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Smart CCTV Networks Are Driving an AI-Powered Apartheid in South Africa - In one of the world’s most racially divided countries, a company called Vumacam is building a nationwide surveillance network that scrutinizes peoples' movements for “unusual behavior.”
comments | technology | 1 mins ago

TIL about the legendary pickpocket Apollo Robbins, who once stripped Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service detail of their watches, badges, keys, and the presidential itinerary. He once stole a man’s driver’s license and made it turn up inside a sealed bag of M&M’s in his wife’s purse.
comments | todayilearned | 2 mins ago

I am Not Dead, I am 55 Today
permalink | original | comments | videos | 5 mins ago

A brighter, more equal future is Labour’s greatest manifesto pledge
comments | unitedkingdom | 6 mins ago

Saoirse Ronan
permalink | original | comments | gentlemanboners | 10 mins ago

Typical
permalink | original | comments | funny | 12 mins ago

'The Good Place' Creator Michael Schur: “You owe certain things to the people that you share Earth with and that’s the point of the show, very explicitly.”
comments | television | 13 mins ago

Found my spirit animal
permalink | original | comments | funny | 16 mins ago

Cameraman tries to film a fight but is threatened by a large woman. Gets saved by his friend at the last minute.
comments | PublicFreakout | 17 mins ago

Most Americans fear they have lost control of their personal information, as Facebook and Google continue to dominate the online ad market
comments | technology | 19 mins ago

California prosecutor accused of using his own daughter as bait to catch suspected child molester
comments | news | 21 mins ago

Nora the polar bear cub growing up
permalink | original | comments | videos | 20 mins ago

How to Regex
permalink | original | comments | ProgrammerHumor | 24 mins ago

Clickbaiting losing weight without exercise
permalink | original | comments | trashy | 25 mins ago

Thanks, Satan.
permalink | original | comments | rimjob_steve | 26 mins ago

It's never too late to post
permalink | original | comments | sbubby | 29 mins ago

TIL reading while pooping has been common throughout history. Ancient Roman bathhouses often contained libraries with scrolls for reading.
comments | todayilearned | 29 mins ago

Monsanto pleads guilty to illegally spraying banned pesticide in Maui
comments | news | 33 mins ago

Philadelphia McDonald’s worker ‘hit with brick’, assaulted after refusing to give boys free food, cousin says
comments | news | 35 mins ago

Wolf Shadow done by masihahn, Kollektiv Hummelstein Germany
permalink | original | comments | tattoos | 37 mins ago

Too true...
permalink | original | comments | funny | 37 mins ago

FCC votes 5-0 to bar China's Huawei, ZTE from government subsidy program
comments | technology | 39 mins ago

Hailee Steinfeld
comments | gentlemanboners | 40 mins ago

TIL that a French town honored a toilet as a war hero for over 25 years. The town's mayor showed General Patton a grave in 1917, unaware that it said 'Abandoned Rear', meaning a latrine. When Patton came back during World War 2, the latrine was still being maintained as a hero's grave.
comments | todayilearned | 45 mins ago