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Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

Saudi Arabia Has Five Points Of Leverage Over The US

Saudi Arabia Has Five Points Of Leverage Over The US Authored by Andrew Korybko, It probably won’t ever muster up the political will to use them, however, but the possibility always remains. Trump recently surprised the Saudis by demanding that they recognize Israel as the precondition for the US implementing their newly signed nuclear energy deal, which wasn’t part of the agreement. This follows him humiliating Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman earlier in the ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Atomic Bomb, and The Perils Of Power

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Atomic Bomb, and The Perils Of Power Authored by Jonathan Miltimore via The Epoch Times, On Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, instantly killing tens of thousands and marking the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. Three days later, a second bomb, “Fat Man,” was dropped on Nagasaki. Within days, Japan surrendered, bringing World War II to an end. For most Americans, the bombings were greeted with celebration. Polls at the tim...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

How China Is Using Its Coast Guard To Assert Control At Sea

How China Is Using Its Coast Guard To Assert Control At Sea Over the past decade, China's Coast Guard (CCG) has evolved from a conventional maritime law enforcement agency into a central instrument of Beijing's strategy to reinforce its territorial claims, according to Bloomberg. Now operating a fleet of roughly 680 vessels, it continues to conduct routine missions such as search and rescue, anti-smuggling operations, and fisheries enforcement, but increasingly serves broader strat...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

'You're Like A Parrot': RFK Jr. Destroys Dana Bash Over Fauci's COVID Lies

'You're Like A Parrot': RFK Jr. Destroys Dana Bash Over Fauci's COVID Lies Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. obliterated CNN's Dana Bash during a fiery interview Sunday morning on State of the Union, and it was brutal. The segment aired as measles outbreaks tore through several states, with public health officials warning that unvaccinated communities were fueling the spread of the disease to levels not see...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Jay Clayton To Become Top US Intel Official On Monday

Jay Clayton To Become Top US Intel Official On Monday Jay Clayton will take over as director of national intelligence (DNI) on Monday, according to a social media post by acting director Bill Pulte. “I am eternally grateful to President Trump for the opportunity to serve as Director of National Intelligence, while he completed historic declassifications and we right sized the ODNI. I have no doubt that Jay will do a tremendous job,” Pulte wrote on Aug. 1 in a post on X. “I have of...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out

India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via American Greatness, Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time. This year the big news has been the Iran war. But even accounting for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely consequential development is telling. And that is the story of India’s explicit rejection of the global net zero movement. India has wa...

Alt - Boing Boing - 7 hours ago

PC and console prices still going up

The computer component price crisis, driven by AI datacenters snapping it all up for the slop trade, has crushed few so hard as the gamers. The laptop I bought my son for $600 last year is currently $955 at the same shop. Read the rest The post PC and console prices still going up appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 8 hours ago

Charmera too modern for you? Kodak's $35 film camera puts 1990 in your pocket

The renaissance of pocket point-and-shoot cameras proceeds apace with Kodak's EC35, inexpensive at $35 and good enough to take to the party. If the Charmera and its blind-box business model represents a digital extravagance, and the $100 Snapic was simply too cool for school, the EC35 is the real deal shoved back in your pocket. Read the rest The post Charmera too modern for you? Kodak's $35 film camera puts 1990 in your pocket appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Is Anybody Ever Going To Say, "I'm Sorry"?

Is Anybody Ever Going To Say, "I'm Sorry"? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before Congress and, on the advice of his attorney, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answering many of the senators’ questions. Everyone is talking about what he did or didn’t know, whether he misled Congress, whether he should have answered the questions, and whether he should be held accountable. But that wasn’t the moment from t...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Leftist Activists Establish 'Autonomous Zone' In Madison

Leftist Activists Establish 'Autonomous Zone' In Madison Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin's capital city, Madison. Activist Carlos LeMar Dixon confronts Madison Police Chief John Patterson during a press conference about the shooting death of Corey Ruiz. / IMAGE: @CollinRugg via X The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

The GOP Has Its Own Platner-Esque Nightmare Erupting In Ohio

The GOP Has Its Own Platner-Esque Nightmare Erupting In Ohio Democrats spent months navigating the endless Graham Platner scandals in Maine, before credible rape allegations finally forced him out. Republicans got their own Platner-esque scandal of their own this week in Ohio. Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) posted a 25-minute video to X on Sunday morning to deny a stack of abuse allegations from his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno. He's been accused of holding a...

Alt - Boing Boing - 11 hours ago

A printable one-page Guide to Recording Law Enforcement

You may be aware that cops have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, and that you have a constitutional right to record what they do. Cellphone video proved that police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck for nearly 10 minutes, and the right to record it is why the footage helped convict him of his murder. Read the rest The post A printable one-page Guide to Recording Law Enforcement appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Japan, Bretton Woods 2.0, and The End Of The Carry Era

Japan, Bretton Woods 2.0, and The End Of The Carry Era Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is set to announce as early as Monday that Tokyo and Washington are coordinating on steps in the foreign exchange market to curb the yen’s weakness, a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg. Satsuki Katayama The content of the announcement is still being worked on but could happen as early as Monday morning, the person said, declining to be identified as the information i...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

Bill Gates Held A Top Secret 'Q' Clearance For Seven Years - And The DOE Won't Say Why

Bill Gates Held A Top Secret 'Q' Clearance For Seven Years - And The DOE Won't Say Why Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held a top-tier "Q" security clearance at the Department of Energy from 2014 to 2021 - though the DOE didn't grant it. Another federal agency vetted him first, and the letter confirming the clearance doesn't say which one. The detail comes from a DOE letter entered into the Congressional record by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). The letter emerged as Fauci faced fierce Re...

