neural network Someone trained a bot to write an AC/DC song Thom Dunn

sports Major League Baseball can now call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy… but will only use the system in the most annoying way possible Ruben Bolling

Games This sorting web game has stolen hours from me Grant St. Clair

art Mysterious paper animations feel like hidden worlds Popkin

art Paint your hands, grab some googly eyes, and make magic like Mario Mariotti Jennifer Sandlin

politics Comedian trolls ICE agents with animal costumes and protest songs Jennifer Sandlin

art Plewds and hites: A fake (or fake-ish) nomenclature of comics in The Lexicon of Comicana Ruben Bolling

Entertainment How Mel Brooks' mother talked him out of his childhood Frankenstein fears Mark Frauenfelder

Mel Brooks finally gets around to making a Spaceballs sequel Jason Weisberger

trailers Jared Harris returns in Foundation S3 trailer – Release date revealed Séamus Bellamy

slavery As Nottoway "Plantation & Resort" burns, it's a great time to remind you that plantation weddings are wrong, period Jennifer Sandlin

Science Company markets "T. Rex leather" made with fossilized collagen Gail Sherman

politics MAGA Dentist jailed for sending 100 rape and murder threats to people for not loving Trump enough Ellsworth Toohey

comedy This drummer-juggler-comedian-clown is astounding (video) Jennifer Sandlin

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politics Sister relationship destroyed after Trump supporter defends husband's threatening "dark humor" Ellsworth Toohey

recycling Black plastic take-out containers may be toxic Gail Sherman

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

adorable animals Neuty the nutria gets a treat after surviving Hurricane Francine Jennifer Sandlin

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