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Los Angeles. L.A. Desert city. Winner of water wars, destroyer of the Owens Valley. The Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula will soon offer Dune fans the opportunity to stick their hands into a box full of unbearable pain, and I don't mean watching Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya act. — Read the rest The post Will you survive the Gom Jabbar? Los Angeles gets a real-life Arrakis, waiver included appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having repeatedly tried to call his Florida dinner club "The Winter White House," Dementia Don has found a new grift: turning part of his private golf club into a new Presidential retreat à la Camp David without the gravitas or tradition. — Read the rest The post Trump wants to turn his private golf club into a presidential retreat appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tempe police released a video showing Eryn Bonner failing to obey the cops. Sadly, for Tempe's finest, the video also shows what they did about it. One of their officers shoves the 21-year-old ASU student to the ground, tackles her against a police bicycle and then punches her in face. — Read the rest The post Tempe cop punches 21-year-old woman in the face; police union calls it the "minimum required" appeared first on Boing Boing.

It's taken 37 years for Nintendo's humble Game Boy to hit puberty, but the hour has finally come. What's even cooler than a video game console you can carry around in your pocket? One the size of an actual person that runs on game cartridges a family of four could eat dinner on, of course. — Read the rest The post Game Boy becomes Game Man with giant-sized version appeared first on Boing Boing.

Defending a war only he wanted, Donald Trump offered Los Angeles and San Diego up as sacrificial lambs to Iran. Scoffing, Iran has no interest in civilian targets. The war has cost the United States over 80 aircraft, and at least 8 US bases have been hit. — Read the rest The post After hitting U.S. bases, Iran's LEGO propagandists tell Trump: "bases, not bedrooms" appeared first on Boing Boing.

An engagement accompanied by the Southern California standard, a mariachi band, was interrupted by an angry woman declaring, "This isn't Mexico!" Technically, the bitter bigot is correct. Mexico ceded California in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Culturally, she's pretty far off tho. — Read the rest The post "This isn't Mexico!" yells woman standing on land the U.S. took from Mexico in a war appeared first on Boing Boing.

Josh Lieb has been a comedy writer/producer for some of the best comedy on television: The Daily Show with John Stewart, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, etc. He's been writing funny and interesting children's books recently, and his latest is a Choose Your Own Adventure picture book that's that's more comedy than adventure. — Read the rest The post A new picture book makes kids its boss appeared first on Boing Boing.

I mean, fair play, if the Hollywood machine can turn games like _Minecraft_ and _Call of Duty_ into movies, nothing is off limits. If you've never played Embark's twin titans _The Finals_ and _ARC Raiders_ , the former is an immensely stylish capture-the-flag shooter with some of the best movement in any game I've played and the latter is an extraction shooter responsible for ruining scores of friendships. — Read the rest The post The Finals and ARC Raiders, multiplayer games with no plot, to get film adaptations appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Autonomous is an AI-forward company that sells everything from a coaster that tracks how much water you drink, a creepy-cute Pixar-esque companion lamp, to $20,000 backyard office pods. Another offering is the Autonomous Key, which promises to help kick the doomscrolling habit. — Read the rest The post Perhaps humiliation is the productivity hack we've been waiting for appeared first on Boing Boing.

Embark's promised big next step in Arc Raiders is set to release on October 8th. Will it bring back the fading player base? Arc Raiders had one of the most exciting launches and ramp-ups in years. It held on for a few months, but then rapidly lost players, at a rate that seemed intentional but was not. — Read the rest The post Will Frozen Trail turn it around for Arc Raiders? appeared first on Boing Boing.

For the first 15 years or so of this century, subscription satellite TV was available in Latin America with a one-time purchase of a pirate box. The channel operators tried to stop it, and the pirates nimbly worked around the locks. — Read the rest The post Entertainment wants to be free: the forgotten war to liberate satellite TV appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace, who has notably been sued by women over alleged "affairs" during his current marriage, gave his bag carrier a good once-over and then described her as a "perfect person," where perfect seems to mean her legs. While musing over television vehicles for Natalie, Diaper Don also offered up Los Angeles and San Diego to Iran as targets for retribution. — Read the rest The post Trump salivates over Natalie and invites Iran to bomb California appeared first on Boing Boing.

