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Tanker Carrying Fuel Bound For Cuba Diverts, While Another Russian Tanker Is Set To Challenge US Blockade

Tanker Carrying Fuel Bound For Cuba Diverts, While Another Russian Tanker Is Set To Challenge US Blockade A tanker carrying fuel originally ‌bound for Cuba on Friday changed its destination to Trinidad and Tobago, according to LSEG ship-tracking data, a blow for the island amid a severe fuel scarcity that has triggered power blackouts. The Hong Kong-flagged vessel Sea Horse loaded a Russian diesel ​cargo earlier this year through a ship-to-ship transfer in the Mediterranean before s...

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US Treasury To Partner With Education Department To Collect Student Loan Debt

US Treasury To Partner With Education Department To Collect Student Loan Debt Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Education (ED) jointly announced a new partnership under which the Treasury will assume responsibility for collecting on defaulted federal student loan debt, according to a March 19 joint statement from the departments. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks outside the U.S. S...

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Florida Cities Enforce Curfews And Mass Arrests After Spring Break Chaos

Florida Cities Enforce Curfews And Mass Arrests After Spring Break Chaos Do certain groups of people deliberately seek out chaos?  Do they revel in it so much that they choose to create it from thin air wherever they go?  Or, are they completely unaware of the destruction that follows them around?  One thing is certain - they obviously don't care about how it affects the people around them.   Spring Break in Florida has always been a wild affair attracting masses of young vacatio...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

Oil and Stocks Mixed To Start Week As War Escalates and Gamma Unclenches

Oil and Stocks Mixed To Start Week As War Escalates and Gamma Unclenches Update (1845ET): After an initial kneejerk higher in oil and lower in stocks, things have settled a little with both hovering around unch... Brent is sliding a little from Friday's highs... Equity futs are back around unch... There's a long way til dawn... *  *  * Following a weekend where geopolitical headlines swung from "winding down" (Friday after the close) to threats, deadlines, and "obliteration...

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Georgia Governor Signs Bill Suspending State Gas Tax For 60 Days

Georgia Governor Signs Bill Suspending State Gas Tax For 60 Days Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill on March 20 suspending the state’s gasoline tax for 60 days, the first such move taken by a U.S. state since the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran began in late February. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp delivers the State of the State address on the House floor of the state Capitol in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 25, 2023. Alex Slitz/AP Pho...

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Write code like you actually slept last night—Visual Studio 2026 is just $42.50

TL;DR: Developers can grab Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.50 (MSRP: $499.99) with code MARCH15 through March 29. Coding can certainly be chaotic. One minute you're solving elegant problems. The next minute, you're deep in a stack trace, wondering how a missing semicolon just ruined your entire afternoon. Read the rest The post Write code like you actually slept last night—Visual Studio 2026 is just $42.50 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Pentagon Media Access Restrictions

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Pentagon Media Access Restrictions Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge on March 20 issued an order blocking the Trump administration’s media access policy at the Pentagon after The New York Times sued over the restrictions. An aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Department of War tightened its rules for the media in September 20...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Iran Issues 10 Million Rial Banknote Amid Soaring Inflation

Iran Issues 10 Million Rial Banknote Amid Soaring Inflation As the Iran war rages, Tehran has rolled out a new 10 million rial banknote, its highest-ever denomination, as authorities seek to "manage" soaring inflation and meet demand for hard cash... but mostly to "manage" soaring inflation, similar to how Venezuela would add a new 0 to its currency every week in the late days of the Maduro ergime before everyone simply gave up.  Banks, which have been targeted on at least one occa...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Don Lemon Claims US Does 'Very Same Things' To Protesters As Iran... Which Slaughtered 1000s

Don Lemon Claims US Does 'Very Same Things' To Protesters As Iran... Which Slaughtered 1000s Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Don Lemon has hit rock bottom in his radical spiral, openly claiming the United States treats protesters the exact same way as Iran the regime that massacred thousands of anti-government demonstrators in just three months. This jaw-dropping comparison arrives as the Trump DOJ pursues prison time against Lemon and the leftist mob he embedded wi...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

'Punish Iran': Saudi Arabia and UAE Inch Closer To Joining US-Israeli War

'Punish Iran': Saudi Arabia and UAE Inch Closer To Joining US-Israeli War Via Middle East Eye Earlier this month, Elbridge Colby, a senior official in the US Department of War, held a call with Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, who is also the brother and top adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Iran’s attacks on US bases in the Gulf were heating up, and the US needed expanded access and overflight permissions. Saudi Arabia agreed to open King Fahd Air Base ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Senate Democrats Are Quietly Plotting To Oust Chuck Schumer

Senate Democrats Are Quietly Plotting To Oust Chuck Schumer Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has had a fractured relationship with the Democratic Party base ever since he voted to fund the government last March. Unfortunately for him, time hasn’t healed that wound, and there’s a growing resistance to Schumer that hopes to oust him from his leadership position after the midterms. The Wall Street Journal, drawing on more than four dozen interviews with Democratic senators, cand...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

"On Our Way To Cuba": Left-Wing Nonprofit Boss Flies First Class For Virtue Signaling Tour

"On Our Way To Cuba": Left-Wing Nonprofit Boss Flies First Class For Virtue Signaling Tour The head of a left-wing nonprofit, reportedly linked to a Marxist propaganda network connected to a China-based billionaire, flew first class while her supporters traveled in coach to Cuba. This appears to be an effort aimed at disrupting U.S. foreign policy operations in the Caribbean. "NOW we're on our way to Cuba!" Code Pink wrote on X on Friday. NOW 🇨🇺 We're on our way to Cuba! Our CODE...

