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HOW THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A BLOGGER HAS REVEALED THE DARK REALITY OF ‘INCELS’
The alleged murder of a 17-year-old blogger has revealed a dark reality of the ‘incel’ offshoot, which followers seemed to think was a joke. Writer Elfy Scott has been investigating the movement.
The Con Man Who Became a True-Crime Writer
In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.
LINK: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/matthew-cox-true-crime/592798/
Bundyville: The Remnant
Season two of the award-winning podcast from Longreads, in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Also available as a Longread
When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
How the Epstein Case Explains the Rise of Conspiracy Theorists
Nightmarish allegations against the well-connected financier show why so many Americans let their imagination run wild when it comes to elite corruption.
The more we learn about the allegations against the reclusive billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the more he seems like a figment of the online fever swamps. The wealthy financier arrested last week for underage sex trafficking is accused of operating an international sex ring that could implicate high-powered men across business, politics, and Hollywood. Every nightmarish detail of his story—from the creepily decorated mansion to the flights on “the Lolita Express” to the stays on “Orgy Island”—sounds like it was conjured by conspiracy theorists.
Just this morning, President Donald Trump told reporters that Alex Acosta was stepping down as Secretary of Labor amid mounting outrage over the sweetheart deal he gave Epstein years ago as a federal prosecutor. The resignation will surely draw more attention to what Epstein got away with over the years—and who helped him.
It should not come as a surprise that some of America’s most outspoken conspiracists have spent the days since Epstein’s arrest taking victory laps.
LINK: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/epstein-conspiracy-theories/593605/
And here’s a counterpoint view:
Trigger Warning has Reposted the Psycho Path Manifesto
The web magazine, Trigger Warning, has reposted a copy of our manifesto. Head on over to TW and check it out. NOTE: Trigger Warning has edited some of the content for their own purposes of style. If you want to read the original, unfiltered version, you may do so here.
LINK: http://triggerwarning.us/walking-the-psycho-path-a-manifesto/
The Great Hack | Official Trailer | Netflix
They took your data. Then they took control. The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal. In select theaters and on Netflix July 24.
BIANCA DEVINS AND HOW LIVESTREAMED MURDER HAS BECOME THE ULTIMATE SHITPOST (Plus 2 retrieved photos of murder)
When we ask why the archetype of the serial killer has faded from public consciousness, we may well look to the trend of murders broadcasted directly to the internet.
Like far too many people, I can’t help checking my phone one last time before bed, usually while brushing my teeth. When I did so on Sunday night, I saw Twitter chatter about a murder that had unfolded that morning on Instagram and Discord, with possible connections to 4chan and an incel subgroup known as “darkcels.” Some 10 hours later, police confirmed that 17-year-old Bianca Devins of Utica, New York, was the victim of a homicide; 21-year-old Brandon Andrew Clark, her alleged killer, was hospitalized in critical condition due to severe injuries.
Nabisco’s X-Rated Toy Scandal of 1971
No one at Nabisco’s corporate headquarters in New York City had any idea why members of the National Organization for Women were lined upoutside. It was the fall of 1971, and the manufacturer best known for their Oreo and Chips Ahoy! snacks had not made any obviously sexist advertisements or taken any particular political stance. They sold cookies.
Then they read the signs: “Sick toys for children make for a sick society.”
That May, Nabisco had attempted to diversify by purchasing Aurora Company, the West Hempstead, New York model kit maker best known for their plastic kits of Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolf Man, and other horror film icons. The cheap plastic toys came in pieces and could be glued together and painted.
Unknown to Nabisco, Aurora had recently branched out and begun offering entire model kit dioramas. Instead of a single figure, consumers could buy detailed “sets” for their monsters to interact with. There was a guillotine, a razor-sharp pendulum, and a laboratory; a female protagonist, referred to in the copy as “the Victim,” was scantily-clad and ready to be dismembered, beheaded, or trapped in a spiked cage. Kids could also opt to have Vampirella, the top-heavy villain licensed from Warren Publishing, operate the winch and pulley while her plastic captive was shackled to a table.
Each kit also contained a comic, which instructed builders on how to assemble the torture scenes for maximum enjoyment. A narrator named Dr. Deadly seemed to opine on the appeal of the Victim once she was fully assembled. “Now that you’ve gotten her all together, I think I like the other way. In pieces … yesssss.”
In addition to Fig Newtons, Nabisco realized it had also been peddling tiny torture racks.
LINK: http://mentalfloss.com/article/84257/nabiscos-x-rated-toy-scandal-1971
This is allegedly the letter Willem Van Spronsen left before he attacked the transportation infrastructure of the Northwest Detention Center.
“I don’t really have any real way to verify it — it was posted on a Facebook thread by a leftist from Tacoma who said he was Willem’s friend.”- Source
Amazon and Google are listening to your voice recordings. Here’s what we know about that
First Amazon admitted it — now Google says it’s listening, too. Here are the specifics, and the questions we still want answered.