Alt - Boing Boing - 12 hours ago

Gallery of anime user interfaces

Anime User Interfaces collects depictions of computer screens, keyboards, dashboards and other gadgets depicted in Japanese animation (and a few others, such as Wargames' NORAD big boards, as a treat.) Spotted via Hacker News, which links to an interesting article explaining why glowing lights in analog animation and film SFX have such a weird magic. Read the rest The post Gallery of anime user interfaces appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

9/11 Families Don't Want Mamdani Participating In Memorial Ceremony

9/11 Families Don't Want Mamdani Participating In Memorial Ceremony Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, a coalition of victims' families don’t want New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani anywhere near the ceremony marking the anniversary at Ground Zero.  A Change.org petition urging Mamdani to stay away from the September 11 memorial has collected more than 66,000 signatures in under three weeks and organizers say the mayor's own history of rhetoric and associations makes...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

Crack Pipes, Get Yer' Crack Pipes! Free Crack Pipes!: California Taxpayers Fund Drug Paraphernalia

Crack Pipes, Get Yer' Crack Pipes! Free Crack Pipes!: California Taxpayers Fund Drug Paraphernalia Authored by Christopher F. Rufo, Austen Hufford via Christopher Rufo's Substack, As governor of California, Gavin Newsom has repeatedly supported "harm reduction" policies, which enable drug use in the name of making it "safer." He created the state's Harm Reduction Initiative, which funded "syringe services programs" for "people who inject and smoke fentanyl and/or methamphetamines....

Alt - Boing Boing - 13 hours ago

A 15th-century Persian book says what a snake sighting means

The Marnameh is a short Persian book, written in the late fifteenth century, that explains the meaning of seeing a snake. It runs through the thirty days of the Zoroastrian calendar, most of them named for a divinity or figure, and gives the omen attached to a snake sighting on each one. Read the rest The post A 15th-century Persian book says what a snake sighting means appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 13 hours ago

Clacton-by-Sea voters get the longest ballot in UK election history

Ballots for a special election in England's Clacton-by-Sea are the longest ever produced in U.K. electoral history despite¹ only one major party contesting the race. The vote, scheduled later this month, was triggered by the showy resignation of Clacton's current member of parliament, Nigel Farage. Read the rest The post Clacton-by-Sea voters get the longest ballot in UK election history appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Obama-Appointed Judge Defies SCOTUS, Now Faces Impeachment

Obama-Appointed Judge Defies SCOTUS, Now Faces Impeachment Authored by Matt Margolis via PJ Media, An Obama-appointed federal judge just decided the Supreme Court's rulings are more like suggestions, and Republicans in Congress are done pretending she has the authority to make that call. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued an order on Friday blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals. It was a brazen display of judicial...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

Marxist Terror Group Responsible For Colombian Truck Bomb Attack

Marxist Terror Group Responsible For Colombian Truck Bomb Attack Summary: VBIED Attack Comes Days Before President-Elect Abelardo de la Espriella's Inauguration Marxist-Leninist Terror Group Responsible For Truck Bomb Attack Twin Car Bombs Rock Colombian City Days Before Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power Marxist-Leninist Terror Group Responsible For Truck Bomb Attack  The Colombian government blamed the far-left, Marxist-Leninist ELN for the truck bombing outside a police hea...

Alt - Boing Boing - 15 hours ago

Red Bull paid for the studies saying vodka Red Bulls are fine

Of the studies on mixing alcohol and energy drinks funded by Red Bull or written by researchers with financial ties to it, 95% found no added risk. Roughly 80% of independent studies found the opposite, The Examination reports. At a February 2011 hearing in Suffolk County, New York, Dutch researcher Joris Verster likened blaming energy drinks for alcohol-fueled injuries to blaming shark attacks on ice cream sales. Read the rest The post Red Bull paid for the studies saying vodka Red Bulls are f...

Alt - Boing Boing - 15 hours ago

A chip report out of China erased $1 trillion in market value

A report this week that China has begun mass-producing specialty chips key to the AI boom set off a selloff that erased $1 trillion in market value from other chip manufacturers, according to the Guardian. The same week, the Federal Communications Commission banned humanoid robots from China, alleging they could steal data or surveil US citizens. Read the rest The post A chip report out of China erased $1 trillion in market value appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 15 hours ago

The lightbulb that's burned for 120 years draws four watts

A lightbulb in a Livermore, California fire station has burned for more than 120 years, past a million hours, and it is the stock proof that manufacturers once colluded to make bulbs burn out. It is also barely lit: the nominally 60-watt lamp draws four watts, according to electronics blogger Maurycy's post on tungsten filaments. Read the rest The post The lightbulb that's burned for 120 years draws four watts appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

From Influence Peddler To Starving Artist: Hunter Biden Claims Family Is Broke In Defaulting On $17 Million Bill

From Influence Peddler To Starving Artist: Hunter Biden Claims Family Is Broke In Defaulting On $17 Million Bill Authored by Jonathan Turley, Hunter Biden is no Van Gogh. In addition to having both ears, Hunter’s work has generally been panned beyond an enabling media following. However, he claims he is also a starving artist. The problem appears to be that, as predicted years ago, his sales dried up in the influence-peddling market once his father left office. Now, his lawyers wa...

