Big Man Andrew Cuomo Kills ‘Vulnerable’ Large Animal For Sport: Gothamist

Today’s catch: A 154.5-lb Thresher shark off the south shore of Long Island. #IFISHNY pic.twitter.com/AsCgEEBxtk — Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) August 28, 2016   Over the weekend, Governor Andrew Cuomo signaled to the world that, whatever questions may exist about investigations into possible self-dealing by his administration, the effectiveness of his signature big-ticket projects, or his…

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Three days after removing human editors, Facebook is already trending fake news – The Washington Post

Moderator Megyn Kelly waits for the start of the Republican presidential primary debate in Des Moines. (Chris Carlson/AP) Facebook announced Friday that humans would no longer write descriptions for its Trending topics list, handing over even more responsibility to the already-powerful algorithm. But just days after the policy change, Facebook’s algorithm chose a very bad, factually incorrect…

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Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin to Separate After His Latest Sexting Scandal – The New York Times

Photo Anythony Weiner at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Huma Abedin, the wife of the former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, announced on Monday that the couple were separating in the wake of a report that Mr. Weiner had been involved in another sexting scandal. Mr. Weiner,…

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xkcd: Unicode

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you’re free to copy and share these comics (but not to…

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The Media Spotlight on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Just Got a Lot Brighter – Opinio Juris

Buzzfeed’s Chris Hamby is out today with the first installment of a promised four-part investigative report into the system of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS).  Like all such reports, it needs a spectacular headline and summary to draw clicks, and this one’s a doozy: The Court That Rules the World A parallel legal universe, open only…

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