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Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Friday, February 2, 2018
Baltimore cops reportedly kept toy guns to plant as fake evidence
Last week, an ex-detective testified that members of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force have committed armed robberies and forged records. Another disturbing detail: The task force was instructed to use toy guns as an evidence plant, just in case they found themselves "in a jam," the Root reports.
The use of toy guns came to light after task force Officer Maurice Ward was arrested and a toy gun was found in his glove compartment. This left federal authorities puzzled-until it was uncovered that the unit's supervisor, Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, had reportedly instructed the task force officers to keep toy guns with them just in case they needed to plant evidence at a scene.
Jenkins himself "kept a collection of BB guns on hand" so he could "plant them on people in the case of officer-involved shootings," Vibe reports. Almost a dozen officers from the task force were arrested and indicted on various charges, from racketeering to robberies, and Ward pleaded guilty to racketing charges in July 2017 after saying that he was part of four different robberies that took place during 2016.
Testimony suggests the task force operated more like a gang than a police force, targeting both drug dealers and local residents and selling obtained drugs and guns back on the streets for a profit.
"The fallout from the indictments has included hundreds of dropped court cases that relied on the word of the officers, with the public defender's office saying thousands of cases have been compromised," the Baltimore Sun reports. "Notices for dozens of civil claims also have been filed with the city."
The case also raises larger questions about whether the Baltimore police-and police departments across the U.S., for that matter-regularly use false evidence in order to protect officers. Body cams, which are used in part to protect civilians and hold officers accountable, have also caught police planting drugs and reenacting investigations.
"It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops," the Root's Michael Harriot writes. "They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes. They will shoot you in the back for walking away. And they will get away with it so often that we are shocked when they are indicted."
Read the full report from the Root here.
Read more: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/baltimore-police-officers-toy-guns/
Thursday, February 1, 2018
People can't believe this United Airlines customer wanted to fly with her emotional support peacock
BTW
Most react to emotional support animals with coos and adornment, but for Dexter the peacock, reactions were far from welcoming.
Dexter arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport last week alongside his owner, a Brooklyn artist named Ventiko, ready to jet set to Los Angeles. While Ventiko claimed she had a ticket for her emotional support peacock to accompany her on the flight, Dexter's travel plans went array as United Airlines reportedly denied the request.
Posted by The Jet Set on Sunday, January 28, 2018
According to Fox News, a spokesperson for United Airlines said Ventiko was told three times before arriving that the animal did not meet guidelines for a number of reasons, specifically weight and size.
However, according to the Emotional Support Registration of America, birds can qualify as emotional-support animals, and there is "no size discrimination allowed when it comes to Service Dogs and ESA's."
Even so, few on social media provided empathy.
*wakes up, opens yahoo news*
'Woman denied emotional support peacock on United flight.'
*SMDH, closes yahoo news, goes back to bed*
- Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) January 30, 2018
Just an observation….
In 2017, Trump became President.
In 2018, Americans started snacking on Tide-pods and flying with emotional-support peacocks. https://t.co/Yst35OmsjM- Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) January 30, 2018
free band name: emotional support peacock
- NOISEY (@NoiseyMusic) January 30, 2018
Does Emotional Support Peacock have his own Twitter account yet?
- Radley Balko (@radleybalko) January 30, 2018
Washington Post opinion journalist Radley Balko asked the Twitter-sphere if the emotional support peacock had his own Twitter account yet-and yes, parody handle @UnitedPeacock is up-and-running.
As for Dexter (and Vertiko's) current whereabouts, his official Instagram page shows the two decided to fulfill their California adventure via car. Their most recent post, posted earlier today, was taken in Miami, Oklahoma.
Vertiko did not immediately respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment.
H/T Mashable
Read more: https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/emotional-support-peacock/
Friday, January 19, 2018
'Reading Is Just Looking At A Dead Piece Of Wood For Hours And Hallucinating'
The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing under running water often allows people's minds to run free.
Reddit has an entire "Shower Thoughts" subreddit dedicated to "the miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar." In honor of those weird, wonderful and sometimes profound musings, here are 25 of the best posts from the last week:
the more immature a show is, the more likely it is to say intended for mature audiences. from Showerthoughts
Drinking enough water is the "Turn it off and back on again" of health problems. from Showerthoughts
The feeling of not having to work tomorrow is better than the feeling of not having to work today from Showerthoughts
Humans have perfected survival to the point where we'll pay to experience simulated danger (scary movies, roller coasters, etc) from Showerthoughts
You don't know concentration until you have to carry an icetray filled with water from the sink to the freezer. from Showerthoughts
If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie turn into a vampire, or does the vampire turn into a zombie? from Showerthoughts
100 years ago almost everyone owned a horse and only the rich owned cars. Today almost everyone has cars and only the rich have horses from Showerthoughts
If foods were priced by how many calories they contain, more people would have access to healthy foods. from Showerthoughts
Volcanoes just sleep for 10,000 years, wake up really mad, get everything out, and then fall asleep for another 10,000 years from Showerthoughts
You never realize how little shampoo you really need until the bottle is about empty from Showerthoughts
Friday, January 12, 2018
Memes Best Friend: The Rise of 'Doggo'
The only way to explain the reaction to Merriam-Webster's year-end announcement that "doggo" was one of the dictionary's "Words We're Watching" is to use another colloquialism: Twitter lost its damn mind.
