Surveillance expert Chris Gilliard reflects on 2020’s racial justice protests, the hypocrisy of tech companies’ commitments, and where we are one year later.

Unlike the typical Hollywood CGI depictions of asteroid impacts, where an extraterrestrial charcoal briquette gently smolders across the sky, in the Yucatan it would have been a pleasant day one second and the world was already over by the next. As the asteroid collided with the earth, in the sky above it where there should have been air, the rock had punched a hole of outer space vacuum in the atmosphere. As the heavens rushed in to close this hole, enormous volumes of earth were expelled into orbit and beyond — all within a second or two of impact.

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Over the past week, the American political scene has done the unthinkable: It actually paid attention to the forces shaping our housing markets. Apparently spurred by a viral tweet that caught the eye of hillbilly elegist and would-be senator from Ohio J.D. Vance, political conservatives and liberals alike have been gripped with anger about Blackrock, the world’s biggest asset manager, “buying every single family house they can find,” distorting prices, and locking out families. The topic trended on Twitter for the better part of a week, as liberals and conservatives and those in between bantered, mostly about how the development reinforced their prior thinking about housing markets. Vance decided that the left wouldn’t care about Blackrock’s antics because of its commitments to “‘racial audits’ and other diversity BS.” Tucker Carlson committed a segment to how Wall Street speculation was singularly responsible for creating a “serf class” of renters. The Onion jumped on the trend with a fake news item titled “Thrilled BlackRock Announces Purchase of 800,000th Dream Home.” Almost none of this is true, not even the spelling of BlackRock, which only The Onion got right by capitalizing the R. A segment of the single-family rental market is indeed controlled by institutional investors, but that started in earnest a decade ago, when homes went on sale in bulk during the foreclosure crisis. The time to care about what this might do to our housing markets was then, not ten years later, when corporate landlords have matured into an entrenched asset class. Nobody should be claiming that this is the sole, primary, or even major reason for soaring housing prices. But it is a serious problem unto itself for the renters unfortunate enough to have to live in these homes. And it’s an indictment of political, activist, economist, and media elites for failing to catch on to the trend until it was way too late.

Teigen has posted a lengthy apology, one month after old tweets resurfaced in which she encouraged Stodden to kill themself.

Ivory Hecker told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that she’s been terminated after claiming on-air that the station has “muzzled” her.

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Rumors started to circulate in April that Rob Zombie might be involved in a reboot of the classic TV series The Munsters. Now comes word from Rob himself that he will indeed be directing a film adaptation of the popular '60s sitcom. Zombie made the announcement via social media, stating, "Attention Boils and Ghouls! The rumors are true! My next film project will be the one I’ve been chasing for 20 years! THE MUNSTERS! Stay tuned for exciting details as things progress! #robzombie #themunsters #universalstudios." The Munsters influence has translated to Rob's musical career as his biggest solo song "Dragula" was named after the vehicle from The Munsters TV series. As tipped in Zombie's hashtags, the project will be housed at Universal Studios falling under their 1440 Entertainment home entertainment division. Given 1440's specialization in creating entertainment across non-theatrical platforms, it's likely the film will go straight to streaming services. The original series centered on a family of monsters relocated from Transylvania to an American suburb where fish-out-of-water type situations would often occur. The original series starred Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Beverley Owen (who was later replaced by Pat Priest) and Butch Patrick. The series debuted in 1964 and ran through 1966 with 70 episodes airing. Zombie has carved out a successful film directing career, primarily rooted in horror-based projects. On top of his trilogy - House of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects and 3 From Hell - he's taken on two adaptations of the Halloween films and directed The Lords of Salem and 31. Casting and release details were not revealed in the new announcement, but Zombie promised in his posting that more info would be forthcoming.

The Ring video obtained in a wrongful death lawsuit shows Myeni repeatedly apologizing to the occupants of a house he walked into.

Walter Riley hadn’t dreamed of becoming an activist. His initial goal wasn’t to battle segregation in the Jim Crow South. However, growing up in the 1950s as a Black man in Durham County, N.C., he found that to have self-respect and dignity, he had no choice but to fight. As a teenager, Riley entered the movement. He organized protests and picket lines, sat in at lunch counters, and held conversations with civil rights leaders like Malcolm X and Floyd McKissick. After moving to the Bay Area in 1965, Riley joined the 1968 student strike for ethnic studies at San Francisco State University and eventually settled in Oakland. There, he has worked as a civil rights attorney and activist, passing the culture of struggle on to his own family, including his son, filmmaker, rapper and organizer Boots Riley, and his grandson, Akil Riley, who co-led last year’s Black Lives Matter march from Oakland Technical High School.

Households are accruing debt as they try to navigate confusing applications and a patchwork of city, county, and state programs. Meanwhile, fear of eviction looms.

Pulling a pistol from his waistband, the young man spun his human shield toward police. “Don’t do it!” a pursuing officer pleaded. The young man complied, releasing the bystander and tossing the gun, which skittered across the city street and then into the hands of police.

In his drive to create the world’s most efficient company, Jeff Bezos discovered what he thought was another inefficiency worth eliminating: hourly employees who spent years working for the same company. Longtime employees expected to receive raises. They also became less enthusiastic about the work, Amazon’s data suggested. And they were a potential source of internal discontent.

We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.

An FBI agent admitted in an ongoing trial to falsely accusing a Chinese-born Tennessee professor of being a Chinese spy, using baseless information to have him placed on the federal no-fly list and spying on him and his son for two years, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The newspaper said FBI agent Kujtim Sadiku admitted last week to falsely accusing former University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor Anming Hu of being a spy. Sadiku also admitted to using the false information to pressure Hu to become a spy for the U.S., the Sentinel reported. No evidence was ever discovered that suggested Hu, an internationally recognized welding technology expert, is a spy.

The Biden administration is asking the US Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon terror bombings that killed three people and wounded hundreds more.

Claiming that their men prefer plumper buttocks, some women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have turned to the use of Maggi cube (a seasoning condiment) as suppositories or even enemas to enhance their buttocks. Afrik-news.com reveals a practice that has taken some to their graves.

ABA is a behaviour modification method for the 'treatment' of autism. Human dignity does not reside in speaking over non-speakers in defense of ABA.

The Little Assawoman Bay has never been dredged before. Boaters say they often get stuck. After a new survey, that could change.