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The Mouth of Moron reading directly from "Dear Leader" playbook

Convicted felon Donald Trump's untrustworthy, scowling Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave a statement that sounds more like North Korean propaganda than ever before. Declaring victory over Iran while having achieved none of their goals in their unjust war is sadly to be expected. Read the rest The post The Mouth of Moron reading directly from "Dear Leader" playbook appeared first on Boing Boing.

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"Affordable" LA Olympics tickets arrive with $5,000 seats and a 24% convenience fee

Los Angeles promised a hometown Olympics that locals could actually attend, then opened ticket sales with $5,000 seats, vanishing "cheap" options, and a 24% service fee. Nothing says community celebration like getting priced out of your own city. Customers were shocked to find that tickets for LA28, which officials billed as "affordable" for locals, could cost a small fortune. Read the rest The post "Affordable" LA Olympics tickets arrive with $5,000 seats and a 24% convenience fee appeared ...

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Once again Israel ignores "ceasefire" part of "ceasefire"

Iran was clear that the ceasefire was to include Israel's attacks on Lebanon, but the United States and Israel have decided that wasn't part of the deal. Naturally, the ceasefire looks ready to fall apart. The U.S.-Iran ceasefire does not apply to Israel's strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios, contradicting claims from Iran and the Pakistani mediators. Read the rest The post Once again Israel ignores "ceasefire" part of "ceasefire" app...

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Japan's truth-in-packaging law makes snacks look exactly like the box

Japan's Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations (1962) is a consumer protection law that cracks down on deceptive advertising and packaging. Companies can't exaggerate what's inside, especially when it comes to size, appearance, or quality. If companies break this rule, they risk fines and public warnings. Read the rest The post Japan's truth-in-packaging law makes snacks look exactly like the box appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Monkey walks into hotel buffet, picks his snack, walks out

Watch a mischievous monkey casually walk into a hotel and steal a treat from the breakfast buffet. From the employee's reaction, I have a feeling that this little fellow is a regular at the breakfast table. The monkey pulls off the mission with zero interference and struts proudly out of the hotel with his snack. Read the rest The post Monkey walks into hotel buffet, picks his snack, walks out appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Autonomous future arrives, looks a lot like public transit without the "public" part

After years of breathless promises about a frictionless, individualized future, the autonomous revolution has arrived in the form of a sliding-door people mover that looks suspiciously like a bus minus the pesky "public." The Mountain View-based robotaxi company is in the process of incorporating the cars, manufactured for it by Chinese automobile maker Zeekr, into its fleet. Read the rest The post Autonomous future arrives, looks a lot like public transit without the "public" part appeared ...

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Science, now with 110,000 made-up sources!

Turns out the problem with AI in science isn't just that it occasionally gets things wrong, it's that AI confidently invents sources that don't exist, and those fake citations are showing up in real, peer-reviewed research by the tens of thousands. Read the rest The post Science, now with 110,000 made-up sources! appeared first on Boing Boing.

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ICE shoots "alleged gang member," says he "weaponized" his vehicle

After shooting a man in California, ICE declared him an "alleged gang member" and says he "weaponized" his vehicle. At some point, they will need a new script. "As officers approached the car, the wanted gang member weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over," Lyons said in the statement. Read the rest The post ICE shoots "alleged gang member," says he "weaponized" his vehicle appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Easter egg trees are a forgotten German tradition worth reviving

Decorating trees with eggs is a springtime tradition that traces back to Germany, where it's known as Ostereierbaum. Families hang brightly painted eggs, often hollowed-out real shells, on branches or small backyard trees. This is a way to celebrate renewal, fertility, and the arrival of warmer weather. Read the rest The post Easter egg trees are a forgotten German tradition worth reviving appeared first on Boing Boing.

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In "Punk'n Heads," the pumpkin masks are mandatory, the identity crisis is optional

Dave Baker has a knack for making comics that feel like they're barely holding themselves together. His books blur formats, identities, and sometimes the boundaries of reality itself. Mary Tyler MooreHawk did that through a kind of recursive media hallucination. His new book, Punk'n Heads, brings things crashing back to earth. Read the rest The post In "Punk'n Heads," the pumpkin masks are mandatory, the identity crisis is optional appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 5 hours ago

Always wanted to write a book? This AI non-fiction writing software is 91% off

TL;DR: Turn your ideas into professional-quality non-fiction books with this subscription to Youbooks AI Non-Fiction Book Generator. For 91% off, you can get unrivaled content creation for just $49 ($540). Millions of people say that one of their dreams is to write a book. Read the rest The post Always wanted to write a book? This AI non-fiction writing software is 91% off appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Bones in a bag: half of Sheriff's office charged with crimes including corpse abuse

It's not quite clear what's going on at the Costilla County Sheriff's office in Colorado, but investigators have indicted half of it on multiple charges that include abuse of a corpse. Granted, that's just four men in the sparsely-populated county on the New Mexico border: Sheriff Danny Sanchez, former Deputy Keith Schultz, Undersheriff Cruz Soto and Sergeant Caleb Sanchez, son of the Sheriff. Read the rest The post Bones in a bag: half of Sheriff's office charged with crimes including corpse a...

