“Much has changed in the year since I stepped down,” wrote Alan Rusbridger in a memo to The Guardian’s staff members on Friday, announcing his departure from his position as the media giant’s editor. His departure, amid crumbling finances and a “new regime” is just another body on the pile of long-forgotten journalism; farewell to all that is good.

The walloping success of Broadway musical Hamilton has, unsurprisingly, enticed a host of sneaky enterprisers to buy tickets in bulk and resell them at exponentially high markups. But now the producers have taken measures to hamper this practice.

According to the New York Times, Hamilton’s “producers have long sought to limit reselling by capping the number of tickets that could be purchased per person.” This week, they implemented one method: “Ticketmaster canceled purchases that exceeded those limits; on Wednesday night, the show’s producers abruptly released those tickets for sale.” Hamilton announced the sale via their Twitter account, and of course the newly available tickets were gone in a flash. Currently, “there is a 14-ticket limit per person for performances within a seven-day period” although that number fluctuates.

Lead producer Jeffrey Seller explains the protocol. “When people exceeded the limits, we refunded them, and we pooled all the refunds and put them on sale,” he said.

And for those of you lucky enough to be local—no, I’m not bitter—take heed that new rules have been enforced for those camping outside the Richard Rodgers Theater. To wit: no camping.

Sellers tells the Times that “there are brokers who hire people to stand in line for them—they set up tents, they sit in chairs with sleeping bags—and we don’t want a tent city that encourages brokers to resell.” If someone has patiently withstood weather and leg cramps for last-minute tickets, the producers “want to ensure...they are a beneficiary of the line. But this camping out has to stop, because it had crossed over into public nuisance.”

Some disgruntled fans have already taken to message boards “[complaining] that they were already caught up in the crackdown, and had lost their tickets to the show.”

Apropos nothing, if anyone finds it in their heart to bestow tickets upon a poor, but avid fan, this writer is, shall we say, willing to wait for it — and to listen to “It’s Quiet Uptown” on repeat as she gently weeps and her cat stalks away in annoyance.

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With the Republican presidential frontrunner looking essentially like a sentient, bigoted apricot right now, the party is starting to flail wildly for anyone else.

That anyone, it turns out, might just be Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), a man who once called the Donald Trump campaign “creepy,” and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), a man who can sure take down a pickle. According to The Washington Post, ex-presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been courting the two as a candidate through whom he might live.

Romney is among those who have made personal overtures to both men in recent days, according to several people with knowledge of the former Massachusetts governor’s activities.

It’s not clear how much credence we should give this idea, though. Another name that’s also been floated is that of Mark Cuban, a man whose chances are about the same as a burlap sack of dollar bills.

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Residents of an apartment complex near Madrid returned home on Saturday following a fire at a nearby tire dump that produced a massive cloud of thick, toxic smoke the day prior, but not with the all clear—officials recommended that residents keep windows shut and wear surgical masks when outside.

The Castilla-La Mancha regional government did rule that danger is now lower in the area—which lies just outside of Madrid, in the town of Sesena, Spain—according to U.S. News & World Report. No injuries were reported in the incident. Smoke engulfed the area near the dump early on Friday, reportedly containing 110,000 tons of used tires and with the cloud rising over 2,300 feet into the sky. Per U.S. News & World Report, authorities believe the fire was intentional but cannot further investigate until the embers cool down.

The L.A. Times reports that about 70 percent of the tires burned by Friday night, and that people could see the smoke cloud over 20 miles away in Madrid. According to the L.A. Times, the dump is known locally as the “tire cemetery” and authorities deemed it illegal in 2003 due to lacking proper permits.

Authorities haven’t decided just what to do with the area since deeming it illegal, and these photos from the BBC show how much of a wasteland it looks to be. Per the L.A. Times, Sesena mayor Carlos Velazquez told a radio station that the dump is believed to be Europe’s largest at more than 25 acres of land.

According to U.S. News & World Report, online newspaper El Espanol published a document on Saturday that detailed a proposal for the future of the tire dump from just a few days prior to the fire. The proposal came from a government-owned industrial-waste management company called EMGRISA on May 9, suggesting that the regional government should take over the dump in order to turn it into an energy source.

Here are a few more photos from the scene, from the Associated Press:

A young baseball player showed up to his little league game this weekend, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to win. But thanks to the intolerance of the local community in Mansfield, Connecticut, the bear was turned away.

According to KSFM News, the one-year-old black bear was first spotted near a park by residents who were watching a middle school little league game.

