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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/08/2026
Peter Cullen also voiced the alien hunter in 1987's Predator and Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.
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Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime, dead at 85
Peter Cullen, whose booming voice defined "hero truck" Optimus Prime, Knight Rider's KARR and intimidating characters in many other shows and movies, is dead at 85. TMZ was first the…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/08/2026
CNN found more than a dozen brain-injury cases tied to the 76 mph ride. One rider, Hawley, collapsed after getting off and died within 10 hours; his brain swelled during emergency surgery. Others said they were thrown around like rag dolls.
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Six Flags' head-banging X2 rollercoaster closed after two brain hemorrhages in six days
After two severe hemorrhages in six days, Six Flags Magic Mountain finally shuttered one of its most famous rollercoasters. Though the park has not said what prompted the closure, these…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/08/2026
California's cannabis market was meant to be the global model for legalization. A lieutenant governor candidate, Fiona Ma, now calls it "a complete failure," as the state's June sales slipped just below Canada's $374.5 million.
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Canada out-weeds California
In June, Canadians bought more weed than Californians. Bong down, eh? Canada's weed market is growing, while California's has fallen off its peak. While there are perhaps 2-3 million more…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/08/2026
The Giants' new betting partner is Kalshi, a site that lets people bet on the weather. An executive's answer to concerns about addiction and marketing to kids: it's going to happen with or without you, so better to control the narrative.
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Baseball's unforgivable sin is now a sponsorship opportunity
Stories of gambling in baseball, when I grew up, were akin to original sin. Eight Men Out was a classic. Pete Rose got a very perma permaban. Man, when we…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/08/2026
The gash in Menkaure's pyramid has long been blamed on an eight-month treasure hunt described in a 12th-century account. The historical record doesn't back that up. The real damage came much later, and for a far dumber reason.
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Who defaced that pyramid?
"Nobody would try to dismantle a pyramid by cutting a thin slice into one side." — History for Granite In this fantastic video, History for Granite debunks another tentpole of…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/08/2026
The chase behind Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg ran a full year across networks, modem banks, and international borders, tracing to German hackers who also worked for the East German Stasi.
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Cliff Stoll revisits the 75-cent glitch that caught KGB hackers, 40 years later
Every year since 1993, hackers, researchers, computer security specialists, and government intelligence employees have gathered in Las Vegas for the annual DEF CON. This year Clifford Stoll gave an energetic…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
Longtime substitute Garratt posted on her personal Facebook that pro-Trump students at an on-campus rally harassed classmates and used racial slurs. Six days later, an assistant superintendent told her the district didn't want her coming back.
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Beverly Hills, fresh from blocking an abortion clinic, allegedly fires teacher for criticizing Trump
Seems Beverly Hills is still trying to usurp Huntington Beach's place as Southern California's MAGA safe zone. As if getting into trouble with the California DOJ for illegally interfering with…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
The playlist comes from the Bureau of Lost Culture podcast, whose episode interviews author James Riley about his book The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties. The films run from The Graduate to Eraserhead.
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A countercultural film playlist for 1960s obsessives
The 1960s are an endless source of fascination for me. No matter how many books I read about the decade, or the movies I watch or music I listen to,…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
The EPA admitted it has no idea at what level these chemicals turn acutely lethal, yet cleared them for import and immediate use anyway. Much of its own paperwork is redacted, apparently to shield the multinational corporations that make them.
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Trump's Environmental "Protection" Agency approves toxic data center chemicals
The Trump administration has fast-track approved two new data center chemicals that can result in cancer, neurological damage, reproductive harm, and even sudden death, according to a lawsuit just filed…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
Snoop plays Dr. Cyrus Cane, whose edible empire is the setting: Agent 47 infiltrates a commercial shoot for the fake brand.
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New Hitman mission lets you assassinate Snoop Dogg
007: First Light has been out for months, IOI! You can stop making Hitman DLC! It's okay! Hitman: World of Assassination is already one of the best stealth games ever…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
His U.S. work authorization card reads valid through February 2029, yet the Department of Homeland Security called him a "Venezuelan illegal alien" whose permission expired in 2018, adding that "being in detention is a choice.
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Padres coach held by ICE for over a week is released on bond
Oswaldo Pirela, the San Diego Padres' (Major League Baseball) minor league catching coordinator who was arrested last Sunday and held by ICE, was released on bond Monday. He entered the…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
Ahead of the expansion, CD Projekt Red is releasing a free remaster of The Witcher 3 for all current owners in late September. The DLC drops a new region and pulls Geralt out of retirement for a monster mystery set off by a festival gone wrong.
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Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion gets its first gameplay reveal
If I'd told you five years ago that The Witcher 3 would be getting a new expansion in 2027… well, you'd probably say "sounds about right." CD Projekt Red's masterpiece…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry, gone at 80. When Princess Diana met him in a receiving line and admitted she'd seen The Rocky Horror Show, she added: "Oh, yes, it quite completed my education.
