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Friday, 28 August 2020

My Hut Will Go On

All The Things Old Pizza Huts Have Become, Deepfake Porn Is Now Mainstream And Major Sites Are Cashing In, What Do The Reviews Say About The New "Bill And Ted" Movie?
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IT WAS A CULTURAL SHIFT
THIS NEEDS TO END
Deepfake Porn Is Now Mainstream. And Major Sites Are Cashing In
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Non-consensual deepfake videos, that humiliate and demean women, are racking up millions of views on mainstream porn sites. Nothing is being done about them.
HOT AND COLD
Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream' Songs, Ranked
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Ten years later, in a list that welcomes absolutely nothing related to clownery, we rank the songs that make up an album that shook the pop industry with its originality, oddity, inspiration and ultra fantasy.
BE STILL MY HUT
All The Things Old Pizza Huts Have Become Once They Stopped Being Pizza Huts
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Pizza Huts may go out of business, but they never really go away.
UPS AND DOWNS
The Approval Rating Of US Presidents During Key Historical Events In Their Presidency, Visualized
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From the Watergate scandal to the 9/11 attacks to the current COVID-19 pandemic, how have key historical events shaped presidents' approval ratings?
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PICTURE THIS
A Mother's Portrait Of Her Daughter's Life With Down Syndrome, And Other Best Photography Of The Week
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The symmetry and repetitiveness of buildings, and more best photos of the week.
EDITOR'S PICK
I'M CATMAN
Someone Put Audio From The 'Cats' Trailer Over 'The Batman' Trailer, And It's Actually Genius
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The movie "Cats" really has nine lives.
I LIKE TO MOVIE-IT MOVIE-IT
A BOGUS JOURNEY OR EXCELLENT ADVENTURE?
Is 'Bill And Ted Face The Music' Any Good? Here's What The Reviews Say
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Bill and Ted are back, dudes! Here's what the reviews are saying.
ARE YOU THERE, DOG? IT'S ME, MARGARET
Catherine O'Hara And Eugene Levy Answer Every Question We Have About 'Best In Show'
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The "Schitt's Creek" stars talk Cookie's sexual past, how O'Hara came up with that walk and why Levy believes Fred Willard is the key to the story.
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
Is The Troubled X-Men Spin-Off 'The New Mutants' Any Good? Here's What The Reviews Say
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After being delayed for two years, the X-Men horror spinoff "The New Mutants" is finally getting a theatrical release this week. Is the movie worth the wait, or do we have another "Dark Phoenix" disaster on our hands?
VIDEO OF THE DAY
HOLY SHIP
Watch A 4-Year-Old Lost At Sea On A Floating Unicorn Get Rescued By A Ferry Ship
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A 4-year-old girl was swept away by strong currents in the Gulf of Corinth in Greece before being rescued by a ferry ship.
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Let's End Summer Right With Some Lovely Cookouts
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Fall is creeping up on us, so we want to send the summer months off with a bang. Even with social distancing and reduced group sizes in place, we're sure we can still have a few more cookouts.
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THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Inside The Wesleyan Molly Bust (2015)
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A pair of neuroscience majors helped their fellow students experiment with MDMA and other drugs — but at what price?
NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN
Shelter And The Storm (2005)
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Katrina's victims come to town.
"Deepfake it till you make it" would be a good motto for the US in 2020, the year of everyone just kind of carrying on as normal in a pandemic.

Mentally We're Here

The Week's Best Memes, Ranked, Where Celebrities Are Traveling During The Coronavirus Pandemic And How Much Their Vacations Cost, Thinking About Moving To A State With Lower Taxes? These Are The Mistakes To Avoid
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ON THE MOVE
FOR RICHER OR RICHER
Where Celebrities Are Traveling During The Coronavirus Pandemic And How Much Their Vacations Cost
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Luxury travel agents told us just how opulent — and expensive — their ultra high-profile clients' trips have been during the pandemic.
IT'S COMPLICATED
Thinking About Moving To A State With Lower Taxes? These Are The Mistakes To Avoid
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Some states are great to live in, but not so great to die in.
TEENING WITH LIFE
30 Going On 13: The Adult Actors Who Play Movie Teens
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Which teen movie cast had the oldest average age? Which actors played a teen for the longest stretch of time? We have the answers.
I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
How COVID-19 Led To Soaring Divorce Rates In The US, Visualized
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The coronavirus pandemic has put a serious strain on relationships across the United States. A firm crunched the numbers on couples seeking divorces based on divorce agreement downloads on their website.
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DOWN A DIFFERENT PATH
MENTALLY I AM HERE
The Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've got "It's our ball," Kimberly Guilfoyle at the Republican National Convention, "I feel like I'm outgrowing Twitter," top seven warning signs in a man's bookshelf and "Mentally I am here."
A 'VERY PARTICULAR WORLD'
The Prince Of Georgia Is Big On Instagram
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The musician BERA is the son of the country's former prime minister and richest man. When street protests arose in Tbilisi, I went to check on him.
PAVED WITH BAD INTENTIONS
'Certain Streets Are Designed To Kill': How US Roadways Target Minorities And The Poor
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Pedestrian deaths aren't random. And they disproportionately impact marginalized people who can't demand reform.
THIRTY-SEVEN TIMES UPON A TIME…
There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According To This 1919 Manual For Screenwriters
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"Great literature is one of two stories," we often quote Leo Tolstoy as saying: "a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town." Maybe so — or maybe there are precisely 37.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
TRICK UP HER SLEEVE
Magician Pulls Off The Most Impressive Quick Change Act We've Ever Seen
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Léa Kyle performed a mind-blowing quick change act, switching between outfits in the blink of an eye, during an episode on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
IN THE NEWS
Three Takeaways From The Final Night Of The Republican National Convention
Jacob Blake Handcuffed To Hospital Bed, Father Says
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Resigns For Health Reasons
Before And After Satellite Images Show Widespread Destruction From Hurricane Laura
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HOLY HIT(LER)MAN
When The Pope Ordered The Death Of Adolf Hitler (2015)
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Before being elected pope, Eugenio Pacelli, as he was born, was a fierce critic of national socialism, sharpening his predecessor's encyclicals and preaching racial equality. In 1939, he ordered the death of Adolf Hitler.
NO BOSTON BOMBER REPEATS
How The Reddit Bureau Of Investigation Solves Mysteries While Avoiding Witch Hunts (2019)
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The RBI aims to help solve posters' puzzles, but with strict rules to prevent online manhunts and dangerous meddling.
The best magic trick we've ever seen is the manifestation of Friday.