Reporter Kara Sunlun explained the bear’s plight in a Facebook post:

Here’s a close up of the bear in the tree near King Phillip Middle School. Getting lots of attention at little league practice. Police say they’ll let him stay, he’s about a year old and not a danger. But if anyone sees a mama bear call WHPD!

The unfair discrimination against bears in youth sports teams must end. Justice for bears!

The person with the most necessary job in the world, FIFA’s chairman of audit and compliance, has resigned, because FIFA’s top officials on Friday passed a measure that allows them to fire auditing, finance, and ethics officers at will.

Domenico Scala, a Swiss businessman, quit once the FIFA Council voted 186-1 to adopt the power to dismiss the watchdogs who keep the governing body for world soccer from devolving into a naked criminal syndicate. Following the vote at FIFA’s annual conference in Mexico City, Scala resigned from the Audit & Compliance Committee. It’s seen as an affront to new FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who otherwise emerged from the conference with a nigh-dictatorial hold on the organization.

In his resignation statement, Scala said the measure makes it possible “for the Council to impede investigations against single members at any time, by dismissing the responsible Committee members or by keeping them acquiescent through the threat of a dismissal. Thereby, those bodies are factually deprived of their independence and are in danger of becoming auxiliary agents of those whom they should actually supervise.”

FIFA, in response, issued a statement saying that it “regrets” that Scala “misinterpreted” the purpose of the measure. Per Keir Radnedge, here’s the text of what was passed: “The Council proposes that the Congress authorise the Council to appoint the office holders for the remaining vacant positions within the respective committees of the judicial bodies, the audit and compliance committee and of the governance committee, until the 67th FIFA congress and to dismiss any office holders of these committees until the 67th FIFA Congress which shall come into effect immediately.” FIFA did not make clear how, in fact, Scala could read that and conclude his post as independent auditor was any longer worth a bucket of warm piss.

By assuming the power to determine in effect who would investigate its financial dealings and to what extent, the Council and Infantino made clear business would continue as usual. Infantino took over this past winter for the terminally corrupt Sepp Blatter, who created the ethics committee as a fig leaf in 2012 only to see it function as actually advertised, and send him packing for many, many reasons. Blatter was banned from the now-slightly-more-beautiful game for eight years. His replacement seems determined not to repeat his mistakes, i.e., facing a meaningful challenge from his own in-house investigators.

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If you’re ready to cut the cord on vacuuming, the Hoover Linx features an 18-volt battery, a motorized brush that you can turn on and off, and an easy-to-empty receptacle. It normally retails for $120-$130, but today, you can grab one for $113, the best price we’ve seen in months.

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I bought a few of these stadium seats about a month ago, and they were fantastic for a long afternoon of sitting on bleachers. They’re also great for picnics, music festivals, or any other occasion that might call for sitting on the ground.

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Whether you’re worried about Zika, or just don’t want to feel itchy after your next barbecue, this insect fogger can kill all of the mosquitos hiding in your yard, and keep them away for up to six hours. This is a pre-treating device, meaning you have to spray the yard, and let it disperse for a few minutes before your guests arrive, but reviews indicate that it really does work.

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I’ve collected several of these cables over the last few months, and while I haven’t used them long enough to know if they’re actually more durable, they definitely feel weighty and premium. Note that this deal is available on space grey, blue, and red.

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Mrs. Meyer’s hand and dish soap is incredibly popular (at least judging by online reviews), and Amazon’s taking an extra 20% off 3-packs of both today. The coupon will work whether you use Subscribe & Save or not, but of course, you’ll save extra if you subscribe, and you can always cancel after your first delivery.

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This water-resistant Mpow Bluetooth speaker has been popular among our readers during a few $20 deals, but today, you can get it for just $15 with code DLT9DDZJ. It’s hardly the only water-resistant speaker in this price range, but I appreciate the suction cup mount that allows you to stick it to your shower wall.

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It’s a new day, meaning Donald Trump, the presumptive (or presumptuous, depending on your camp) Republican nominee for president, has a new ax to grind.

After The New York Times published a spectacular deep dive on Satuday about his long history of sexism and misogyny in his dealings with women, Trump took to Twitter to express his outrage Sunday.

As The Hill points out, one of the reporters on the piece noted that the accounts in it aren’t even inaccurate—something which Trump actually doesn’t say himself.

It seems that what Trump is really mad at, at this point, is that they got it right.

Manchester United’s match against Bournemouth has been abandoned after a “Code Red” situation led to stands being evacuated and the discovery of a suspicious package.

The match had originally been delayed for 45 minutes before officials elected to abandon the match. It’s one of only a few that actually matter on this “Championship Sunday” in the EPL, as teams fight for their positions in the UEFA club competitions.

We’ll update this post as more news becomes available.

