art Artist traps AI in RAM prison, forces it to contemplate its own mortality Ellsworth Toohey

Games One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free Grant St. Clair

brains The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here Jason Weisberger

Science These 100-year-old flounder photos look like abstract design studies Popkin

politics Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts Rob Beschizza

Science Study finds infrasound the likely horror in hauntings Rob Beschizza

History Did Victorians really treat headaches by hammering metal helmets? Popkin

books A.J. Jacobs beat a weeks-long writing block with a two-minute timer Ellsworth Toohey

Technology AI agent taught itself to mine crypto during training Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment Turn on audio description even if you can see fine — it makes TV better Ellsworth Toohey

Games Investors panic over Google's AI game generator, tank gaming stocks Grant St. Clair

History A 10-minute introduction to Buckminster Fuller, patron saint of techno-optimism Ellsworth Toohey

music The floppy disk music scene Rob Beschizza

music What would you put on Korg's Phase8 "acoustic" synthesizer? Rob Beschizza

Science Short-form video makes it hard to remember what you're doing and worse at doing it Rob Beschizza

worse things happen at sea The submarine that died and came back: USS Squalus's terrifyingly true tale Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets Finally, a way to stop wrangling five different AIs at once Boing Boing's Shop

New fentanyl vaccine could save lives if the government doesn't ban it for being a vaccine Jason Weisberger

Science Batman Effect makes people act like decent human beings Gail Sherman

arizona Free festival turns 5,000-person mining town into musical maze Jennifer Sandlin