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books Someone wrote an existential horror comedy set entirely in Slack and it's great Thom Dunn

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JD Vance JD Vance mocked for cringeworthy "Big Buck World" publicity stunt Mark Frauenfelder

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

Boing Boing Gadgets This VPN router is the key to getting the 'Spider-Man' movies back on Netflix! Boing Boing's Shop

publishing The Onion will be back in print Rob Beschizza

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AI models Essays explore the hellscape of freelance AI model training Jennifer Sandlin

Comics Hate Revisited: the return of a '90s cult classic comic book Mark Frauenfelder

dune David Lynch's unfinished script for Dune 2 unearthed Rob Beschizza

air travel Orders soar at Airbus, which makes jets where the side doesn't fall off Rob Beschizza

80s music Listen to two awesome versions of "the greatest song ever written" Jennifer Sandlin

Games Microsoft now owns Infocom and its interaction fiction classics Rob Beschizza

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Worse Things Happen At Sea James Cameron explains why the entire submersible search was a 'prolonged nightmarish charade' Jason Weisberger

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ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz