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O.J. Simpson’s Freeway Chase: What Happened to the White Ford Bronco

No need for speed: One of the most-watched live television events was also the slowest moving. On the evening of Friday, June 17, 1994, a white Ford Bronco with California plate 3DHY503 traveled down southern California’s freeways driven by former football player Al Cowlings. In the backseat: O.J. Simpson, the football legend known as “The Juice,” who reportedly had a gun to his own head.

Nearly 100 million people tuned into the live chase

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The Man Who Named Cyberspace - An interview with William Gibson

August 4, 1994

"The world is really so surreal these days that it's necessary for us to blunt it somehow in order to stay sane. But I think it then becomes one of the artist's functions to short-circuit the buffering mechanism, so that people can occasionally perceive the weirdness of things as they are.

"We have these moments spontaneously - I think of them as CNN moments. The last one I had, probably most people had, was watching that weirdly Ballardian slow-motion freeway pursuit (of O.J. Simpson). Which was on every channel. That's as strange as it gets."

Apparently Elon edited whatever prompt his AI Grok uses to specifically address "white genocide" and the song Kill the Boers, so it now brings them up in random unrelated requests

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Israeli army published photos of seven Palestinians on Tuesday, claiming they are leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad hiding in crowded areas of Gaza City. Among them was Rafeeq Al-Sinwar, who was already killed on March 30 — yet Israel included him in its latest justification for expected attacks.

The photos came just after Israel ordered mass expulsions from six heavily populated areas, threatening to bomb them.

The Israeli military also posted a video claiming to show a tunnel under the European Hospital in Khan Younis. The army said it targeted the hospital to assassinate Mohammed Al-Sinwar, a senior Hamas commander.

But this claim is a lie. The building shown in the video is not the European Hospital. Its design does not match, as confirmed by open-source investigators using Google Maps and aerial imagery. Israeli Haaretz also reported that Israeli security officials admitted the documentation was false. The army offered no evidence to support its claim, yet used the lie to justify bombing a medical facility.

Pocan asked Kennedy, “If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?”

“Probably for measles,” Kennedy said, before backpedaling. “What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.”

“I don’t want to seem like I am being evasive but I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,”

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Wed 14 May 2025 17.47 EDT

"US district judge Patricia Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, said that the ruling was effective immediately with no conditions and no bond. She added that Khan Suri’s release was “in the public interest to disrupt the chilling effect on protected speech” during the hearing. The judge explained in her ruling how the government did not submit sufficient evidence on several of its claims."

Hello,

I just found out about TLP - a module to download with apt, which is a good utility for maintaining the laptop battery. You can set a minimum charge value, and a maximum charge value. But it is not sufficient for my use case. My question is - is there any utility I can use to discharge the battery WHILE connected to AC?

The reason behind this is: I want to use the solar power during the day to charge up the battery to 80 or 90% and then discharge the battery in the evening to 15-20%. Afterwards use AC power again. The solar energy during mid-day is cheaper and available in abundance.

On a big level with many computers this could make a good impact on the energy network, or am I wrong?

Your not so passive aggressive coworker is an asshole.

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Direct fire from the Israeli military hit the perimeter of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s (UNIFIL) peacekeeping positions in south Lebanon, the mission said.

In a statement on Wednesday, UNIFIL added that the incident on Tuesday was the first of its kind since Israel and Lebanese-armed group Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire last November.

“In recent days, UNIFIL has also observed other aggressive behaviour by the [Israeli military] towards peacekeepers performing operational activities in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1701,” it said in a post on X, referring to a UN resolution originally adopted in 2006 to end hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

UNIFIL cited other alleged incidents it blamed on the Israeli army, including being targeted by lasers while it was performing a patrol with the Lebanese army in the southern border town of Maroun al-Ras on Tuesday.

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