facebook Facebook to pay handpicked corporate news outlets up to $3 million a year to license content: WSJ Xeni Jardin

culture jamming Payless punks fashionistas by opening a fake luxury store and inviting them to comment on its 'designer' shoes Rusty Blazenhoff

AI-generated UFO video shows how fast visual truth is slipping away Ellsworth Toohey

surveillance Walmart employees now wearing bodycams Rob Beschizza

machine learning AI art haters unknowingly prefer AI-generated works, according to test Ellsworth Toohey

politics "Don't be certain of anything" Bertrand Russell's 1951 guide to fighting fanaticism is more relevant than ever Ellsworth Toohey

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alternative facts Fox host Maria Bartiromo humiliated when GOP Congressman shuts down her lies (video) Carla Sinclair

exhausted expired ex-presidents Lincoln Project brutally trolls Donald Trump as a Broken Man: "limp, old, tired, impotent…" (video) Carla Sinclair

politics Buttigieg: Trump is old and strange Jason Weisberger

Peanutless butter Ohio Supreme Court rules that "boneless" chicken can contain bones Rob Beschizza

Science A physicist dismantles Terrence Howard's nonsensical "theory of everything" Gail Sherman

81-year-old retorts When a reporter mocks President Biden's age, Biden mocks him right back — into silence (video) Carla Sinclair

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

copyright Photographer wins lawsuit against alleged painter who plagiarized her work Rob Beschizza

movies Restored Beatles film "Let It Be" to start streaming on Disney+ tomorrow Ruben Bolling

weird thieves Bizarre: Woman brings corpse to bank to co-sign, trying to fool banker into giving her $3,000 (video) Carla Sinclair

News Puppets galore at LA's whimsical "Puppetchella" puppet festival Yoy Luadha

toddler tantrums "Don Poorleone" Trump — mocked by Biden — cries about all the "hatred" against him (video) Carla Sinclair

law Tennessee bans using AI to impersonate an artist's voice or likeness Natalie Dressed