Alt - Boing Boing - 10 hours ago

Always wanted to play piano? This app helps you stick with it now an extra 15% off

TL;DR: Learn piano with interactive lessons and real-time feedback using flowkey's three-year Classic Plan subscription for $59.50 with promo code MARCH15 (MSRP $579). A lot of people dream about playing piano someday. Then reality shows up expensive lessons, complicated sheet music, and the uncomfortable feeling of stumbling through a song while someone watches. Read the rest The post Always wanted to play piano? This app helps you stick with it now an extra 15% off appeared first on Boing Boi...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

What Do Bonds Know That The Stock Market Doesn't?

What Do Bonds Know That The Stock Market Doesn't? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most investors spend their time watching the SandP 500. That’s a mistake, because the credit market is the real “tell.” The bond market has been whispering a warning for weeks now, and credit spreads are now shouting it. As of this writing, the CDX Index, a benchmark measure of credit default swap spreads, has climbed to a nine-month high while the SandP 500 sits within 5% of i...

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Jaw-Dropping TSA Lines Continue To Hobble Major Airports; Trump Confirms ICE On The Way

Jaw-Dropping TSA Lines Continue To Hobble Major Airports; Trump Confirms ICE On The Way In a post on his TruthSocial feed, President Trump has confirmed that ICE agents will be joining forces with TSA agents as of tomorrow to aid in the safe-keeping of Americans: On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents... ... who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard line criminals who hav...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Iran Threatens Region-Wide Infrastructure 'Obliteration' As Trump's 48-Hour Ultimatum Ticks Down, Mass Casualties In Southern Israel

Iran Threatens Region-Wide Infrastructure 'Obliteration' As Trump's 48-Hour Ultimatum Ticks Down, Mass Casualties In Southern Israel Summary Iran vows regional and US infrastructure will be "irreversibly destroyed" in response to Trump's 48-hour timeline to open Hormuz or else Iranian power plants will be obliterated. Iran announces imposition a $2 million transit fee on 'non-enemy' ships wishing to transit strait. Unprecedented damage and many dozens of casualties in I...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Iran Threatens To Destroy Region-Wide Infrastructure As Trump's 48-Hour Ultimatum Ticks Down, Mass Casualties In Southern Israel

Iran Threatens To Destroy Region-Wide Infrastructure As Trump's 48-Hour Ultimatum Ticks Down, Mass Casualties In Southern Israel Summary Iran vows regional and US infrastructure will be "irreversibly destroyed" in response to Trump's 48-hour timeline to open Hormuz or else Iranian power plants will be obliterated. Iran announces imposition a $2 million transit fee on 'non-enemy' ships wishing to transit strait. Unprecedented damage and many dozens of casualties in Israe...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

More Than 5,500 Residents Ordered To Evacuate In Hawaii Over Dodgy Dam

More Than 5,500 Residents Ordered To Evacuate In Hawaii Over Dodgy Dam Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 5,500 people on Hawaii’s most populous island have been ordered to evacuate on March 20 as weather conditions continue to worsen and threaten the integrity of a 120-year-old dam. Map of the evacuation zone in response to the risk of a dam failure amid torrential rains on Oahu, Hawaii, on March 20, 2026. Screenshot/Hawaii Emergency Management...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

Migrant Criminal Beats Deportation Order With Chicken Nugget Defense

Migrant Criminal Beats Deportation Order With Chicken Nugget Defense In something you might see from the Babylon Bee, an Albanian migrant has secured the right to remain in the United Kingdom by claiming that his children hate "foreign" chicken nuggets, according to the Daily Mail. Klevis Disha, 39, snuck into the U.K. illegally back in 2001 as a supposed unaccompanied minor. Disha used a fake name and a bogus backstory about being born in the old Yugoslavia. His asylum bid flopp...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

EU Considers Electricity Tax Cuts, Subsidies Amid Iran War Surge In Energy Costs

EU Considers Electricity Tax Cuts, Subsidies Amid Iran War Surge In Energy Costs Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The European Union is weighing electricity tax cuts and targeted subsidies to shield consumers and industry from surging energy costs amid the ongoing Iran war, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on March 19. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech during the European Industry Summit i...

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Nigerian Researchers Accidentally Confirm Africa's Low IQ Problem

Nigerian Researchers Accidentally Confirm Africa's Low IQ Problem For many years the political left has dismissed all discussion about links between third world populations and low intelligence as "racism" and "xenophobia".  The well documented fact that low IQ populations are more inclined towards lack of impulse control and a higher crime rate does not matter to progressives.  They assert that such claims are based on "rigged" and "biased" data.   For example, the data on Somali...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

UK House Of Lords Rams Through 'Abortion Up To Birth' Law; Only 1% Of Brits Approve

UK House Of Lords Rams Through 'Abortion Up To Birth' Law; Only 1% Of Brits Approve Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The unelected House of Lords in the UK has just voted to embed extreme abortion provisions into law, decriminalising terminations right up to birth. This comes despite clear polling evidence that only 1% of the British public supports the move, exposing a ruling class utterly detached from the people it claims to serve. The change forms part of Clause ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

McGlinchey: Has America Thrown Its Service Members Into An Unjust War For Israel?

McGlinchey: Has America Thrown Its Service Members Into An Unjust War For Israel? Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities President Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching a regime-change war on Iran has so far cost the lives of at least 13 American service members. More than 200 have been wounded, dozens seriously enough to require evacuations to military hospitals in Europe and the United States. Among them are individuals who’ve suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns and ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

McGlinchey: America Throws Its Service Members Into An Unjust War For Israel

McGlinchey: America Throws Its Service Members Into An Unjust War For Israel Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities President Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching a regime-change war on Iran has so far cost the lives of at least 13 American service members. More than 200 have been wounded, dozens seriously enough to require evacuations to military hospitals in Europe and the United States. Among them are individuals who’ve suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns and shrap...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

The Oscars Died Last Weekend...Did Anyone Even Notice?

