Monthly Archives: October 2022

Photos and witness accounts detail the crowd surge that killed at least 151 people during Halloween festivities in South Korea: ‘It was completely out of control’

A woman is attended to as dozens of people suffered cardiac arrest in the popular nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul on October 30, 2022. Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images At least 151 people died after a crowd surge in South Korea on Saturday, as per the BBC. The incident happened during Halloween…

Listen to the haunting audio of Earth’s magnetic field released by the European Space Agency

The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument. NASA, ESA, CSA, Data reduction and analysis : PDRs4All ERS Team; graphical processing S. Fuenmayor The European Space Agency released five minutes of haunting audio from Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists took magnetic signals measured by ESA satellites and…

Election deniers could win vital races in the midterms. Experts worry that some could refuse to certify the 2024 election if the GOP candidate loses.

Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake. AP Photo/Matt York Election deniers are running in key battleground states during the 2022 midterms.  Kari Lake and Mark Finchem are going for two positions that could influence election procedures in Arizona. Experts told the NYT that election deniers could refuse election results in the 2024 presidential race.  As…

A timeline of threats against Nancy Pelosi — from the January 6 death threats to a claim about beheading her ‘jihadist style’ — that preceded the attack on her husband

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A man who violently attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, may have been looking for her. Violent threats to lawmakers have increased drastically in recent years, according to police. Nancy Pelosi has faced several threats, including…

Under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter could become a ‘supercharged engine of radicalization,’ critics warn

Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Elon Musk completed his long-awaited Twitter acquisition on Thursday, immediately firing executives. Critics fear the Tesla CEO, a self-styled free speech absolutist, will usher in more hate speech. Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said Musk will use Twitter “to advance his own red-pilled ideological agenda.” Elon Musk on Thursday…

Mark Zuckerberg is trying to do what Google did with Android — but he learned all the wrong lessons

Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (left), David Ramos/Getty Images (right) Meta’s effort to build the metaverse is a way to wrangle back control of consumer data from Apple, experts say. The attempt to gain a competitive advantage over Apple is reminiscent of Google’s effort to build Android.  Google’s effort paid off, but it’s…