Alt - Boing Boing - 15 hours ago

Arizona Supreme Court: clergy don't have to report child abuse confessions

U.S. Border Patrol agent Paul Adams sexually abused all six of his children for at least seven years before he was caught. He killed himself after being charged, but not before investigators realized that bishops and other officials at the Church of Latter Day Saints had long been aware of what he was doing to his children. Read the rest The post Arizona Supreme Court: clergy don't have to report child abuse confessions appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

'Defend Israel Or The Homeland': Top US General Issues Stark Warning To Pentagon Brass

'Defend Israel Or The Homeland': Top US General Issues Stark Warning To Pentagon Brass Via The Cradle The highest-ranking US general in Europe informed the Pentagon this week that he does not have enough naval units to protect Israel against potential Iranian missile strikes, according to a report by the Washington Post on Saturday. General Alexus Grynkewich, the head of US European Command (EUCOM), notified senior Pentagon officials in writing that without another navy destroyer,...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

Entitled Migrants Complain About Hospitality And Prices After Invading Spanish Territory

Entitled Migrants Complain About Hospitality And Prices After Invading Spanish Territory One of the most egregious fantasies promoted by liberals over the past several decades is the worshipful image of the desperate and grateful third world asylum seeker.  We see it constantly in movies television and popular media; the narrative of the "huddled masses, yearning to breathe free..."  This narrative has become so ingrained in western culture that it is absolutely world shattering whe...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

"Nothing Is 100%": CZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $89 Million Coldcard Wallet Exploit

"Nothing Is 100%": CZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $89 Million Coldcard Wallet Exploit Update (1030ET): A third wave of thefts against Bitcoin wallets built on flawed Coldcard firmware ran through Saturday morning, lifting observed losses to roughly 1,367 BTC - close to $89 million - drained from 4,585 addresses since Thursday. As Cyberkendra.com reports, the size is not the interesting part. The third wave is the first one designed to be hard to follow, and that shift tells self-...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Trump Says "Perimeters Of A Deal Reached" With Iran To Reopen Hormuz After Call With Saudi Crown Prince

Trump Says "Perimeters Of A Deal Reached" With Iran To Reopen Hormuz After Call With Saudi Crown Prince The past few days have been tense. Although no US strikes were launched from Friday night into Saturday morning and the Gulf region remained quiet early Sunday, anticipation surrounding President Trump's next move is keeping energy traders and Gulf governments on edge. The big concern is that another round of strikes could trigger a wider regional conflict, particularly as the Ira...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Spain's Immigration Crisis: Ceuta and The Collapse Of Sánchez's Pro-Migration Experiment

Spain's Immigration Crisis: Ceuta and The Collapse Of Sánchez's Pro-Migration Experiment Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The new migration crisis in Ceuta is not an isolated episode or a simple border emergency. It is the result of a deeply irresponsible and damaging political and economic model. Sánchez boasts about aggregate growth while destroying cohesion, productivity, net real income per capita, and institutions. Spain is not an example of growth, migrant integration, or cohesion...

Alt - Boing Boing - 19 hours ago

Little Debbie delivery driver made $17k selling them from his truck at flea markets, say cops

A Little Debbie delivery driver sold more than $17,000 worth of cargo at flea markets and billed grocery stores for deliveries that never happened, say police in Pennsylvania. WTAE reports that James Powell, 39, of Valley Grove, West Virginia, faces forgery, theft and fraud charges. Read the rest The post Little Debbie delivery driver made $17k selling them from his truck at flea markets, say cops appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Water-System Hacks Hit 7 States This Week, FBI Warns, As Trump Shoots Down Iran Theory

Water-System Hacks Hit 7 States This Week, FBI Warns, As Trump Shoots Down Iran Theory Cyberattacks on municipal water systems were reported in at least seven states this week, according to a joint public service announcement from the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency - and in some cases, the agencies say, the malicious activity actually degraded water operations. The feds declined to name the states. A water tower in Plymouth, Minnesota, on Thursday after a cyberattack ta...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

UK High Court Moves To Ban Display Of English And British Flags

UK High Court Moves To Ban Display Of English And British Flags Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A Liberal Democrat council has secured a High Court injunction that effectively bans the unauthorised display of the St George's Cross and Union Flag on lampposts and public highways across an entire English county. What began as a grassroots campaign to raise the colours of the nation has been declared a threat to community safety, with the full force of the courts now d...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

A Brain That Can Swap Bodies: Google DeepMind Aims To Be The 'Android' Of Robotics

A Brain That Can Swap Bodies: Google DeepMind Aims To Be The 'Android' Of Robotics Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on Wednesday, a suite of three AI models that gives humanoid and other robots whole-body control, sharper manipulation, and the ability to work together. The system can run locally on the robot itself and adapt to an entirely new machine body with a few hours of training data. DeepMind is pitching it as the "intelligence layer" for robots - the foundational o...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

No, The Spanish Invaders Have Not All Just 'Gone Home'

No, The Spanish Invaders Have Not All Just 'Gone Home' Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spanish authorities and their leftist allies are pushing the line that the tens of thousands of migrants who stormed Ceuta have mostly "gone home." The claim is pure fantasy. Fresh video from the streets shows the city still under siege, with invaders assaulting facilities, smashing graves, clashing with locals, and turning a Spanish enclave into a no-go zone. This is the same da...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