The Oscars Died Last Weekend...Did Anyone Even Notice? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance “Oh, the Oscars was yesterday,” my friend said to me while walking through town. She noticed that a nearby bar had the TV tuned to a replay of the ceremony. What surprised me was who said it. This is a person who is deeply, spiritually committed to things like what movies are in theaters and new fictional television shows. She loves the arts. She listens to jazz. She goes to see Broadway plays...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

New York City Is Spending $81,000 Per Year On Each Homeless Person

New York City Is Spending $81,000 Per Year On Each Homeless Person New York City spent about $368 million last year on services for people living on the streets, which equals roughly $81,000 per unsheltered person, according to the NY Post. Spending through the city’s New York City Department of Homeless Services street outreach programs has increased sharply over the past several years. In 2019, the city spent about $102 million on these services, averaging around $28,000 per unsh...

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The State Will Always Socialize The Cost Of War

The State Will Always Socialize The Cost Of War Via The Libertarian Institute War is often sold to the public as an act of national will: decisive, necessary, and under control. The bill arrives later, in a quieter form. It shows up in insurance markets, shipping rates, emergency guarantees, higher fuel prices, and sudden policy reversals designed to keep the economic damage from spreading too far or too fast. That is what is now happening with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The fig...

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A $5 AI book draft that fools writing detectors

Andrew Wheeler's previous book took a year to write. His new one, LLMs for Mortals, took two months and cost about $5 in API fees, he writes on his blog. About half of the final text is original prose from Anthropic's Sonnet 4.1, lightly copy-edited over 20 to 30 hours per chapter. Read the rest The post A $5 AI book draft that fools writing detectors appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Iran's First Use Of ICBMs Raises Serious Questions About Remaining Arsenal

Iran's First Use Of ICBMs Raises Serious Questions About Remaining Arsenal In a startling move that has military experts questioning their assumptions about Iranian capabilities, Iran attempted to hit the joint UK-US base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs). While US officials assured the Wall Street Journal that the base was unscathed, the Iranian strike aimed at a target roughly 4,000 kilometers from Iran suggests that ...

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Trump Warns Tehran To "Fully Open" Hormuz Or Face 'Obliteration' As Iran-Israel Trade Nuke-Plant Strikes

Trump Warns Tehran To "Fully Open" Hormuz Or Face 'Obliteration' As Iran-Israel Trade Nuke-Plant Strikes Summary Trump threatens to "obliterate" Iran's power-plants if Hormuz is not open and safe within 48 hours Natanz nuclear site attacked: Iran says "no nuclear radiation" detected, even as attacks on core sites like Isfahan nuclear facilities signal clear escalation despite earlier Trump signals of maybe "winding down." Iran has responded by targeting Israel's Dimona ...

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On The Hidden Fragility Of Our Energy-Dependent World and The Cascading Consequences Of A Supply-Shock That Money Alone Can't Fix

On The Hidden Fragility Of Our Energy-Dependent World and The Cascading Consequences Of A Supply-Shock That Money Alone Can't Fix Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup blog, For a long time, I accepted the same framework most people in finance operate within—that the global economy is, at its core, a system governed by monetary policy, shaped by interest rates, and stabilized by central banks. It’s an appealing idea because it suggests control. If growth slows, you lower rates. If...

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Phantom Ayatollah? Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office

Phantom Ayatollah? Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office Amid widespread reporting that Iran had long ago moved into a emergency wartime decentralized command among autonomously-acting units, serious questions persist as to the role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, longtime leader Ali Khamenei. What's clear is that the new, younger Khamenei - who may have been wounded in the early days of US-Israeli strikes, hasn't been ...

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Costco Gas Lines Surge As Drivers Hunt For Cheaper Fuel

Costco Gas Lines Surge As Drivers Hunt For Cheaper Fuel Rising fuel costs tied to the conflict in Iran are forcing many Americans to rethink everyday spending, especially on gas, according to Bloomberg. At a Costco near San Antonio, drivers are waiting up to half an hour to fill up, while others are checking apps like GasBuddy or driving farther to save a few cents per gallon. With prices close to $4 nationwide, households are cutting back on dining out, travel, and even groceries....

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700 AI agents built a civilization with a new religion

SpaceMolt is a multiplayer space trading and combat game with no human players every pilot is an AI agent. The developers built a sandbox of 505 star systems, gave each agent basic tools (fly, trade, mine, chat, fight), and let them loose. Read the rest The post 700 AI agents built a civilization with a new religion appeared first on Boing Boing.

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FedRAMP reviewer called Microsoft's federal cloud "a pile of shit"

A reviewer at FedRAMP the federal program that certifies whether cloud services are secure enough for government use described Microsoft's GCC High cloud product used by the Justice Department, the Department of Energy, and defense contractors as "a pile of shit," a ProPublica investigation reveals. Read the rest The post FedRAMP reviewer called Microsoft's federal cloud "a pile of shit" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Clear the air with this refurbished Shark bladeless fan

TL;DR: Pick up a Shark TurboBlade Fan while they're only $119.99. Bad airflow can make a room feel miserable fast, especially if you have all the windows closed because it's freezing outside. If you want a little more control, the Shark TurboBlade Fan is a bladeless tower fan that lets you aim air where you actually want it, then dial in how strong and how quiet it runs. Read the rest The post Clear the air with this refurbished Shark bladeless fan appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Iran Ready To Let Japanese Ships Use Hormuz As Chinese, Indian Tankers Already Allowed Passage

Iran Ready To Let Japanese Ships Use Hormuz As Chinese, Indian Tankers Already Allowed Passage While Iran's decision to close the Straits of Hormuz in response to the US-Israeli bombing campaign was understandable, after all it's the biggest point of leverage the IRGC-controlled nation has left (it is certainly more understandable than bombing all of its Gulf neighbors in the process pushing them from being on the fence to being staunchly anti-Iran), there was always a bit of a glit...

