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Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera

Fujifilm's ever-growing Instax range trends toward both high-end retro and pocketable fun (consider the runaway success of Kodak's Charmera), with both to be found in the Instax Pal 2. Shorn of its printer and only 1.4 x 1.6 x 3.6 inches (37 x 42 x 92mm), it's completely unlike the bloblike original in style. Read the rest The post Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 10 hours ago

RAM shortage to last two more years, say top manufacturers

Executives from Samsung and Micron, two of the world's top sellers of random access memory, warned this week that the RAM shortage would continue through 2028. AI companies take it all for their datacenters, and what's left for everyone else will continue to command premium prices. Read the rest The post RAM shortage to last two more years, say top manufacturers appeared first on Boing Boing.

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11 mystery Flock cameras identified in Florida county

Florida recently ordered law enforcement agencies to remove Flock cameras installed on the state's roads: the intrusive technology and regular misuse by police officers has led to a national backlash against the company and surveillance cameras in general. Most are already gone, but there's a problem: there are Flock cameras in St. Read the rest The post 11 mystery Flock cameras identified in Florida county appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 11 hours ago

Book of Shapes: customizable SVG patterns for print and web

Book of Shapes [via] is a collection of minimalist generative SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski. Beautiful and elaborate, yet each defined by a few lines of code, they can be customized for use on the web or in print. Read the rest The post Book of Shapes: customizable SVG patterns for print and web appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 12 hours ago

Trump keeps trying to label Texas' meat-eating Talarico a "vagan"

In an attempt to shame the Texas senatorial candidate, who is not accused of bribery or securities fraud, Dementia Donnie keeps calling the omnivorous James Talarico a "vagan." The number one way we know James Talarico isn't a "vagan" is because he isn't constantly telling us how ethical he is for being one. Read the rest The post Trump keeps trying to label Texas' meat-eating Talarico a "vagan" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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France discovers the dubious pleasures of AI detection

AI detection is a difficult job, made worse for everyone by it being such a delicious ingredient in academic snake oil. But one service has clearly outperformed the others in tests: Pangram. It went beyond obvious characteristics of LLM output such as perplexity and ngram distance, training its own classifiers on large collections of human text and generative imitations. Read the rest The post France discovers the dubious pleasures of AI detection appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 14 hours ago

Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006

In 2006, The BBC reviewed predictions about robotics and AI made in the 1980s. Now, another 20 years later, we can reappraise its appraisal. When Will Intelligent Machines Take Over? The segment features Sir Clive Sinclair, icon of early home computing, who plainly claims that the endgame of computing technology is AI. Read the rest The post Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Get Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for $50 for life

TL;DR: Give your PC a software upgrade with this $50 Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus lifetime license for Windows. For some reason, software expenses always come up at the worst time. But this Boing Boing-exclusive Flash Sale is an easy way to get ahead of those unexpected costs. Read the rest The post Get Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for $50 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 15 hours ago

Grandpa Pudding Brains demonstrates the little "steering-wheels" airplanes "used to have"

In yet another moment of "this guy is not competent to be President of the United States" moment, Donald Trump demonstrated how pilots used to use "little steering-wheels" to control airplanes. The plane he was discussing, the Boeing 737 MAX, certainly still has yokes. Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains demonstrates the little "steering-wheels" airplanes "used to have" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Fox cuts away while JD Vance argues with hecklers and the positions he assigned them

America's most boring sycophant, JD Vance, was mercilessly heckled at a rally for Byron Donalds and Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL), and he created some interesting backstories for them. While good ol' Just Dance, Vance didn't know the protesters' names, where they were from, or what brought them to a place where heckling a credibilityless, self-professed liar seemed like a good use of time—he was willing to imagine political positions and opinions for them. Read the rest The post Fox cuts away while ...

Alt - Boing Boing - 16 hours ago

Spy magazine turns 40 with daily posts about a certain short-fingered vulgarian

Kurt Andersen, co-founder of the late great Spy magazine, announced that the 40th anniversary of the magazine will be celebrated on Substack, where "we'll start publishing starting next Monday the 5th, a limited series of daily excerpts and links from the magazine's archive, with bits of new commentary and context. Read the rest The post Spy magazine turns 40 with daily posts about a certain short-fingered vulgarian appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 16 hours ago

Captain America No. 1 kept in a cardboard box for 80 years sells for $716,750

The Merrimack Valley Collection is a legendary comic book collection in which someone bought comics off the rack and stored them in a cardboard box for almost 80 years. Heritage Auctions sold many of these comics in a couple of auctions in Dallas last week. Read the rest The post Captain America No. 1 kept in a cardboard box for 80 years sells for $716,750 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 17 hours ago

Trump "super intelligence" rebrand leads to land rush for .si domains

Following his meeting with top AI executives yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that artificial intelligence will henceforth be known as "super intelligence." The order, which applies to federal government, call he made last week during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Read the rest The post Trump "super intelligence" rebrand leads to land rush for .si domains appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 17 hours ago