McGlinchey: Trump's Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation

McGlinchey: Trump's Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities As the US-Israel war on Iran grinds into its sixth month, it’s clear to all but the most intellectually-dishonest Trump loyalists and war-bent Israel-sympathizers that it’s been a spectacular failure. A war of aggression that was supposed to precipitate a revolution has instead galvanized popular support of the Iranian government in defiance of the country’s tormentors, who’v...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Gunman Targets Tesla Supercharger And In-N-Out In Twin Falls, Killing Two

Gunman Targets Tesla Supercharger And In-N-Out In Twin Falls, Killing Two Two people are dead and five more are injured after a gunman opened fire at a Tesla charging station and an In-N-Out Burger in Idaho. WATCH: Video reportedly shows one of the two believed suspects opening fire with what appears to be an AR-style rifle in a parking lot in Twin Falls, Idaho. No word on casualties. pic.twitter.com/eBo3zagILN — Scope Report (@ScopeReport_) August 1, 2026 Fox News reports; Multi...

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New Jersey Offers Taxpayer-Funded Legal Services To Noncitizens Improperly Registered To Vote

New Jersey Offers Taxpayer-Funded Legal Services To Noncitizens Improperly Registered To Vote This week, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill revealed that more than 6,600 noncitizens ended up on its voter rolls, with nearly 400 of them casting ballots between June 2023 and June 2024. Despite saying the situation is unacceptable and claiming that she is being proactive to fix it, her administration has also begun steering the same noncitizens toward taxpayer-funded legal help. Sherrill ...

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CCP Bans Sale Of Retired Military Equipment, Citing Security Risks

CCP Bans Sale Of Retired Military Equipment, Citing Security Risks Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times, The Chinese regime's military and public security authorities have jointly issued an order banning the sale, assembly, and marketing of retired military equipment, citing "security risks to military secrets." Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers take part in military training at Pamir Mountains in Kashgar, northwestern China's Xinjiang region, on Jan. 4, 2021. STR/...

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

New York sues Kalshi as "illegal gambling operation"

One of the oddest things about the Trump era is media blithely accepting the euphemism "prediction markets" to refer to online gambling sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi. We do this because the UI is complex and we're easily bamboozled by the structural distinction between contracts and wagers. Read the rest The post New York sues Kalshi as "illegal gambling operation" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Collision Next Week: Spent SpaceX Rocket Set To Slam Into Moon

Collision Next Week: Spent SpaceX Rocket Set To Slam Into Moon A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is forecast to slam into the moon near Einstein Crater early Wednesday morning, potentially producing the first impact plume observed from Earth against the lunar surface's sunlit side. William Jo, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, and five co-authors posted a preprint to arXiv detailing the expected lunar impact of the spent ...

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Disease Caused By Cyclospora Parasite Now In 45 States: CDC

Disease Caused By Cyclospora Parasite Now In 45 States: CDC A disease caused by a parasite called Cyclospora has been recorded in 45 states this summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update. Delaware, Oregon, South Dakota, and Vermont have now logged cases of cyclosporiasis, the disease, the CDC said on July 28. The CDC in its previous update had said 41 states had reported cases. The number of confirmed cases across the 45 states since May 1 is up t...

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Kamala Harris Moves To $8.5M Mansion In 94% White Neighborhood

Kamala Harris Moves To $8.5M Mansion In 94% White Neighborhood Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a 4,000-square-foot mansion in Point Dume, one of Malibu’s most exclusive c...

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Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban

Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban Democrat-run Michigan just backed down after threatening therapists who use talk therapy to help children with 'gender dysphoria' accept their biology.  Alex Brandon / AP On Thursday, the state agreed to a permanent federal court order barring it from ever enforcing House Bill 4616 - the 2023 law, signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, that threatened licensed counselors with discipline for engaging in ordinary talk therapy ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

North Carolina Police Officer Arrested For Alleged Illegal Use Of Flock Cameras

North Carolina Police Officer Arrested For Alleged Illegal Use Of Flock Cameras Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A North Carolina officer was arrested by state authorities July 29 after allegedly accessing license plate registration information from Flock Safety cameras and other technology, authorities announced. Flock Safety, based in Georgia, estimates more than 6,000 communities in 49 states have partnered with the company to install surveillance systems. Flock ...

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Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian

Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, New data exposes the purest form of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet: young Americans so thoroughly programmed that they will abandon church itself rather than sit in a pew next to someone who supports the president. A survey from the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Research Institute found that nearly half of Gen Z adults - 48 percent - say Christians' support for Donald Trump has made them less likely ...

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

Dumber Mini aims to be the perfect candybar dumphone

The Dumber Mini (formerly Dumbdroid) is a candybar dumbphone with a T9 keypad, a small touchscreen and a stripped-down Android fork called DumberOS. It preorders for £149 (about $190) and they plan to ship it for Christmas. It embraces the simple aesthetic of old-fashioned Nokia-style featurephones (compare to the svelte minimalism of Light Flip) but it also lets you install smartphone apps. Read the rest The post Dumber Mini aims to be the perfect candybar dumphone appeared first on Boing Boin...

