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
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?
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?
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
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"
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $29.97 (reg. $219.99) during Deal Days — no subscription required. The easiest way to lower a software budget isn't… Read the rest of the article: Deal Days cuts Microsoft Office Professional 2021 from $220 to $30
Grandpa Pudding Brains tried to tell a story about a New York police officer "please, sir"ing him and somehow ended up admiring the man's muscles as if he had wandered… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains gets lost in a cop's muscles
Irish artist Niall de Buitléar's eight-minute found-footage piece Duplicate Content splices video art from the mid-1960s through mid-1970s together with recent social-media clips — most of them, in his words,… Read the rest of the article: Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today's TikToks
This structure called Expo Hall, or "Shining Hat", creates a stunning optical illusion in the sky. The top of the structure makes it look like a giant portal has opened… Read the rest of the article: Toyo Ito's Expo Hall "Shining Hat" looks like a portal opening in the sky
In this video, a cat makes it clear that there is no way in hell it will share a home with the owner's cat-slippers. The owner walks around the corner… Read the rest of the article: Cat goes full threat-mode over owner's cat-shaped slippers
This video shows a tame crow perched on a person's lap in a workshop, getting its feathers brushed. When the person puts the brush down, the crow calmly demands more… Read the rest of the article: Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming
