marijuana Detroit goes all in on 4.20 UPSO

Games Sealed 1985 Super Mario Bros game fetches record $3m at auction Rob Beschizza

art Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video) Jason Weisberger

Internet An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished Ellsworth Toohey

california Five men left a basketball game in 1978 and drove into a mystery Ellsworth Toohey

Culture The first Tarzan pulp sold for $58,560 at a record-setting auction Ellsworth Toohey

Games The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser is now eight years old and counting Grant St. Clair

pure energy Coal finally loses to the Sun Jason Weisberger

Science Decoding whale language could unlock new legal rights for them Ruben Bolling

History In 1803 a woman in a strange round vessel washed ashore in Japan Ellsworth Toohey

tree rat Santa Monica created a squirrel buffet and got a squirrel problem Jason Weisberger

activism "Laxative" brownies turn Nantucket School Committee meeting into Schrodinger's shitshow Rob Beschizza

Games Persona 6 officially revealed Grant St. Clair

Games Crazy Taxi is back! Grant St. Clair

History Hundreds of tiny medieval tunnels no one can explain Ellsworth Toohey

solar power Utah City spends $400,000 on stainless-steel slides in the desert Jason Weisberger

Science RFK, Jr. says "depriving" children of whole milk constitutes "a form of child abuse" Jennifer Sandlin

mexico The promise of Mexico's Tren Maya has gone off the rails Séamus Bellamy

Boing Boing Gadgets Turn your data into diagrams in just a few clicks with this $13 Microsoft tool (MSRP $250) Boing Boing's Shop

AI Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word Ellsworth Toohey