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Creative technologist Nicole He modified OpenAI's GPT-2 language model to generate questions for happy mutant pop star Billie Eilish and also write Eilish-esque lyrics. Vogue Magazine published Eilish's answers to… Read the rest of the article: Watch Billie Eilish interviewed by an A.I.

Robert Pattinson is The Batman in director Matt Reeves's take on the dark knight. Pattinson is best known from the Twilight series while Reeves was behind the lens on Cloverfield… Read the rest of the article: First look: Robert Pattinson is… The Batman

NBC5 Dallas/Fort Worth reporter Katy Blakey posted impressive video from a road in Southlake, Texas where thieves picked a Chevrolet Silverado clean, leaving not much more than the shell of… Read the rest of the article: Impressive video of truck picked clean by thieves

Three female mountain gorillas — one pregnant — and one male infant were killed by lightning in Uganda's Mgahinga National Park. With just 1,000 or so left in the world,… Read the rest of the article: Four endangered mountain gorillas killed by lightning

My old friend and favorite DJ, DF Tram, pulls threads from from far-out jazz, psych, experimental ambient, spoken word, downtempo EDM, and avant-garde classical to create transgenre ambient mixes. A… Read the rest of the article: Marvelous mix of chill-out, ambient, and experimental sounds from DF Tram

Yesterday, I posted Sam Rowley's fantastic photo of two brawling mice on a subway platform that won the London Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice… Read the rest of the article: Photo of boxing orangutan wins wildlife photography award

As the world gets weirder, so do the faux passengers that unscrupulous drivers employ to gain access the HOV lane. Washington State Patrol officer Rick Johnson pulled over a speeding… Read the rest of the article: Pet dinosaur does not count as passenger in the HOV lane

Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones who died last month was also a scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, having penned two books about the great English poet. Before Jones's… Read the rest of the article: Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app

On May 2, 2020, Carson, California will be host to an incredible 1980s music revival. The Cruel World Festival lineup includes Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic… Read the rest of the article: Stellar lineup for 1980s music festival: Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen…

Seung Lee double knit this blanket based on data about his son's sleep patterns during his first year of life. "Each stitch represents 6 minutes of time spent awake or… Read the rest of the article: Father knitted a data viz blanket of his infant's sleep patterns

In Kansas, the Shawnee Mission Board of Education adopted a three-year unilateral contract for teachers that their union fought against. On Monday, middle school teacher Amanda Coffman tendered her resignation… Read the rest of the article: Watch this teacher's brutal resignation speech to her school board

Sam Rowley's fantastic image of mice brawling over crumbs on a London Underground platform won the London Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice award. "With… Read the rest of the article: Photo of mice brawling on a subway platform wins wildlife photography award

Michaem Schmitt's (very) short film Hiccups was featured in Clive Barker's half-hour TV special "Short Screamers" (2003) and won on America's Funniest Home Videos in 2005. It reminds me of… Read the rest of the article: Hiccups: a cute/scary one minute film seen on Clive Barker's Short Screamers and AFV

For nearly forty years, master Nyabinghi percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah has collaborated with dub magician Adrian Sherwood/On-U Sound and friends in a psychedelic reggae ensemble called African Head Charge. Sherwood… Read the rest of the article: Psychedelic reggae for deep heads

Yesterday, Christian Mosco of Volusia County, Florida was sentenced to ten years in prison after impersonating two assistant state prosecutors and attempting to use a fake court document to drop… Read the rest of the article: Florida man impersonated state prosecutors in order to drop charges against himself

And you thought that the Reveal fake sunlight-through-trees projector that I posted about last month was spendy at $320! Mitsubishi's new LED faux skylights will sell for $6000-$7000 depending on… Read the rest of the article: Mitsubishi's new fake skylights use color changing LEDs and cost $7000

This video contains excellent albeit unspoken advice regarding door chains: Don't use them. Peepholes, people, peepholes.

Accused professional shoplifter Twanna Trotter, 29, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was allegedly running an online clothing store out of her basement that was stocked with $20,000 in stolen merchandise.… Read the rest of the article: Woman busted for allegedly running "the QVC of stolen clothes"

College students have been majoring in cannabis for decades, but it's finally legit at Colorado State University-Pueblo. On Friday, the Colorado Department of Higher Education approved a new bachelor of… Read the rest of the article: You can major in cannabis at this university. Officially.