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Arkanoid played by an orchestra

Arkanoid, Taito's 1986 arcade game, brought sci-fi style to the classic Breakout formula. What music and audio it had was brief and distinctive, a fact highlighted by this performance, by the New Japan BGM Philharmonic Orchestra of a game of Arkanoid. Read the rest The post Arkanoid played by an orchestra appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 6 hours ago

Bicycle bell designed to defeat noise-cancelling headphones

Škoda's DuoBell is designed to be heard by people wearing high-end headphones, inexpensively blowing through active noise cancellation without being ridiculously loud or unnecessarily "smart." It's a "simple analog solution" with has no electrical components and sounds like a normal bike bell. Read the rest The post Bicycle bell designed to defeat noise-cancelling headphones appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Design of foldable iPhone confirmed by dummy sets

Tech journalist Sonny Dickson posted "exclusive first dummies" of the iPhone Fold to X¹, revealing that it is indeed a phone that folds. The existence of the dummies suggests a release sooner rather than later, and their design matches previous reports. Read the rest The post Design of foldable iPhone confirmed by dummy sets appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 21 hours ago

The doctor who proved handwashing saves lives was locked in an asylum for it

In 1847, a doctor at Vienna General Hospital cut the maternity ward death rate from 18% to 2% by requiring handwashing in chlorinated lime solution. The medical establishment repaid him with years of ridicule and eventually committed him to an asylum. Read the rest The post The doctor who proved handwashing saves lives was locked in an asylum for it appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 21 hours ago

No US city cracks the top 40 in 2026 Happy City Index

Copenhagen ranked first among 251 cities in the Happy City Index 2026, scoring 6,954 points across 64 indicators covering citizens, governance, environment, economy, health, and mobility. Helsinki came in second (6,919) and Geneva third (6,882). If you're looking for the American cities in the rankings: San Francisco landed at #45, New York at #207, and Dallas at #248 four spots from the bottom. Read the rest The post No US city cracks the top 40 in 2026 Happy City Index appeared first on Boing...

Alt - Boing Boing - 22 hours ago

This guy ran 500 miles on LSD and mushrooms in 11 days

Dante Liberato, a 27-year-old retired cage fighter who lives in Manitou Springs, Colorado, spent 11 days last October running the 500 miles between there and Moab, Utah eating LSD and psilocybin throughout. His protocol: 30 to 40 micrograms of LSD trickled across the day, accumulating to around 200 micrograms by nightfall, then 11 to 14 hours of running the next morning before camping again. Read the rest The post This guy ran 500 miles on LSD and mushrooms in 11 days appeared first on Boing Bo...

Alt - Boing Boing - 22 hours ago

China's 3,000-foot "Goddess escalator" takes 21 minutes to ride

Wushan County in Chongqing now has the world's longest outdoor escalator system: 3,000 feet of moving stairs 21 escalators plus 8 elevators climbing from the county town up to a scenic mountain area above it. The whole ride takes 21 minutes. Read the rest The post China's 3,000-foot "Goddess escalator" takes 21 minutes to ride appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 22 hours ago

Smugglers were caught with 5,000 Kenyan queen ants worth $220 each

A Chinese national was arrested at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport carrying 5,000 giant queen ants Messor cephalotes, a species prized in the exotic pet trade at $220 per ant. The ants were packed into test tubes stuffed with cotton wool, each tube sealed to keep its cargo alive for the journey. Read the rest The post Smugglers were caught with 5,000 Kenyan queen ants worth $220 each appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 22 hours ago

Germany unmasks the man behind REvil and GandCrab ransomware

For years the hacker known as "UNKN" ran two of the most destructive ransomware operations on the internet. Germany's Federal Criminal Police the Bundeskriminalamt, or BKA now says that's Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old from Krasnodar, Russia, who authorities believe still lives there. Read the rest The post Germany unmasks the man behind REvil and GandCrab ransomware appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 22 hours ago

France puts Freemasons on trial for hit squad murders

A murder trial opened in Paris last week with 22 defendants and a premise that sounds invented: killings and beatings allegedly commissioned through an internal dispute inside a Freemasonry lodge in Puteaux, just outside the city. Among those in the dock, according to France 24: four active DGSE foreign intelligence officers, two cops, a former DGSI counterintelligence official, corporate executives, and at least one professional killer. Read the rest The post France puts Freemasons on trial fo...