It wasn't the first time Merriam, the hippest dictionary that ever was (sorry, Oxford), incorporated internet-beloved words into its corpus; it recently added definitions for the terms "troll," "woke," and "hashtag." Nor was it the first time social media reacted strongly to such a move (see: the Great "Shade" Elation of 2017). But for the prestigious lexical arbiter to acknowledge doggo's place and popularity was a win for practitioners of "DoggoSpeak," a specialized vernacular used primarily in memes extolling the cuteness of dogs. (DoggoSpeak includes fun-to-say made-up words like doggo, pupper, flufferino, and doge. You probably don't have to be fluent to translate, though NPR did a thorough deep-dive on the vocabulary.)
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The announcement was also a recognition by Merriam that its original entry for "doggo"-defined as "in hiding-used chiefly in the phrase to lie doggo"-was out of step with its more current incarnation. "The nature of lexicography in general is that it always lags behind language, and that's the case with doggo," says Merriam-Webster associate editor Kory Stamper. "The real swell of the modern doggo wave came in 2016 and 2017 with the popularization of the WeRateDogs Twitter account."
There's a certain truth to this. Doggo first popped up on WeRateDogs on April 1, 2016:
But while the account brought the word to WeRateDogs's 5 million followers, Matt Nelson, the account's founder, is quick to clarify he can't be credited with its genesis. "I didn't coin the term," he says, "but I did recognize that dog-lovers latched on to it quickly."
Actually, there's a strong case to be made that the word originated in Australia. To start, doggo first gained traction on a Facebook group called Dogspotting, a 10-year-old community that became quite popular in Australia, says internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch.
"Australian English has this tendency to make cute pet-names, what's known in the literature as hypocoristics," McCulloch says. "Like 'afternoon' becomes 'arvo,' or 'avocado' becomes 'avo,' or John becomes 'John-o'."
Ben Bergen, a cognitive science professor at UC San Diego, also notes "the -o suffix is much more common in Australia and Great Britain. Like 'boy-o' or nicknames for people, like 'Jim-o.'"
"It's possible the [Australians on Dogspotting] were just using this slang and it caught on as an internet thing because people encountered it in the group," McCulloch says.
McCulloch's research on doggo led her further down under, to a 1966 document titled "Industrial and intellectual property in Australia, Volume 3" in which the word was referenced as an affectionate term for a dog. (Doggo as a term for dog also made an appearance in a 1994 novel set in Sydney called the Weston Men's Tennis Club.)
But if the term has been around awhile, why did the internet just recently latch on to it?
The worldwide popularity of the terms "pupper" (red) and "doggo" (blue) since January 2004.
There are a couple of explanations for this. The first is that it was circumstantial, that the term happened to hit at a moment when the collective craved something cute. "I would say the term 'doggo' caught on because of the rise of the wholesome meme," McCulloch says. "In the aftermath of the election, and even in 2016, there was this idea that the internet is becoming a more hostile or less friendly place. So here's this kind of feel-good meme that's becoming popular because no one can disagree with the fact that this doggo is cute."
If doggo has been around awhile, why did the internet just recently latch on to it? It might be that the term hit at a moment when the collective craved something cute.
That would track with at least part of the reason M-W added it to its list. "There was no precipitating event that led to its being highlighted on the feature, though I'll confess I'm a big fan of @dog_rates on Twitter," Stamper says, "and it's pretty likely the dog-picture sanity breaks I take while mired in defining work might have led to me thinking more about the word 'doggo.'"
But McCulloch has another theory, one that often explains any shift in internet behavior: the rise of smartphones. "Back when I had a digital camera, first, I didn't always have my digital camera on me. And, if I did, to get those photos off of the digital camera, I had to plug it into my computer, I had to find the cable, upload them, etc. And I wasn't going to do that for someone else's random dog!" she says.
"But now, you have a camera with you at all times that has internet connectivity and you can take photos of stuff in your environment and easily share them with people. And sometimes, those photos are of dogs."
(The rise of the smartphone camera could also partially explain a longstanding internet trope: the early internet is for cats and the social internet is for dogs. Felines dominated when people could only upload pictures from their homes, where kittehs rule. But dogs, especially other people's puppers, can be photographed and shared with Instagram or Facebook from almost anywhere.)
The question now is, will doggo stick around? WeRateDogs' Nelson has seen a fall in the term's popularity and has subsequently curtailed his own use of it. "I'd say within the past six months, I've started to use doggo a little bit less because it doesn't invoke the same reaction that it once did."
The term's best chance of survival is its potential internet-to-IRL crossover appeal. "It definitely has all of the characteristics of a word that could very easily go from online to offline," McCulloch says. "It started as an offline word; it's very pronounceable; it doesn't rely on punctuation or capitalization or any sort of typographical tricks to make it legible. And, anecdotally, people are less self-conscious about the kind of language they use to talk to their dogs, so they're probably more willing to use slang or cute terms or affectionate terms. That being said, the sharper something rises, the sharper it can fall."
Plus, in the pantheon of persistent palabras, a word like "selfie" had staying power because it defined a new cultural construct: the now-ubiquitous act of pointing a camera at yourself and snapping a pic. Doggo has the misfortune of competing in a crowded "marketplace of words," Bergen notes. Synonyms, it would seem, are, ahem, a bitch.
More Internet Lingo
- The internet defines "covfefe"
- Kim Jong-un calling President Trump a "dotard" gave the internet a language lesson
- Oxford dictionary defines sexting and cyberbullying
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/rise-of-doggo/
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Guy Uses Cats To Troll An Idiotic Scammer Perfectly
Every now and again one of our users will step up to the plate and offer us some pure, self-curated content GOLD. This right here can only accurately be describe as a masterful work of art. Soon as he detects that things are more than a bit awry with the 'customer', he proceeds to take them on a wild and unforgettable ride that results in the scammer getting scammed; so, the exact kind of scenario we live for back over here at Fail Blog. Sit back, and enjoy, guys.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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