In Pittsburgh, people compete to see who can parallel park fastest and closest to the curb

In the latest issue of Why Is This Interesting, Mark Slavonia writes about the annual parallel parking championship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where people compete to see who can parallel park. The rules are that the clock starts ticking when the referee sees your reverse lights go on. Read the rest The post In Pittsburgh, people compete to see who can parallel park fastest and closest to the curb appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 18 hours ago

Catalina medevac crashes into the sea after picking up a patient for a flight to the mainland

A REACH medical evacuation helicopter crashed into the Pacific while departing Catalina Island. Of the five people aboard, two have died; two were taken to hospitals, and the patient is missing. Catalina Island is a beautiful and remote place to live. Read the rest The post Catalina medevac crashes into the sea after picking up a patient for a flight to the mainland appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 18 hours ago

Watch a skater befriend a rabbit at the skatepark

A young rabbit was having a terrible time attempting a flyout at the local skatepark. Stuck in the bowl and unable to escape, the cottontail made a new friend. This kind, patient skater pulled off an amazing tailgrab and eventually helped his new bunny buddy escape. Read the rest The post Watch a skater befriend a rabbit at the skatepark appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 18 hours ago

Officers search Santa Ana for a deadly but AI-generated African viper

"I wish it was AI. It's in my backyard, and it's scary," said a man who used AI to create an image of a venomous Gaboon viper and had teams of police and reptile hunters searching for the dangerous creature. Santa Ana Police called in experts to help them find a four- to five-foot-long Gaboon viper after a gentleman shared photos of one in his neighbor's yard. Read the rest The post Officers search Santa Ana for a deadly but AI-generated African viper appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 19 hours ago

Novel withdrawn from running for France's top literary prize after AI claims

France's Académie Goncourt has withdrawn Canadian-Haitian author Thélyson Orélien's novel C'était ça ou mourir (It Was That or Die) from consideration for its top literary prize. The book shows signs of being written by AI, reports The Guardian. A lyrical first-person account of how a history and geography teacher flees a home country mired in gang violence… Published in France by Grasset in August, it has sold about 35,000 copies and won the Prix du roman Fnac, with translation rights sold to ...

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Secure a lifetime of unlimited website hosting for $150 with Hostdeal

TL;DR: Get unlimited website hosting, unlimited NVMe SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, and 54 free lifetime domains with this Hostdeal Unlimited Plan lifetime subscription for just $149.99 (reg. $1,800). If you're already hosting multiple websites for clients, small businesses, or your side projects, you'll know how costly things can get. Read the rest The post Secure a lifetime of unlimited website hosting for $150 with Hostdeal appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 20 hours ago

Slugs blamed for broken traffic lights

Newly-installed traffic lights at a busy corner in Stretford, England, keep failing and leaving motorists fightened and confused. Part of a £17.6m (about $24m) redevelopment of the town center, the new lights have gone out three times, reports the Manchester Evening News, a pattern one local councillor described as "very odd." Read the rest The post Slugs blamed for broken traffic lights appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

School principal on leave after calling parents crazy on voicemail

A school principal is on leave after voicemail caught her making ill-considered remarks about the parents of a 5-year-old girl who reported that she was inappropriately touched by a classmate. The parents of the girl, attending Grand Oaks Elementary school in Harris County, Texas, called to report the incident on September 25. Read the rest The post School principal on leave after calling parents crazy on voicemail appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Freckle is a kid's phone that sends them on real-world quests

Freckle is a small, square smartphone aimed at youngsters aged 7-13, designed to give them "independence" without providing features that encourage prolonged or repetetive use. The $199 device has a 3.1", 720 × 720 touchscreen and runs a proprietary operating system, ClayOS, with no app store, web browser or social media apps—and definitely no YouTube. Read the rest The post Freckle is a kid's phone that sends them on real-world quests appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Bloomberg Terminals in repose

Back in the day, when writing on the Internet was new and cool, I wanted a keyboard that had specialized keys for useful tasks such as multiple copy/paste, blockquote wrapping, and the all-important Curators' Code symbols. In essence, a Bloomberg Terminal for blogging. Read the rest The post Bloomberg Terminals in repose appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

Wild footage of Indiana's White River flooding a massive quarry

Last month's flooding in Carmel, Indiana, saw the White River burst its banks and destroy a number of homes—and caused a highway overpass to collapse. Eleven inches of rain fell in two days, raising the river to a record 24.6 feet crest. Read the rest The post Wild footage of Indiana's White River flooding a massive quarry appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Rival SCP Foundation movie will have Creative Commons license

A movie featuring the SCP Foundation mythos proved controversial after the studio paying for the production, A24, implied in marketing that it would own the material. The problem is that the SCP Foundation is a sprawling collaborate project of unclear origins. Read the rest The post Rival SCP Foundation movie will have Creative Commons license appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Pool Square street sign regularly painted over to read Poo Square

Contractors working for the city of Sheffield, England, have repainted the street sign for Pool Square at least eight times since being awarded a highway maintenance contract there, reports The Star. It's more likely than not they will do so on any given year. Read the rest The post Pool Square street sign regularly painted over to read Poo Square appeared first on Boing Boing.

