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The Large Hadron Collider resumed smashing particles together at unprecedented energy today, churning out data for the first time in more than two years that scientists hope might help crack the mystery of “dark matter.”

The Large Hadron Collider resumed smashing particles together at unprecedented energy today, churning out data for the first time in more than two years that scientists hope might help crack the mystery of “dark matter.”

Get ready earth

The Queen is not dead. Long live the Queen. Although the BBC, practicing for her death, accidentally tweeted that she was gone..

The Queen is not dead. Long live the Queen. Although the BBC, practicing for her death, accidentally tweeted that she was gone..

It was all a rehearsal..

The NBC report says this:

The initial report was picked up by media outlets including CNN Newsource and German newspaper Bild.

However, when NBC News alerted Buckingham Palace to the tweets, a spokesman said that the queen was not only alive but carrying out public engagements.

It is not clear exactly how the mistake happened but the U.K.’s publicly-funded broadcaster was staging an internal drill on Wednesday to examine its readiness for the queen’s death, a routine event staged by many news organizations.

The reporter who tweeted the death notice deleted said evidence of the non deaths..

My Way News – FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

My Way News – FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

The AP REPORTING THIS AT THE HOUR

“ The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned.

The planes’ surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge’s approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.”

We now spend more than eight hours a day consuming media

We now spend more than eight hours a day consuming media

MORE..

On average, people spend more than 490 minutes of their day with some sort of media, according to a new report by ZenithOptimedia. Television remains dominant, accounting for three hours of daily consumption—an hour more than the internet, in second place.

But do we know anything more than we did before those eight hours?
Have we learned anything?
Have we consumed anything and devoured it, or just consumed and treated it as excrement?

By 2017, half of our waking lives will consist of some sort of media.

Meanwhile we will forget everything and get closer to a grave sacrificing sanity..

And that is media.
That is reality.
That is now.

Regal Entertainment Group and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., the nation’s two largest movie theater chains, have received formal inquiries from the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, signaling growing government scrutiny of a tactic large theater operators commonly use to keep movies out of competing locations.

Regal Entertainment Group and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., the nation’s two largest movie theater chains, have received formal inquiries from the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, signaling growing government scrutiny of a tactic large theater operators commonly use to keep movies out of competing locations.

Is this really what Lynch’s Justice Department now has time for?

Here is the basic: 

That conduct includes the use of “clearances,” which are agreements that theater chains sometimes strike with studios in order to gain the exclusive right to play a given title in a particular market. The Justice Department is also looking into AMC’s participation into certain joint ventures, the notice said.

Regal, AMC and Cinemark have said it is up to the studios to grant the requests, which are part of a long-established industry practice that affects a small percentage of locations.

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“We do not believe the Company has violated federal or state antitrust laws and are cooperating with the relevant governmental authorities,” AMC said in the notice. An AMC spokesman declined to comment further. AMC shares closed down 3.2%, or 91 cents, at $28 on Monday. Regal shares closed at $20.90, off six cents; it announced the notice after the market close. ..

Joel Snape writes this: As two men are arrested for ‘manspreading’ on the New York metro, Joel Snape argues that we should all take a bit of responsibility rather than making anti-social behaviour illegal

Joel Snape writes this: As two men are arrested for ‘manspreading’ on the New York metro, Joel Snape argues that we should all take a bit of responsibility rather than making anti-social behaviour illegal

It’s just a weird story and a bunch of weird headlines to go with it.. Manspreading: The new crime..

SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook

SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook

FROM CNN:

“The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Pennsylvania man who posted several violent messages on Facebook and was convicted under a federal threat statute – the first time the Court raised the implications of free speech on social media.

The Court said that it wasn’t enough to convict the man based solely on the idea that a reasonable person would regard his communications as a threat.

"Our holding makes clear that negligence is not sufficient to support a conviction,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.“