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more for life for less than $5 each with this Microsoft Office license

TL;DR: Add fresh tools to an old PC for just $32.97 with this lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows, on sale now through August 9. Sometimes it's best to go back to basics. Whether you're trying to finalize a budget, write a report, or organize your schedule, Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows can help. Read the rest The post Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more for life for less than $5 each with this Microsoft Office license appeared first on Boing Bo...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable

New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times, California, the most populous U.S. state and the one with the largest economy, ranked as the 35th best state in a new ranking published by U.S. News on July 28. South Orange County communities near Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 15, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Utah ranked as the best state, followed by South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The rank...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working

The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working Authored by Noah Wall via The American Mind, On July 14, the State Leadership Initiative was honored to host the Florida DOGE team and their tech partners, Vulcan, Echelon, and DigiBuild, for the Florida DOGE Showcase in Washington, D.C. Spearheaded by Governor Ron DeSantis, the state has become the leader for providing accountable and efficient governance to its citizens. Since its creation in 2025, the Florida DOGE team has identified n...

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"Pure Case Of Vandalism": Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian

"Pure Case Of Vandalism": Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian Update (1245ET): President Trump has not taken kindly to the DoJ dropping their case against the former Olympian for vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, exclaiming his displeasure in a post on X: I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM... ...that...

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Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops

Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Two Chinese men have been identified as suspects in the shooting and kidnapping of a Chino Hills resident who was later found mortally wounded in the trunk of their vehicle after one suspect fired into it during a police stop, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a July 31 statement to The Epoch Times. A home on the street in...

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Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again

Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again There were no Friday night into Saturday morning US attacks on Iran, after President Trump warned he has given an order to hit Iran 'hard' - though didn't disclose a timeline. Friday reports in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Axios strongly suggested that large US strikes would commence at some point this weekend, as the region remains on edge. The only new and recent attacks have been mor...

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The Real Threat To Young Americans' Jobs Isn't AI. It's The National Debt...

The Real Threat To Young Americans' Jobs Isn't AI. It's The National Debt... Authored by Ken Buck via The Epoch Times, The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence and supercomputing technologies has many Americans worried about the future of their careers. In a survey last month, more than half of U.S. workers expressed concern that AI could take their job or the job of a family member. Another survey in December found that almost 60 percent of young people believe AI poses ...

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Why tomato sauce stains plastic, and the 30-second fix

Delish food editor Brooke Caison explains why tomato sauce turns plastic containers orange. Cooked and canned tomatoes are loaded with lycopene, a heavily pigmented antioxidant that repels water. Plastic repels water too, so the pigment bonds to the container. Hot leftovers make it worse. Read the rest The post Why tomato sauce stains plastic, and the 30-second fix appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong

Physicist Rhett Allain wants to retire the messy-bedroom explanation of entropy. Disorder, he writes in Wired, "doesn't mean messiness or chaos" it counts the ways a system's parts can be rearranged without changing its overall state. He uses dice instead. Read the rest The post The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Verizon Blames 'Human Error' For Burying A Jack Smith Subpoena From Congress

Verizon Blames 'Human Error' For Burying A Jack Smith Subpoena From Congress Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and fifteen colleagues sent a letter to Verizon on Thursday demanding the telecom giant explain how a 2023 grand jury subpoena tied to Jack Smith's "Arctic Frost" investigation vanished from its own paperwork for more than two years - only to resurface after the company chalked the omission up to "human error." The letter, addressed to Verizon CEO Dan Schul...

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The smallest car ever made had no reverse gear

The smallest production car ever made shipped without a reverse gear. When a Peel P50 driver needed to turn around in a tight spot, they got out, grabbed the handle bolted to the back of the car, and dragged it around by hand. Read the rest The post The smallest car ever made had no reverse gear appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Leftists Now Claim US And Israel Behind The Migrant Invasion Of Spain

Leftists Now Claim US And Israel Behind The Migrant Invasion Of Spain A clear pattern is emerging:  When the political left or their favorite pet migrants wreak havoc and commit heinous crimes, the immediate canned response from the activist fold is to blame the "right wing" or blame those devious Israelis.  Why do they do this?  Because it works.  Progressive politicians and third world invaders always seem to dodge accountability while conservative movements in-fight over the sou...

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Astrophography with a Game Boy Camera

Chris Graue used the primitive Game Boy Camera to take striking photos of Jupiter, and has now published a tutorial on how to get results from the 1990s novelty gadget. The essential component is a 3D-printable lens adapter. As with my Super Nintendo Tripod Mount, I teamed up with my friend Drew Van Oort to design this piece. Read the rest The post Astrophography with a Game Boy Camera appeared first on Boing Boing.

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22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare

22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare Summary: 22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta Invasion Spain's Border Invasion Is An Optics Disaster For Open-Border Democrats Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain 22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" To Spanish Enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla Invasion  European leader...

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Leopold Aschenbrenner's Short Seller Fairy Tale

Leopold Aschenbrenner's Short Seller Fairy Tale Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, stuffed like the ass of a Thanksgiving turkey with every trendy AI name you could throw a dart at, reportedly suffered one of the most spectacular drawdowns of recent memory, losing roughly 67% in July after a series of heavily leveraged bets went violently against it. According to the Wall Street Journal, the losses became severe enough to trigger margin calls, fo...