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Musk Offers To Pay TSA Salaries, Trump Threatens To Deploy ICE As Democrats Hold Paychecks Hostage

Musk Offers To Pay TSA Salaries, Trump Threatens To Deploy ICE As Democrats Hold Paychecks Hostage Update (1655ET): In addition to Elon Musk offering to cover TSA workers' paychecks during the ongoing shutdown, President Trump has threatened to place U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at airports if Democrats don’t agree to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). "If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in par...

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Former Uber self-driving chief: Tesla FSD crashed with my kids inside

Raffi Krikorian ran Uber's self-driving car division, trained safety drivers in intervention protocols, and went two years without a single injury. Then Tesla's Full Self-Driving totaled his Model X with his kids in the back seat, Electrek reports. He published an essay in The Atlantic about it. Read the rest The post Former Uber self-driving chief: Tesla FSD crashed with my kids inside appeared first on Boing Boing.

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"Complete Other Alias": Rep. Luna Drops Clinton-Epstein Bombshell

"Complete Other Alias": Rep. Luna Drops Clinton-Epstein Bombshell Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna appeared on Bill Maher’s show and confirmed what the Epstein document dumps have long hinted at: the former president wasn’t just flying on the Lolita Express he was operating under an entirely different identity in the files. This revelation lands as the House Oversight Committee presses forward with its investigation, following the Justice Depar...

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Israel, Iran Target Each Other's Nuclear Facilities; US "Degrades" Threats To Hormuz Traffic As Iran's Longest-Range Missile Strike Fails;

Israel, Iran Target Each Other's Nuclear Facilities; US "Degrades" Threats To Hormuz Traffic As Iran's Longest-Range Missile Strike Fails; Summary Natanz nuclear site attacked: Iran says "no nuclear radiation" detected, even as attacks on core sites like Isfahan nuclear facilities signal clear escalation despite earlier Trump signals of maybe "winding down." Iran has responded by targeting Israel's Dimona nuclear facility. The Israeli army confirmed "a direct impact of an I...

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Major Trade Group Releases Framework For Tokenized Gold

Major Trade Group Releases Framework For Tokenized Gold Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, The major gold trade association, World Gold Council, and the Boston Consulting Group have proposed a new platform to modernize how the precious metal operates in digital financial systems. The World Gold Council said on Thursday that it published a white paper on “Gold as a Service,” a new platform to “support the issuance and operation of scalable, interoperable digital gold...

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Each slice of this bread loaf reveals a hidden creature inside

Japanese bread artist konel_bread bakes loaves with colorful characters embedded all the way through the dough. Cut a slice and a tiny creature stares back at you same face, every cut, from end to end. From the outside, the loaf looks like an ordinary round of bread. Read the rest The post Each slice of this bread loaf reveals a hidden creature inside appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Wisconsin's fiberglass mold graveyard lets you climb inside a whale

A field in Wisconsin is filled with retired fiberglass molds giant whales, frogs, castles and visitors can climb on and inside them. Atlas Obscura shared a walk-through video of the outdoor graveyard, where the discarded molds sit in a large, open field, weathered and overgrown yet structurally intact. Read the rest The post Wisconsin's fiberglass mold graveyard lets you climb inside a whale appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Tiny pea pods that look like dollhouse produce

This photo series of miniature pea pods shows just how small they can get when they don't reach full maturity. Each pod is perfectly formed but scaled down same shape, same seams, same little curl at the stem like produce for a dollhouse kitchen. Read the rest The post Tiny pea pods that look like dollhouse produce appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trevor Milton Is Back And Wants To Produce AI Powered "Fully Autonomous Corporate Jets"

Trevor Milton Is Back And Wants To Produce AI Powered "Fully Autonomous Corporate Jets" Trevor Milton, founder and former CEO of the now-bankrupt Nikola, is trying to mount a "comeback story". Through social media, interviews, and bold public claims, Milton once convinced investors that Nikola was on the verge of delivering breakthrough technology with trucks. Now he's going to attempt the same in the aircraft business, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. He ha...

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Robert Mueller Dies; Trump: 'Good, I'm Glad He's Dead'

Robert Mueller Dies; Trump: 'Good, I'm Glad He's Dead' Robert Mueller, the former FBI Director and Special Counsel who led the high-profile investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and potential ties to Donald Trump's campaign, has died at age 81 - passing away Friday night, according to AP. No cause of death was disclosed in initial reports. In response, President Trump took to Truth Social to dance on his grave - writing "Robert Mueller just died. Good,...

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Senate To Work Through Weekend Debating SAVE America Act

Senate To Work Through Weekend Debating SAVE America Act Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), WASHINGTON—The Senate will hold a weekend session as it debates the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require citizenship verification and photo identification in federal elections. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), joined by other Senate Republicans, speaks to reporters as the government is on verge of shutdown amid partisan standoff, on Capitol Hi...

