White Lotus fans, here's your chance to live like Harper and Daphne! Check into the Villa Tasca, a 20-acre compound in Palermo, Italy. It's available for $6k a night on… Read the rest of the article: Want to stay in the Sicilian palazzo featured in The White Lotus? It's yours for $6k per night on Airbnb

While Tucker Carlson and the GOP are rootin' for Putin's power-mad campaign to seize Ukraine (because they want the U.S. to be a christofacsist state like Russia), most of the… Read the rest of the article: 15 reasons why the world needs Ukrainian victory, by a historian of political atrocity

Three artists have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against several AI art generators, including Stability.ai and Midjourney. The lawsuit alleges that the artists' copyright was violated when Stability.ai and other… Read the rest of the article: Do AI images violate copyright? A lawyer explains the Stable Diffusion lawsuit

The production values are off the hook in Randy Rainbow's latest political parody musical number, "Speaker of the House," based on "Master of the House" from Les Misérables. All your… Read the rest of the article: Watch Randy Rainbow's hilarious new musical number about Kevin McCarthy

Facebook's gol' durn algorithm is acting up again, say humans working at Meta, who apparently have no control over the automated system that approved ads calling for the murder of… Read the rest of the article: Facebook approved ads calling for murder of Brazilian president's children

George Anthony Devolder Zabrovsky Santos, pride of the GOP, was never a drag queen. Though plenty of photos and videos appear to show him in drag, we know it was… Read the rest of the article: George Santos lookalike in drag queen competition appears to be saying "Devolder"

you don't need a nutcracker to open notoriously tough-shelled walnuts. All you have to do is put two walnuts into your hand and make a fist. But, as explained in… Read the rest of the article: Essential knowledge: how to crack walnuts with your bare hands

Stocks & Securities Limited, a financial firm based in Kingston, Jamaica, had some unfortunate news for one of its clients, Usain Bolt. The $12.7 million you have in your account… Read the rest of the article: Finance firm tells sprinter Usain Bolt it doesn't know what happened to his $12.7 million

My friend Kevin Kelly, a co-founder of Wired and my partner at Recomendo, says, "I have some strongly-stated, loosely-held hunches about the probability of life elsewhere in the universe. My… Read the rest of the article: Author Kevin Kelly's "12 assumptions for extraterrestrial life"

Walter Masterson joined a nearly all-male group of forced-birthers protesting in front of a Planned Parenthood office in New York and pretended to be one of them. From the YouTube… Read the rest of the article: Man trolls forced-birthers blocking Planned Parenthood

Marisa Kabas is the reporter and MSNBC columnist who broke the story about a Brazilian drag queen named Eula Rochard who claims she was friends with Santos when he used… Read the rest of the article: This video shows George Santos in drag, says Brazilian drag queen

In a 1988 post, computer scientist Les Earnest recalls the time he was suspected of being a Japanese spy when he was a 12-year-old living in San Deigo, California, in… Read the rest of the article: Crazy story about a guy who got an FBI record at age 12 for making a secret code with his friend

When I was in high school in Boulder, Colorado, there was a guy (I'll call him J) who we were all friends with. J was likable, kind, and funny. He… Read the rest of the article: George Santos says his mother was in 9/11 fire, but records show she wasn't in the U.S.

The senior engineering manager of Twitter's ad business told staff yesterday that Twitter's ad revenue is down 40% from last year, according to The Information. Siddharth Rao also shared the… Read the rest of the article: Twitter ad revenue is down 40% and failed to meet Q4 revenue target

A Reddit user named HBear123 posted a video revealing that an "extra large" glass of tea from iTea in Singapore doesn't hold more tea than the less expensive "large" glass.… Read the rest of the article: Video reveals that "tall" glass of tea holds the same amount as "large" but costs 30 cents more

Marshall of Wristwatch Revival website restored a Rolex GMT Master watch from the 1960s. The watchband was loaded with gross gunk, which Marshall had to scrape off. Then he completely… Read the rest of the article: Watch this restoration of beat-up 1960s Rolex watch

A 1923 comic for New York World by cartoonist H. T. Webster (1885-1952) depicts a cartoonist standing next to an "Idea Dynamo" powered contraption that's drawing a cartoon (it looks… Read the rest of the article: This 1923 cartoon predicted the 2023 advent of generative AI

The Wikimedia Foundation today announced a slew of new features to "make the site more welcoming and easier to use." Updates include an improved table of contents for articles, easier… Read the rest of the article: Wikipedia gets an update, first one in a decade

AI generates ChatGPT's output, but the test output used to build its safety system was reviewed by human workers based in Kenya who are paid a pittance. Some of the… Read the rest of the article: ChatGPT pays Kenyan workers $2 an hour to review obscene content

Yakutia, Siberia is the coldest inhabited place on Earth, where the temperature drops to -95°F. There's no running water, and simple tasks like heating the house, bathing, and washing clothes… Read the rest of the article: What it's like to bathe and do laundry when it is -95°F