Monday, July 2, 2018

"Rescue teams have found all 12 boys and their soccer coach alive in a cave in Thailand nine days after the group went missing"

CNN:
The boys, who range in ages from 11 to 16 years old and are all members of the Wild Boar soccer team, entered the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system on Saturday, June 23, for a team outing, but became stranded in the dark tunnels by a sudden and continuous downpour.

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"Now they've got to try and figure out how to get these 13 very weak footballers out of the caves and that is going to be an enormous task," Newton said. "They've got some medical doctors who are also divers, who are ready to get into the caves. They clearly want to stabilize the boys before they try and bring them out.
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"For at least two decades now, thieves have been stealing houses with regularity in Philadelphia"

Phi:
Given the city’s vast store of vacant homes – properties abandoned by owners as relatives die or mortgage bills and taxes accrue – and its ever-shifting number of gentrifying neighborhoods, grifters know they can often make a killing by stealing a house and then quickly reselling it for a profit to an unsuspecting buyer.

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Periodically, law enforcement cracks down.

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In 2009, city prosecutors broke up a 15-member ring, including three notaries, who had stolen and resold more than 80 houses in Kensington.
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"Prey: Mooncrash’s dystopic nightmare hits a little too close to home"

AT:
Mooncrash’s new take on this “fantasy” hit all to close to home for me, in the way that Prey’s boring, featureless aliens never really did. A certain unease still settles over me between every “virtual reality” run. It’s the same unease more and more workers feel every day as parts of the world slip further into the gig economy and unregulated spec work.

Breaking from the cycle of corporate exploitation isn’t as easy as prepping an escape pod. There’s always another gig to take you away from the things you love—assuming you want to eat.

Mooncrash isn’t even subtle about the connection between cyclical themes and repetitive gameplay. One of the only readable books in your isolated space pod is a copy of The New Pharaohs. It’s a fictional text from Prey proper that details just how bad work conditions have become in this mirror world.

Occasionally, as you fight for your survival in this corporate dystopia, the corporation that hired you will send photos of your family. The “reward” inherent in such images drips with preemptive malice. It’s there to remind your character what they’re working for—and by extension, what they’ve already been denied access to by an abusive contract.
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Brawl during the Australia-Philippines basketball game







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Sunday, July 1, 2018

Impressive toy photography; Augmented reality chemistry flash cards; Columbo poster









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