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US Removes Sanctions On Iranian Oil Stranded At Sea To Boost Overall Supply

US Removes Sanctions On Iranian Oil Stranded At Sea To Boost Overall Supply On Thursday, Scott Bessent told Fox News that the US is considering unsanctioning Iranian oil, thereby making the 140 million barrels stuck on Iranian tankers, available to any buyer in the world and not just China, to ease the supply-chain bottlenecks that emerged after the Strait of Hormuz was blocked. In doing so, another formerly sanctioned US nemesis would be allowed free access to global markets, after...

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The Private Credit Crisis Is Spreading

The Private Credit Crisis Is Spreading Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The private credit crisis is spreading to another corner of the market that I warned about back in October, when I wrote about 10 parts of the market I’d avoid. For years I’ve been warning that buy now pay later (“BNPL”) industry was built on a pretty fragile foundation. The quality of the loans was always the obvious problem. The entire business model revolves around extending instant credit with minimal und...

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US Says Iran's Threat To Hormuz Traffic "Degraded" As 23 Nations Signal Waterway Support

US Says Iran's Threat To Hormuz Traffic "Degraded" As 23 Nations Signal Waterway Support Three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration's central focus now is very clear: reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore the normal passage of crude and LNG tankers through a maritime chokepoint that carries roughly one-fifth of global oil and LNG flows. On Saturday morning, Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command and the official overseeing Operation E...

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You deserve the real Office apps—get them now for just $100

TL;DR: You can grab Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business for Mac or PC for $99.97 (MSRP: $249.99). There's a special kind of chaos that happens when you try to get real work done using a mix of random free apps, half-working online editors, and whatever spreadsheet tool came bundled with your laptop. Read the rest The post You deserve the real Office apps—get them now for just $100 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Iran's Longest-Range Missile Strike Fails On Diego Garcia, As Natanz Nuclear Facility Bombed

Iran's Longest-Range Missile Strike Fails On Diego Garcia, As Natanz Nuclear Facility Bombed Summary Natanz nuclear site attacked: Iran says "no nuclear radiation" detected, even as attacks on core sites like Isfahan nuclear facilities signal clear escalation despite earlier Trump signals of maybe "winding down." War expands with furthest ever Iranian missile launch: Iran fires missiles at Diego Garcia in a failed but unprecedented long-range strike. US claims momentum,...

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US "Degrades" Threats To Hormuz Traffic As Iran's Longest-Range Missile Strike Fails; Kharg Invasion Risk Rising

US "Degrades" Threats To Hormuz Traffic As Iran's Longest-Range Missile Strike Fails; Kharg Invasion Risk Rising Summary Natanz nuclear site attacked: Iran says "no nuclear radiation" detected, even as attacks on core sites like Isfahan nuclear facilities signal clear escalation despite earlier Trump signals of maybe "winding down." War expands with furthest ever Iranian missile launch: Iran fires missiles at Diego Garcia in a failed but unprecedented long-range strike. ...

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UK COVID Inquiry Finds Lockdowns May Have Cost 1000s Of Lives

UK COVID Inquiry Finds Lockdowns May Have Cost 1000s Of Lives Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The authoritarian COVID lockdowns and stay-at-home orders sold as life-saving measures have been unmasked once again as a deadly failure of big government overreach. A new UK Covid-19 Inquiry report has concluded that the relentless “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives” messaging likely cost thousands of lives by convincing people they could not get access to health serv...

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"I'd Like To Pay Their Salaries": Elon Musk Offers Lifeline To TSA Agents As Democrats Hold Paychecks Hostage In Shutdown

"I'd Like To Pay Their Salaries": Elon Musk Offers Lifeline To TSA Agents As Democrats Hold Paychecks Hostage In Shutdown The Department of Homeland Security shutdown entered its 36th day on Saturday after Senate Democrats blocked yet another funding bill for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, and other federal agencies, triggering weeks of chaos at airports nationwide, including long TSA checkpoint lines during the peak of the spring br...

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Britain Once Led The World. What Happened?

Britain Once Led The World. What Happened? Authored by Damian Pudner via the Foundation for Economic Education, An unsettling look at the economic settlement that the UK now seems willing to accept can be found in the latest fiscal forecast, published on March 3. By the end of the forecast period, borrowing will have decreased from 5.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024–2025 to about 1.6 percent. Public debt stabilizes at roughly 95 percent of national income. At th...

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Switzerland Halts Military Exports To US, Citing Iran War Neutrality 

Switzerland Halts Military Exports To US, Citing Iran War Neutrality  Switzerland on Friday announced it is halting all military and defense exports to the United States, citing its neutrality, coming as the Iran war reaches the three week mark. "Exports of war materiel to the US cannot currently be authorized," the government said, as quoted in Bloomberg. The statement specifically referenced Washington's "international armed conflict" in the Middle East. Source: screengrab via Jo...

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You Won't Believe What The UK Green Party Wants To Teach Children...

You Won't Believe What The UK Green Party Wants To Teach Children... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Radical leftists want a new Department of Migration to push open borders propaganda in schools and fast-track voting rights, free housing and citizenship for illegals. A leaked Green Party dossier has blown the lid off plans to brainwash British schoolchildren into believing they have a ‘moral duty’ to embrace endless immigration. The document, hidden behind a passw...

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Smith: The Political Left, Multiculturalism, and The Dark Alliance With Islam

Smith: The Political Left, Multiculturalism, and The Dark Alliance With Islam Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us For 15 years the FBI was engaged in a landmark investigation into the largest Islamic-based charity in the United States, called The Holy Land Foundation. The organization was operating as a front for Muslim terror groups, funneling cash from western countries to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, until they were finally put on trial in 2008. Convicted leaders w...