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One 3D design tool can model your whole building, and it's on sale for $399 (reg. $3,005)

TL;DR: Design and analyze 3D building models with a one-year Autodesk Revit subscription for $399 (reg. $3,005). Designing a building usually means managing separate files for the architecture, the structure, and the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems. Autodesk Revit is a 3D building design tool that keeps all of those models on one platform, and a one-year subscription is on sale for $399 right now (reg. Read the rest The post One 3D design tool can model your whole building, and it'...

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Street photography with Dyson's CameraJet toothbrush

The $500 Dyson CameraJet toothbrush (previously at Boing Boing) takes 28 images of your mouth per second to better direct its flossing jet at your dirty choppers. The tiny, low-resolution sensor is fit for that purpose, but All The Gear, No Skill on Instagram decided to put it to use on the street: "I never would have thought a vacuum cleaner would create the most fun camera of 2026." Read the rest The post Street photography with Dyson's CameraJet toothbrush appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Chat Pile's songs are bleak, but their live show is a blast

Chat Pile definitely isn't easy listening. The Oklahoma City sludge and noise rock band tackles lyrical topics as heavy as they get: families falling apart, homelessness, and, on their latest album, the climate crisis. This year Chat Pile released their third full-length album, Who Loves the Sun, to wide acclaim from fans (myself included) and critics like Anthony Fantano, who gave it a rare 9/10. Read the rest The post Chat Pile's songs are bleak, but their live show is a blast appeared first ...

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Every British TV show

Michael Spicer mocks a distinctive formula of television out of the United Kingdom, one fans of The Great British Bake Off will immediately recognize. "For as long as I can remember," he says, kicking off Most TV is Just This Now, "I've loved nature." Read the rest The post Every British TV show appeared first on Boing Boing.

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These USB-C cables look like orange and green extension cords

There's no reason to make a USB-C cable that looks like an orange or green extension cable, which is all the more reason to want it. The creator, Matty Benedetto, emailed me to let me know about his latest creation. Read the rest The post These USB-C cables look like orange and green extension cords appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A crocodile-leather fire extinguisher for superyacht owners who hate red

An Italian entrepreneur by the name of Vittorio Martire has designed an ultra-high-end luxury fire extinguisher for superyacht owners who bristle at the sight of a red fire extinguisher. Called the Incroyable, it debuted at the Monaco Yacht Show in 2026. Read the rest The post A crocodile-leather fire extinguisher for superyacht owners who hate red appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Play this theremin by waving your hands in front of your webcam

Pavel Gurov created this cool theremin that you can control by waving your hands in front of your webcam. You spread your hands apart to increase the volume, raise them for the pitch, move your hands back to soften the tone, and put your palms together for silence. Read the rest The post Play this theremin by waving your hands in front of your webcam appeared first on Boing Boing.

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PC cooling company Noctua now a fan of cameras too

Noctua, known for making the fans inside computers, has an interesting new design to show off: a camera, made with Prusa, itself better-known for 3D Printers. The CAIM1 is an E-Mount interchangeable-lens with a Micro Four-Thirds sensor and a compact if chunky look. Read the rest The post PC cooling company Noctua now a fan of cameras too appeared first on Boing Boing.

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"That's so AI" is the new insult, and it means bullshit

Gen Alpha's slang makes it clear what kids think of so-called artificial intelligence. As reported by the Guardian, the most savage burn a young person can hurl at you is "That's AI" or "That's so AI." The kids – gen Alpha – have noticed that certain qualities of AI-generated slop, such as the way it's superficially convincing but ultimately cheap and of dubious value, can be found in lots of other things: knock-off merchandise, exaggerated claims, excuses your parents make. Read the rest Th...

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AI models benchmarked with Pac Man

PacBench is an unusual benchmark for AI models: "Create a Pac-Man game in a single html page." Each entry shows the platform, the model, how long it took, how many tokens it used, and the cost. And unlike the pelican, we can play the results. Read the rest The post AI models benchmarked with Pac Man appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Diners flee McDonalds restaurant as blaze consumes it

A fire tore so quickly through a McDonald's restaurant in Lebanon, Missouri, that diners were still walking in as it filled with smoke—and had to flee as the fire quickly got out of control. KY3 News's Ciara Folkerts describes a terrifying meal out for 11-year-old Ansley Tidwell: "It was scary, like, the walls and the ceiling, they all just fell down and stuff on the corner," Tidwell recalled. Read the rest The post Diners flee McDonalds restaurant as blaze consumes it appeared first on Boin...