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Tim Curry dead at 80
Actor Tim Curry, star of classics such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, is dead at 80. TMZ was first to report the…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
The registry even forecasts which Microsoft brands have gone too long without a rename and are due for recycling. One entry, Azure AI Search, was formerly Azure Cognitive Search, and before that simply Azure Search.
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The Rebrand Registry tracks Microsoft's endless brand gyrations
Google regularly murders fine products and leaves them for others to bury. Microsoft, though, just renames theirs constantly. The Rebrand Registry now exists to help us keep track of Redmond's…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
Judge David Hittner found Senate Bill 12 so broad it could bar provocative cosplay, swimming athletes, and stage impersonators of Dolly Parton and Elvis. He also noted Gov. Greg Abbott had touted the law as a "drag ban" despite its careful wording.
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Texas judge rules again that ban on drag shows is unconstitutional
Texas banned drag shows. A judge again struck down that ban this week, telling people who are offended by drag performances that they can simply choose to not watch them.…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
That's roughly 8% of a single year's revenue. Meta must add age verification and parental controls—a system that also makes its user tracking more accurate and its platform less private, while doing nothing to make it safer.
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Facebook parent Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68bn to settle child safety lawsuit
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has agreed to pay no more than $16.68bn to settle claims that it harmed children in its relentless drive for growth and…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/08/2026
The bird is the capercaillie, and it's on the IUCN Red List of at-risk species. The Royal Mint's own director, Rebecca Morgan, puts it plainly: more of these coins will enter circulation than there are capercaillies left in the wild.
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New 10p coins feature world's biggest grouse on one side, and a bird on the other
The first 10 pence piece bearing King Charles III's portrait is entering circulation in the U.K. Announced Tuesday, the silver coin (worth about 14 U.S. cents) features His Majesty's profile…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/08/2026
Even the transistors are pneumatic. Each of the 64 cavities dimples when a vacuum forms behind the rubber, and soiboi soft demonstrates the whole thing by playing a game of Snake on it.
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This 8×8 display uses vacuum and silicone instead of LEDs
A YouTuber who goes by soiboi soft built an 8×8 pixel display that uses pneumatics and stretchy silicone instead of LEDs. The effect is mesmerizing and appealing. The orange rubber…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/08/2026
She wrote "I Will Always Love You," later a Whitney Houston hit, won 11 Grammys, and donated $1 million toward Moderna's COVID vaccine research. Her Imagination Library has delivered hundreds of millions of books to children.
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Dolly Parton dead at 80
Famed country music singer, philanthropist and businesswoman Dolly Parton is dead at 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on social media. "Dolly has lived in the light…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/08/2026
Army of Shadows is Zwigoff's favorite film ever. He once screened it for his friend Robert Crumb, who dismissed it minutes in over a wrong-period haircut in an early scene. Crumb, it turns out, lets a single mistake ruin an entire film.
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Ghost World director Terry Zwigoff names his five all-time favorite films
Criterion recently invited director Terry Zwigoff into its famous closet filled with its DVDs and invited him to talk about his favorite movies. Zwigoff directed Crumb, the 1995 documentary about…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/08/2026
SSX360's day job is field notes on logistics, defense, finance and climate risk, so this self-playing loop machine reads like a side project that got away from them. Press play and it starts; hit Reroll for an entirely new one.
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Techno synth and sequencer in a single HTML file
Rack-01 is an web-based techno synth and sequencer where all the controls are right there on a single page. Despite being an extremely polished app, it's all right there in…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/08/2026
The cover can be opaque because replica Flock cameras have no lenses, unlike the real automated license-plate readers. The maker posted the design files free so anyone can 3D print their own.
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This slip-on cover protects a replica Flock camera from rain and sun
For all of you who own a replica Flock camera, here's a nifty cover to protect it from the elements. It hooks onto a pole, making it easy to cover…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/08/2026
Target's rollback of DEI programs already triggered boycotts led by pastor Jamal Bryant, which the company says helped wipe $12 billion off its market value. Now its own Hyde & Eeek!
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Target withdraws halloween "minstrel" costume
A kids' Halloween costume featuring a tiny bowler hat and giant red-lipped smile led to a backlash for retailer Target, which has now withdrawn the "Circus Clown" outfit from sale.…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
Melted plastic Perler beads on a pegboard, fused with an iron. Swedish artist Johan Karlgren makes video game pixel art and tiny album cover replicas, filming his process as stop-motion animations where the beads slide into place.