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"I've Been Doxed": Lefty Podcaster Scott Galloway Rips Mamdani After Landing On Socialist's Rich Target List

"I've Been Doxed": Lefty Podcaster Scott Galloway Rips Mamdani After Landing On Socialist's Rich Target List Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway, who can only be described as a "useful idiot" for helping legitimize far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, appears to be awakening from his political delusion. Galloway now says he has been "doxed" after realizing that the socialist movement he helped empower is publicly identifying wealthy property owner...

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The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb

Carved into the Hathor temple at Dendera in Egypt is a relief that looks a great deal like a lightbulb: an oval bubble with a snake curling inside it, held up by a pillar. A fringe theory holds that this is evidence of ancient Egyptian electric lighting, based on the resemblance to incandescent bulbs, cathode-ray tubes, and Crookes tubes. Read the rest The post The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Pick up a refurbished 2018 MacBook Air for just $200

TL;DR: This refurbished 13-inch MacBook Air (2018) is now just $199.97 (reg. $1,199). If you're looking for everyday battery life, portability, and the ability to retain your membership in the Apple ecosystem, this refurbished MacBook Air may be just what you're looking for—grab your 128GB one in Gold for just $199.97 (reg. Read the rest The post Pick up a refurbished 2018 MacBook Air for just $200 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Two brothers filled a Harlem brownstone with 140 tons of stuff

When police reached the Harlem brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue in March 1947, the doors were wired shut and the foyer was packed solid with old newspapers, folding beds, half a sewing machine, boxes, and parts of a wine press. A patrolman finally broke in through a second-story window and dug for five hours before finding Homer Collyer's body. Read the rest The post Two brothers filled a Harlem brownstone with 140 tons of stuff appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Twin Car Bombs Rock Colombian City Days Before Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power

Twin Car Bombs Rock Colombian City Days Before Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power Details remain limited, but initial reports and footage on X suggest that one or more vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), commonly known as car or truck bombs, detonated near a police station in Cúcuta, Colombia, close to the Venezuelan border. The apparent VBIED attack occurred just six days before President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella's inauguration, which will transfer power ...

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In 1984, an anonymous poster said a Pink Floyd album hid a prize. Nobody ever found it

On June 11, 1994, a user posting anonymously through a remailer to the Pink Floyd newsgroup on Usenet told fans that the band's new album had "a central purpose and a designed solution" buried in it. Study the artwork, the lyrics, and the music, the poster said. Read the rest The post In 1984, an anonymous poster said a Pink Floyd album hid a prize. Nobody ever found it appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Closed Borders Killing Western Union, Earnings Call Transcripts Reveal

Closed Borders Killing Western Union, Earnings Call Transcripts Reveal Western Union CFO Matt Cagwin quietly acknowledged in yesterday’s earnings call that fewer border crossings under the Trump admin are chipping away at the remittance behemoth’s profits: “New migration is the lifeline of our retail business. With borders closed, it is difficult to offset natural attrition… as consumers return home to their native countries,” Cagwin said. WU has long been the dominant vampire ski...

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Germany Builds AI 'Racist Uncle' Robot To Indoctrinate Kids In Schools

Germany Builds AI 'Racist Uncle' Robot To Indoctrinate Kids In Schools Authored by an 'anonymous German teacher' via dailysceptic.org, Täteropferumkehr is the German term for “victim blaming” – often hyphenated as Täter-Opfer-Umkehr to make it look slightly less clunky. In recent times, our political and media establishment have turned it into a sharp tool, employed with reference to both foreign and domestic politics. Unsurprisingly, Germany’s woke Left – always eager to champion...

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Crude Inventories Have Fallen To "Precariously Low" Levels

Crude Inventories Have Fallen To "Precariously Low" Levels U.S. crude inventories fell sharply last week as refineries ramped up production to capitalize on higher fuel prices following renewed conflict with Iran, according to Financial Times. Commercial crude stockpiles declined by 7.2 million barrels, while the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped another 3.8 million barrels. Refineries operated at 97% of capacity nationwide, with some Midwest facilities running at full capa...

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Britain's Problems Didn't Begin With Brexit

Britain's Problems Didn't Begin With Brexit Authored by Jason Sorens via  The Daily Economy, Ten years ago, Britons voted to leave the European Union, launching three and a half years of tumultuous negotiations and domestic political ructions, only subsiding after the UK’s official withdrawal in January 2020. It’s tempting to see Brexit as a watershed moment in Britain’s political economy. Britons themselves now tend to regret the choice rather than affirm it, with narrow majori...

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Xi Tells PLA TO Build 'Intelligent Military System' As Beijing Leans Into Drones And AI

Xi Tells PLA TO Build 'Intelligent Military System' As Beijing Leans Into Drones And AI China's Xi Jinping told the People's Liberation Army this week to intensify the military application of artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, telling a Politburo study session that the force should build toward what the official readout called an "intelligent military system." The directive landed days before the PLA's ninety-ninth anniversary and squarely on the modernization targets Bei...

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Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain

Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Nearly 50,000 military-aged men stormed the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla from Morocco in a single day. What followed was not "asylum-seeking." It was open looting, home invasions, vehicle burnings, and street chaos while Spanish authorities largely stood aside. Spain's socialist government under Pedro Sánchez had already rolled out mass regularis...