Disneyland's fume-soaked Autopia has been given until February 1st, 2027, to change or shut down. A few years ago, Disney got caught running Autopia cars that were not emissions-approved. They agreed to a 30-month timeline to clean up its grossly polluting car ride, or shut down. — Read the rest The post California gives Disneyland's gas-choked Autopia a deadline appeared first on Boing Boing.

Steve Hilton has a really creepy and weird ad for Governor of California, and its probably not helping him. I guess first-time voting has changed a lot since I was a kid! The ad even has Republicans pissed off. > Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a Christian nationalist, said the ad promotes "lesbianism," which he called a "pandemic" among high school and college students during his Facebook live on Saturday, and called it "grotesque" and "insensitive." — Read the rest The post Republican gubernatorial candidate in California compares experimenting with your sexuality to voting for him appeared first on Boing Boing.

The new Star Wars racing game is available for free on a service you likely forgot exists. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out today on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, but also on Amazon Luna, free to play for Prime members. — Read the rest The post Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to play for Prime members appeared first on Boing Boing.

With police abuse of Flock surveillance cameras often making news and backlash growing against the rapid deployment of ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) across the U.S., some cities are finding ways to make sure taxpayers know as little as possible. The Fort Worth suburb of North Richland Hills, reports _The Texas Tribune_ , demanded $2.3 million to fulfill a public records request for information about its use of Flock cameras. — Read the rest The post Texas city wants $2.3 million to release data on Flock use appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Donald Trump sent U.S. service members to war in Iran. When an Iranian drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait killed six and left dozens wounded, nine report they were not classified as wounded and were left to figure out their own medical care. — Read the rest The post Wounded U.S. troops say the Pentagon left them to fight for their own medical care appeared first on Boing Boing.

Still failing to read the room, Sam Altman thinks the world should accept "some bad things happening" for the benefits of artificial intelligence. This is an incredible bargain to offer humanity while Forbes says you're worth about $3.3 billion, and the bad things under discussion include other people getting hacked, scammed, and otherwise abused by the technology that made you that $3.3 billion. — Read the rest The post AI billionaire Sam Altman says the world should accept "some bad things happening" for AI appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having abandoned Donald Trump for a longer-lasting future that doesn't involve being left to die with the press corps, Karoline Leavitt surprises us only by jumping to Fox News so quickly. Leavitt was one of Trump's most vile press secretaries. Not the pitiful joke of Scaramucci, or the weakness embodied by Spicey, Karoline "The Mouth of Moron" Leavitt was a hopped-up, supercharged version of Huckabee-Sanders with nothing but spite for the American people. — Read the rest The post Having spent enough time with her family, Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News appeared first on Boing Boing.

As a big fan of Naughty Dog's zombie-killing/teenage angst simulator The Last of Us, I was gutted to discover that an ongoing multiplayer mod for _The Last of Us: Part 2_ had been axed by Sony. The moment you decide to charge for a mod, you're making money off someone else's IP and open to be beheaded for it. — Read the rest The post Playing The Last of Us in first person is like an entirely different game appeared first on Boing Boing.

The President of the United States stood in a high school gym in Vandalia, Ohio, and described his vision of a Republican victory this November, insisting they'd "shove it up their ass." The audience cheered. Trump was stumping for Ohio Republicans Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy when he resorted to the kind of argument MAGA can really get behind: Apparently the face-eating leopards have evolved. — Read the rest The post Trump tells Ohio Republicans: "We're gonna shove it up their ass" appeared first on Boing Boing.

This is the kind of Paul Reubens story that just makes you love him more. The Pee-wee Herman actor had an incredible Mr. T memorabilia collection. The comedian amassed two A-Team kites, fake gold chains, "Gold" chain bubble gum, air fresheners, party hats, coloring books, an action figure, and a Mr. — Read the rest The post Paul Reubens' magnificent Mr. T collection is up for sale appeared first on Boing Boing.

