Sports betting is legal in Florida now! Which is great news for the sole company with rights to facilitate the habit, Hard Rock Bet. The monopoly is so happy about… Read the rest of the article: Watch this manic, lightly dystopian advertisement promoting legal gambling in Florida

Tech giant Google has come out in favor of the right to repair as Oregon legislators consider a bill similar to the one passed recently in California. What's more, they're… Read the rest of the article: Google endorses Right to Repair in Oregon

Twitter owner Elon Musk muting accounts that annoy him is nothing new. Musk removed the Twitter account @elonjet that posted the billionaire's flight data publicly, which seemed like an apolitical,… Read the rest of the article: Musk wants Twitter to pivot to video

A deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (previously at Boing Boing) shot off another sheriff's ankle tattoo during a camping trip in 2015, according to a lawsuit. The… Read the rest of the article: LA Sheriff's deputy removed a colleague's gang tattoo by shooting it

Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation offered New Orleans residents in the exceptionally hard-hit and predominantly black Lower Ninth Ward new homes. Residents were… Read the rest of the article: Will Katrina victims ever get settlement money from Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation?

Hell yeah! In a great start to 2024, the city of Los Angeles has lifted its decades-long ban on cruising. I actually had no idea that it was technically illegal… Read the rest of the article: LA legalizes lowrider cruising again

Great news! That massive, roughly 7 million people-strong data breach from late last year is your fault, not the 23andMe's. You know your genetic lineage and racial makeup information is… Read the rest of the article: 23andMe to hacking victims: it's your fault because you reused passwords

LAPD is about to reveal a new tool for surveillance termed LAPD live. Following the approval of next year's budget, LAPD will be able to remotely access live footage from… Read the rest of the article: LAPD wants to remotely access 10,000 public and private security cameras

At the Los Angeles Times, 38 journalists were banned from covering Gaza for a minimum of three months after signing an open letter about biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.… Read the rest of the article: LA Times bans 38 of its journalists from reporting on Gaza after they sign open letter critical of coverage

So many of our waking hours are whiled away silently, even incredible moments. At some point, in the middle of the most eventful moment of your life, you'll have to… Read the rest of the article: A look at the budding "quiet western" subgenre

Jane Tardo created a remarkably cool miniature mobile rollercoaster in the back of a hearse, currently in residence haunting the streets of New Orleans. Here's how it works: first, you… Read the rest of the article: Miniature mobile rollercoaster in a hearse

At least on Pornhub and Brazzers. The Montana and North Carolina legislature have gotten hot and bothered about porn. And like many men, they've decided to make it your problem.… Read the rest of the article: Watching porn is getting harder in Montana and North Carolina

If you're like me and you're a bit of a nerd for architectural oddities and windy mountain roads less traveled, Bhutan's been on your must-see list for some time now.… Read the rest of the article: Want to see phallic houses like these? Bhutan halves high daily tourism fee

John Pilger, ethically-minded filmmaker, journalist and vocal critic of American and British foreign policy, passed away on Dec 30. For decades, Pilger was a constant, unrepentant voice in independent journalism,… Read the rest of the article: "We are all Spartacus if we want to be": journalist and filmmaker John Pilger dies at 84

Signed a year ago but effective immediately! New York has just become to first state to implement broad, mandatory right-to-repair legislation for consumer products. At the risk of sounding like… Read the rest of the article: New York's Right to Repair legislation goes live

Earlier this week, I wrote about the remarkably cool story of three Polish hackers successfully messing with "the system", as per request of their employer. They huffed and they puffed… Read the rest of the article: Polish hackers could be sued for unlocking commuter trains "bricked" by manufacturer

If you click on this link, genre-less, breathless, surrealist synthpop will pour out of your speakers. You will experience emotion(s), this much I can guarantee. Some songs are falsetto LCD… Read the rest of the article: Budokan Boys make nightmarish saxophone-laden synth pop

Polish commuter train company Lower Silesian Railway (LSR), which operates out of Wrocław, sent their trains to Serwis Pojazdów Szynowych (SPS) for fixing and general repair. SPS had a problem,… Read the rest of the article: Polish hackers successfully bypass manufacturer's "bricking" of trains

Lee Sun-kyun, the actor best known in the US for playing the rich dad in Bong Joon-Ho's 2019 film 'Parasite', was found dead in his car in Seoul following a… Read the rest of the article: 'Parasite' actor found dead after 19-hour Police Interrogation

Every day, thousands of hard working people put on their suits and ties and trudge into the office, coffee in one hand, briefcase in the other. And every day, a… Read the rest of the article: We're not goofing off here! Clowns sue Clowns.com