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Boy George's Pro-Israel AI Slop Reggae Song was Promotional Stunt for Playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar

In 2018, I won the coveted "every word more horrifying than the last" award for the headline "Spiders Blamed After Broken Siren Played Creepy Nursery Rhymes Randomly To British Townsfolk." I expect to win this award a second time, thanks to famed singer Boy George's latest antics turning out to have an amazing contextual backdrop. Read the rest The post Boy George's Pro-Israel AI Slop Reggae Song was Promotional Stunt for Playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed

Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us I think nothing enrages Americans more than a lack of accountability from government officials. Yes, it happens often, and the public hasn’t taken up torches and pitchforks (yet), but I would point out that these incidents are cumulative and they light a growing fire within the collective memory. Eventually, people are going to snap if they don’t see action taken to ...

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Unpublished novel's $2.4m deal pulled over AI concerns

An author's debut novel scored $2.4m in licensing deals after Minotaur/Macmillan acquired it, but they unraveled after "questions were raised" over exactly who, or what, wrote it. Deadline reports "there are apparently fingerprints, or something that raised the flags of AI censors," a description that illustrates how well the entertainment industry understands the technology at hand. Read the rest The post Unpublished novel's $2.4m deal pulled over AI concerns appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Wichita Man Sues City To Rip Out Its 200-Camera Flock Dragnet

Wichita Man Sues City To Rip Out Its 200-Camera Flock Dragnet A Wichita machinist, Mason Grimmett, sued his own city this week, arguing that the roughly 200 Flock license-plate readers the police department has bolted around town amount to warrantless dragnet surveillance forbidden by the Kansas Constitution. The complaint, filed in Sedgwick County District Court by the Kansas Justice Institute, does not ask for money - rather, it asks a judge to declare the program unconstitutional...

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'Genetically Altered' Nuclear Monster Sharks Could Be Eating Whales

'Genetically Altered' Nuclear Monster Sharks Could Be Eating Whales Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A mysterious predator has been tearing into whales, seals, and giant tuna off the New York coast, leaving bite marks the size of dinner plates and sparking theories of a radioactive "Sharkzilla" spawned by decades of government nuclear waste dumping. Because nothing says summer 2026 like the possibility that Cold War bureaucrats cooked up a genetically enhanced killing ...

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Unitree IPO Finally Puts A Real Price On Profitable Humanoid Robots

Unitree IPO Finally Puts A Real Price On Profitable Humanoid Robots Chinese robotics maker Unitree formally launched its IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market on Thursday, opening the books on a deal that aims to raise about 4.2 billion yuan (roughly $618 million) at an implied valuation near 42 billion yuan ($5.9 billion). Once the shares start trading, the listing will put a real, daily market price on a profitable humanoid-robot maker operating at scale - the first the sector has had. ...

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Trump Defends Anti-Weaponization Fund But Admits It's Effectively 'Dead'

Trump Defends Anti-Weaponization Fund But Admits It's Effectively 'Dead' Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Friday said that he still wants compensation for people he said were victimized by a weaponized federal government while acknowledging that a planned $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” after the Department of Justice walked it back amid congressional opposition and court rulings. “It is dead,” Trump said at a Cabinet meetin...

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The Strange Reason Scientists Still Need Pre-1945 Steel

The Strange Reason Scientists Still Need Pre-1945 Steel The world's most sensitive radiation detectors sometimes rely on low background steel produced before the first atomic bomb test in July 1945, according to a new report from SpaceDaily. Steel manufactured before the nuclear age lacks the tiny traces of radioactive fallout that atmospheric weapons testing later introduced into the environment, making it valuable for experiments searching for extraordinarily rare particles and f...

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YouTube crackles down on ASMR content

YouTube terminated the channels of several popular ASMR artists this week, telling them their content violated its policies against sexual material. 404 Media's Samantha Cole reports that those banned include ItsBunniiASMR, Slight Sounds, Nananightray, Roseasmr, Simoneasmr and Janina Wilhelmsen. Read the rest The post YouTube crackles down on ASMR content appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trust In Higher Education Hits Another Low As The Public Rejects Institutional Bias

Trust In Higher Education Hits Another Low As The Public Rejects Institutional Bias Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education. One of the Gallup experts told Fox News that one of the key reasons for the continued slide in public trust is "the perception that there's a political agenda being taught." That perception is well documented after mo...

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US Withdraws Troops, Patriot Batteries From Northern Iraq Amid Iranian Attacks

US Withdraws Troops, Patriot Batteries From Northern Iraq Amid Iranian Attacks There are new reports Friday of more US troop pullback initiatives in the wake of the last couple weeks of US-Iran fighting, and Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes which have targeted American bases with increased regularity, especially in Jordan and Kuwait. One regional media publication freshly reports, "The United States military has started to draw down its last remaining forces from Iraq st...

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Students Seek To AI-Proof Their Careers With Trades Over College

Students Seek To AI-Proof Their Careers With Trades Over College Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, For years, students were told the future belonged to college graduates with a four-year degree. Now, some of the fastest-growing opportunities are in skilled trades, where there is an escalating demand for labor and a higher level of job security amid the rise of artificial intelligence. An instructor teaches a student about brazing—a metal joining process used in hea...

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F-35 Stealth Jet Suffers "Mishap" At San Diego Airbase

F-35 Stealth Jet Suffers "Mishap" At San Diego Airbase A US Marine Corps F-35B assigned to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing suffered a "mishap" at MCAS Miramar in San Diego earlier today, according to Fox News. Viral videos have circulated on X showing the $100 million fifth-generation fighter jet in flames. BREAKING: Emergency crews are responding to an aircraft mishap appearing to involve an F-35 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego after the incident was reported ea...

