On a particularly rainy Scottish Saturday in October, Johnny Bacigalupo and Rob Hussey took their Tesla out to enjoy a nice dinner in downtown Edinburgh. But after the meal, they… Read the rest of the article: Scottish couple learns the hard way that Tesla warranties do not cover climate change
Thanks to the ever-delightful Public Domain Review, I've just discovered the 1901 short film The Over-Incubated Baby. In the minute-long movie, filmmaker Walter R. Booth uses the still-natal medium to… Read the rest of the article: Watch "The Over-Incubated Baby," a surreal short film from 1901
All cops are bulbasaur. That's my general takeaway from this recent 404 Media investigation, in which journalist Jason Koebler uncovers bodycam footage of a bunch of LAPD officers who are… Read the rest of the article: FOIA footage reveals LAPD officers ignoring a robbery to play Pokémon Go
Last week, I received an email from a PR firm about a new graphic novel pitched as "What We Do In The Shadows meets Monster Squad." Of everything that came… Read the rest of the article: CEREAL is the grimdark reimagining of breakfast mascots I never knew I needed
Meta recently announced a new type of pointless use for AI-generated art: sticker reactions! As The Verge explains: Powered by Meta's Llama 2 large language model — the company's ChatGPT rival —… Read the rest of the article: Facebook's new AI -generated stickers include Marx with boobs and Luigi with an AR-15
Like most AI-generated software, Bing's new DALL-E3-powered image creator comes with some strict content guidelines. While some asshole on Not Twitter will inevitably whinge about how this is some sort… Read the rest of the article: Bing's new AI image creator shows Mickey, Kermit, SpongeBob, and more all doing 9/11
A baby beaver has been spotted in London — for the first time in roughly 400 years. The furry dam builders had been hunted to extinction, but there's been a… Read the rest of the article: London gets some baby beaver for the first time in centuries
On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted a launch event for the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative on behalf of the US Department of State. As… Read the rest of the article: US Secretary of State covers "Hoochie Coochie Man"on guitar at State Department function
The online independent music platform Bandcamp — the single best place to buy digital music, in my humble opinion! — has just laid off 16% of its staff, and announced… Read the rest of the article: Epic Games sells Bandcamp, just six months after employees try to unionize
Move over, Florida Man — it's finally time for Florida Crab to shine! Amongst the many environmental threats facing the Sunshine State from every angle, Floridian coral reefs are in… Read the rest of the article: Scientists release hundreds of thousands of crabs in Florida to protect coral reefs
"Watch the first trailer for the new TOXIC AVENGER reboot starring Peter Dinklage" is not a string of English-language words I ever thought I'd type. And yet, here we are… Read the rest of the article: Watch the first trailer for the new Toxic Avenger reboot starring Peter Dinklage
Earlier this month, I wrote about how musician Jeff Rosenstock was making waves by publicizing the absolutely ridiculous merchandise sale percentages that touring musicians are forced to hand over to… Read the rest of the article: LiveNation spins greed into a PR win
A recent study in the journal of Current Biology titled "Associative learning in the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora" presents evidence that some species of gelatinous medusa are capable of associative… Read the rest of the article: New study: tiny brainless jellyfish somehow capable of forming of memories
What do you get when you cross an electric kazoo with a distortion pedal? BLINK-18KAZOO Okay so the visual pun doesn't work quite as well as the aural one. But… Read the rest of the article: Finally, a kazoo cover of Blink-182
Within hours of the publication of this article, Netflix's DVD division will be finally, truly dead. And so, over at The Verge, Janko Roettgers digs into the (admittedly impressive!) technology… Read the rest of the article: A fascinating look at Netflix's now-defunct DVD shipping assembly line
Surprise, surprise: the FBI has unprecedented access to wild technology that allows for horrifying overreaches of privacy; and the vast, vast majority of them haven't actually gone through the formal… Read the rest of the article: 95% of FBI agents aren't trained on facial recognition tech but still use it anyway
Barbie Oppenheimer née Jones spent her career as a speech pathologists, first at Massachusetts General Hospital, then later as a full-time professor at Boston University. She took her job "a… Read the rest of the article: The real-life Barbie Oppenheimer has had a very strange summer
From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi is a new short story collection celebrating the 40th anniversary of Return of the Jedi. The book features an incredible… Read the rest of the article: Disney quietly removes jizz from Star Wars continuity
Do you like hot pink? Well then Zillow has a listing for you right in sunny Hudson, Wisconsin! Unless you plan on doing cocaine in the bathroom, which is strictly… Read the rest of the article: No coke allowed in the bathroom at this million dollar Barbie Dream House
Lab-grown meat is quickly scaling up to become an affordable cruelty-free protein source that's still technically made of actual meat — just, ya know, without any actual living, conscious organisms… Read the rest of the article: Religious authorities establish new rules for lab-grown Kosher or Halal meat