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Watch: China Claims Cyborg Breakthrough To Build An "Army Of Centaurs"

Watch: China Claims Cyborg Breakthrough To Build An "Army Of Centaurs" Researchers at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen have unveiled a wearable robotic system that adds a pair of independent mechanical legs and a torso framework to a human wearer, forming a four-legged hybrid to assist with carrying heavy loads across difficult terrain such as stairs, ramps, and uneven ground, according to the South China Morning Post. Led by Chenglong Fu, the team of sci...

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Inside Iran's Internet Access Black Market Amid 3-Week Wartime Blackout

Inside Iran's Internet Access Black Market Amid 3-Week Wartime Blackout Via Middle East Eye Since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Iranian authorities have sharply restricted access to the internet. According to NetBlocks, a group that monitors internet access worldwide, Iran has experienced a near-total blackout for 20 consecutive days. Connectivity has dropped to less than one percent. For those trying to access the internet, options are limited. Some rely on Starlink, w...

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First-Ever Look At America's Classified RQ-180 Stealth Drone?

First-Ever Look At America's Classified RQ-180 Stealth Drone? The world is seemingly at war. With multi-front conflicts raging in Eastern Europe and intensifying in the Middle East, this period of elevated World War III risk has coincided with the emergence of some of America’s most advanced stealth aircraft. The latest sighting comes from the Greek news website OnLarissa, which reports that a planespotter captured a "mysterious" stealth-bomber-like aircraft operating near Larissa...

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Tax Season Will Bring Record Refunds. Use Them Wisely

Tax Season Will Bring Record Refunds. Use Them Wisely Authored by Marc Cadin via RealClearMarkets, Affordability is the defining economic challenge for millions of Americans. A recent poll found that 70% of Americans report that the cost of living is no longer affordable where they live, a concern that was highlighted in the most recent elections. From rising housing costs to the grocery aisle to the electricity bill, families are struggling to stay afloat.   This year, however,...

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IDF Iron Dome Operator Arrested, Charged With Spying For Iran

IDF Iron Dome Operator Arrested, Charged With Spying For Iran There's quite obviously been Israeli intelligence inroads into Iran, which at times US and Israeli officials themselves have boasted about, with Tehran recently announcing efforts to round up and arrest "traitors" - and there's even in some cases been executions of the accused. Inside Israel, there are also fears of locals spying for Israel - but the phenomenon remains much less common (as far as anyone knows). That's wh...

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The Scapegoat: How One Man's Career Was Ended By MeToo

The Scapegoat: How One Man's Career Was Ended By MeToo Authored by Nancy Rommelmann via RealClearInvestigations, Life on Jan. 9, 2020, was interesting for Joshua Helmer. At 31, he was midway through his second year as CEO of the Erie Art Museum in Pennsylvania. He had recently secured the loan of a Chuck Close painting from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and an upcoming sale, including a painting by another famous artist, David Hockney, would help Erie generate funds to buy new w...

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Congress probes whether Kushner fundraising billions while negotiating "peace deals"

As both his father-in-law and father are convicted felons, it is sadly no surprise that Jared Kushner is facing a congressional probe. The claim is that Kusher leveraged his role as a peacebroker in high-stakes international negotiations for the U.S. government to court billions in investments for his private firm: a dual role that critics say looks less like diplomacy and more like dealmaking with a government ID. Read the rest The post Congress probes whether Kushner fundraising billions whil...

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US Asian Ally Rejects Pentagon Request To Land Fighter Jets: More To Come?

US Asian Ally Rejects Pentagon Request To Land Fighter Jets: More To Come? Sri Lanka is a US regional ally, and America remains the small south Asian nation's largest export market, accounting for nearly $3 billion of the $11.7 billion of goods Sri Lanka exports annually. But tensions are soaring over the Iran war, and especially in the wake of a US submarine having torpedoed the Iranian warship IRIS Dena just off Sri Lanka's southern coast earlier this month - killing dozens of sa...

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The Super Bowl Top Signal

The Super Bowl Top Signal Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, You’ve likely heard about peaks in markets often coinciding with magazine covers saying the opposite. Well, this is simply a representation of zeitgeist. Another representation of zeitgeist is advertising at the Super Bowl. For long-time readers, you may recall our selling Bitcoin way back before it nosedived. We highlighted that at the time there were crypto ads running wild at the Super Bowl. We e...

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Murphy: "If The Dollar Starts Sinking, It's Gonna Be Fast"

Murphy: "If The Dollar Starts Sinking, It's Gonna Be Fast" Last night’s debate on “Deficits, War, and Markets”  brought together Bob Murphy of the Mises Institute and Bard College professor Randall Wray for a clash between Austrian and MMT worldviews, moderated by the “Macro Tourist” Kevin Muir.  Exploding U.S. deficits, the Fed’s policy path, the geopolitical shock of the Iran war, what it means for stocks, a potential bond market snap to calls for another financial crisis… we cov...

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Qatar Dethroned As 'LNG King' As U.S. Seizes Throne, Reshaping Future Of Gas

Qatar Dethroned As 'LNG King' As U.S. Seizes Throne, Reshaping Future Of Gas Submitted by Criterion Research President, James Bevan,  The geopolitical calculus underpinning global LNG supply through the early 2030s has shifted materially. Iranian drone strikes on Qatari LNG trains, delays to key expansion projects, and the indefinite closure of the Strait of Hormuz have created a compounding threat to Qatar's LNG position that goes well beyond a construction delay. What had been fr...

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Milei's "Miracle" Faces First Cracks As Argentina's Unemployment Rises

Milei's "Miracle" Faces First Cracks As Argentina's Unemployment Rises Argentina’s much-touted turnaround under Javier Milei may be losing momentum, with fresh labor data pointing to a weakening jobs market, according to Bloomberg. By the end of last year, unemployment had climbed to 7.5%—the highest rate for a fourth quarter since the Covid era—reflecting a deterioration in employment conditions before the government pushed through its landmark labor overhaul. New figures show th...