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This artist turns melted plastic beads into pocket-sized video game pixel art
When Swedish artist Johan Karlgren had children, he started playing around with Perler beads, tiny plastic tubes that come in lots of different colors. They are kind of like physical…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
Cat in the Hat guy is pure fake, one Glasgow woman told her son who insisted he was in Drumchapel. Then she checked her driveway camera the next morning and found him standing in it. The Wexford Gardai had already debunked the whole thing.
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Cosplaying AI Cat-in-the-Hat virtually strikes Glasgow, residents in panic, sort of
A virtual urban menace plaguing the United Kingdom has now struck Glasgow. While folks across the Irish Sea are clear on what's going on, the Scots are having a time…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
American offered the family a $600 travel voucher, but Gary Leff says that doesn't cover what the DOT requires — a refund of the fare difference. The wrinkle: they paid in miles, and American won't publish how it prices award seats.
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Airline bumped a family from business class to make room for pilots — because they paid with miles
Gary Leff, who runs the View From the Wing website, posted an Instagram reel from a woman who said American Airlines kicked her family out of business class seats on…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
The New York Times reports the two met in recent weeks in a New York space offered by a mutual friend, discussing housing, immigration and the cost of living.
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Hakeem Jeffries takes time out from boldly leading the resistance to suck up to Jared Kushner
Democratic leadership hasn't been what we'd hoped and has, quite frankly, been weaker and lamer than anticipated. Hakeem Jeffries, however, has found a new way to capitulate. After Chuck Schumer's…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
Guard members deployed to Washington for a year say the "crime emergency" used to justify it was declared during a 30-year low in violent crime. One was even ordered to patrol the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after its botched renovation.
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The National Guard never wanted to be Trump's tool of oppression
"It's going to completely rebrand everything that was noble about the National Guard into being mundane at best and threatening at worst." — Anonymous National Guardsperson After a year of…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
Usha Vance gave him an ultimatum: he could be vice president, or they could have a fourth child. Vance recounted the exchange, then added, "I must be pretty persuasive, because I got both.
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JD Vance brags about getting his wife to have the baby she didn't want
Weirdo JD Vance has a funny story about disregarding his wife's wishes over extremely important life choices. Shady JD is proud he got his way. After yelling at his kid…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
The race is the Freedom 250. Melania stands right next to him at the line while Natalie is placed all the way in the back.
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Grandpa Pudding Brains gets to wave the green flag
Distracted from tyranny and destroying every global economic market he can find, Diaper Donnie has a grand ol' time. Dipsy Donald looks positively chuffed, waving an oversized flag to start…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
The three-year renewal runs $13 million a year and reaches 460,000 students and 63,000 staff across all 23 campuses. An SF State professor says the school can neither mandate the AI's use nor ban it.
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California State University system uses AI as a money incinerator
The cash-strapped university system spent $17 million to give everyone ChatGPT, watched sign-ups come in far more slowly than expected, and responded by committing another $39 million to it. As…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
At its fastest, S301 could cover the distance from Earth to the Moon in about 14 seconds. Its lopsided 8.7-year orbit suggests it was once half of a binary star, torn apart and captured by the black hole at the Milky Way's center.
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Fastest star yet seen orbits black hole at 8% speed of light
Most stars drift gracefully along their galactic orbits, the constellations reforming only on unimaginable timescales. But some stars are in a rush, and astronomers have spotted their fastest yet: an…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
The new battle frames it as one stuntman against another, and the production team went so far as to recreate Cruise's odd middle tooth. Epic Rap Battles of History averages about two videos a year, roughly three minutes each.
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Epic Rap Battles of History pits Tom Cruise against Evel Knievel
At this point, new videos from Epic Rap Battles of History feel a bit like Halley's Comet. If you're lucky, you get two a year, which doesn't quite square with…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
The affected berries are branded GreenWise and carry best-by dates as far out as February 9, 2028. So far the contamination has caused at least 12 illnesses and 4 hospital visits across 8 states, from Alabama to Virginia.
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FDA upgrades Diarrhea Blueberries recall
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has upgraded its recall of frozen blueberries to the highest level of risk. The berries, sold at Publix stores, tested positive for E. coli…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/08/2026
Mike McMahan (Star Trek: Lower Decks) and Joe Chandler (American Dad!) created it, animated by Titmouse. Warriors Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead reunite to stop Death Adder, joined by underprepared newcomer Hampton Squib.
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Golden Axe animated TV show airs September
Golden Axe, the 1989 Sega arcade game vaguely inspired by Conan and other sword-and-sandals classics, is to be a kids' animated television show from Paramount. Here's the trailer; it debuts…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 23/08/2026
Death Valley is not being coy about any of this.
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It is called Death Valley as a warning
Death Valley is not being coy about any of this. After getting their car stuck, a 68-year-old tourist and his travel partner attempted to walk out of Death Valley. The…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 23/08/2026
A May White House medical report put the 6-foot-3 president at 238 pounds, leaving him just 0.3 BMI points below the obesity threshold.
