politics Fact-checking Trump's plan for the first 100 days Cory Doctorow

AI After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened Ellsworth Toohey

movies A24 and Michaela Coel remaking Jean-Claude Van Damme's "Bloodsport" Rob Beschizza

Technology AI builds message-in-a-bottle app from vague prompt Ellsworth Toohey

trump Apple's authoritarian-pleasing antics have alienated me Séamus Bellamy

politics Expert warns of a Weather Underground 2.0 in Trump's America Ellsworth Toohey

junk science Predatory journals even worse since "Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List" was accepted for publication Jennifer Sandlin

mistakes 21,000 laborers so far dead building NEOM, Saudi Arabia's futuristic city in the desert Rob Beschizza

Guided by Voices interviewed on their 30-year-old EP that became a cult classic  Lee Keeler

AI Google's AI search summaries use 10x more energy than just doing a normal Google search Thom Dunn

climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn

Comic Books Review: "Boys Weekend" is like a queer "Cabin in the Woods" for the CryptoBro era Thom Dunn

mind control Racist MAGA man becomes terrified and runs off when Good Liars' Davram Stiefler says he is Jewish (video) Carla Sinclair

tiktok The joy of home improvement projects is captured in this TikTok Jennifer Sandlin

drugs The Great US Adderall Shortage is likely going to last at least for another year Thom Dunn

law Police in Enid, Oklahoma refused to arrest woman filmed yelling racial slurs and slapping teen worker in pizza joint Rob Beschizza

books John Darnielle's new novel is a riveting metafictional meditation on true crime stories Thom Dunn

late stage capitalism Watch: CEO of Better.com fires 900 employees over a Zoom meeting Mark Frauenfelder

australia Australian man finds horny snakes mating in his air conditioner Thom Dunn

instagram Facebook asked Pink Floyd's Roger Waters for "Another Brick in the Wall II" to promote Instagram. He told Zuckerberg "Fuck you." Mark Frauenfelder