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  • Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches vaccine

    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

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  • Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it Image by Orpheus FX / shutterstock.com

    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

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  • Grandpa Pudding Brains visits a truck factory, makes haunted chew toy noises Donald Trump (Lucas Parker/shutterstock.com)

    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

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  • Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911

    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

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  • Teen exits Disneyland ride, learns why you keep your arms, legs, and body inside the boat

    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

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  • AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones Sengupta Lab

    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

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  • What luck, America! Kash Patel's girlfriend joins Trump's talent-fleeing Freedom 250 event Kash Patel

    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

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  • Microsoft CEO wants people to shut up about AI being bad for us Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (Fotofield / Shutterstock)

    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

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  • Comedian guilt-trips audience into laughing

    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

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  • What is the Jedi problem, and why does every game designer fear it? Jedi Survivor

    If you have even the slightest interest in peering behind the curtain into the world of game design, I cannot possibly recommend /noclip enough. No, not the console command, the… Read the rest of the article: What is the Jedi problem, and why does every game designer fear it?

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  • Building a better PC than the Steam Machine for cheaper: is it possible? Image via Valve

    I'm truly, genuinely sorry to everyone who was looking forward to helping Gabe Newell buy a hundredth yacht, but it's just an unavoidable truth: the Steam Machine is kind of… Read the rest of the article: Building a better PC than the Steam Machine for cheaper: is it possible?

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  • A cat-borne fungus infected 11,000 people; the US is next, CDC says

    Sporothrix brasiliensis is a fungus that gives cats oozing skin ulcers, can spread through their whole body, and jumps to the people around them. Since it emerged in Brazil in… Read the rest of the article: A cat-borne fungus infected 11,000 people; the US is next, CDC says

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  • Zine publisher sentenced to 50 years in prison for "material support to terrorists" Department of Justice

    A standard office printer, a paper cutter, and a book binder — that's the "printing press" the FBI logged when it raided Elizabeth and Ines Soto's Texas home. That, plus… Read the rest of the article: Zine publisher sentenced to 50 years in prison for "material support to terrorists"

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  • Miami Marlins searching for this sad hotdog-less doggo, to treat him to a Dream Day at the ballpark

    On Monday, the Miami Marlins hosted a "Bark at the Park" night for their game against the Texas Rangers. This and similar 'take your doggo to the ballpark' days are,… Read the rest of the article: Miami Marlins searching for this sad hotdog-less doggo, to treat him to a Dream Day at the ballpark

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  • Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals, in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

    Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals, in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals, in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

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  • ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini are all invited—and lifetime access is just $54.97 during Deal Days ChatPlayground AI

    TL;DR: ChatPlayground lets you compare responses from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more in one interface. Lifetime access to the Unlimited Plan is $54.97 (reg. $619) through June 28 as part of Deal… Read the rest of the article: ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini are all invited—and lifetime access is just $54.97 during Deal Days

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  • We Have The Herpes: Arby's worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food What's in your bag?

    A manager at the Arbys in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, spat in a customers food, say police, an act that allegedly resulted in the victim contracting oral herpes. The Smoking Gun… Read the rest of the article: We Have The Herpes: Arby's worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food

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  • Kodak's new Charmeras have Y2K vibes Image: Kodak

    Kodak's Charmera, the keychain-sized digital camera that became a minor cultural phenomenon last year, is back with a new look. Reto, the company that makes the camera and licenses the… Read the rest of the article: Kodak's new Charmeras have Y2K vibes

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  • Canberra's town crier recognized as world's loudest person with 122.4dB yell Town Crier

    Joseph McGrail-Bateup, a 58-year-old air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier from Canberra, Australia, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's loudest person. McGrail-Bateup yelled the word… Read the rest of the article: Canberra's town crier recognized as world's loudest person with 122.4dB yell

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  • The cheating wasn't in the rider. It was in the bike

    Professional cycling spent decades looking for cheating in blood, urine, and hotel mini-fridges. Then came the suspicion that the real juice was hiding in the bike. The video follows the… Read the rest of the article: The cheating wasn't in the rider. It was in the bike

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