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Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles

Encyclopedia Britannica which also owns Merriam-Webster is suing OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its AI models, TechCrunch reports. The lawsuit makes three claims: OpenAI trained on the content without permission, ChatGPT generates full or partial verbatim reproductions of the articles, and OpenAI uses the articles in ChatGPT's retrieval-augmented generation workflow. Read the rest The post Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles appeared fir...

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"We don't want to be outside": neighbors can't stand noisy data center

Lindsay Shaw didn't mind when a data center went up 100 meters from her front door in Loudoun County, Virginia she figured it beat a shopping mall. Then Vantage Data Centers fired up eight natural gas turbines, and a high-pitched whine made her screened-in porch unusable. Read the rest The post "We don't want to be outside": neighbors can't stand noisy data center appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Fear Of The Second Wave

Fear Of The Second Wave Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, This time last year, it seemed like we were just about finished with the terrible inflation of the Biden years that had trimmed at least 25 percent from the purchasing power of the dollar. The hope has been for a year that the massive increases in money printing over the COVID years were finally done. As some put it, the snake had finally digested the golf ball. All along we’ve worried that the experience of ...

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Harvard: ChatGPT has a "foreign bias" on stock picks

A Harvard Business School study by Charles C.Y. Wang pitted ChatGPT against DeepSeek on stock analysis, giving both models roughly 5,000 publicly traded Chinese companies to evaluate. ChatGPT projected stock prices 12.5% higher and issued "buy" recommendations more often but its forecast errors were 13% larger than DeepSeek's, according to Harvard Business Review. Read the rest The post Harvard: ChatGPT has a "foreign bias" on stock picks appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand

When Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta in late 2021, he called the metaverse "the next frontier" and predicted it would "reach a billion people." He envisioned "hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce." Horizon Worlds, Meta's VR social network, was supposed to be the foundation. Read the rest The post Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand appeared first on Boing Boing.

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EV Demand Surges Across Asia After Energy Shock Sends Consumers Into Panic Mode

EV Demand Surges Across Asia After Energy Shock Sends Consumers Into Panic Mode One of the biggest takeaways in global energy markets this week is the growing fragmentation. Brent crude in Asia has surged to over $150 a barrel, with demand destruction already emerging, and China and India facing the greatest pressure given their heavy reliance on Gulf crude. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has moved to release barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help cap WTI prices b...

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What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Actually Show

What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Actually Show Authroed by Vance Ginn via the Daily Economy, Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. Recent pieces in Newsweek, the LSE Business Review, and Fortune have all helped push the idea that AI may soon wipe out so many jobs that Washington will need to send everyone a check. Image Credit: Shutterstock That makes for a catchy headl...

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Wellness is in (and on) your hands with aaboRing

TL;DR: Take control of your health with the aaboRing Health and Fitness Tracker Smart Ring for $199.99, 49% off the retail price of $399. Trying to juggle all the good habits we know we need — getting enough sleep, making time to exercise, staying mindful — is hard when you're left guessing whether you're doing the right things. Read the rest The post Wellness is in (and on) your hands with aaboRing appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Legendary Midwest Fast-Food Icon Spirals Into Bankruptcy

Legendary Midwest Fast-Food Icon Spirals Into Bankruptcy Another fast-food institution is fighting for its life as Byron’s Kitchen files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid a brutal wave of restaurant closures and restructurings sweeping the food industry, according to The Street. The Chicago-based chain, a beloved local staple since 1975 and now marking over 50 years of slinging dogs, officially sought bankruptcy relief on March 16 in the Northern District of Illinois. Own...

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"I Think We've Won" Trump Says As Iran Refuses Hormuz Talks, Houthis Threaten Red Sea Strait

"I Think We've Won" Trump Says As Iran Refuses Hormuz Talks, Houthis Threaten Red Sea Strait Summary CBS reporting 'heavy preparations' for ground troops as Trump says 'no ceasefire' for now; Trump calls NATO a 'paper tiger'. IRGC contradicts Bibi: says missile production is ongoing, is of "no concern" - even as IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini is reported killed. Energy war ongoing: Major sites damaged across the region - Haifa refinery hit, Qatar LNG output cut 17%,...

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Slop Hurl: horror novel Shy Girl withdrawn after it turns out AI wrote it

"Shy Girl," a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was withdrawn by publisher Hachette this week after extremely convincing allegations that it was written using AI. Already out in the U.K., with at least 1,800 print copies sold, the book won't be landing on store shelves in the U.S. Read the rest The post Slop Hurl: horror novel Shy Girl withdrawn after it turns out AI wrote it appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Governor who polices others' lives surprised when a restaurant sets its own rules

Deplorable Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders found herself unwelcome at a local restaurant. She took to social media to shame the establishment, but things didn't go as she'd planned. "Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and told us to leave," Sanders wrote in a post on X on Thursday, responding to a story about the matter b...

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'TRUMP AMERICA AI Act' Repeals Section 230, Expands Liability, and Establishes Centralized Federal Control Over AI Systems

'TRUMP AMERICA AI Act' Repeals Section 230, Expands Liability, and Establishes Centralized Federal Control Over AI Systems Authored by Jon Fleetwood via JonFleetwood.com, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn has released a 291-page legislative framework that would repeal Section 230, expand liability across the artificial intelligence ecosystem, and establish a unified federal rulebook governing how AI systems are built, deployed, and controlled in the United States. U.S. President Donald...

