Tag Archives: Google

Verizon vs. 4Chan – I’ve Heard This One Before

There are few websites that can accurately be described as “dangerous,” and Verizon just fucked with one of them. For reasons that are sure to become clear in the next few days, Verizon’s decided to block 4chan. If you’re unfamiliar, 4chan’s the digital cesspool responsible, in equal parts, for the proliferation of LOLcats and childContinue reading “Verizon vs. 4Chan – I’ve Heard This One Before”

DETROIT HIGH SCHOOLS TRAIN FOR WALMART – ALEX DUNBAR | VBS.TV Blog

Oh God. Say your prayers for the America of yore; we’re officially a full-fledged corporatocracy. Motherfucking Walmart, the prototypical, chthonic tyrant of the American economic landscape is teaming up with Detroit high schools to train students with job skills they’ll really get to use, like greeting customers, stocking shelves, and sobbing deeply in the breakContinue reading “DETROIT HIGH SCHOOLS TRAIN FOR WALMART – ALEX DUNBAR | VBS.TV Blog”

Aspartame on VBS.TV

I’ve read crazy accounts of workers in the aspartame “factories” taking off their respirators and keeling over instantly. If you’ve had soda, candy, coffee sweetener, or pretty much anything sweet in the last two decades, chances are you’ve consumed aspartame. It’s a low-calorie artificial sweetener at the center of one huge conspiracy theory, and, ifContinue reading “Aspartame on VBS.TV”

Hack the Planet. Literally.

With Darpa’s ‘Transparent Earth,’ Underground Doesn’t Mean Out of Sight This year, military science has more of an “all-encompassing” goal for global mastery. As part of its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Pentagon extreme research agency Darpa is launching the “Transparent Earth” project. They’ll invest $4 million into the creation of real-time, 3-D mapsContinue reading “Hack the Planet. Literally.”