Alt - Boing Boing - 22 hours ago

Motorola Moto Pad: 11-inch Android tablet for $250

It's been well over a decade since I last held a tablet made by Motorola. In 2011, the Moto Xoom popped. It was a chonky piece of hardware, solid in the hand, with decent battery life for its day and you could get it with 3G baked in. Read the rest The post Motorola Moto Pad: 11-inch Android tablet for $250 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 23 hours ago

A24 brings the creepy with The Backrooms

I'll watch pretty much anything with Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Dirty Pretty Things, Children of Men) in it. But Chiwetel Ejiofor in an A24 horror flick? Pump it directly into my veins. The Backrooms, which is based on a series of OG YouTube shorts by Kane Parsons, is just over two minutes long. Read the rest The post A24 brings the creepy with The Backrooms appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 23 hours ago

Stop renting your office apps and finally own them for 92% off

TL;DR: Get 92% off access to MS Office 2019 apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows for just $16.97 (Reg. $229). Is it time to upgrade your office suite? Your content speaks for you. Read the rest The post Stop renting your office apps and finally own them for 92% off appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 23 hours ago

JerryRigEverything tears down the LG Rollable phone that never was

Remember that LG phone boasting an expandable, rollable display? No? Don't feel bad: it was supposed to be released back in 2021, but it never saw the light of day. News of the device popped up just before LG hut down its money-losing mobile division entirely. Read the rest The post JerryRigEverything tears down the LG Rollable phone that never was appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 23 hours ago

CBS sells Late Show time slot to Byron Allen for comedy reruns

CBS has announced that when Stephen Colbert's cancelled Late Show goes off the air late next month, it will sell its late night time slots to producer Byron Allen in a "time buy" arrangement. Allen will fill the slots with his own comedy shows and sell advertising. Read the rest The post CBS sells Late Show time slot to Byron Allen for comedy reruns appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

Artist hand-stitched a dress entirely from preserved autumn leaves

An artist named Amanda Meyer created an incredible dress out of autumn leaves. Meyer soaked the leaves in a glycerin solution to preserve them glycerin replaces the water inside each leaf, keeping it pliable and colorful rather than letting it dry out and crumble and then hand-stitched them all together. Read the rest The post Artist hand-stitched a dress entirely from preserved autumn leaves appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Small plane makes emergency landing in the middle of Pennsylvania highway

This video shows a small plane landing in the middle of traffic on a highway in PA. Thankfully, no passengers or drivers were injured. I can't imagine how surreal it must have been for drivers to have this plane land right in front of them. Read the rest The post Small plane makes emergency landing in the middle of Pennsylvania highway appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Flu vaccine linked to lower Alzheimer's risk

In news that will absolutely enrage the "I did my own research" crowd, a massive study just found that getting a flu shot is associated with a significantly lower risk of Alzheimer's up to 55% in older adults. In the retrospective cohort study, titled 'Risk of Alzheimer Dementia After High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Influenza Vaccination', researchers analysed health data from roughly 165,000 older adults who received either a high-dose or standard-dose influenza vaccine. Read the rest The post F...

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Ancient Peruvian textile features a feline spirit

This small textile fragment in the British Museum comes from Peru and dates to between 900 and 1430 CE. It's only about five inches across, but it has a special, timeless image of a cat on it. The base is made of cotton, and the design is woven in using soft wool from animals like alpacas or llamas. Read the rest The post Ancient Peruvian textile features a feline spirit appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Tom the Dancing Bug: Give Dementia Donnie his pudding, you crazy bastards!

Tom the Dancing Bug: Give Dementia Donnie his pudding, you crazy bastards! -Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere. Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: Give Dementia Donnie his pudding, you crazy bastards! appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This historic railway runs on human waste

This fantastic YouTube video shares the history of Fribourg's poo-powered funicular. Fribourg was built in a canyon, and there is a fairly steep incline between the working-class housing and the neighborhoods built far later. As the rich folk wanted the poor to be able to get to work, a funicular was built, but since there was no reliable water supply to enable the counter-weighted system to work, they used sewage. Read the rest The post This historic railway runs on human waste appeared first...

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Dark side of the moon, as seen from Artemis

The Artemis II mission is slingshotting around the moon today, and the images being returned from NASA's Orion ship are exquisite. Here's just a few of the latest, showing the moon eclipsing the sun. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. Read the rest The post Dark side of the moon, as seen from Artemis appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Sam Altman smiles through another "it's improving" while the model keeps making things up

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, once fired for being "not consistently candid in his communications," smiles, acknowledges the problem just enough to sound reasonable, and tries to write off a completely broken and lying LLM as another step on the ladder of progress. Read the rest The post Sam Altman smiles through another "it's improving" while the model keeps making things up appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Charcuterie: explore Unicode by character similarity

Charcuterie is a perfectly-named visual exploration tool for finding the exact Unicode character you want. Whichever one you click on, it'll fill the screen with similar sigils. You can also sketch one that came to you in a fever dream, and it will find it. Read the rest The post Charcuterie: explore Unicode by character similarity appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Iran teaches Grandpa Puddin' Brains diplomacy while he imagines Iranians begging for more bombs

Trump now claims that Iranians, currently being bombed, losing power, watching infrastructure collapse, are somehow slipping into his DMs to say: "Please, sir, keep bombing our homes." Not "stop." Not "ceasefire." Not "maybe don't hit the power grid or elementary schools." Read the rest The post Iran teaches Grandpa Puddin' Brains diplomacy while he imagines Iranians begging for more bombs appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Never struggle for storage again with this Internxt 10TB plan

TL;DR: Invest in a private cloud service that protects your right to safety and security with this 10TB Internxt Cloud Storage Lifetime Subscription for just $349.99 (reg. $2,900). Internxt provides you with 100% open-source, end-to-end encryption to help you securely store, share, and send files. Read the rest The post Never struggle for storage again with this Internxt 10TB plan appeared first on Boing Boing.

