographer near the Dutch town of Arnhem. The maneuver, called whiffling, is when geese roll their body upside down and twist their neck and head 180 degrees around to its normal position. This aerial acrobatic resembles a falling leaf and may be used to avoid avian predators or a long, slow descent over an area where hunters for sport or food are present.

People who once rejected the vaccine or simply waited too long are now grappling with the consequences, often in raw, public ways.

NORTH OGDEN, Utah (ABC4) – Aren’t hammocks supposed to be used for relaxing? Well, apparently not. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office took to social media after seeing an increase …

Former and current Google employees said that H.R. would respond to their workplace complaints by referring them to counseling programs instead of addressing the broader issues.

In a bombshell interview with NBC New York, Rudy Giuliani blasted the months-long federal probe accusing him of illegal Ukraine dealings as “lawless,” saying he’s “more than willing to go to jail” — but those who put him there will “suffer the consequences in heaven.”

Bee ecologist Dave Goulson imagines a world without creeping things. You’ve probably seen the newspaper headlines heralding an “insect apocalypse.” Some accounts are more measured than others, but the underlying studies are quite grim, especially for a bee ecologist like Dave Goulson: Three-quarters of an insect population in this area disappeared in half a century; two-thirds of that one over there; 90 percent of this species, which perhaps you might remember from your childhood but is almost impossible to find in the wild now. I first met Goulson while working on a story about the fate of bees and what is often called colony collapse disorder. It was both a very real thing — bee colonies kept dying off, largely because everything about industrial agriculture was so brutal and disruptive to them — and a sort of floating symbol of late-Obama-era environmental anxiety. “It just chimes with people — that these stories of bee declines are a symptom of something broader that’s wrong with the world,” Goulson told me in 2015. “They think, if we can save the bees, we can save the world.” His new book, Silent Earth, strikes a decidedly less cheery note. Its title echoes the warning of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the seminal environmental treatise published in 1962. Amid chapters celebrating insects, analyzing the causes of their declines, and suggesting a kind of road map back to population stability, it includes a dark interlude sketching out what the world might look like if all the trends that have produced these population crashes are allowed to continue.

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed several Python packages this week aimed at stealing users' credit card numbers, Discord tokens, and granting arbitrary code execution capabilities to attackers. These malicious packages were downloaded over 30,000 times according to the researchers who caught them.

Some have been used in hospitals, despite not being properly tested. But the pandemic could help make medical AI better. "some AIs were found to be picking up on the text font that certain hospitals used to label the scans. As a result, fonts from hospitals with more serious caseloads became predictors of covid risk"

The founder of the much-hyped electric truck manufacturer Nikola Corp. NKLA, -1.33% has been charged with lying to investors about the supposed technological breakthroughs the company had achieved in order to drive up its stock price, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Trevor Milton, 39, is accused of claiming that his company had successfully manufactured working prototypes of electric trucks and pickup trucks that would turn the industry on its head, when he had, in fact, never built anything. “At the bottom, this a very simple case: Milton told lies to generate popular demand for his stock,” said Audrey Strauss,, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Milton resigned from Nikola in September as it emerged that the justice department had opened a probe into the startup and its founder over possible false claims. Milton has previously tweeted that he intended to defend himself against “false allegations.” Prosecutors said Milton was taken into custody Thursday in Manhattan and was later released on a $100 million bond. His attorney, Marc Mukasey, said in an email: “Trevor Milton is innocent. He’s been wrongfully accused after a faulty and incomplete investigation. He will be exonerated after trial.” In a statement, Nikola said that the indictment was against Milton and not the company, and noted that he had not been involved in the business since last year. “Nikola has cooperated with the government throughout the course of its inquiry. We remain committed to our previously announced milestones and timelines and are focused on delivering Nikola Tre battery-electric trucks later this year from the company’s manufacturing facilities,” the statement read. In the indictment, federal prosecutors said Milton had for years overinflated the technological developments the company had achieved, claiming it had built working prototypes of its Nikola One truck and Badger pickup truck out of parts the company had fully manufactured on its own. Prosecutors said that, in fact, the prototypes that had been unveiled didn’t function and were Frankenstein monsters cobbled together from parts from other vehicles. At public events, the vehicles were allegedly towed into position and were powered by plugs leading from hidden wall sockets. In one instance, in which the vehicle was filmed for a promotional film, tape was used to keep the doors of a truck prototype from opening, prosecutors said. To make it appear the truck was driving, it was towed to the top of a hill and then rolled down to the bottom, according to the indictment. Milton allegedly repeatedly said publicly that the prototypes were fully operational and overstated the number of pre-orders the company had received. Non-traditional IPO In June 2020, the company went public via a blank-check company, or a SPAC, called VectoIQ Acquisiton. A spokesperson for VectoIQ declined to comment. Prosecutors said because the company didn’t go public through a traditional IPO, Milton wasn’t bound by the traditional “quiet period” rulings following the listing, and was able to make outlandish public claims on social media about the company’s success in order to drive up the stock price by attracting retail investors. “Among the retail investors who ultimately invested in Nikola were investors who had no prior experience in the stock market and had begun trading during the COVID-19 pandemic to replace or supplement lost income or to occupy their time while in lockdown,” the indictment read. Prosecutors said in the initial period following Nikola starting to trade publicly, the value of Milton’s shares shot up by $7 billion. After it emerged the company was under investigation, shares tanked causing many retail investors to lose tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars, prosecutors said. In some cases, some investors lost substantial portions of their retirement savings, they said. The Securities and Exchange Commission is running a parallel civil complaint. “Having chosen to promote Nikola through social media, Milton was obligated under the securities laws to communicate completely, accurately and truthfully,” Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in a statement Thursday. “That obligation exists for all public company officials, even those whose companies have only recently entered the public markets through SPAC transactions.”

Police in Canada issued an apology Thursday afternoon for throwing the burnt body of a woman in a dumpster after mistaking her for a mannequin in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Firefighters responding to a small brush fire near a factory on Cabana Street on July 23 around 10 a.m. met with witnesses who said someone had lit a silicone mannequin on fire, Sherbrooke Police Chief Danny McConnell said during a press conference reported by the CBC. Police were called in for assistance and following a discussion between the two departments, McConnell said they decided to dispose of the suspected mannequin in the dumpster at the Sherbrooke police service. About four hours later, a man filed a missing person report for his partner, the news company reported.

Many museums and galleries in British Columbia bought and sold work by the artist, whose identity was a sham.

It’s the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person.

Former President Donald Trump has refused for years to voluntarily disclose his income tax returns. We’d like to see ol’ Donny Trump wriggle his way out of this jam, the Justice Department said.