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China-Focused Influence Program Courted Senior US Media Figures With Sponsor-Paid Trips

China-Focused Influence Program Courted Senior US Media Figures With Sponsor-Paid Trips Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, A journalist's review of Committee of 100 (C100) records has renewed scrutiny of sponsor-paid trips that brought senior figures from major U.S. news organizations to China and recorded changes in their views and professional plans. A tour guide stands near a display showing images of people at locations described as vocational training centers in sou...

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Spacecraft sent on rescue mission now spinning out of control

NASA's mission to rescue a satellite falling out of orbit suffered a setback when the rescue craft experienced multiple failures. NASA launched Katalyst's LINK spacecraft earlier this month on a mission to boost the Swift Observatory into a stable orbit. In a blog post, NASA announced that "Katalyst's LINK servicing spacecraft experienced issues with attitude control, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications." Read the rest The post Spacecraft sent on rescue missi...

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Argentina's Milei Borrows Warren Buffett's Idea To Punish Deficit-Spending Politicians

Argentina's Milei Borrows Warren Buffett's Idea To Punish Deficit-Spending Politicians More than two years after campaigning to "blow up" Argentina's central bank, President Javier Milei has announced his "Fiscal Shackle" bill - a permanent rule aimed at preventing Argentina from approving or maintaining budgets with fiscal deficits that could have consequences for politicians. On Thursday, in a speech recorded at the Casa Rosada and broadcast nationwide, Milei proposed an overhaul...

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Fall asleep to monotonous Wikipedia entries with this podcast

The I Can't Sleep podcast is the perfect way to fall asleep. Wikipedia entries are read slowly, in a soft monotone. Recent episodes have included the entries for Middle-earth, French fries, and concrete. The show's about page claims that "Sleep researchers will tell you that monotony, predictable voices, and gentle cognitive engagement (the kind that distracts but doesn't excite) are useful for falling asleep." Read the rest The post Fall asleep to monotonous Wikipedia entries with this podcas...

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The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years

Avocado flowers perform the duty of both female and male flowers. The gene that controls them has been unchanged for 42 million years. Each avocado flower opens twice over two days: first in its female phase, when it can receive pollen, and later in its male phase, when it releases pollen. Read the rest The post The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Judge Rejects States' Attempt To Block Medicaid Work Requirements

Judge Rejects States' Attempt To Block Medicaid Work Requirements Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on July 30 declined to block new work requirements for Medicaid recipients that states must implement by Jan. 1, 2027. Judge Richard Stearns of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts turned down a request for a preliminary injunction made by Massachusetts and 25 other states to block the work requirements as the states’ legal chall...

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DOJ admits the Reflecting Pool "vandal" was the contractor

The Trump administration arrested a former Olympian, David Hearn, for touching a loose piece of its janky Reflecting Pool liner, indicted him for felony vandalism, and then announced it had "tremendous evidence" of his wrongdoing. The evidence shows something else: the contractor botched the installation, the DOJ lied. Read the rest The post DOJ admits the Reflecting Pool "vandal" was the contractor appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This gun lesson skipped directly to the consequences

A 21-year-old Nebraska man set out to film an instructional gun video and accidentally produced a much more persuasive one. Police say the newly purchased 9mm discharged as he demonstrated how to rack it, sending a bullet through his leg and severing his femoral artery. Read the rest The post This gun lesson skipped directly to the consequences appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Memory-Chip Crunch Hits Smartphone Demand Across China

Memory-Chip Crunch Hits Smartphone Demand Across China Prices for electronic devices reliant on advanced memory chips, from smartphones to gaming consoles, have risen as the AI data-center buildout tightens supply and drives component costs higher. The resulting memory-chip crunch is now weighing on consumer demand, with Goldman’s latest note showing that the pressure is increasingly visible in China’s handheld-device market. Goldman analyst Allen Chang, who focuses on everything ...

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A $12 Chico's shirt enters the Mitch McConnell proof-of-life mystery

Architect of our demise, Senator Mitch McConnell's office released another photograph to prove that he remains alive and recovering. The doubting public responded by identifying his wife's $12 Chico's shirt and opening a textile-forensics lab. A family friend of billionaire Elaine Chao reportedly considers it implausible that she would willingly wear a $12 Chico's shirt. Read the rest The post A $12 Chico's shirt enters the Mitch McConnell proof-of-life mystery appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump Orders Heavy Attack On Energy-Related Targets In Iran, To Commence This Weekend

Trump Orders Heavy Attack On Energy-Related Targets In Iran, To Commence This Weekend Summary Trump orders major strikes on Iran, likely to start this weekend. US adds sanctions, Bessent says Tehran can't pay troops, as Iran faces growing pressure. Most Americans say the Iran war isn't worth fighting: AP poll. Iran claims drone strike on US base in Kuwait - after no new US strikes overnight. Oil rises as fears of wider conflict grow and lack of talks. //--> //--> //--> U...

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Preacher who loves a "captive audience" meets the person running the flight

Recently, we shared the story of an airplane evangelist who likes to stand up and start bothering people on flights. It appears the airlines are over it. Public exhibitionist Whitney Lynn goes on a weird Jesus rant after being told she can not perform her one-woman act. Read the rest The post Preacher who loves a "captive audience" meets the person running the flight appeared first on Boing Boing.