happy mutants Charles Babbage wrote a "cardboard vaporware" app in 1840 and left it in Turin Cory Doctorow

AI ChatGPT answers the internet's most searched questions about ChatGPT itself Rusty Blazenhoff

fox news Is Tucker Carlson a saint? Is Fox News part of the New World Order? Some on the right think so. Jennifer Sandlin

anti-lgbtq Budweiser clears out workers after bomb threat over Mulvaney controversy — which could be good for profits Carla Sinclair

guitar The automobile industry killed a legendary guitar pickup. 40 years later, Fender just brought it back. Thom Dunn

politics Montana passes ban on Tik Tok, but how will it enforce it? Rob Beschizza

art Mississippi artist creates exhibit of "phallic" objects, bought at Walmart, to protest ridiculous statue of David debacle Jennifer Sandlin

"You chose the wrong person!" Oklahoma Rep tells cops he has a special card that prevents them from arresting him for public drunkenness Mark Frauenfelder

racism Dhoruba Bin Wahad was jailed for 19 years in the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO project Elías Villoro

facebook Facebook to lay off another 10,000 workers in coming months Rob Beschizza

movies Here's your first look at footage of Joker 2 Devin Nealy

video games The Outer Worlds remaster announced Grant St. Clair

Alfonso Riberio Somehow I missed this bonkers rendition of "Let It Be" Jason Weisberger

Tom The Dancing Bug Omnipotent Friends, featuring God-Man Ruben Bolling

Boing Boing Gadgets Indulge your inner 'iPad kid' with this refurbished iPad mini Boing Boing's Shop

reverse engineering Researchers reverse-engineer Roman concrete Andrew Yi

windows Crochet artist Nicole Nikolich creates stunning Windows home screen blanket for Microsoft Rusty Blazenhoff

twitter Elon Musk compared Twitter Files to a government Truth & Reconciliation Commission Thom Dunn

misguided hero worship Musk fanboys create $600k monument to their hero Jennifer Sandlin

Comic Books Love and Rockets gets a documentary after 40 years of being the best comic book ever made Mark Frauenfelder