Please watch this ridiculous video of a man riding a sheet of ice after breaking a pool

You’d be this pumped too if you rode a giant iceberg out of your pool.
This ice pirate pulled a seriously impressive stunt when he destroyed the lining of an above ground pool. While taking out the side of the pool, he stood on top of the insanel…

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11 times people failed hard on ice

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Ice is a cruel and fickle beast.  

Look, everyone loves to watch the Winter Olympics and think they could look just as fabulous as Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir gliding along to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack on the ice. But let’s face it — we’re all more likely to fall on a patch of black ice in the parking of lot of supermarket and lose three years off our life from the shock than take home the gold.  

Here are some examples of the times when ice took the gold instead of humans.

1. Head over heels in love

2. If at first you don’t succeed

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These photos captured through a lens made of 10,000-year-old ice are eerily beautiful — Genius Moments

Mathieu Stern is an experimental photographer who traveled to Iceland in search of ice pure enough to use as a camera lens.
After two days of trial and error, Stern was able to mold the ice lens and take a few eerily beautiful pictures and videos. Re…

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Amazon pitched facial recognition tech to ICE despite employee objections

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Amazon would really like U.S. law enforcement to use its facial-recognition software, despite how its employees feel.

According to internal documents obtained by the Project on Government Oversight, Amazon met with officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the summer in order to pitch facial-recognition technology known as Rekognition.

In June 2018, Amazon Web Services sales representatives met with ICE officials to discuss the government agency’s use of the face-scanning technology. In an email to ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations that followed, Amazon sent “action items” which included “Rekognition Video tagging/analysis, scalability, custom object libraries.” The Amazon sales representative went on to thank the agency for its interest in using the company’s technology “to support ICE and the HSI mission.” Read more…

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A huge spreadsheet naming ICE employees gets yanked from GitHub and Medium

A massive database of current ICE employees scraped from public LinkedIn profiles has been removed from the tech platforms hosting the data. The project was undertaken by Sam Lavigne, self-described artist, programmer and researcher in response to recent revelations around ICE’s detention practices at the southern U.S. border. Lavigne posted the database to GitHub on […]

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Microsoft says it is “dismayed” by the forced separation of migrant families at the border

Amid calls for a boycott and employee dissent over its cloud-computing deal with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Microsoft issued a statement saying that the company “is dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families at the border.” The ICE is currently under fire from both sides of the political spectrum for separating […]

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