After a summer of opulence and excess comes the lean time—the long, dark winter, when resources must be hoarded and stretched. No one knows this better than the fat bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.
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From September 29th to October 5th, Katmai National Park in Alaska conducts a competition to determine the fattest bear in the park, relying on voters like you to judge the fattest of the fat.
What originally began in 2014 as a one-day event (Fat Bear Tuesday) has since grown into a much-anticipated international event.
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“This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of our country,” says Trump, introducing and summarizing this montage of humiliations he lavishly presented to the world during his days as president. Set to circus music, MeidasTouch’s “America’s Biggest Loser” highlights just a fraction (there’s only so much time) of Trump’s embarrassing moments, from covfefe to his toilet paper shoe-tail to staring directly into the sun to world leaders laughing at him — and so much more. — Read the rest
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Nearly 1,300 have been confirmed dead as the Caribbean nation braces for a tropical depression.
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A TikToker pranks her two German shepherds by using pup-friendly words while on a fake phone call – last week’s TikTok trend – and their synchronized head tilts are both hilarious and show just how smart they are.
“Hello? Oh we’re just at home hanging out with Hazel and Motley,” the human says. — Read the rest
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The BBC has aired drone footage of the devastation in Zhengzhou, a city in central China that has experienced deadly floods this week. At least 33 people have died in Henan province, with 376,000 more displaced by the historic flooding over the past seven days.
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It must be a thrilling time, for what remains of the ‘60s counterculture: first tie-dye went mainstream, then psychedelics, and now the belief in UFOs. The videos lately leaked by the government purporting to show mysterious and possibly alien-linked aerial phenomena has incited maybe the most serious reckoning with…
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A tanker in Troy, Michigan carrying 14,000 gallons of fuel burst into flames after losing control, rolling over, and careening into a highway barrier on Monday. Miraculously, the 50-year-old driver escaped from the burning truck with only minor injuries, according to ClickOnDetroit. — Read the rest
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AirCar is a dual-mode car/aircraft moving towards production after meeting a key development milestone this week. That milestone was its first inter-city flight, where the aircraft flew for 35 minutes from the international Airport in Nitra to the international airport in Bratislava. The flight was conducted on June 28, 2021. The flight also represented the flying car’s 142nd successful landing … Continue reading
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Popular Twitch streamers Amouranth and Indiefoxx are the two latest casualties of Twitch’s ongoing battle to enforce its own confusing rules around sexually suggestive content.
Both creators were suspended following ASMR streams that pushed the bounds of Twitch’s community guidelines forbidding content that isn’t quite sexual in nature but is still too risqué for a platform deeply self-conscious about its advertising business. The Amazon-owned company declined to comment on the length of the bans or what provoked them, but pointed TechCrunch toward its rules on sexual content.
It’s possible that both Amouranth (Kaitlyn Siragusa) and Indiefoxx (Jenelle Dagres) will be reinstated Monday, 72 hours after their Friday ban, but both channels remained unavailable at the time of writing. Siragusa confirmed to Polygon that she was suspended after a stream in which she did yoga poses while making ear-licking sounds into a microphone.
The so-called “ASMR-meta” on Twitch, where streamers boost their views by whispering into their microphones or producing licking sounds, sometimes while holding yoga poses, follows the controversy around hot tubs on Twitch that exploded last month. In both instances, some Twitch creators believe that the platform’s rules are selectively enforced.
“With ASMR meta and crazy yoga poses, believe it or not I watched two other girls doing it to the tune of 2-5k views without any bans for months before I folded the activity into ASMR creating the infamous ‘ASMR’ meta,” Siragusa wrote on Twitter. “Those other streamers are still unbanned and continue to do it. My sin was taking inaction as a sign of tacit acceptance, and then blowing the top off the secret and hitting 30k viewers.”
Because both the ASMR meta and the hot tub meta were dominated by female streamers, the whole situation has attracted even more misogyny within the Twitch community, where female streamers are still regularly harassed off the platform.
I will always find it ENORMOUSLY IRONIC that the generation that fought “violent video games don’t cause an uptick in gun/violent crimes”(I agree), instantly turn tail & succumb to a bad take like “HOT TUB/ASMR GIRLS LITERALLY CREATE CREEPERS that plague other girl creators!”
