An anti-rodeo/animal right activist was subjected to a blatantly illegal, harassing traffic stop after he was asked to leave an Oregon rodeo. How do we know it was illegal? Because the cops who stopped him forgot to turn off their own cameras and recorded themselves admitting that the rodeo (which is a major donor to the Malheur County Sheriff's Department) had demanded the traffic stop. The same cops who participated in the stop were previously at the center of a lawsuit that the county settled in which they were alleged to have fabricated evidence, so they've got form for this. Some dialog highlights:

I didn't want to stop the man.

God, we're gonna get sued.

We're gonna be in a world of hurt here.

All because of that rodeo board, you know that right?

Dammit I was still recording!

It's a pretty neat indication of why we should want transparency for the strong and privacy for the weak.

A robot uprising may be the apocalypse scenario du jour, but it’s time to get real and open our eyes to the true threat. Cockatoos.

Researchers at Britain’s University of Oxford have been training the fluffy, feathery engines of human demise to unlock mechanical locks and puzzles with increasing success. One cockatoo named Pipin, presumably their leader, solved a puzzle composed of five interlocking devices unassisted in just two hours.

“We cannot prove that the birds understand the physical structure of the problem as an adult human would,” said Oxford zoology professor Alex Kacelnik. “But we can infer from their behavior that they are sensitive to how objects act on each other.”

Most of the birds, once they learned to remove the locks, could repeat the task over and over without any error. When the puzzles were slightly modified, researchers found that the birds would respond by working on the new steps first rather than applying the techniques they had learned earlier. Soon, nothing will be safe.