movies Watch the epic silent film The Ten Commandments (1923) with a new score by Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips), and Scott Amendola David Pescovitz

art Plastover: celebrate Passover by giving up single-use plastic David Pescovitz

social media Paris Hilton joins brand exodus from Twitter/X, halts advertising Mark Frauenfelder

apple Musk vows to crush Media Matters with a "thermonuclear" lawsuit Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Maybe Yaccarino won't be sitting next to Musk for that much longer Jason Weisberger

weather 70,000 still stuck at Burning Man Rob Beschizza

a whale of a fail, me lads Phase three is profit: Yaccarino on the brilliance of Musk's rebrand Jason Weisberger

bad names Apple relents; Twitter is now X in the app store Jason Weisberger

pranksters Prankster stirs up anti-abortion rally with unsettling Bible readings Mark Frauenfelder

crime San Francisco suffers mass retail exodus: half the stores in the downtown hub have shut down Mark Frauenfelder

Firework disaster Terrifying firework disaster shatters peaceful suburban evening Mark Frauenfelder

movies Disney just delayed a ton of upcoming movies Devin Nealy

burning man Burning Man's 2023 Black Rock City street names inspired by cryptozoology Jennifer Sandlin

mistakes Russia lost 1.3 million "young workers" last year Rob Beschizza

music This is the best Ten Commandments story, and the soundtrack is by members of Flaming Lips and Los Lobos (video) David Pescovitz

Business What's going on with the WWE? Imagine HBO's "Succession," except it's about professional wrestling  Devin Nealy

social media New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Buzzfeed say they won't pay for Twitter verification Mark Frauenfelder

racism Iowa law forbids teachers from telling students "slavery was wrong" Mark Frauenfelder

elon musk Twitter's revenue plummets 40% in December Mark Frauenfelder

Press the heart Elon Musk begging users to like advertiser's tweets Mark Frauenfelder