Lady Gaga walking around stark naked in daylight

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I have no idea where this .gif comes from, or what the context might be, but it certainly seems genuine

From the comments section (thanks!):

This was from a 2013 short film called “The Abramovic Method”. It is the product of a retreat that Lady Gaga and Marina Abramovic took to upstate New York, during which Gaga was schooled in the Abramovic Method in order to heighten her awareness of her “physical and mental experience in the present moment.” In it, Gaga sings while lying on the ground, sits in a brook with Abramovic, nakedly walks through a field, nakedly hugs a giant crystal, and nakedly holds a stick in the woods. It was meant to help promote Abramovic’s Kickstarter campaign to raise $600,000 to create an institute.

US justice department sues California over new net neutrality law

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Jeff Sessions said in a statement that “states do not regulate interstate commerce – the federal government does”

Sessions’ point is accurate, but almost totally irrelevant to the law. While internet content providers (like Google or Twitter or even me) operate interstate and internationally, intent access providers (like Time-Warner and Comcast), while they may be giant international companies, operate locally as access providers, and frequently have virtual monopolies.

In reality, the California law probably doesn’t go far enough. Since Comcast and Time-Warner also provide internet content, they should probably be forbidden from controlling access at all, just as Microsoft was once forbidden to make their browser a critical component of Windows. Without net neutrality, Time-Warner or Comcast can, in theory, provide decent access speed only to their own content and block or stall everything else. While Time-Warner has been relatively transparent and fair so far (with some exceptions), Comcast has been caught many times blocking unfriendly content, and then lying about it.