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How a naked steakhouse ad became a feminist protest poster

When Sara Van Horn's grandfather Jerry opened the Cattle Baron steakhouse on West 46th Street in Manhattan in 1967, his ads featured a nude woman posed in a cowboy hat, her body mapped in labeled butcher's cuts from shoulder to heel. Read the rest The post How a naked steakhouse ad became a feminist protest poster appeared first on Boing Boing.

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France pulled all its gold from the NY Fed and made $15 billion doing it

France sold all 129 tonnes of gold it had stored at the New York Federal Reserve, then rebuilt its position by buying from other European central banks booking a €13 billion capital gain in the process. Every ounce of French gold is now held domestically, deep in the vaults of La Souterraine, the Banque de France's underground storage facility south of Paris. Read the rest The post France pulled all its gold from the NY Fed and made $15 billion doing it appeared first on Boing Boing.

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AI writing witch hunts hurt autistic writers most

JA Westenberg a writer, commentator, and self-described autistic person argues that AI writing detection is junk science, and that the writers most harmed by it are often those with autism and other neurodivergent conditions whose natural prose style looks suspicious to the detectors. Read the rest The post AI writing witch hunts hurt autistic writers most appeared first on Boing Boing.

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She slept with identical twins and DNA can't identify the father

A UK woman conceived a child after sleeping with two brothers identical twins within a four-day window. DNA testing confirmed that either man could be the biological father. Since identical twins share the same genetic sequence, no test can further narrow it down. Read the rest The post She slept with identical twins and DNA can't identify the father appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump's plan for Iran is: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Q: Is the war ending, or are you about to bomb Iran into the Stone Age? Trump: Can't tell you. I don't know. There it is… the entire US plan in the Middle East, distilled to a shrug. For weeks, the message has ricocheted between "we're very close to peace" and "we could wipe them out tomorrow night," often in the same breath.  Read the rest The post Trump's plan for Iran is: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This $30 VPN deal may be the easiest cybersecurity move you make today

TL;DR: This $29.97 FastestVPN Pro (reg. $600) deal covers 15 devices and includes extras like ad blocking and a password manager. At this point, most of us have enough devices to qualify as a small electronics family that should be paying rent. Read the rest The post This $30 VPN deal may be the easiest cybersecurity move you make today appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This $79 tool lets you compare AI answers side by side

TL;DR: ChatPlayground AI is on sale for $79 (reg. $619), letting you run one prompt across multiple AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to compare answers in one place. Using AI is supposed to save time. Instead, you end up opening multiple tabs just to compare answers and figure out which one actually makes sense.  Read the rest The post This $79 tool lets you compare AI answers side by side appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Hasbro confirmed a cyberattack and says recovery could take several weeks

Hasbro, the company behind Transformers, Dungeons and Dragons, Monopoly, Magic: The Gathering, and My Little Pony, confirmed a cyberattack after detecting unauthorized network access on March 28 and disclosed the incident to the SEC on April 1. The company took some systems offline, hired third-party cybersecurity experts, and says recovery could take "several weeks" while it assesses the full scope. Read the rest The post Hasbro confirmed a cyberattack and says recovery could take several week...

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For 400 years, this Sicilian village has built cathedrals from bread

If you like bread, this annual bread cathedral might be your dream vacation destination. Every year, the Sicilian town of San Biagio Platani fills its streets with arches and sculptures built from bread, dried grains, and laurel branches. Residents spend weeks constructing them by hand, and the results are enormous, some stretching across entire streets, with columns and latticed ceilings made from braided dough. Read the rest The post For 400 years, this Sicilian village has built cathedrals f...

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Incredible storm chaser footage captures tornadoes up close

The videos in this compilation were shot by storm chasers, people who drive toward the weather everyone else is running from. Some do it for the rush. Others are gathering data on severe storms for research. Either way, they're getting close enough that a bad read on a storm's direction can kill them. Read the rest The post Incredible storm chaser footage captures tornadoes up close appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Amazing animal facts that will wow your friends, courtesy of Natural Habitat Shorts

I recently watched this funny animation by Natural Habitat Shorts featuring a jellyfish named Bennett who is stressed out at work because he has to give an important presentation. Before he heads to the boardroom, his coworker urges him, "please don't do the baby thing this time, PLEASE!" Read the rest The post Amazing animal facts that will wow your friends, courtesy of Natural Habitat Shorts appeared first on Boing Boing.

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"Sunshine" is a 30-foot-long animated dachshund sculpture

Even though I study consumerism and consumption, and nothing should really surprise me anymore in this hypercapitalist system we're living in, I am still sometimes blown away at the over-the-top spectacles that some companies will create to promote their brands and sell products. Read the rest The post "Sunshine" is a 30-foot-long animated dachshund sculpture appeared first on Boing Boing.

