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Black Muslims Face Double Jeopardy, Anxiety In The Heartland

The intersection of these two identities has become more acute thanks to Black Lives Matter and protests against the Trump administration's executive order on immigration.

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50% chicken DNA: Why your favourite fast food chicken sandwich might not be what you ordered

Canadians who opt for chicken sandwiches while dining at fast food restaurants may find a Marketplace analysis of what they contain a little hard to swallow.

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Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle - BBC News

The airline admits that seven extra passengers stood in the aisle during a Karachi to Medina flight.

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I'm an Arab actor who's been asked to play a terrorist 30 times. If La La Lands cleans up at the Oscars, I'm done

I’ve worked as a professional performer in the UK since the age of 12 – and my Arab heritage has pitted me against some pretty awful racial profiling in the industry. My first film job at the age of 14 – Steven Spielberg’s Munich – featured me as an Islamic terrorist’s son. Needless to say, that was...

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Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – has criminal convictions in US, no connection to Swedish security - DN.SE

Fox News continues to focus on the debate about how immigration is breaking Sweden.

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Hasnain says:

"Nils Bildt sent a short e-mail to DN late earlier on Friday, explaining why he was given the title of ”Swedish defense and national security advisor”: ”I appeared on Bill O'Reillys's show on Fox News. The title was chosen by Fox News's editor – I had no personal control over what title they chose. I am an independent analyst based in the USA”, he wrote."

Posted on 2017-02-25T06:38:03+0000

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Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug

Last Friday, Tavis Ormandy from Google’s Project Zero contacted Cloudflare to report a security problem with our edge servers. He was seeing corrupted web pages being returned by some HTTP requests run through Cloudflare. It turned out that in some unusual circumstances, which I’ll detail below, our...

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Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on a popular anonymous app, the app's developer says

Over 2,000 employees use the app to dish about Uber's culture and drama, but can't do so at work, developer says.

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Hasnain says:

"To the uninitiated, the figures are nothing if not staggering: 155 million Americans play video games, more than the number who voted in November’s presidential election. And they play them a lot: According to a variety of recent studies, more than 40 percent of Americans play at least three hours a week, 34 million play on average 22 hours each week, 5 million hit 40 hours, and the average young American will now spend as many hours (roughly 10,000) playing by the time he or she turns 21 as that person spent in middle- and high-school classrooms combined. Which means that a niche activity confined a few decades ago to preadolescents and adolescents has become, increasingly, a cultural juggernaut for all races, genders, and ages. How had video games, over that time, ascended within American and world culture to a scale rivaling sports, film, and television? Like those other entertainments, video games offered an escape, of course. But what kind?"

Posted on 2017-02-24T23:44:00+0000

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The Jobs Americans Do

Popular ideas about the working class are woefully out of date. Here are nine people who tell a truer story of what the American work force does today — and will do tomorrow.

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Hasnain says:

Pretty eye opening, especially for folks who think manufacturing is coming back, or have older notions of what a middle class job looks like.

Posted on 2017-02-24T20:43:06+0000