youtube Get rid of ridiculous faces: DeArrow extension crowdsources non-hideous YouTube thumbnails Mark Frauenfelder

clickbait An exposé of viral content farms and the tricks they use to get you to click Rusty Blazenhoff

health Short animations about how clicky health-claim headlines are often misleading David Pescovitz

clickbait This company analyzed 100 million headlines to find out which ones were the most effective Mark Frauenfelder

Science "Clickbait"-esque titles work for academic papers too David Pescovitz

Funny Woman-centric clickbait sites parodied Andrea James

politics Fox News refuses to apologize for fabricated story about dead Marine whose sole source was a far-right Florida congressman (Update: they finally puked one up) Rob Beschizza

twitter Despite negative feedback from advertisers, Musk confirms plan to further reduce Twitter/X's utility Jason Weisberger

video Skydiving without a parachute Popkin

movies "Ultimate" edit of Caligula debuts at Cannes Rob Beschizza

art Artist Nemo Gould's "Click Bait" is the "painful reminder of our folly" we all need Gareth Branwyn

literature "Gaslighting" isn't Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year, darling, you're just confused Rob Beschizza

Man in carboard giraffe head "sings" Let's Get It On Andrew Yi

google Google minimizes clickbait visibility in English Search results Andrew Yi

reddit You'll never believe what this subreddit saves you Andrew Yi

music Morrissey just published a scathing open letter to Johnny Marr: "Stop using my name as click-bait" David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets This $274 Netgear router is nearly $100 off with this Cyber Week deal Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Absence of evidence is evidence of a cover-up, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

astronomy Are people who study Uranus annoyed by jokes about Uranus? Thom Dunn