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An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character

In 2023, poet and performer Janaka Stucky crowdfunded Ekphrastic Beasts, an RPG monster bestiary with an unusual creation method at its core: instead of commissioning artists to illustrate pre-written monsters, Janaka collected artwork first and reverse-engineered the creatures from there. Read the rest The post An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump spends Easter Egg Roll ranting to children about Biden's autopen

The White House Easter Egg Roll took a detour into grievance hour Monday as President Trump, seated among children coloring eggs, launched into a rambling critique of Joe Biden's alleged use of an autopen. A topic kids under 10 had not, until that moment, been clamoring to explore. Read the rest The post Trump spends Easter Egg Roll ranting to children about Biden's autopen appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Officials say refugee's death was a homicide after Border Patrol agents left him alone in the cold

A nearly blind refugee was dropped off by Border Patrol outside a closed donut shop in Buffalo, left alone in the cold without help, and days later was found dead, in a case now officially ruled a homicide. The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death, which the agency said was caused by complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer, precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration. Read the rest The post Officials say...

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Musk makes banks buy his crappy chatbot if they want in on the SpaceX IPO

TechnoKing Elon Musk is forcing banks to buy subscriptions to his glitchy, scandal-prone AI chatbot Grok if they want a role in SpaceX's blockbuster IPO. The move looks less like a business strategy and more like a billionaire using leverage to prop up a struggling side hustle. Read the rest The post Musk makes banks buy his crappy chatbot if they want in on the SpaceX IPO appeared first on Boing Boing.

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OpenAI pulls plug on Sora after realizing it built a money incinerator

OpenAI didn't kill its splashy AI video app, Sora, because of copyright chaos or "focus" issues; it shut it down because it was chewing through obscene amounts of compute while users quickly lost interest in the endless stream of AI-generated junk. Read the rest The post OpenAI pulls plug on Sora after realizing it built a money incinerator appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Erika Kirk explains women's purpose: not careers, just babies

Turning Point USA's CEO and Chairperson, Erika Kirk, is doubling down on a familiar message: women were "made to be mothers." Even as many of the young women she's trying to reach are busy paying rent, building careers, and ignoring advice that sounds like it time-traveled in from a different century. Read the rest The post Erika Kirk explains women's purpose: not careers, just babies appeared first on Boing Boing.

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White House faith adviser says Trump attended "Saturday and Sunday School" more days a week than exist

The convicted felon's "Senior Faith Advisor," Paula White-Cain, is now claiming Donald Trump attended "Saturday and Sunday School" three times a week as a child, a schedule that appears to require either divine intervention or a calendar no one else has access to. Read the rest The post White House faith adviser says Trump attended "Saturday and Sunday School" more days a week than exist appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Watch this glorious greyhound snout enter "turbo mode"

If you need a break from, well, <gestures around wildly>, pause your doomscrolling for a few minutes and watch one of the cutest and most hilarious snouts I've ever encountered (and if you know me, that's saying a LOT, because I'm quite a snout connoisseur).   Read the rest The post Watch this glorious greyhound snout enter "turbo mode" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Educate yourself with The Bee Guy's daily basic bee facts

I recently stumbled across "The Bee Guy," who provides fun and educational content on his social media, including daily basic bee facts. I'm learning so much about bees through his posts! Did you know, for instance, that bumblebees travel great distances by hitchhiking on passenger airlines? Read the rest The post Educate yourself with The Bee Guy's daily basic bee facts appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Fourth musketeer D'Artagnan's grave found

When I was 5 years old, I was obsessed with the childrens' cartoon series Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, a charming anthropomorphic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas' famous novels. Fortunately for little me, the show did not depict what became of Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan after he achieved his ambition and joined the Mousquetaires du roi: he got his head blown off at the Siege of Maastricht. Read the rest The post Fourth musketeer D'Artagnan's grave found appeared first on...

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Hudson river fish edible for first time in 50 years

In the 1992 science fiction film Freejack, Emilio Estevez leaps into the river Hudson to avoid being abducted by Mick Jagger, who is hunting him to be used as dying businessman Anthony Hopkins' next body. "If you drink any of that that, I'm out of a job," mutters Jagger as Estevez makes his escape. Read the rest The post Hudson river fish edible for first time in 50 years appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This language-learning app is just $79.97 if your brain needs a new hobby

TL;DR: At just $79.97 (reg. $299.99), Mondly Premium gives you language lessons, speech tools, quizzes, and access across unlimited devices. There are two kinds of language-learning motivation. One is noble and long-term, tied to travel plans, career goals, or talking to more people in the world without defaulting to hand gestures and hope. Read the rest The post This language-learning app is just $79.97 if your brain needs a new hobby appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Assault charge for man who groped Easter Bunny at Pittsburgh mall

