blowing stuff up Beauty of firing a golf ball cannon at balloons filled with ooblek Mark Frauenfelder

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

interview Interview with Case Esparros, independent filmmaker and director of "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost" Natalie Dressed

mistakes Google's faked Gemini demo recreated with GPT-4 Rob Beschizza

News Something smells off about claims Disneyland has a Poo-Problem, says one vlogger Jason Weisberger

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art Awesome old footage of Mark Pauline blowing stuff up in a San Francisco parking lot Popkin

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politics Nikki Haley: Confederate flag meant 'service, sacrifice, heritage' until Dylann Roof 'hijacked' it Xeni Jardin

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

happy mutant App phones people so you can pretend to be their boss Rusty Blazenhoff

nope Woman was unintentionally blowing her brains out, for years Séamus Bellamy

usausausa Bombing makes great propaganda, but not for the side that's doing the bombing Cory Doctorow

Good times Jonathan Coulton's JoCo Cruise was mind-blowingly great Mark Frauenfelder

palaeoart Dinosaur art is not bullshit (unless you're doing it wrong) Mark P. Witton

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

happy mutants Read: Chapter 3 of Walkaway, in which a university rises from the ashes Cory Doctorow

Business Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf resigns Cory Doctorow

apple Apple, basically: 'If it pleases the court, tell FBI to go fuck themselves' Xeni Jardin