— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) August 17, 2019
The Wikipedia entry starts:
Al-Qaeda, translation: "The Base", "The Foundation" or "The Database"
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Time is a flat circle, Al-Qaeda edition
The Wikipedia entry starts:
Ten funny tweets
I just want everyone to know that Ikea made their crappiest college dorm room sleeper sofa in a size for dogs 😂 pic.twitter.com/WE7p5pxHt4— Chelsea Mae (@misschelseamae) August 15, 2019
has this tweet been done yet pic.twitter.com/16KmPwvv0p— 💥 (@classicbucky) August 15, 2019
Sometimes if I can see Andrew walking Larry I do my whistle and he gets so excited to come home.. pic.twitter.com/rSsQPYAVfQ— notgavin (@notgavin) August 15, 2019
You know you’re in Montana when your gym offers: pic.twitter.com/vCOHtFniLo— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) August 15, 2019
how far away are we from "Ruth Ginsburg refuses to debate me!" taking off on the right— Max (@aoxamaxoa) August 15, 2019
Theory: Because lots of nerds *think* they like science fiction for the interesting technology and predictions, but *actually* they come back for great characters, you could get them to read any Jane Austen novel by starting with "On Mars..." then changing nothing.— Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner) August 15, 2019
"Mini Cooper size hog spotted roaming Alabama neighbourhood." pic.twitter.com/9yl8OGKspN— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) August 15, 2019
[when my crystal pendant starts glowing eerily] hold on, i’d better take this— Mave (@MavenofHonor) February 6, 2019
[getting married]— rocket (@tweetsbyrocket) August 15, 2019
priest: does anyone object to this union
my boss: [standing up] wait...no one said anything about a union
— Graham @ Reamelish (@Reamelish) August 15, 2019
a Genius pic.twitter.com/RJT7MnbX33— amileah (@amileahsutliff) August 3, 2019
*More funny posts.
Super 7 toys based on the Conan movie and WWE x Masters of the Universe
— Pixel Dan (@PixelDan) August 17, 2019
Masters of the WWE U iversen Macho Man-At-Arms and Rey Mysterio Stratos are on display! @ThePowerCon @matell pic.twitter.com/Ta0prKyCnk— Pixel Dan (@PixelDan) August 17, 2019
Really digging the box art for the Masters of the #WWE Universe line! @ThePowerCon @mattel pic.twitter.com/SXYGjNPrpj— Pixel Dan (@PixelDan) August 17, 2019
Here they are! The @super7store #TMNT Ultimates!— Pixel Dan (@PixelDan) August 17, 2019
More information coming soon! Stay tuned for my interview! @ThePowerCon pic.twitter.com/ueazAiuqCA
Related:
Stop by the Four Horsemen booth (711 & 712) at #PowerCon! They'll be bringing #MOTU & #MythicLegions figures & prototypes to show, & will have items for sale, including #PowerCon2019 exclusives, Kronnaw & Purrrplor! Aug 17 & 18 - Anaheim, CA #2019PowerCon https://t.co/mMOJg5D0tP pic.twitter.com/IpITcb6peB— Power-Con (@ThePowerCon) August 15, 2019
"TikTok is the new frontier of social media advertising"
Now at more than 4 million fans, Bailey said she posts a sponsored video about once a week. She didn't want to get into specifics about the brands she's worked with, but said she's often paid by a music label to use a particular song.And speaking of influencers:
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It's not just the initial sponsored post that makes TikTok so attractive — it's the viral factor. A truly successful campaign happens when other users start using the promoted audio, turning a sponsored post into an organic-looking trend.
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"People more and more, especially on Instagram — they can’t stand anymore someone posting something in their feeds like, 'Hey guys, I tried this product,'" said Alessandro Bogliari, the CEO and cofounder of Influencer Marketing Factory. The agency is one a handful that have focused on TikTok.
One of its successes was with the song "100 Bad Stories" by AJR in a campaign paid for by Sony. They had two influencers use the song in videos, which were tied in with a challenge.
OK someone on Reddit made this not me...— Stephanie McNeal (@stephemcneal) August 17, 2019
Influencer Meg Skalla had 2 engagements in one year & 2 different dudes who look VERY ALIKE.
Can you tell the difference??? pic.twitter.com/JWOAVcSmJL
Old school-style influencing:
The former head of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning is facing a $281,250 ethics fine, the largest financial penalty ever sought by the city’s Ethics Commission for a current or former city employee.
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left his government job in January 2016 after spending more than five years running the department, which reviews real estate development projects across the city. Within a few months, he was lobbying planning department officials on behalf of the clients he had picked up while operating his new land-use consulting business
Venom tiki mug by Mondo (art roundup)
//Bleakwalker Paladin//— Qistina Khalidah (@Qissus) July 31, 2019
I started playing Pillars of Eternity again and I found out I could play as an aggressive paladin.