A New Jersey man was charged with indecent assault after being accused of groping a woman working as the Easter Bunny at Pittsburgh's South Hills Village Mall. After referring him to an assistant during a children's photoshoot, he asked inappropriate questions, then interfered with the costume and grabbed the performer's breasts. Read the rest The post Assault charge for man who groped Easter Bunny at Pittsburgh mall appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This is your sign to finally buy the Nintendo Switch

TL;DR: Get a refurbished Nintendo Switch bundle with all the accessories you need for $219.99 (reg. $299.99). If your idea of relaxation involves button-mashing, cozy gaming marathons, or finally understanding why everyone won't stop talking about Mario Kart, this Nintendo Switch bundle is your low-friction entry point. Read the rest The post This is your sign to finally buy the Nintendo Switch appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Too many AI apps? ChatOn puts them in one place for $29.99

TL;DR: ChatOn AI is on sale for $29.99 (reg. $39.99), bringing multiple AI models and tools into one app for writing, research, image generation, and everyday tasks without switching between platforms. AI is great right up until you realize you've opened four apps just to finish one task. Read the rest The post Too many AI apps? ChatOn puts them in one place for $29.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Be the Excel guru at work with this Microsoft Office 2021 Pro suite and Training Bundle

TL;DR: Enjoy lifetime access to Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows with a free training bundle to sharpen your skills for $39.97 (MSRP $239.99) until Apr. 19 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you've been in the office with an Excel pro, you know they're a handy asset. Read the rest The post Be the Excel guru at work with this Microsoft Office 2021 Pro suite and Training Bundle appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Never reset your password again with 88% off this award-winning password manager

TL;DR: Never lose your passwords again with 88% off Sticky Password Premium for just $24.97 (Reg. $199.99). Cybersecurity is more important than ever. That means your generic passwords probably won't cut it anymore especially when data breaches are a dime a dozen. Read the rest The post Never reset your password again with 88% off this award-winning password manager appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Bondi's DOJ portrait tossed in the trash

Rough week for pedo protector Pam Bondi. Trump threw her under a bus, Congress still wants her to testify under oath, and someone at the DOJ tossed her portrait in the trash. Bondi was clearly a fierce Trump-supporting sycophant, but it wasn't enough to save her job. Read the rest The post Bondi's DOJ portrait tossed in the trash appeared first on Boing Boing.

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How hackers faked a zombie apocalypse alert on live TV

On February 11, 2013, someone hacked into the Emergency Alert Systems of at least five TV stations and broadcast a message warning viewers that "the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living." KRTV in Great Falls, Montana, was first. Read the rest The post How hackers faked a zombie apocalypse alert on live TV appeared first on Boing Boing.

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What do you read when you're locked up in a Japanese jail for 23 days?

Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Slave Play, Daddy was in Okinawa last year to make a film when Japanese customs found MDMA in his toiletry bag. He spent 23 days in a Japanese detention facility. He went through 23 books and submitted a movie outline to a major studio from his cell. Read the rest The post What do you read when you're locked up in a Japanese jail for 23 days? appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The caganer: Catalonia's defecating nativity figure

Tucked behind the manger in traditional Catalan nativity scenes, almost hidden, is a little figurine with his trousers down, squatting. That's the caganer literally "the defecator" and he's been there since at least the 17th or 18th century Baroque period. Read the rest The post The caganer: Catalonia's defecating nativity figure appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The tofu product marketed as "the healthy human flesh alternative"

In May 2005, a Tuck School of Business student named Mark Nuckols launched Hufu, a tofu product marketed as "the healthy human flesh alternative for the cannibalism-curious." The origin story: Nuckols was eating a tofurkey sandwich while reading Marvin Harris's anthropology book on cannibalism when the idea struck him. Read the rest The post The tofu product marketed as "the healthy human flesh alternative" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A petroleum engineer's joyless lunches went viral in China

Keith Brown, a British petroleum engineer, ate the same cheerless sandwiches for lunch every day dry bread, a slice of something, no condiments and his wife Zhang Jian filmed them. She posted the videos to Douyin, China's version of TikTok, where audiences were, according to Wikipedia, "grimly fascinated." Read the rest The post A petroleum engineer's joyless lunches went viral in China appeared first on Boing Boing.

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USGlobal Airways: a 29-year airline that never flew

For 29 years, Baltia Air Lines later renamed USGlobal Airways existed as a real company with real investors, real Boeing 747s, and real executives. It never carried a single paying passenger. According to Wikipedia, it also "never generated any revenue outside of that raised from investors." Read the rest The post USGlobal Airways: a 29-year airline that never flew appeared first on Boing Boing.