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Put ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to Work From One $100 Lifetime AI Platform

TL;DR: Pay $99.99 once for lifetime access to 1min.AI's Advanced Business Plan, including 4 million monthly credits, flagship AI models, and its full collection of AI features. There are now enough AI tools to give your browser tab bar an existential crisis. Read the rest The post Put ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to Work From One $100 Lifetime AI Platform appeared first on Boing Boing.

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AI-generated crocodile lands its creator in court

An AI-generated image of a crocodile, depicted lurking in a reservoir popular with joggers and boaters, may land its creator in jail. Ye Lin, 30, from Burma, was charged in Singapore with transmitting a false message after allegedly using Google's Gemini service to create the image, depicting a saltwater crocodile at Pandan Reservoir. Read the rest The post AI-generated crocodile lands its creator in court appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Tom the Dancing Bug: What was the cause of the global armaggeddon?

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Hollingsworth Hound points to the cause of the armaggeddon that destroyed Earth! -ANNOUNCING The Tom the Dancing Bug Community Saves America Drive! For every Tom the Dancing Bug book(s) order through the end of September, $20 will be donated to Spread the Vote to help voters VOTE. Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: What was the cause of the global armaggeddon? appeared first on Boing Boing.

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$10m worth of cocaine in evidence turns out to be flour

Cocaine worth more than $10m was stored as evidence at a courthouse in Fiji, but at some point in the long-running drug trial was replaced by flour. Authorities admit that about 87 pounds of cocaine is "effectively missing;" ABC News in Australia describes it as "yet another apparent example of internal corruption that has plagued Fiji's authorities." Read the rest The post $10m worth of cocaine in evidence turns out to be flour appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Pay once, use it forever Microsoft Office Pro 2021 is just $30 for life

TL;DR: Enjoy lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for only $29.97 (MSRP $219.99) until Oct. 11 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you want the essential Microsoft Office programs including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, you don't have to pay for Microsoft 365. Read the rest The post Pay once, use it forever Microsoft Office Pro 2021 is just $30 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A memory game from a Rudyard Kipling novel

In the latest issue of Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing newsletter, there's a description of a game called Kim's Game, which was originally described in a Rudyard Kipling novel. Rob came across it in a short story called "Kim's Game," by Sadia Shepard, published in The New Yorker earlier this year. Read the rest The post A memory game from a Rudyard Kipling novel appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Streaky vinyl records are the Dum Dums mystery flavor of the music world

One of my favorite newsletters is called Why Is This Interesting? It comes out every day, and they typically interview an interesting person to talk about their media diet or special interest. In today's issue, they spoke to Todd Osborn, a US Air Force weapons systems veteran who is building a flight school. Read the rest The post Streaky vinyl records are the Dum Dums mystery flavor of the music world appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Netflix is remaking the Stanford Prison Experiment as a reality show

In 1971, Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo set up a fake prison in the basement of a building at Stanford. Twenty-four male college students were selected at random to either be guards or prisoners. Zimbardo hired real police officers to "arrest" the students so that the experiment felt more real. Read the rest The post Netflix is remaking the Stanford Prison Experiment as a reality show appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Anthropic says its AI could kill us. OpenAI's is too unsafe to release. Please enjoy the IPOs

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to ask the public market for an extraordinary amount of money, times two, their core products have begun to sound like Skynet is here. We are only now realizing that Terminator was a cautionary tale. Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns that its models could resist shutdown, conceal information, and behave in ways the mafia would recognize as blackmail. Read the rest The post Anthropic says its AI could kill us. OpenAI's is too unsafe to release. Please enjoy the IP...

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Safely enjoy the hellish experience of Windows 11½

They brought back Clippy! Not Microsoft, sadly, but Definitely Not Windows, creator of Windows 11½, a web-based replica of the healthiest operating system. It's a parody of the real thing, hitting the user with advertising, dark patterns, recurring and annoying notifications, and broken pop-ups. Read the rest The post Safely enjoy the hellish experience of Windows 11½ appeared first on Boing Boing.

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London's live facial recognition trial ends in one false positive, no arrests, and a £320k bill

More than 500,000 faces were scanned by the live facial recognition systems set up in London's railway stations by the British Transport Police. At a cost of £320,786 (about $423,000) the numbers are in: the system scored "one false match against a watchlist of suspects" and notched up zero arrests over the course of a six-month trial. Read the rest The post London's live facial recognition trial ends in one false positive, no arrests, and a £320k bill appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Manipulate PDFs with ease for less than $50 for life

TL;DR: Edit PDF files like a pro with a lifetime subscription to PDNob Pro PDF Editor for $49.99 (MSRP $349.95). PDF files can be edited as easily as Word documents if you've got the right tools. PDNob Pro PDF Editor uses AI technology to help you edit, summarize, convert, sign, and translate PDF files for $49.99 for life. Read the rest The post Manipulate PDFs with ease for less than $50 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, 93, doesn't want his replacement chosen by a Democratic governor

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R—Iowa) is in his tenth decade of life and is displeased at the prospect of a Democratic governor appointing his replacement should he die in office. "At 93 years of age, I don't know how many more groups of Republicans like this I'm going to have a chance to talk to," Grassley said Friday at the GOP's annual Reagan Dinner. Read the rest The post Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, 93, doesn't want his replacement chosen by a Democratic governor appeared first on Boing Bo...