Update (10:25 a.m.): BBC is speculating if Manchester City maintains its lead over Swansea—currently 1-0—the match may not ever be played, as Manchester United would not be able to climb into the top four to qualify for the Champions League. Also:

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Update (10:55 a.m.): The Sun’s Neil Ashton told NBC the bomb squad would be using a “controlled explosion” to deal with the suspicious package.

Update (11:08 a.m.): Less important, but still heartbreaking:

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Update (11:41 a.m.): NBC is reporting the players are finally being permitted to leave Old Trafford with a police escort.

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“It’s like, ‘Hey, Jason, we have 10 people here; we’re going to bury them at potter’s field next week. If you want to take a look, see if you can use some,’” licensed funeral director Jason Chiaramonte told The New York Times for a stunning look at mass burials in New York City’s off-limits paupers field.

Sarah Palin may soon exchange her current occupation as professional rambler for another more structured job as the second hand to a shouting, shriveled piece of dried mango.

According to political insider and barely-awake neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Sarah Palin is among the names that Republican presidential nominee-to-be Donald Trump may tap for his vice president. Carson told The Washington Post that Palin is among a list that includes John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Chris Christie.

Imagine if Trump actually chose Palin? Imagine if we had a repeat of 2008? Imagine if we had to endure another six months of the former Alaska Gov. shouting about mavericks and Bill Nye and kicking ISIS’ ass?

Better yet, just imagine Sarah Palin in the White House, serving as the Vice President of the United States of America. I’ll bet it’d look something like this.

Every week, a quarter of Americans take a painkiller that could be dampening our collective feelings of empathy. In a paper published online this week, scientists claim that acetaminophen, Tylenol’s main ingredient, makes people more likely to think that other people’s pain isn’t a big deal.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Ohio State University published their findings in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience after studying the effects of the drug on between 80 and about 120 college students across three different experiments.

One group of students drank a liquid with 1,000 mg of acetaminophen, while another took a placebo. An hour later, everyone read short stories about situations such as feeling emotional pain from the death of a parent, or physical pain from a knife that had cut through to the bone. The students who drank the acetaminophen assigned lower ratings for perceived pain and distress than the students who didn’t.

In the second experiment, participants socialized with other people and then, while alone, watched a game supposedly involving three of the people they had just met. The game showed two people excluding the third from an activity, and asked students to rate how hurt the excluded member was. Again, students who took the painkiller assigned lower pain ratings.

The third experiment was less conclusive: the subjects received two-second blasts of white noise and then rated how unpleasant it was for themselves, and how unpleasant it would be for an anonymous other participant. The students who took the painkiller gave lower pain ratings for others when compared to the students who didn’t—but they also gave lower pain ratings for themselves.

There are a few important things to note before blaming Tylenol for yesterday’s family fight: The sample size is quite small and the team doesn’t know why this effect happens, though they theorize that it is because there is an overlap in our ability to experience pain and our ability to empathize with others. Acetaminophen has numerous effects on the human body. Earlier studies have shown that it makes people less likely to feel joy and that it can help help treat anxiety and existential dread.

Given how common acetaminophen is (it’s present in more than 600 products) it’s worth looking into what the researchers have called its “broader social side effects” and whether other painkillers could have similar results.

Up next? They plan to study ibuprofen.

[Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, via Washington Post]

“A number of North Korean caAndrei Lankovalists I’ve talked to say that they’ve never had it so good,” Russian historian Andrei Lankov told The Washington Post, for a story about “Pyonghattan,” the high society occupied by North Korea’s so-called brat pack. Funny enough, the rest of the country’s citizens probably don’t agree.

A muralist with either ardently delightful and/or disturbing political fan fiction-related fantasies has created a mural of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin making out. How aroused are you on a scale of “I didn’t know kissing involved so much staring, also why am I having a panic attack” to “my sexy fun time organs have turned to ash”?

The mural of your new favorite metaphor was unveiled in Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 13, and is situated on the storefront of a barbecue joint named the Keule Ruke, according to The Washington Post. Here is an Instagram photo of the artist, a local named Mindaugas Bonanu, posing in front of his masterpiece with Keule Ruke owner Dominykas Čečkauskas. Note how “#pulledpork” is a hashtag included in the ‘gram, and then promptly realize you will never forget that fact.

As The Washington Post noted, the mural is an homage to a mural painted on the Berlin Wall in 1990 by the Russian painter Dmitri Vrubel, which depicted a fraternal kiss between former communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. The original mural was based on a kiss that actually happened in 1979—a common practice at the time. Vrubel’s work, which is still intact today, is named “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love,” which is exactly what you were thinking right now, weren’t you?