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America forgot how to make a classified nuclear warhead ingredient

The U.S. government forgot how to make a classified component of its own nuclear warheads, then spent $92 million figuring it out again. The material is called Fogbank, and almost everything about it is classified its composition, its purpose, and how it's manufactured. Read the rest The post America forgot how to make a classified nuclear warhead ingredient appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Watch the Attwater's prairie chicken do his mating dance (he's really going for it)

The mating dance of the Attwater's prairie chicken is truly a display of beauty and grace. If you don't believe me, just watch this video, recently posted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which announced that it's currently mating season for the species of grouse that the U.S. Read the rest The post Watch the Attwater's prairie chicken do his mating dance (he's really going for it) appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A website that lets you roleplay as an AI chatbot

Continuing my trend of writing about Really Cool Websites You've Probably Never Heard Of, here's another, perfect for anyone who's sick of the current AI obsession we're living in. Which is to say, anyone with sense. You may have heard tell of comedian Ben Palmer's fake ChatGPT frontend, which, in fact, just sent messages directly to him to answer with his very much non-artificial intelligence. Read the rest The post A website that lets you roleplay as an AI chatbot appeared first on Boing Boin...

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Historic cemetery honors circus performers and train victims

In Hugo, Oklahoma, you can visit the Showmen's Rest area of the Woodlawn Cemetery to see the graves of circus performers from the Showmen's League of America. This video from Cylinderella offers a glimpse of some unusual headstones featuring various circus animals and performers. Read the rest The post Historic cemetery honors circus performers and train victims appeared first on Boing Boing.

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FEMA official claims divine Waffle House teleportation, somehow keeps job

The man in charge of coordinating federal disaster response says he was once mysteriously transported by God to a Waffle House in Georgia. A claim that, incredibly, is not disqualifying in an administration that seems to treat basic reality as optional. Read the rest The post FEMA official claims divine Waffle House teleportation, somehow keeps job appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Med Beds: the QAnon miracle cure that costs $200 a night

In case you haven't heard of Med Beds well, first off, I'm jealous of you, because you clearly aren't cursed with knowledge of what the QAnon right is getting up to nowadays. Let me curse you: it's the latest buzzword to come out of the MAGA cult (and I do mean cult literally in this case). Read the rest The post Med Beds: the QAnon miracle cure that costs $200 a night appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Reese's backs down, agrees to make candy people want to eat

After quietly swapping real chocolate for cheaper coatings in some products, Hershey is now reversing course and promising to bring back classic Reese's recipes, a rare admission that customers can, in fact, tell when you cheap out on the good stuff. Read the rest The post Reese's backs down, agrees to make candy people want to eat appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This 1915 ice cream ad told Americans to eat ice cream for their health

This 1915 ice cream advertisement was featured in a paper. The ad reads "Eat More Ice Cream. It's good for you." Underneath this text, the ad explains how ice cream can be eaten at any time of the day and that you'll feel fantastic afterwards. Read the rest The post This 1915 ice cream ad told Americans to eat ice cream for their health appeared first on Boing Boing.

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I can't stop watching this prankster drop cranberry sauce in public and wait

I can't stop watching videos from Jellytoi, a mischievous prankster who stirs up chaos with a simple can of jellied cranberry sauce. The premise of all Jellytoi's videos goes as follows: a can of cranberry sauce is emptied out in a public space and left in a perfect can shape. Read the rest The post I can't stop watching this prankster drop cranberry sauce in public and wait appeared first on Boing Boing.

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CD Projekt Red pranks Witcher fans with fake expansion news

Truly, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a game that keeps on giving. Two full expansions and countless small DLCs later, and CD Projekt Red's monster-slaying RPG masterpiece continues to evolve. If you've so much as looked at a gaming console in the past ten years, you've heard of The Witcher 3: deep and impactful player choices, an authentically miserable medieval Polish world to explore, a wide cast of monsters that only you, in the shoes of professional monster hunter Geralt of Rivia, can slay. Re...

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Former congressperson Matt Gaetz now pushing alien breeding program conspiracy

Former congressperson Matt Gaetz says a uniformed member of the U.S. military once briefed him on a secret program in which aliens are breeding with kidnapped humans from war zones and migrant caravans, a claim he admits he never bothered to verify. Read the rest The post Former congressperson Matt Gaetz now pushing alien breeding program conspiracy appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The White House may be hiding how many Americans have died in Iran

We expect premium high-octane bullshit from the Trump administration at this point. There's no way to trust what anyone handpicked by the President to do a job can do that job honestly. The latest perhaps one of the most disgusting violations of the American public's trust has been brought to light by The Intercept: The Pentagon is trying to hide the number of casualties that the United States armed forces have sustained in the President's illegal war on Iran. Read the rest The post The White H...

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Apple finally caved and patched old iPhones for Liquid Glass haters

You'll find tons of guides online that explain how to reduce the fugly of Apple's Liquid Glass design aesthetic in iPhone OS 26. And why not? It makes many on-screen elements hard to see, even in ideal lighting, and removes some of the customization freedom iPhones enjoyed in the last few iterations of the company's phone operating system. Read the rest The post Apple finally caved and patched old iPhones for Liquid Glass haters appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Grandma in "No Dick Tator" costume still being prosecuted because satire apparently terrifies Alabama

A 62-year-old Alabama grandmother is headed to trial after police tackled and arrested her at a No Kings protest for wearing an inflatable penis costume and carrying a "No Dick Tator" sign. Apparently, the authorities in Fairhope have decided the real threat to public order is a joke everyone understood. Read the rest The post Grandma in "No Dick Tator" costume still being prosecuted because satire apparently terrifies Alabama appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Artemis II's state-of-the-art space toilet broke

