One of the NBA’s most respected figures just lit into Donald Trump — again. 

It’s definitely not the first time Gregg Popovich, a five-time NBA champ with the San Antonio Spurs, has done this. And it’s almost certainly not the last. 

We’ll soon get to why Popovich’s criticism carries more weight than it might seem at first blush — but first, his latest monologue. It’s a doozy. 

“I feel like there’s a cloud, a pall over the whole country, in a paranoid, surreal sort of way,” Popovich said on Sunday before the Spurs lost to the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of their NBA Playoffs series. “It’s got nothing to do with the Democrats losing the election. It’s got to do with the way one individual conducts himself, and it’s embarrassing, it’s dangerous to our institutions and what we all stand for and what we expect the country to be. But for this individual, he’s in a game show.”  Read more…

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The romper is a garment from hell meant to make it harder for women to use the bathroom. But sure, if men want in on stripping down to poop, that’s fine.

A Kickstarter campaign for something called the RompHim was recently launched by a group of dudes marketing the romper as a cool thing men should wear this summer. 

Their versions are, in essence, the Vineyard Vines shorts of rompers, rendered in a splatter paint print and a blue or “red” (read: pink) chambray.

Per RompHim’s Kickstarter page, the dudes behind this project are, of course, friends from business school who, of course, came up with the idea over a round of beers. Read more…

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Hackers attacked a hospital system with ransomware and demanded $17,000 in bitcoin payment. 

This was not part of the potentially deadly Global WannaCry Ransomware attack that slammed Britain’s National Health Services (NHS) on Friday. It took place over a year ago, and the target was Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Like the NHS, Hollywood Presbyterian chose to pay the ransom so they could quickly regain control of their antiquated systems.

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise for more than a year and, according to Jonathan Penn, Avast Security’s director of strategy, WannaCry could be “just one wave in a very long series.” Read more…

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Everything Tina Fey touches turns to gold, or to an orange-tinged tan beneath a ghastly blonde wig. In The Hollywood Reporter‘s cover story about SNL and American politics, Lorne Michaels revealed that it was Fey who first floated the idea of her one-time 30 Rock co-star.

“She said, ‘Well, the person that should really play [Trump] is Alec’,” Michaels told THR. “And I went, ‘Yeah!’ A light went on.”

In the interview with various members of the show’s cast and production, Baldwin recalls struggling to find his take on Trump while watching hours of footage of him. Read more…

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After the Trump administration went nearly hours this weekend without a heart-stopping scandal, Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, bravely decided he’d be the one to break the reverie.

On Sunday night, Cohen tweeted a photo of his daughter in lingerie and announced that he was proud of his “Ivy League daughter” for having “beauty and brains.” Normally, a photo like this would cause an uproar, inspiring 10 different Medium posts, an Everyday Feminism explainer and an ethics investigation led by the nation’s chief hallway monitor, Jason Chaffetz.

But because it’s 2017 and this is Trump we’re talking about, Cohen’s photo barely sparked the social media riot it so deeply deserved. Read more…

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How did trolls, men’s rights activists, conspiracy theorists, gamergaters, “incels,” neo-Nazis, and a variety of other subcultures end up coming together to engage in one of the most successful disinformation campaigns ever?

A toxic combination of internet savvy, media negligence, and a shared interest in destroying establishment institutions, according to an exhaustive new report from Data & Society. 

“Taking advantage of the opportunity the internet presents for collaboration, communication, and peer production, these groups target vulnerabilities in the news media ecosystem to increase the visibility of and audience for their messages,” wrote Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis, authors of the report.  Read more…

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Pop-Tarts are the grab-and-go breakfast of our childhood. But Pop-Tarts have been pushing the definition of “breakfast” for a while now by offering sugar-laden flavors that seem more appropriate as dessert.

And now Pop-Tarts have departed from breakfast entirely with three newly announced flavors. Hitting stores later this month are Jolly Rancher-flavored Pop-Tarts in three varieties: green apple, cherry, and watermelon.

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After teaching AI to draw and paint with AutoDraw, Google has set its sight on conquering another art form: music

The company’s AI research team, Google Magenta, announced a new project in April called Neural Synthesizer, or NSynth, which generates audio using deep neural networks. That technology will be demonstrated at Durham, North Carolina’s annual arts and technology festival, Moogfest, later this week.

To create music, NSynth uses a dataset containing sounds from individual instruments and then blends them to create hybrid sounds. According to the company, NSynth gives “artists with intuitive control over timbre and dynamics and the ability to explore new sounds that would be difficult or impossible to produce with a hand-tuned synthesizer,” the company said in their announcement. Read more…

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Apple’s latest ad is about a New Orleans barber shop that gets a viral boost thanks to some well-placed headshots. 

But if you look closely, there is one guest who might look a little familiar. Albert Einstein makes a cameo among the shop’s diverse influx of new clientele.

Aside from the famous scientist, Nigerian funk musician William Onyeabor, the man behind the ad’s soundtrack also gets a trim. And a newscaster from a television set within the ad makes an appearance in line.

Apple says the haircuts are all real, and the clippings were donated to the charity Locks of Love. Read more…

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Mother’s Day this year was all about showering our moms with love, telling them how much we appreciate them, and apparently, shooting them with Nerf guns. Moms just never stop putting up with all of the annoying things we do, even on their day.

Youtube user Brant Coltrain uploaded this video of him firing a Nerf bullet at his poor, innocent mom when she isn’t looking. She just happens to be blowing a bubble with her gum at the exact second of firing, and the foam pellet lands directly on the formed bubble and miraculously sticks to the gum. The accuracy is impeccable. 

This mom is impressed with her son’s shot, too, but moments like this are the reason why every day needs to be Mother’s Day.  Read more…

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