Alt - Boing Boing - 3 days ago

Wreck websites with these Desktop Destroyer-style websavers

Page Rage and Destroy Any Website let you ruin any website with a little pixel-art character controlled in classic WASD fashion. The styling is retro and the weapons are futuristic and extremely destructive. "Destroying pages is all the rage today," wrote Page Rage creator Alex Reardon to Destroy Any Website creator Hugo Duprez after the similar toys popped up within a few days of one another. Read the rest The post Wreck websites with these Desktop Destroyer-style websavers appeared first on...

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Pick your favorite British designs, if any

The Best of British Design has you choose a favorite betweeen two classics over several rounds, eliminating the loser until only one illustrious masterpiece of design remains in the bracket. The British understand Design. Let's find the most iconic British design ever, from architecture to pop art, and from fashion to typeface. Read the rest The post Pick your favorite British designs, if any appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A simple web-based model of the solar system

Your Solar System is far from the first web-based model of the solar system, but it's the first one I've found that's easy to customize and move precisely backward and forward through time. There's even a slider to toggle between the solar system's true scale and an orrery-style view showing all the celestial bodies at once. Read the rest The post A simple web-based model of the solar system appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Everybody hates Pete Hegseth

House leader Mike Johnson ended congress early to avoid a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth, President Trump's crusader-tattooed "Secretary of War," and opinion polls show why. Never popular in the first place, Hegseth is now among the administration's most widely-disliked personalities, an outcome downstream of his frattish machismo, documented ineptitude and the dismal grind of the war on Iran. Read the rest The post Everybody hates Pete Hegseth appeared first on Boing Boing.

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E. coli outbreak linked to cheese made with raw milk

The latest wave of diarrhea is upon us, courtesy of an Escherichia coli outbreak that has sickened at least thirteen people, sent eight of them to hospital, and led to three suffering hemolytic uremic syndrome, a severe complication whose symptoms include "bloody diarrhea" and "blood in the urine." Read the rest The post E. coli outbreak linked to cheese made with raw milk appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Fix stubborn PDFs without uploading them to some random website for $29.99

TL;DR: IndyPDF offers over 20 tools for editing, converting, organizing, signing, OCR, and securing PDFs, with local processing and a lifetime subscription now on sale for $29.99 (reg. $99.99). Your PDF needs one sentence changed. The internet would like you to create an account, start a trial, and surrender your email address first. Read the rest The post Fix stubborn PDFs without uploading them to some random website for $29.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Wrong leg amputated, lawsuit claims

Sharon Jacks of Washington County, Ohio, went into surgery to have part of her right leg amputated. The surgical team prepared and draped her leg, applied a tourniquet, and removed it. Unfortunateley, they did all this to the left leg, and Jacks is now suing the hospitals and physicians involved. Read the rest The post Wrong leg amputated, lawsuit claims appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Coop's Poster Boy collects 40 years of his rock and roll art

Our friend Coop has a new book coming out. It collects his rock-and-roll work from the last 40 years, including gig posters, flyers, and record covers. It's called Poster Boy, and it is massive: 312 pages, 11 inches by 14 inches. Read the rest The post Coop's Poster Boy collects 40 years of his rock and roll art appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Fighting Mother Nature, America has spent $15.7 billion putting sand back on beaches

It works, for a little while anyway. America is fighting rising sea levels with sand because we don't really have a better plan. On both coasts, the United States' answer to coastal erosion is more beach sand. In just California: Newport Beach wants 200,000 cubic yards from the Santa Ana River. Read the rest The post Fighting Mother Nature, America has spent $15.7 billion putting sand back on beaches appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Auralnauts' "Star Wars: Larry" abridged version now available on the YouTubes

Auralnaut's reimagined Star Wars series is both more fun than plain ol' Star Wars and makes a lot more sense. Obi-Wan "Larry" Kenobi takes the fan-favorite character and turns him up about 300 notches. The tension between Anakin and Obi-Wan is far more believable in Auralnauts work. Read the rest The post Auralnauts' "Star Wars: Larry" abridged version now available on the YouTubes appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This guy's 1976 VW bus became a Matchbox toy, with his real license plate

Boing Boing reader Dávid Sipos emailed us with a fun story: I own a 1976 Volkswagen T2 that was used as a hero vehicle in Matchbox: The Movie. Months later, I discovered that my actual bus had become a Matchbox model. Read the rest The post This guy's 1976 VW bus became a Matchbox toy, with his real license plate appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Stevie Wonder finally releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life

