Neal Stephenson writes his novels the way people did in 1850. The science-fiction author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and the thousand-page Baroque Cycle has composed nearly every book since about… Read the rest of the article: Neal Stephenson's guide to writing books with a fountain pen
The Uncle Sam's Army handed millions of employees "unlimited" AI tokens, urged them to use more, and was shocked when they did. Reportedly, the Big Green Machine bought an annual… Read the rest of the article: U.S. Army finds out unlimited isn't
The Orange Menace offered a fallen service member's grieving family a ride on his special Air Force One, and proudly reported their response: "They said wow." What Trump remembers about… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains tells grieving parents they can ride on his cool plane
Elon Musk, whose promises traditionally arrive years late or not at all, says Grok Imagine will make a full-length, "historically accurate" adaptation of The Odyssey before Christmas 2026. At last,… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk promises you a historically accurate Cyclops
TL;DR: For $59.99 (reg. $250), Pok Pok gives your family lifetime access to an award-winning educational app designed to make screen time calmer, more creative, and a lot less chaotic. Parents spend a… Read the rest of the article: This is the $60 Montessori-inspired kids' app that won't leave you feeling guilty afterward
Measles is having its best year in America since 1991, which is excellent news for measles and a little embarrassing for everyone else. Most of the cases are among unvaccinated… Read the rest of the article: The anti-vax movement keeps setting records nobody wanted
On his way to receive four fallen service members at Dover, the President of the United States claimed the dead had strongly endorsed the Iran policy that sent them there.… Read the rest of the article: Trump makes the dead endorse his war
Liminal spaces are so hot right now, guys. I hope you're ready for the surge of movies about being trapped in weird, unexplainable places we're going to see in the… Read the rest of the article: It Ends is a horror movie about a road that ironically doesn't do that
If you've spent any time wandering the borderlands where technognosis, occulture, and the weirdosphere collide, you already know Erik Davis — a scholar of the weird who has spent decades… Read the rest of the article: A decade of cult podcast episodes vanished, then reappeared online
A program rumored to launch as soon as next week will allow customers to lease Apple hardware, but financing companies can lock down those devices for missed payments. The Apple… Read the rest of the article: Apple's upcoming leasing program may come with a big caveat
I just discovered, through Frank Santopadre's podcast Fun for All Ages, the radio and television universe of artist Rachel Lichtman's imagined 1960s/1970s town of Golden Sands. It's a surreal town… Read the rest of the article: Enter Rachel Lichtman's groovy, shag-carpeted world of Golden Sands
Tom the Dancing Bug: Follow Little Donald Trump's Odyssey -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Follow Little Donald Trump's Odyssey
Budget carrier EasyJet sent a Liverpool-bound flight back to Tenerife after a fight broke out among the 186 passengers aboard on Tuesday evening. "About 10" people were reportedly involved in… Read the rest of the article: 10-person passenger brawl sends EasyJet flight back to airport
Worse on Purpose is a website about the decline in product quality and the forces driving it, ranging from mundane cost-cutting to enshittification. Private equity is a regular theme, but… Read the rest of the article: Products are getting worse on purpose
At 5:10 p.m. on Saturday 26 November 1977, viewers in parts of southern England watching an ITN news summary heard the audio mutate into a deep buzz. A distorted voice… Read the rest of the article: In 1977, a voice claiming to be an alien took over British TV for four minutes
In 2014, a talking doll named My Friend Cayla was voted Innovative Toy of the Year. Three years later the German government was telling parents to destroy it. Cayla listened… Read the rest of the article: Germany told parents to destroy this talking doll
AI companies are facing a data problem of their own making: the open web is clogged with AI-generated text, and training new models on that sludge invites "model collapse," where… Read the rest of the article: AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop
Designer and writer Matt Webb has a bone to pick with the movie ratings board. Ferris Bueller's Day Off carries a PG-13 for cursing and kissing, but Frozen 2 —… Read the rest of the article: Frozen 2 should be rated R, a writer argues with data
On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah's Fly's Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground recorded a single subatomic particle arriving from space with an energy of… Read the rest of the article: A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball
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