If you’ve tired of hearing Hollywood A-listers feign shock while sending proverbial “thoughts and prayers” to Harvey Wesintein’s sexual assault victims, you’re not alone.

Scott Rosenberg, a screenwriter (Beautiful Girls, Con Air, High Fidelity) who worked closely with Weinstein and Co. for a little under a decade, has had enough of the bullshit, too. And he’s saying something not too many people in the industry are saying right now: “I am sorry.”

“Everybody fucking knew,” he wrote (not once, not twice, but three times) in a lyrical, near novella-length Facebook response to those shrinking away from responsibility in enabling Weinstein’s behavior. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Screenwriter close to Weinstein calls out Hollywood: 'Everybody f**king knew'

The future is here, and boy is it spicy. Alphabet’s Project Wing announced Monday that it will start delivering burritos to hungry customers via drone. That’s right, you can soon have heavenly manna slathered in Australian Jack cheese dropped right on your head — that is, if you happen to live in the outskirts of the Australian Capital Territory.

Project Wing, one of Alphabet’s “moonshot factories” under the X umbrella, is testing delivery drones and has selected the relatively remote area for its latest voyage into the tinfoil-wrapped unknown. In addition to Mexican food from a chain, the company will also ferry medication on behalf of a pharmacy.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Drone-delivered burritos are a real thing, at least for a lucky few

On Sunday night during the Jaguars-Rams game, Fox Sports announcer Dick Stockton made an awkward teleprompter mistake. And the best his co-host could do was ignore it. 

“Look on graphic for the final two bullet points,” he read while promoting a halftime report, as a graphic highlighting the top sports stories of the evening popped up on the screen. 

Stockton continued reading to the end of the direction and his co-host, analyst Mark Schlereth, moved right on without acknowledging the blunder, according to For the Win. 

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Source: Mashable | Fox Sports announcer channels Ron Burgundy in this teleprompter blunder

Following a week of more devastating and disturbing news about film producer Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood actor Alyssa Milano took to social media to ask women to share their own personal experiences of sexual harassment and sexual assault.

In a message posted Sunday, she asked Twitter users to reply “me too” to her tweet if they had been sexually harassed or assaulted in order to “give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” They responded in droves and the resulting hashtag #MeToo swept round the internet as a huge viral moment.

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Source: Mashable | The #MeToo hashtag was used in an enormous number of tweets

A drone flying near a wildfire in Northern California forced helicopters to stay grounded — and the California High Patrol (CHP) was not happy about it. 

On Sunday, it posted an all-uppercase warning to the public on Facebook: “FIRE FIGHTING PLANES CANNOT FLY IF YOUR DRONE IS IN THE AIR.”

Police found and cited a 24-year-old man for flying the drone, according to The Mercury News. 

The pilot had been flying the drone in the vicinity of Petaluma Municipal Airport, forcing air traffic controllers to ground all craft until the drone no longer posed a danger to helicopter blades and engines.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Police warn people on Facebook not to fly their drones near wildfires

Now that Harvey Weinstein has been kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the obvious question presents itself: What now?

While Weinstein is an unusually high-profile figure whose identity was closely tied with the Oscars, he certainly wasn’t the only person accused of predatory behavior within the Academy’s ranks. Bill Cosby remains a member of the Academy, for example, as does Roman Polanski.

Does it follow, then, that they’ll be kicked out too? Or will the “ethical standards of conduct” only apply going forward? For that matter, will there actually be a new code of conduct, or will the organization quietly carry on as it always has?  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | The Academy has expelled Harvey Weinstein. That's a start.

If you’ve paid any attention to social media in the past 24 hours, you’ve seen #MeToo, the viral hashtag that women have used to acknowledge, even in two simple words, that they’ve experienced sexual harassment and assault. 

The number of people who’ve shared or discussed a #MeToo post is staggering. That so many women have experienced sexual violence should come as no surprise. 

Last year, after Donald Trump’s “pussy grabbing” tape became public, the author Kelly Oxford wrote about sexual assault using the hashtag #NotOkay. Harrowing stories of harassment, assault, and rape poured forth.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | 5 crucial ways men can help end sexual assault