In an interview with the Baltic News Service, Čečkauskas explained that the animus behind the piece was inspired by the “similarities between the two heroes [Putin and Trump],” both of whom have expressed mutual admiration for each other in the past.

“They both have an ego that is too big, and it is funny that they get along well,” he continued. “We are in a sort of a Cold War again, and America may get a president who will want to be friends with Russia,” he added.

I am very much hoping that after Putin and Trump inevitably announce their engagement, their globally-televised wedding will feature Russia’s prime minister riding a horse down the aisle, shirtless. Thank Claude that Obama repealed DOMA, everyone—maybe Putin will follow suit?

If you would like some long shots of our Instagram generation’s version of this Klimt painting, here you go:

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Police have concluded their assessment of the suspicious package that led to the abandonment of today’s Manchester United-Bournmouth match, concluding that while the device was “incredibly lifelike,” it was “not viable.”

Following the other nine matches already played, there is still an opportunity for Manchester United to make it into the Champions League—they just have to beat Bournemouth by 19 goals, whenever that match is finally played.

Update (5:30 p.m.): The fake bomb was accidentally left in the toilet by a company that had earlier been conducting a training exercise for dogs:

Following today’s controlled explosion, we have since found out that the item was a training device which had accidentally been left by a private company following a training exercise involving explosive search dogs.

Whilst this item did not turn out to be a viable explosive, on appearance this device was as real as could be, and the decision to evacuate the stadium was the right thing to do, until we could be sure that people were not at risk.

Update (5:45 p.m.): Here are some photos of bomb-sniffing dogs, since we have an excuse to post them. Good dogs!

Donald Trump has never been one to speak kindly of women, particularly women who have the gall to call him out on his egregious transgressions.

This week, his beef with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren resulted in the trading of countless tweets, with Warren coming out a hero among heroes in her absolute destruction of the Republican presidential candidate.

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But Trump is still holding onto his anger, living up to the word Warren used to describe him: “bully.” In an interview with The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, Trump so lovingly referred to Warren as “Pocahontas,” referring to a controversy over her claim to having Native American heritage.

When I asked if he had been chided by any Republicans for his Twitter feud with Elizabeth Warren, he replied, “You mean Pocahontas?” So much for reining it in.

It’s worth noting, when talking about offensive stereotypes about Native American people, that Trump has opposed the renaming of Mount McKinley to Denali, which was done out of respect to Native Americans. He’s also said that he is “extremely proud” that the awful term “Redskins” is the name of Washington, D.C.’s football team.

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But, hey—at least he’s not calling Warren a slob, dog, or pig this time—or threatening to punish her for having reproductive rights.

Most wouldn’t argue that getting paid to drive cars is a dream job, but Google is putting a new spin on that concept in its car division. The company put out a job listing looking to hire people to sit behind the wheel of its self-driving vehicles and, well, not drive—unless absolutely necessary.

The job title is a “vehicle-safety specialist” and pays $20 per hour to work in pairs with another specialist inside of the cars. Testing occurs in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, Arizona, and the requirements on the job listing include a Bachelor’s degree, no criminal history, a clear driving record and the ability to type at least 40 words per minute.

According to Digital Trends, one specialist will sit behind the wheel of the car in order to take over if necessary—which is probably a good thing, considering a Google car brushed up against a bus recently—while the “passenger” specialist will submit reports from a laptop as it tracks the testing. The passenger will focus on software systems and relay feedback to Google engineers.

The job is five days per week for six to eight hours each day, and Digital Trends reports that contracts range from 12 to 24 months. It’s not the most permanent job in the world, but hey, getting paid to drive cars—well, technically— isn’t such a bad thing.

John McAfee, noted liar and one-time creator of anti-virus software, apparently tried to convince reporters that he hacked the encryption used on WhatsApp. To do this, he attempted to send them phones with preinstalled malware and then convince them he was reading their encrypted conversations.

In April, WhatsApp announced that it had added automatic end-to-end encryption for its billion plus users. The company touted the move as one that would help protect and secure the communications of all WhatsApp users around the world.

McAfee has a history of being shifty with the press about his alleged cybersecurity exploits. In March, for instance, during a media tour that included appearances on CNN and RT, McAfee claimed he would be able to hack into the phone of San Bernadino terrorist Syed Farook. McAfee never proved his claims, and later admitted that he was lying in order to garner a “shitload of public attention.” And earlier this year, McAfee hedged on his terrorism-prevention ideals for America during an interview with CNN about his Libertarian candidacy for president, saying that his strategy for preventing homegrown terrorism was “difficult to explain.”

