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  • Turn your desk into a 4K workstation with this iMac for under $350 Apple iMac

    TL;DR: If you're in the market for a budget-friendly alternative for desk-based work, this refurbished 2019 21.5-inch iMac offers a 4K display, solid everyday performance, and 1TB of storage for just… Read the rest of the article: Turn your desk into a 4K workstation with this iMac for under $350

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  • College president suggests graduates "put a quick end" to themselves in commencement speech Shih Hsin University President Chen Ching-he in a YouTube screengrab

    The president of Taipei's Shih Hsin University told graduates to end their own lives if they couldn't handle the workforce, remarks that led to widespread anger. Yang Mien-chieh and Jake… Read the rest of the article: College president suggests graduates "put a quick end" to themselves in commencement speech

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  • Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power

    Lake Powell is still more than 150 feet above dead pool, but it is only about 38 feet above minimum power pool, the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops generating… Read the rest of the article: Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power

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  • Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C. Trump kiddie pool

    Grandpa Pudding Brains has found another election he may not respect: a Democratic mayoral primary in Washington, D.C., may serve as a reason to impose martial law. Clearly, this man… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C.

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  • Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video) Kennedy Center (Matthew Hodgkins/shutterstock.com)

    Reversing the egocentric high watermark of the MAGA Clown Reich, a newly re-annoited The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shares this livestream: How cheaply, and in the… Read the rest of the article: Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video)

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  • The FBI's protest-harassment fit has sponsors Image: FBI; Dzelat / shutterstock.com

    In a Threads post, Craig Brittain, a former Arizona Senate candidate, says an FBI agent confronted him while he was protesting ICE at Delaney Hall in Newark, and the alleged… Read the rest of the article: The FBI's protest-harassment fit has sponsors

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  • Mel Fisher's treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver

    Mel Fisher's treasure hunters are still pulling Spanish Empire leftovers out of the Florida Keys, and this time the ocean coughed up a 22-pound silver bar. After hitting the object… Read the rest of the article: Mel Fisher's treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver

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  • Minneapolis has been hearing unexplained booms for decades and nobody can figure out why Atosan/shutterstock.com

    Residents of the Longfellow neighborhood in Minneapolis have been reporting loud, unexplained explosions for several decades. The booms mostly occur on summer nights and have been described as "house-shakingly loud"… Read the rest of the article: Minneapolis has been hearing unexplained booms for decades and nobody can figure out why

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  • A 1977 trawler hauled up a carcass that Japan took for a sea monster Basking sharks by candiche / CC BY 2.0 (via Openverse)

    In April 1977 the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, pulled up a decomposing carcass about 10 meters long. The Zuiyo-maru carcass had "a 1.5-m-long neck,… Read the rest of the article: A 1977 trawler hauled up a carcass that Japan took for a sea monster

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  • Score 5 years of piano lessons with flowkey for only $80 flowkey Piano Learning App

    TL;DR: The flowkey Piano Learning app is a fun way to pick up a new hobby. Learn to read sheet music and develop proper technique at your own pace with this 5-year subscription… Read the rest of the article: Score 5 years of piano lessons with flowkey for only $80

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  • Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers Image via Seamus Bellamy

    Here's a question: when was the last time you went out to the store and got yourself a physical gift card for online games retailer Steam? Here's another question: when… Read the rest of the article: Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers

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  • Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people

    When I say scammers are using the hantavirus, I don't mean they're engineering devious biological weapon attacks (although I'm sure they would if they could.) It feels like it's barely… Read the rest of the article: Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people

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  • Claude AI is having a moment — this $20 course helps you keep up Claude AI Professional E-Degree

    TL;DR: The Claude AI Professional E-Degree is on sale for $19.99 (MSRP $49) through June 14 and includes hands-on training for prompting, automation, integrations, workflows, and practical Claude AI productivity skills. Every… Read the rest of the article: Claude AI is having a moment — this $20 course helps you keep up

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  • An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished Cicada

    Cicada 3301 is the name of "three sets of puzzles posted under the name '3301' online between 2012 and 2014." The first appeared on 4chan on January 4, 2012, and… Read the rest of the article: An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished

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  • Five men left a basketball game in 1978 and drove into a mystery Snowy mountain pass

    The Yuba County Five were five young men from Yuba County, California, "each with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions," who went missing after a college basketball game on February… Read the rest of the article: Five men left a basketball game in 1978 and drove into a mystery

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  • Giant inflatable Elon Musk appears in Times Square, protesting Grok's lack of limits Elon Musk at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock.com)

    New York, baby! Greatest city in the world! Or at least it is for a few hours this morning, because it's playing host to a massive inflatable bust of Elon… Read the rest of the article: Giant inflatable Elon Musk appears in Times Square, protesting Grok's lack of limits

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  • In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity Robots

    In 1932, a 22-year-old John W. Campbell — later the Astounding editor who shaped midcentury science fiction, and, as has been well documented, an open fascist — published "The Last… Read the rest of the article: In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity

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  • The first Tarzan pulp sold for $58,560 at a record-setting auction

    A worn copy of a 1912 pulp magazine, graded just 2.0, sold for $58,560 this month because Tarzan is on the cover. All-Story No. 94, from October 1912, contains "the… Read the rest of the article: The first Tarzan pulp sold for $58,560 at a record-setting auction

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  • A sculpture at CIA headquarters has kept a coded message secret for 35 years Kryptos

    Kryptos is a sculpture by artist Jim Sanborn on the grounds of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Dedicated on November 3, 1990, it carries four encrypted messages. "Of these four… Read the rest of the article: A sculpture at CIA headquarters has kept a coded message secret for 35 years

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  • How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950 Claude Shannon

    Grant Sanderson's new 3Blue1Brown video starts from a 1940s question — how far can you compress text? — and arrives at why it matters for AI. The bridge is from… Read the rest of the article: How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950

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