I wrote a few years ago about the mysterious and legendary 200 (!) unused songs that Stevie Wonder recorded for his 1976 masterpiece album Songs in the Key of Life. The musicians and engineers who worked on the double (plus) album have expressed amazement at the quality of the many, many songs that were fully formed and recorded but discarded. Read the rest The post Stevie Wonder finally releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Stop juggling AI tabs: Put 20+ models in one place for $55

TL;DR: ChatPlayground AI puts 20+ AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, in one workspace where you can compare responses side by side. The Unlimited Plan is now $54.97 (reg. $619, previously $79) through October 4 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Read the rest The post Stop juggling AI tabs: Put 20+ models in one place for $55 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump offered to sell arms to China during Xi summit

The AP reports that U.S. president Donald Trump asked China's president if he wanted to buy US arms on Sunday, describing a deal that would "upend generations of U.S. policy toward China"—as if Trump blurting it out it meant anything. The U.S. Read the rest The post Trump offered to sell arms to China during Xi summit appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Full-screen animated Mandelbrot fractals on the web

I remember waiting hours¹ for an AmigaBASIC mandlebrot set to render on my Commodore A500 in 1992 or so, its 7Mhz CPU tackling 64,000 pixels one by one until the amazing results were complete. Now I can stare at wastingmytime's fractals zooming and morphing at 60 frames per second. Read the rest The post Full-screen animated Mandelbrot fractals on the web appeared first on Boing Boing.

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No fine for copy of Century Illustrated returned 132 years late to library

When Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a yearlong amnesty on overdue fines, hoping to get some of its many purloined publications back, it didn't expect to see a 1894 issue of Century Illustrated. Local man John Hanson walked in with it, reports NPR's Sophia Palaza-Carre, and the given excuse that he did not himself withdraw the item was impossible to refute, him having not been born for another half a century. Read the rest The post No fine for copy of Century Illustrated retur...

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Crane falls over while trying to right fallen crane

A truck-mounted crane tipped over onto a house in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning, and then a second crane brought in to lift the first one toppled while trying to right it. It too fell onto the house, reported Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman. Read the rest The post Crane falls over while trying to right fallen crane appeared first on Boing Boing.

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12 words from Caribbean and Bermuda enter the Oxford English Dictionary

More than a dozen English words long-used in Bermuda and the Caribbean found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, joining last year's set in the definitive record of the English language. Bimpert, from Bermuda, refers to a stupid or foolish person, as found in the traditional phrase "A bimpert is justah wuffless bye" (just a worthless boy) and Hornerman, attested in Trinidad since 1975 and referring to an unfaithful man, got top billing in coverage. Read the rest The post 12 wo...

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Drain the oceans and flood the land with this sea level simulator

You've surely seen interactive maps showing the effects of the sea level rising, but Sliding Shores makes a game of it: you get a beautifully-rendered globe and a slider to raise or lower the oceans. There's a load of presets, from "oceans drained" to "drown Everest," a feat not even Waterworld managed. Read the rest The post Drain the oceans and flood the land with this sea level simulator appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Indian oil billionaire's son appointed "professor of sustainability" at Newcastle University

Newcastle University in the United Kingdom has a new Professor of Sustainability: Anant Ambani, the heir to an Indian fossil fuels fortune and owner of an enormous zoo. Ambani earned the professorship for "his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare and environmental stewardship" (he owns an enormous zoo) and "significant contributions to advancing a more sustainable future" (biggest oil company in India), reported The Guardian, to howls of laughter and derision. Read the ...

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Microsoft ditches "Copilot+" branding for "AI PCs"

Microsoft and chip company Qualcomm launched the "Copilot+" PC branding in 2024 for so-called "AI" PCs. They even had a "Copilot" button that you could press to bring up the "AI". Though it at least indicated decent hardware, it was a hamfisted grasp at a vague buzzword and the "AI" features were badly implemented. Read the rest The post Microsoft ditches "Copilot+" branding for "AI PCs" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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MIcrosoft ditches "Copilot+" branding for "AI PCs"

Microsoft and chip company Qualcomm launched the "Copilot+" PC branding in 2024 for so-called "AI" PCs. They even had a "Copilot" button that you could press to bring up the "AI". Though it at least indicated decent hardware, it was a hamfisted grasp at a vague buzzword and the "AI" features were badly implemented. Read the rest The post MIcrosoft ditches "Copilot+" branding for "AI PCs" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Access the Pro features that Windows 11 Home leaves out for just $10

TL;DR: Get this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro lifetime license for a one-time deal of $9.97 (reg. $199)—no subscription, no renewal. Available now, through October 4. Upgrading software can feel like a drag. But when the price is right, even the most boring digital admin can feel like a win. Read the rest The post Access the Pro features that Windows 11 Home leaves out for just $10 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Kyrsten Sinema's former bodyguard and lover arrested after throwing 22 paintings in her swimming pool

Matthew Ammel, the former bodyguard and former boyfriend of former Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, was arrested after allegedly breaking into her home while she was out of town and causing $200k worth of damage. Ammel, police say, demanded that Sinema post a video to social media and threatened to throw one of her paintings into her swimming pool every ten minutes until she complied. Read the rest The post Kyrsten Sinema's former bodyguard and lover arrested after throwing 22 paintings in ...