Just hours into its historic mission to return to the moon for the first time in half a century, Integrity suffered a mission-critical failure the toilet. Shortly after entering Earth orbit, the fan in the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) redesigned for the Orion capsule failed to start. Read the rest The post Artemis II's state-of-the-art space toilet broke appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The Superfan Podcast Asks Comics Creators the Right Wrong Questions

When I first heard about the concept behind the comics adjacent Superfan Podcast, it immediately reminded me of an idea we kicked around at Boing Boing back in our print days. We thought it'd be fun to do a feature where we hung out with some well-known fringe culture personalities and talked to them about anything other than the thing they were known for. Read the rest The post The Superfan Podcast Asks Comics Creators the Right Wrong Questions appeared first on Boing Boing.

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If you're sick of paying $99.99/year for Microsoft 365, then switch to a Microsoft Office lifetime license that's actually cheaper

TL;DR: Through April 12, you can get Microsoft Office Home and Business 2024 for Mac or PC for life for only $99.97. Paying software subscriptions like Microsoft 365 doesn't really make sense once you think about it. You're paying every month for something you'll never actually own. Read the rest The post If you're sick of paying $99.99/year for Microsoft 365, then switch to a Microsoft Office lifetime license that's actually cheaper appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Keep internet lurkers at bay with five years of AdGuard for only $50

TL;DR: Grab this AdGuard VPN 5-year subscription for just $49.99 (reg. $359.40). It supports up to 10 devices with zero logs. Every search you run, every rabbit hole you tumble down, every embarrassing product you look up at 2 a.m., someone's watching. Read the rest The post Keep internet lurkers at bay with five years of AdGuard for only $50 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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4chan's lawyer wrote a free speech bill for the UK

Preston Byrne, the US attorney who has been merrily trolling UK regulators on behalf of 4chan, has co-authored a draft bill, the UK Free Speech Act, with the Adam Smith Institute, according to The Rage. The bill would codify First Amendment-style speech protections into UK law: confine criminal liability to threats, incitement, and harassment; forbid government suppression of speech; ban police from logging non-criminal "hate incidents"; protect workers from dismissal for lawful expression; and ...

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Tobacco plants now produce psilocybin and DMT on purpose

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have modified tobacco plants to yield five psychedelic compounds at once: bufotenin and 5-MeO-DMT (from Colorado River toad secretions), DMT (a tryptamine found across plant species), and psilocin and psilocybin (normally found in mushrooms). Read the rest The post Tobacco plants now produce psilocybin and DMT on purpose appeared first on Boing Boing.

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San Francisco homeowner fined $50K for trimming street trees

Paul Dennes got an email from his insurance broker: trim the trees near your San Francisco home, or you won't qualify for coverage. He trimmed them. Then the city hit him with a $50,000 fine, according to ABC7. The five trees in front of Dennes's Panhandle neighborhood unit look like his trees they're planted in the sidewalk directly outside the building his family has owned since 1988. Read the rest The post San Francisco homeowner fined $50K for trimming street trees appeared first on Boing B...

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Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

Pam Bondi is out as attorney general, replaced for now by Deputy AG Todd Blanche, according to CNN. Trump's frustration ran on two tracks. The first was the Epstein file situation. On Fox News in February 2025, Bondi told viewers, "an Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review." Read the rest The post Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general appeared first on Boing Boing.

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War profiteer Marc Andreessen brags about zero introspection

On a recent podcast, Marc Andreessen, whose firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) manages tens of billions in VC assets, said he engages in "zero" introspection calling it a Freudian invention with no pedigree before 1910 that serious people should skip. He added: "If you go back, like, 400 years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective." Read the rest The post War profiteer Marc Andreessen brags about zero introspection appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Civil War soldiers called the first instant coffee "axle grease"

The Union Army's attempt at instant coffee during the Civil War came in tins containing a thick slurry of condensed milk and coffee concentrate that soldiers compared to "axle grease." The history of instant coffee is a story of failed attempts to make something soldiers and travelers would tolerate, recounted in Works in Progress. Read the rest The post Civil War soldiers called the first instant coffee "axle grease" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Apple bans vibe coding apps from the App Store

Apple removed "Anything" from the App Store last Thursday, the third vibe coding app pulled in March after Replit and Vibecode were blocked earlier in the month. Vibe coding apps let non-programmers generate working software using AI models Claude, Codex directly on their phones. Read the rest The post Apple bans vibe coding apps from the App Store appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Someone added hip-hop beats to an opossum drinking peach juice

Apparently, there's just something extra special about opossum slurps, because people keep making awesome mashups with that particularly mellifluous sound. Last year, I highlighted the catchy tune, "I know the possum lick," created by composer and bassist Bret Crow. In the video, Crow plays some sick bass guitar licks from prog metal/rock band Tool's song "Schism" to the sound of a posse of possums rhythmically lapping up water. Read the rest The post Someone added hip-hop beats to an opossum d...