— Kaitlyn (@wildkait) June 20, 2021
In a blog addressing the proliferation of women streaming from pools and hot tubs at the time, Twitch wrote that “being found to be sexy by others is not against our rules, and Twitch will not take enforcement action against women, or anyone on our service, for their perceived attractiveness.” The company clarified that while a bathing suit in a bedroom might break the rules, “contextually appropriate” swimwear is allowed.
Twitch also acknowledged the complexity of its own difficult to parse rules:
Our intention with the Sexually Suggestive policy was to draw a line on content that is overtly or explicitly sexually suggestive, not to ban all content that could be viewed as sexually suggestive – but we acknowledge that our rules are not as clear as they could be.
Prohibiting every form of content that could be interpreted as suggestive would also result in far more restrictions on the video games and premium content that we currently allow, especially considering the ways that female characters are sometimes objectified or presented in a sexualized manner.
Its solution at the time was to create a “Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches” category where that content could live. Most of Twitch’s categories are dedicated to specific games, with most of the platform’s nongaming streams listed in the popular catch-all category “Just Chatting.”
ASMR has its own category, with 2.4 million followers, encompassing ear-tingling ASMR streams that don’t push the boundaries of Twitch’s rules with the more recent crop of those that do. So far, instead of building out a more thoughtful way to corral sexually suggestive content, the company is opting to punish anybody who it decides crosses the line. But it’s possible that could all change: Last month, Twitch said it was working on new policies to further clarify the rules on sexually suggestive content.
Unfortunately for Twitch — and for the female creators disproportionately affected by its uneven policies — the abundance of ear-licking streams suggests that until then, the company will be making these same determinations over and over as it tries to draw a line within a gray area of its own making.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/21/twitch-asmr-meta-amouranth-indiefoxx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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We love the 11-foot-8 bridge. If you were to ask us what the best bridge in the world is, we’d tell you it’s 11-foot-8. We love it for its steadfastness, its loyalty to purpose, and its stalwart refusal to stand down to bullies. — Read the rest
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This driver was in too much of a hurry to enjoy the scenic beauty of the Arizona desert. They wove through traffic at a high rate of displacement, veered over the edge of the road, and ended up destroying their car. — Read the rest
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A cat jumped for its life from the 5th floor of this burning apartment building in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood Thursday afternoon. Watch the bouncing-on-grass cat, named Hennessy, not only survive the leap but walk this off like it’s his job. Fire officials say he appeared unharmed but immediately ran away. — Read the rest
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YouTuber and local superhero German in Venice offers an update on the beachside homeless encampment.
I live very close to where most of this was filmed. Every week the beach gets visibly more crowded with tents. The density of folks has sent crime soaring. — Read the rest
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Republican court jester and congressman Andrew Clyde (Q-GA), who described the January 6th Capitol rioters as “tourists,” was recognized on the The Late Show as the fool that he is. After showing the real-life clip of Clyde making his outrageous remarks, we’re treated to a parody ad for Clyde’s Capitol tour that is exciting for the whole family. — Read the rest
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A landslide triggered a tsunami in a Greenland fjord on June 18, 2017, scouring the nearby coast on the west of the sparsely-populated island. As the waters rose, a fisherman began filming for posterity, but matters quickly get out of hand. — Read the rest
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In 2013, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association decided the best way to make Americans forget about the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting would be to show how cool guns were by using them to kill elephants. — Read the rest
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The security footage video starts with a scene from a feel-good movie. As a man sets some takeaway food on the hood of his SUV parked in his driveway he cheerfully bids a “good morning!” to his neighbor. By the end of the 48-second video he’s screaming, “I’ll shoot that fucker!” — Read the rest
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“The octopus lashed out at us, which was a real shock,” geologist and author Lance Karlson said.
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A drone dispatched to Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula has relayed spectacular images of a volcano that continues to spew lava days after it erupted.
Footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly shows the mountain ejecting bursts of lava as rivers of boiling orange liquid cascade down the rock formation. A huge plume of smoke rises into the sky as the camera, attached to a drone, surveys the stunning natural phenomenon.
The volcano, located some 40km (25 miles) south-west of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, erupted on Friday night, but the fountain of lava has yet to subside.
Following the eruption, inbound and outgoing air traffic was halted at Keflavik International Airport due to the volcano’s close proximity to the capital.
It had been 781 years since the Reykjanes Peninsula saw a volcanic eruption. The Mount Fagradalsfjall volcano is believed to have been dormant for around 6,000 years.
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