Like yo, sign me up man!!#art #illustration #pillarsofeternity @Obsidian pic.twitter.com/TEKLVWiBOC
I can finally announce that I'm designing the covers for The Magicians comic ! :D https://t.co/mrkMijRA7x— Qistina Khalidah (@Qissus) August 15, 2019
Yatai Banki (Savage Sky Barbaric Machine Beast), plus concept art for this child-catching character from Japanese show, ENGINE SENTAI GO-ONGER. pic.twitter.com/KjWkakAUQZ— Tales from Weirdland (@WeirdlandTales) August 16, 2019
Something butt-like about the graphic on the Space Force hat. https://t.co/me2zxw3ypw— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) August 16, 2019
Takapo, a sentient runway, is the mascot of Takamatsu Airport in Japan. pic.twitter.com/AMfu3ssKkr— Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots) August 16, 2019
I regret to inform you that I clapped like a seal at basically every page of Punisher Kill Krew pic.twitter.com/W08be32tLW— WeedLordVegeta (@ansem_ebooks) August 14, 2019
#Silversurferblack のヴァリアントカバー描きました！9月12日に発売します！ pic.twitter.com/HDyrk8eWSa— peach MoMoKo @ ブリスター8月31日 (@peachmomoko60) August 15, 2019
Stumbled across some lovely 1970s World Team Tennis logos pic.twitter.com/8eto7rOMtv— Seth Rosenthal (@seth_rosenthal) August 14, 2019
— Quixotic Comics (@QuixoticComics) August 13, 2019
*Buy Space Force goods at ebay.
"Zootopia 2: 2 Topia" and other funny D23 predictions
D23 is next week so here I made this pic.twitter.com/lXUbYdngan— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) August 17, 2019
New Patrick O'Brian novel or thread about playing the video game Sea of Thieves?
Excerpts from the lengthy thread:
I'm playing alone on a small sloop and scouring this shipwreck for this special chest, and another sloop starts heading toward me. I know exactly what this means. We all know what this means.— Liz England (@lizardengland) August 17, 2019
And they keep a bit of a wider circle around the volcano and it's not really working, and embers are raining down on me and I know I am going to get hit soon.— Liz England (@lizardengland) August 17, 2019
So I do the next best thing: I drive into the radius of a second volcano. Two volcanoes for the price of one.
A chest.— Liz England (@lizardengland) August 17, 2019
Not THE chest.
Wargaming miniatures roundup
Knight of Sanguinius 2nd chapter space marine in beginning stages of corruption, a personal #WH40k artwork, made with @ArtRage. Hope you like it and want to see more! #Warhammer40k #Warmongers— Zhillustrator (@zhille) August 9, 2019
Coming to https://t.co/GiupUkskos soon, all pledges are appreciated! pic.twitter.com/gvLjw5uixh
Who made these, because I have a mighty need, especially for the Corvid one! pic.twitter.com/D3nkSg5XCt— Robbie MacNiven (@RobbieMacNiven) August 5, 2019
How I sculpt a hand in polymer clay 🖐 pic.twitter.com/Wrz675Hujk— Simon Lee (@SpiderzeroSimon) August 9, 2019
*See more miniatures.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Hong Kong protest posters featuring dogs in gas masks
More surreal-looking posters for the "please don't tear-gas our pets" rally this Saturday. https://t.co/jJNLpMjF8V pic.twitter.com/BBF93MdEme— Mary Hui (@maryhui) August 15, 2019
A couple more... pic.twitter.com/vqI0WkXYkJ— Alex Hofford (@alexhofford) August 15, 2019
*Previously: Protest lasers, protest dog.
"20 years ago today, the first website for a band debuted in cyberspace"
Robin Sloan Bechtel at Medium:
I wanted to try some more experiments, as there was a blank canvas to innovate. Two online services, Prodigy and CompuServe, were quickly becoming popular and so were screensavers. We created one for the Beastie Boys and uploaded it into the software and gaming forums to see what would happen. We also put the screensavers on floppy disks with a whopping 1.5 meg of disk space, not even room for a single song.
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Since I had real job responsibilities during the day, I would spend my nights alone in the Capitol Tower, just trying to get that damn computer to dial up a modem, in hopes of being rewarded with that glorious sound of the modem connecting. Back then, we tech geeks called it “the handshake.”
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One day, I got a memo in “interoffice mail.” I was invited to be on a task force for the upcoming Megadeth album Youthanasia and I was to attend the first brainstorming meeting.
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So even though no one had a clue what I was talking about, I wrote a proposal to create a “virtual cybertown in cyberspace.” It would be called Megadeth, Arizona—based on where the band lived and recorded their album.
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Right before the site launched, I started to panic. Is this any good? Is the band going to hate it? Will heavy metal fans revolt?
But at the same time, we didn’t think any of that mattered, because we didn’t think anyone would even see it.
Then we went live.
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At the height of Megadeth, Arizona’s popularity, Capitol wanted to close down the site because the band’s album cycle was ending—still living in a world of limited promotional flights and expiring campaigns. Can you imagine shutting down a popular site today?
"The New York City Police Department . . . lost its ninth officer this year to suicide"
“This is crazy,” said Denise Jablonski-Kaye, a clinical psychologist and the assistant commanding officer of behavioral science services at the LAPD. “It really is.”
Since July 2017, there have been no reported suicides of officers at the LAPD, where the department has an entirely different way of handling mental health services.
Jablonski-Kaye believes the NYPD needs to immediately change its approach, noting that the LAPD has 16 full-time clinical psychologists who are embedded in its force — each has an assigned station that they visit most weeks, and participate in ride-alongs — and offer free counseling with no limit on sessions.
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In Los Angeles, 350 officers are trained in peer support, with Jablonski-Kaye noting that’s how most officers — there are 10,000 in the department — first access the clinical psychologist services.
At the LAPD, unlike most police departments, including the NYPD, the staff psychologists who conduct debriefing sessions with officers after traumatic incidents or hold private counseling sessions are not the same people who oversee fitness-for-duty examinations under the health department.
Deluxe Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure dolls
With lots of accessories. (Now, make an add-on with Alex Winters's Lost Boys jacket...)
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