During Grandpa Puddin' Brain's first term, he declared that COVID-19 wasn't a big deal. He asserted that he wouldn't close the country down for a flu, so COVID wasn't gonna… Read the rest of the article: CDC buried this COVID vaccine study, so scientists published it anyway
Who ruined the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool?! Who took something that had been fine for decades and turned it into a national shitshow by farming out renovation work to their… Read the rest of the article: Trump's base has theories about who sabotaged the reflecting pool
Would you waterboard yourself for fun? What about pulling out your fingernails? Or hooking a car battery up to your temples? If you answered yes to all of the above,… Read the rest of the article: Upcoming indie game traps you in captcha hell
No, it's immersive, see? Grand Theft Auto 6 is all about pulling daring heists, so Rockstar has ensured you need to pull one in real life before you even get… Read the rest of the article: GTA 6 is officially an $80 game — here's what you get
TL;DR: The certified refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G8 packs a Core i5 processor, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and Windows 11 Pro for $274.97 (reg. $899.98) during Deal Days. The laptop industry would… Read the rest of the article: Deal Days knocks this HP EliteBook workhorse down to $275
The Orange Menace's newly renovated Reflecting Pool turned green, peeled apart, and became a national monument to contractor-grade grift, so naturally, Trump has identified the real villain: an alleged Hillary-Biden-ActBlue… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal
8BitDo's Arcade Controller Pro is a Hit Box-style device that trades the arcade stick for a button-only layout. The new model tightens the cluster and adds a fifth programmable button… Read the rest of the article: 8BitDo's button-only arcade controller gets a tiny screen
TL;DR: Babbel's lifetime plan gives you access to 14 languages, 10,000+ hours of lessons, AI conversation practice, and courses created by 100+ linguists—all for a one-time $134.99 payment during Deal Days. Learning… Read the rest of the article: Learn 14 languages from 100+ linguists while this Deal Days Babbel offer is still valid
Carlos Castaneda's 1968 book The Teachings of Don Juan recounted his apprenticeship to a peyote-dosing Yaqui shaman named don Juan. The University of California Press published it as anthropology; it… Read the rest of the article: Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult
In 1916, a bearded Long Island showman named Louis Enricht gathered reporters on his lawn and offered them a gasoline substitute that would "sell for a penny a gallon" —… Read the rest of the article: In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford
Writer John Biggs wanted no part of psychedelics, he writes in his newsletter — he pictured being "trapped in a room with a bunch of weirdos while they sang songs… Read the rest of the article: Mushrooms got him off antidepressants, so he built TripSitter
Pete Hegseth gave the flu virus a stirring lecture about freedom, and the flu virus responded by infecting hundreds of recruits at Lackland Air Force Base. This was not an… Read the rest of the article: Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches
The artificial intelligence revolution has reached the point where management begs employees to stop feeding PDFs into the robot so it can burp out PowerPoint decks nobody wanted in the… Read the rest of the article: Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it
Yet again, the President of the United States, at an official-looking manufacturing/economy event, performed microphone goblin theater while everyone pretended this was normal governance. This is the central mystery of… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains visits a truck factory, makes haunted chew toy noises
Kevin Mitnick, the legendary hacker, once tried to social-engineer his way into Novell's network by phoning a network admin named Shawn Nunley late at night, posing as an employee who… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911
Please Remain Seated, Permanezca Sentados Por Favor! A 13-year-old boy at Disneyland climbed out of his Tiana's Bayou Adventure ride vehicle before the end of the attraction and then received… Read the rest of the article: Teen exits Disneyland ride, learns why you keep your arms, legs, and body inside the boat
Radio-frequency chips — the parts in every phone, car radar, and satellite link that send and receive signals — have stayed a hand-crafted "dark art," mastered over years, even as… Read the rest of the article: AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones
America's 250th birthday celebration has reached the "FBI director's girlfriend is available" stage of event planning, which is the sort of sentence that makes the Founders look smart for dying… Read the rest of the article: What luck, America! Kash Patel's girlfriend joins Trump's talent-fleeing Freedom 250 event
It's no secret that AI is frigging terrible for us. The experts building it scarcely understand what they've created; the technology is a threat to the environment, and if handed… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft CEO wants people to shut up about AI being bad for us
We need to de-normalize punching down at trans people during your comedy sets and start normalizing turning them into weird social experiments. Aaron Westberry has become one of my favorite… Read the rest of the article: Comedian guilt-trips audience into laughing