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Reelizer: curated gallery of movie posters and inspired artwork

Reelizer is a collection of movie poster art curated by Roger Erik Tinch. First published in 2011, it blew up after being linked to by Daring Fireball, slowly faded over the years, went on hiatus, and is now back thanks to new content management software. Read the rest The post Reelizer: curated gallery of movie posters and inspired artwork appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Use Apple Find My to track more than just your devices with this $50 tracking card 4-pack 

TL;DR: Use Apple Find My to keep track of your wallet, bags, and work badges with this Gen 2 Lite KeySmart SmartCard 4-pack while it's 31% off. Apple Find My is useful for tracking your iPhone, AirPods, and other Apple devices—but why stop there? Read the rest The post Use Apple Find My to track more than just your devices with this $50 tracking card 4-pack  appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This $80 Lenovo Chromebook doubles as a touchscreen tablet

TL;DR: Handle work and fit in some play on this Lenovo 300e Chromebook, on sale now for just $79.99 (MSRP $284.99). If you're looking for a laptop that can get your daily tasks done, you probably don't need to spend thousands of dollars. Read the rest The post This $80 Lenovo Chromebook doubles as a touchscreen tablet appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Matt Bors and Tristan Wright reboot The Toxic Crusaders as an adult comic

Cartoonist Matt Bors has teamed with artist Tristan Wright to create a new comic book version of the early 90s TV kids' cartoon series "The Toxic Crusaders." While the cartoon series was edgy for a children's TV show, this new comic book version is for adults and is more explicitly political, with its gross-out humor serving critiques of capitalism, environmental malfeasance, and crimes against humanity. Read the rest The post Matt Bors and Tristan Wright reboot The Toxic Crusaders as an adult ...

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Behold the horrors of DLSS 5, NVidia's real-time AI graphics improver

DLSS 5 is Nvidia's AI-powered tech for dynamically repainting video game scenes in real-time, with more realistic lighting, textures and geometry. Controversial enough on recent games, where it succeeds on a technical level, the real fun is to be had applying it to old ones. Read the rest The post Behold the horrors of DLSS 5, NVidia's real-time AI graphics improver appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Top platforms refuse paid ads for Alex Gibney's "Musk" documentary

Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. His latest, Musk, profiles the wealthiest man in the world. But you won't be seeing paid ads for it on YouTube, Facebook or TikTok, as all of them are refusing to run the trailer as an advertisement. Read the rest The post Top platforms refuse paid ads for Alex Gibney's "Musk" documentary appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This $20 course bundle teaches you what to actually do with ChatGPT

TL;DR: The ChatGPT and Automation E-Degree includes 12 beginner-friendly courses and over 25 hours of training on ChatGPT, AI tools, automation, data visualization, and more for $19.99 (reg. $790). ChatGPT is easy enough to open and start typing into. Figuring out how to make AI useful for work is the part that takes a little more effort. Read the rest The post This $20 course bundle teaches you what to actually do with ChatGPT appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Bastardica is a "foundry for bastard web fonts"

Barstardica is an online type "foundry" that generates fonts mashed-up from classic typefaces. The resulting abominations are perfect for hostage letters, zany comedy and upsetting graphic designers. Preset features include scale, offset and skew, and you can set specific glyphs not to be swapped. Read the rest The post Bastardica is a "foundry for bastard web fonts" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This Borzoi napping in the grass looks like a rug

This photo of a Borzoi lying in a patch of green grass is visually stunning, yet silly because of the angle. The angelic pup looks more like a rug than a canine spread out in the grass. His fur doesn't help him look like a dog because it's so flat and long. Read the rest The post This Borzoi napping in the grass looks like a rug appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Watch a serious capybara twirl a stick in his mouth

Watch a playful capybara twirl a stick around his mouth like he's performing a trick at a talent show. He seems very dedicated to the art of stick twirling. His serious expression says it all. Another capybara hanging out nearby simply chews on a stick to pass the time. Read the rest The post Watch a serious capybara twirl a stick in his mouth appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Nikon's microscope videos turn sea slugs and starfish larvae into living art

These stunning nature videos show small colorful wonders that aren't visible to the naked eye. The videos in these slides were all submitted to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. From tiny sea creatures to fungus to single-cell organisms swimming around, each video shows the magic that lies just beneath the surface of our everyday life. Read the rest The post Nikon's microscope videos turn sea slugs and starfish larvae into living art appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Pokémon card collector used GPS device to track delivery woman

After 30 years, Pokémon remains among the most desirable collectible franchises in fandom and auctions regularly prove the cards' growing value. But one scalper went too far in his efforts to acquire the latest Squirter or PewPew or whatever, attaching a GPS tranceiver on a delivery driver's vehicle and using it to track her movements. Read the rest The post Pokémon card collector used GPS device to track delivery woman appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Microsoft Office 2024 drops to $50 for the September Flash Sale

TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access for one Windows PC, with a lifetime license now $49.97 (reg. $249.99). Your streaming services, cloud storage, and probably half the apps on your phone already want a monthly payment. Read the rest The post Microsoft Office 2024 drops to $50 for the September Flash Sale appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Official trailer for "Musk" documentary

If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and scheduled for release on October 9, the "definitive and unvarnished examination" of the world's richest person was years in the making and was well-received at its premier at the Venice Film Festival. Read the rest The post Official trailer for "Musk" documentary appeared first on Boing Boing.

