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fashion Cufflink lighters David Pescovitz

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Science A satellite has been jamming GPS over Europe Ellsworth Toohey

Technology The YouTube channel with 77,000 videos of red and blue rectangles Ellsworth Toohey

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

Science New solar-power desalination device leaves no brine Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction 'They're Made Out of Meat,' rewritten as a dialogue about LLMs Ellsworth Toohey

video games Domino's Pizza picked a fight over a video game nobody asked about Grant St. Clair

movies Fall, the movie about not falling, gets a sequel about an even bigger fall this fall Grant St. Clair

christian nationalism 180 religions dropped from Pentagon's approved list of faiths Séamus Bellamy

china China is using recruitment sites to buy top secret information Séamus Bellamy

politics Indiana declares June "Nuclear Family Month" Jennifer Sandlin

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I seen a rainbow Grandpa Pudding Brains goes chasing waterfalls Jason Weisberger

History The Army told Hershey to make a chocolate bar that tasted bad Ellsworth Toohey

literature Could a Nabokov novel have been the 'father of all hypertext demos'? Ellsworth Toohey

Comic Books Mike Mignola throws Uri Tupka to the devils Gareth Branwyn

tech The E Ink device that keeps you on schedule without the rabbit hole Séamus Bellamy