Source: Google News | Racing California's Wildfires: Survivors Recall Close Calls With Advancing Flames
- Cooperating Witness in Mueller Inquiry Predicts His Own Indictment for Lying New York Times
- Associate of Close Trump Adviser Expects to Be Indicted by Mueller U.S. News & World Report
After transforming the once tranquil town of Paradise, California into charred automobiles and tales of horror, the Camp Fire takes its infamous spot as the deadliest wildfire in California history.
At a multi-agency press conference Monday night, the Butte Country Sheriff’s Office announced that 42 have been confirmed dead. This grim statistic surpasses the 29 Los Angelenos killed by the Griffith Park Fire in 1933. While it’s unclear just how many individuals are still missing, officials said they’ve located 231 previously missing persons, who are now safe, and have received 1514 requests to check on or locate people. But, that large number may include multiple requests for the same person. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Camp Fire is deadliest in California history, and numbers may grow
The journey of “Trese” to Netflix is eight years in the making.
Source: GMA News Lifestyle | 'Trese' creator on Netflix adaptation: A dream come true
Catriona Gray on competing for Miss Universe 2018: 'It's all or nothing'
November 13, 2018Sounds like Catriona is ready for the crown.
Source: GMA News Lifestyle | Catriona Gray on competing for Miss Universe 2018: 'It's all or nothing'
Source: Google News | Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race
Crisis can bring people together in unprecedented ways. That’s the theme of Rising, a new short film directed by Game of Thrones’ David Nutter and written by Lena Waithe, creator of The Chi.
The film, which is the latest installment of the popular Ad Council “Love Has No Labels” PSA campaign, imagines how a massive storm and flood affects a group of neighbors who at first glance have little in common.
A white man stares menacingly at his neighbor, an American teen from an Indian Muslim family. Two women, who are a couple, run down the block and take note of the scene. Other residents, who are people of color, watch the white neighbor’s intimidation with disapproval. Then disaster strikes and everyone becomes essential to the block’s collective survival. The film was created pro bono by the ad agency R/GA and is designed to make viewers remember how vital people are to each other — even when political and cultural polarization threatens to tear America apart. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | This short film will inspire you to keep fighting for America's soul
This visual history of video game hardware quite literally pulls your favorite consoles apart
November 13, 2018Are you the type of person who just wants to rip the cover off your dear, sweet 2001 Xbox and see how it all ticks? Ever wanted to smash open a Game Boy? Lift the lid on an Atari 2600?
Shot by photographer and lifelong gamer Evan Amos, The Game Console: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox does exactly that, as a visual history of video game hardware released by San Francisco-based publishing company No Starch Press.
Photographed in intense, loving detail, the book quite literally unpacks 86 consoles and examines their innards, from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Commodore 64, all the way to the Game Boy, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Wii U. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | This visual history of video game hardware quite literally pulls your favorite consoles apart
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Cooperating Witness in Mueller Inquiry Predicts His Own Indictment for Lying
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Source: Google News | Cooperating Witness in Mueller Inquiry Predicts His Own Indictment for Lying
“Out of sight, out of mind” doesn’t work when cleaning out the darkest corners of social media platforms.
That’s what the documentary The Cleaners, which airs Monday night on PBS, reveals about content moderators in the Philippines who are relentlessly bombarded with violent, graphic, and disturbing images and videos. Ahead of the TV release at a San Francisco screening, the filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck praised the subjects in the documentary for being “brave enough to talk to us.”
Manila has become a de facto headquarters for content moderation for some of the biggest social media and content services like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Twitter, and others. But outsourcing the harmful work doesn’t eliminate the problem. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | 'The Cleaners' shows the terrors human content moderators face at work