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GTA 6 collector's edition will cost $400, will not include the game

I've maintained for a while now that GTA 6's marketing runup has exemplified everything wrong with the way games are sold today, from Rockstar skipping out on making a physical edition to the paywalled trailers to, inexplicably, a Vice City-scented candle. Read the rest The post GTA 6 collector's edition will cost $400, will not include the game appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Daycare sued over "Child Fight Club"

A daycare in Fort Worth, Texas, is being sued after a substitute teacher allegedly encouraged 4-year-olds to fight one another, and herself injured one of them. Surveillance video from the Arka Montessori Academy shows the incident clearly, and KDFW News reports that the state "confirmed the child suffered physical injuries and emotional distress" and cited the daycare 16 times since it opened in 2024. Read the rest The post Daycare sued over "Child Fight Club" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Underground robot probing hill thought by some to be Noah's Ark

Researchers are sending an underground robot into a hill whose vaguely boat-like shape has long excited Biblical literalists in search of Noah's Ark. The Noah's Ark Scans expedition hopes to find evidence of The Flood at the Durupinar formation near Mount Ararat in Türkiye. Read the rest The post Underground robot probing hill thought by some to be Noah's Ark appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Dutch government to replace Microsoft Windows with NixOS-based operating system

The government of the Netherlands plans to replace Microsoft's Windows and other software with a custom Linux-based operating system and IT suite named DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid). De Nederlandse overheid maakt een eigen digitale werkomgeving op basis van de Nederlandse Linux-distributie NixOS. Read the rest The post Dutch government to replace Microsoft Windows with NixOS-based operating system appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Pay once, store a ridiculous amount while Internxt's 10TB plan is just $269.97

TL;DR: Internxt's 10TB lifetime plan gives new users encrypted cloud storage across unlimited devices for $269.97 (MSRP $2,900) through Sept. 29. Some people delete files. Other people look at a photo from 2014, think, "I may need this someday," and immediately close the storage-management screen. Read the rest The post Pay once, store a ridiculous amount while Internxt's 10TB plan is just $269.97 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Elizabeth Holmes headed to halfway house next year

Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder and convicted felon, will move to a halfway house next year. ABC News was first to report her forthcoming transfer from federal prison, where she was imprisoned after being sentenced to 10 years and 3 months on wire fraud charges. Read the rest The post Elizabeth Holmes headed to halfway house next year appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A chronology of early Star Trek computer games

In the early days of computer game development, Star Trek was a popular topic for young programmers with access to mainframes. Players could hunt Klingon ships across the galaxy's numbered sectors while conserving their dilithium crystals and photon torpedoes. The programs were copied, edited and expanded by those who played them—or just made over from scratch. Read the rest The post A chronology of early Star Trek computer games appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Make up to six AI models answer the same prompt for $39.99

TL;DR: AskAnyModel puts 50+ AI models in one browser-based platform and lets you compare up to six responses at once, with lifetime access to the Pro Plan now $39.99 (reg. $499). Why ask one robot when you can convene a panel of six? Read the rest The post Make up to six AI models answer the same prompt for $39.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Roland's Minions keyboard sounds just like them

Roland's GO:KEYS is an all-in-one portable keyboard with speakers and plenty of presets: great for beginners and musicians on the run. The GO:KEYS 3 Minion, a new co-branded model, is aimed at youngsters. But I think we can all take enormous pleasure in the built-in Minion voice instrumentation, which includes singing, choruses and various examples of laughter and gibberish. Read the rest The post Roland's Minions keyboard sounds just like them appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Federal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off. Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find they weren't allowed to enter the White House for several hours as their "hard cards" were turned back on. Read the rest The post Federal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Senator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries

Ranting about "transgenderism" in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas "Tommy" Tuberville (R—Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. "Many" airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he said, are part of the furry community. If the thought represents a masterclass in the unprovable and unfalsifiable, it's one that's clearly been on his mind; Tuberville did not identify a source for his claim. Read the rest The post Senator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, f...

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Elizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who need help finding jobs and housing

It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early. Just four years into an eleven-year term, Elizabeth Holmes will head to a transitional facility intended to help rehabilitated criminals find work, manage their finances, and re-enter society as a productive cog in our machine. Read the rest The post Elizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who n...