With the hype behind _Grand Theft Auto 6_ reaching cataclysmic levels, it was only a matter of time before our other American cultural institutions started taking notice. Let no one say that Saturday Night Live hasn't cast off its reputation for being slightly behind the times: they've finally done a _GTA 6_ sketch. — Read the rest The post SNL does GTA 6 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Remember when your friends roped you into Lethal Company, then Peak, then Big Walk, then that game where you just walk around a run-down house picking up leaves? So-called 'friendslop' — a term I really, really hate that describes small, low-scope co-op indie games — has become a thriving industry all its own, rivaling even the dreaded cozy game in its ubiquity. — Read the rest The post The next co-op indie darling is probably going to be an egg-cracking simulator appeared first on Boing Boing.

Heroic rescue workers went into pounding waves to extract a dog trapped in a van that left Pacific Coast Highway for a Malibu surf experience. A white cargo van went off PCH in Malibu, near Deer Creek Road, smashed into some rocks, and wound up in the Pacific. — Read the rest The post Van goes off PCH and into the Pacific; firefighters go in for the dog appeared first on Boing Boing.

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My friend and Wired colleague Gary Wolf is one of my favorite writers. He wrote a bunch of fantastic articles for Wired magazine, including a profile of Ted Nelson, creator of the Xanadu hypertext project, and he wrote a history of Wired magazine, a book called _Wired: A Romance_. — Read the rest The post Quantified Self cofounder Gary Wolf brings his new book to Los Angeles appeared first on Boing Boing.

Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other people. — Read the rest The post Rob Ullman drew a 48-page comic about his single day in Zion National Park appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Saudi-owned and operated son-in-law of our dementia addled President is tired of people getting things wrong, and maybe sometime he'll tell us the side of the story he wants us to hear. Jared Kushner, whose private-equity firm took a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and who is best known for marrying Diaper Don's daughter, is sick and tired of being kicked around by the press and is not gonna take it anymore, someday, really. — Read the rest The post Jared Kushner vows to someday argue with the press appeared first on Boing Boing.

Id Software's 1992 shooter _Doom_ now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. — Read the rest The post Doom ported to Commodore 64 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [via Kosmofoto] > "Our aim is to create one of the most comprehensive film camera archives available, while keeping it freely accessible to photographers, collectors, researchers and anyone interested in analogue photography. — Read the rest The post New camera database has 1482 entries and it hasn't even gotten to "B" appeared first on Boing Boing.

British singer Olivia Dean's song _I've Seen It_ lifts a section of melody from 1981 Bill Withers hit _Just The Two Of Us, _ according to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in California. The songs "share musical features … so striking" that it cannot be a coincidence, claim lawyers for Mattie Music Group, which manages Withers' catalog. — Read the rest The post Does Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copy Bill Withers' "Just The Two Of Us?" appeared first on Boing Boing.

People keep waiting for a groundbreaking reinvention of the e-reader, but Kindle already does it pretty well. The e-reader line has been refreshed. New Basic, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft versions are available, along with Signature editions for the Paperwhite and Colorsoft. The shape has changed somewhat. — Read the rest The post The most exciting thing about Amazon's 2026 Kindle refresh is a clicker appeared first on Boing Boing.

Potter & Potter Auctions just closed its "Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos" auction, and it is fun to browse through the catalog and see what was offered and how much money people paid. Items included books on pseudoscience, human skulls, wooden boxes full of glass eyes, quack medical devices, apothecary jars, pickled medical specimens, death masks, exotic weapons, the Lord's Prayer on a grain of wheat, binders of mugshot photos, and more. — Read the rest The post Glass eyes, death masks, and human skulls: browse a weird auction's results appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace has lost his multiple bids to slap his failure-associated name on a revered institution and has been ordered not to tear it down on a whim, so he is selling off the parts. Movers have been photographed hauling out the Steinways, which AlterNet reports are being sold because the Center is closed. — Read the rest The post Trump's Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways appeared first on Boing Boing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.