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Grandpa Pudding Brains has had too much pudding
The Hamberdgular has been overeating. Diaper Don managed to pack on 14 pounds while under doctor's orders to lose weight. Famed for bringing in McDonald's for athletes, mistaking his own…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
The color was suggested by Faber Birren, who once painted his own bedroom vermilion to test whether it would drive him mad.
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Why seafoam green was used in control rooms
Seafoam green has always been one of my favorite colors. One of the reasons is that it has a mid-20th-century feel to it (at least for me), an era I…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
Cedric Lodge, the former morgue manager, got eight years for shipping brains, skin, hands and faces to private buyers. In one case he provided skin that a buyer tanned into leather and bound into a book. His wife and six buyers were also convicted.
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Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market
Many people willed their remains to Harvard Medical School on the understanding they would be used in research and education. But the school's morgue manager sold these body parts on…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
The Shibuya crossing opens every two minutes, and there are livestreams from several vantage points — street level, overhead, even a 360-degree version. Mark leaves one running while he works.
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This Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube
A scramble is a type of corner pedestrian crossing where vehicles from all directions stop while pedestrians cross freely from one street to the other, often crossing diagonally. The most…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
Loren Davie's essay 'The New Puritanism' says the objection to AI writing rests on an old idea that effort equals morality, the same panic that once met washing machines. The EU now requires AI text to carry a watermark as proof of suffering.
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Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward
I'm fascinated by the range of human reactions to the increasing use of AI, especially when it comes to writing. A lot of people have made up their minds about…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
His brother says Pirela's work permit was valid through 2029. He entered legally, sought asylum, and remains in ICE custody as removal proceedings continue — apart from his wife and two children, ages 9 and 4.
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Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE
Oswaldo Pirela, the San Diego Padres' (Major League Baseball) minor-league catching coordinator, was arrested at an El Paso, Texas airport as he prepared to return to his home in Peoria,…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
The promotion only runs in the US, so players abroad are locked out. One Redditor offered to buy meals for them and give the food to unhoused people, and commenters confirmed the codes worked.
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ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with… Subway
Game studio Embark has teamed up with Subway to promote its extraction shooter ARC Raiders. Purchasing a meal will earn players a code for a new skin, complete with a…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
Anti-AI fonts get defeated by real AI platforms fast, Andrew Yaros argues, while screen readers and OCR stay stuck. Any accessible fix needs machine-readable metadata, which drags you toward centralized identity checks and lists of disabled people.
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Anti-AI fonts considered harmful
Bizarre or misshapen typefaces designed to confuse or stymie AI (previously and previously at Boing Boing) regularly go viral. But they're works of art making a point rather than something…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
The plan hinges on eliminating tariffs on cheap imported beef and routing 300,000 metric tons of someone else's ground beef to US consumers. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is furious about it.
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Big Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meat
Looking for slack from voters pissed off about grocery prices, the Orange Menace is taking another swing at lowering prices. This time by "flooding the market with government-subsidized, below-market beef."…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
Nathaniel Rai survived a near-drowning in the ocean, then had to sit through a White House meet-and-greet where the president said this straight to his face. The boy's expression during the exchange did the talking.
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Trump meets boy rescued from drowning, tells him he probably wouldn't have helped
Grandpa Pudding Brains invited a 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai and the lifeguard who saved him to the White House. He then told Nathaniel he would not have saved him, "probably." The…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
A new CSS corner-shape property draws bevels, notches, scoops, and squircles from an existing border radius without masks, and Firefox has finally added auto-resizing textareas, retiring another JavaScript shim.
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The latest HTML trickery for web designers
HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
Graft one by strapping a cut tomato stem to a cut potato stem and letting the wounds heal. The tomatoes are ready about 12 weeks later in summer; the potatoes wait until early fall, after the tomato leaves start to die back.
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A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below
The pomato is a plant that grows cherry tomatoes on its vine and potatoes in the soil. Tomatoes and potatoes both belong to the genus Solanum, so you can graft…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
Speaking at the council meeting, Vader said the surveillance has been great for following children to playgrounds and stalking his ex-girlfriend, freeing up time to hunt Rebel Scum. Matt Novak of Paleofuture captured the clip.
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Emperor Palpatine loves Flock
This past week, Lord Vader took time out of his busy schedule to drop by a city council meeting in San Diego, California to say how much his Master is…
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/08/2026
Two retired detectives, Ruud Schoenmaker and Nel Schep, traced him to a Buddhist community and a soup restaurant where staff knew him as "Chris the Canadian." He also answered to Louis, Lee, John, Ponytail and Sonny, always carrying a suitcase.
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Dutch police get lucky identifying mystery man
For the past three years, a man known only has Lucky has been in the care of the Dutch government. When the police found his unconscious body on the streets…
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