Now, it seems McAfee has tried to trick reporters again, by sending them phones pre-cooked with malware containing a keylogger, and convincing them he somehow cracked the encryption on WhatsApp. According to cybersecurity expert Dan Guido, who was contacted by a reporter trying to verify McAfee’s claims, McAfee planned to send this reporter two Samsung phones in sealed boxes. Then, experts working for McAfee would take the phones out of the boxes in front of the reporters and McAfee would read the messages being sent on WhatsApp over a Skype call.

According to sources who spoke to Gizmodo anonymously because they were not authorized by their employer to speak to the press, McAfee offered this story to at least the International Business Times and Russia Today. One additional source said he also shopped the story to Business Insider.

“[John McAfee was offering to a different couple of news organizations to mail them some phones, have people show up, and then demonstrate with those two phones that [McAfee] in a remote location would be able to read the message as it was sent across the phones,” Guido said. “I advised the reporter to go out and buy their own phones, because even though they come in a box it’s very easy to get some saran wrap and a hair dryer to rebox them.”

Earlier today, an article titled “WhatsApp Message Hacked By John McAfee And Crew”appeared on the website for Cybersecurity Ventures, a research firm that purports to specialize in the cybersecurity industry. In it, McAfee blamed Google and not WhatsApp for the exploit in the phone, but the article’s headline claims that McAfee hacked WhatsApp. McAfee never actually claims to have hacked WhatsApp in the article, but says he found a serious flaw in the Android design.

It seems that McAfee tried to peddle a lie to multiple reporters—that he had hacked the encryption on WhatsApp—but then changed his story when reporters expressed concerns about their ability to verify this supposed hack.

Moxie Marlinspike, who developed the encryption protocol used in WhatsApp and assisted in implementing it, told Gizmodo that McAfee also admitted his plan to him. “Some reporters that had been contacted by McAfee about a demo [...] got in touch with me,” Marlinspike told Gizmodo. “I talked to McAfee on the phone, he reluctantly told me that it was a malware thing with pre-cooked phones, and all the outlets he’d contacted decided not to cover it after he gave them details about how it’d work.”

Here is a full statement sent to Gizmodo after a phone interview with John McAfee. The phone interview discussed whether McAfee had hacked WhatsApp and whether he tried to mislead reporters. The “article” in question is the piece in Cybersecurity Ventures:

Here is my formal response - written:

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines. If you actually READ the article, which you apparently did not, I made it absolutely CLEAR that was was NOT a WhatsApp issue. It was a Google issue. You slam me for tweeting an article, who’s headline you do not like. Surely, the article is what is important, not the headline. If I am wrong, them we as a society, are fucked Please quote me word for word if you have the fucking balls. Which, I know in advance, you do not.

Of course the phones had malware on them. How that malware got there is the story, which we will release after speaking with Google. It involves a serious flaw in the Android architecture.

Update: This post has been updated to include more details about McAfee being shifty with the press, and to specify the nature of Gizmodo’s inquiries to McAfee for comment.

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In an effort to quell the frantic conservative Twitter eggs currently running amok online, Mark Zuckerberg has resorted to a line of recourse that seems almost too good to be true (for everyone who’s not Mark Zuckerberg). Because this coming Wednesday, the Facebook man who struggles to understand basic social cues is going to be forced to sit in a room with conservative lunatic Glenn Beck and 11 other “conservative thought leaders.” Sometimes dreams really can come true.

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Glenn Beck has been one of the more vocal opponents of Facebook’s alleged conservative news suppression (which Zuck continues to deny), and it has apparently won him a seat at Zuck’s alt-right roundtable, which will also feature Fox News’ Dana Perino.

Beck wrote about the invitation in a Facebook post, saying first, “I am trying to rearrange my schedule to see if I can make it. It would be interesting to look him in the eye as he explains and a win for all voices if we can come to a place of real trust with this powerful tool.” But then ended with, “I am going Wednesday. I hope to join business icon and a woman with a spine of steel — Carly Fiorina.”

Several questions come to mind: Did he rearrange his schedule in the course of writing the post? Does this mean Carly Fiorina was invited to? Is Glenn just kind of hoping Carly gets to come? Does he know how rude it is to invite someone without telling the host?

But more importantly still, who are the 10 or so other conservative thought leaders joining what we can only pray will be a Facebook Live event for the ages? Personally, my Zuckerberg conservative influencer fantasy team is: Alex Jones, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Milo Yiannopoulos, Weev, Sarah Palin, Sally Langston from Scandal’s The Liberty Report, the mods of r/TheRedPill, and Ron Paul.

Please share your top picks below. And god bless America.

[h/t Reuters]