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Trump associate allegedly tapped ICE to settle a personal score

A longtime Trump associate reportedly reached out to immigration officials to help detain and deport his ex-girlfriend; not as part of some sweeping policy goal, but because they were locked in a custody battle over their child. According to reporting, a senior ICE official quickly moved to ensure she was picked up and held, noting the case mattered to someone close to the White House. Read the rest The post Trump associate allegedly tapped ICE to settle a personal score appeared first on Boing...

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4chan responded to a £520,000 UK fine with a hamster in a Godzilla suit

Preston Byrne, the American lawyer representing 4chan, was asked by UK regulator Ofcom to pay £520,000 in fines under the Online Safety Act. He replied with an AI-generated cartoon of a hamster wearing a green Godzilla costume and holding a peanut, the BBC reports. Read the rest The post 4chan responded to a £520,000 UK fine with a hamster in a Godzilla suit appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Startup pays $800/day to bully AI chatbots

The only prerequisite for the job is an "extensive personal history of being let down by technology." California startup Memvid is offering $100 an hour $800 for an eight-hour day to test AI chatbot patience and memory, the Guardian reports. Read the rest The post Startup pays $800/day to bully AI chatbots appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Counting sheep to fall asleep traces back to at least the 12th century

A king can't sleep, so he demands extra stories from his exhausted storyteller. The storyteller obliges with a tale about a farmer who has just bought 2,000 sheep and needs to ferry them across a flood-swollen river in a tiny boat that fits two at a time meaning 1,000 crossings. Read the rest The post Counting sheep to fall asleep traces back to at least the 12th century appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Chokepoint Madness: Iran Refuses Hormuz Talks As Houthis Threaten Red Sea Strait

Chokepoint Madness: Iran Refuses Hormuz Talks As Houthis Threaten Red Sea Strait Summary Oil rises on news of a second massive Marine deployment toward Gulf in a week, as Trump calls NATO a 'paper tiger'. IRGC contradicts Bibi: says missile production is ongoing, is of "no concern" - even as IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini is reported killed. Energy war ongoing: Major sites damaged across the region - Haifa refinery hit, Qatar LNG output cut 17%, Kuwait facilities ab...

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HP made support callers wait 15 minutes on purpose, even when agents were free

Even when a customer service agent was sitting idle, HP callers in five European countries heard the same recorded message: "We are currently experiencing longer waiting times." The wait was mandatory 15 minutes, every time, no matter the call volume. Read the rest The post HP made support callers wait 15 minutes on purpose, even when agents were free appeared first on Boing Boing.

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John Fetterman Reveals Who's Really The Leader Of His Party

John Fetterman Reveals Who's Really The Leader Of His Party Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) sat down for an interview on the "All-In Podcast" this week and made a telling admission about the Democratic Party. When co-host David Friedberg asked Fetterman point-blank, "Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?" the Pennsylvania senator didn't flinch. "Oh, we don't have one," he said. "I think the TDS, that's the leader right now. You know, right now our party is governed by th...

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Dr. Oz Says He's Eyeing Florida In Medicaid Fraud Crackdown

Dr. Oz Says He's Eyeing Florida In Medicaid Fraud Crackdown Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) confirmed this week that his office is eyeing Florida for instances of potential health care fraud. Dr. Mehmet Oz, also known as Dr. Oz, wrote on March 17 on X that what he saw in Florida “around durable medical equipment fraud was horrifying” and indicated that Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republ...

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CBS News Announces Fresh Round Of Layoffs As Bari Weiss Buzzsaw Continues

CBS News Announces Fresh Round Of Layoffs As Bari Weiss Buzzsaw Continues After paying Bari Weiss $150 million for The Free Press and hiring her to run their newsroom, CBS News announced a fresh round of layoffs on Friday which will affect over 60 jobs, or 6% of the news division, according to the NY Times.  Bari Weiss "Certain parts of this newsroom need to get smaller in order for us to make room for the things that we need to build to remain competitive in the future," said Weis...

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These Seven Allies Concocted A 'Hormuz Coalition' Statement To Placate Trump, Which Failed

These Seven Allies Concocted A 'Hormuz Coalition' Statement To Placate Trump, Which Failed We reported earlier that President Trump has again expressed his extreme frustration at lack of direct NATO participation in a plan to open up the Strait of Hormuz. He declared the US has "militarily WON" - and lambasted lack of allied interest in a "simple military maneuver" to open the Strait of Hormuz, calling NATO a "Paper Tiger" without the US. And so clearly Trump himself is unconvinced...

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'Radical' Biden Judge Reverses RFK Jr. On Trans-Child Surgeries, Other Procedures

'Radical' Biden Judge Reverses RFK Jr. On Trans-Child Surgeries, Other Procedures A federal judge deemed 'too radical' by GOP lawmakers during his confirmation hearings said on Thursday that he will grant a motion by blue states to vacate (reverse) a declaration by HHS Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blocking breast removal and other procedures for youths with gender dysphoria.  Oregon US District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai, who was appointed by Biden in late 2024 and only confirmed a...

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JPMorgan Activates BTC and ETH As Institutional Collateral

JPMorgan Activates BTC and ETH As Institutional Collateral Via Sentora Research, JPMorgan has officially bridged the gap between "Digital Gold" and "Wholesale Credit."  The activation of direct BTC and ETH collateralization allows institutional giants to finally turn their dormant holdings into immediate USD liquidity without selling a single satoshi. Operating through the Kinexys (formerly Onyx) digital financing platform, the bank now allows institutional clients like hedge fun...

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Pay $390 for 20TB of cloud storage and skip the monthly fees

TL;DR: The Internxt Cloud Storage Lifetime Subscription (20TB) is on sale for $389.97 (reg. $4,900), offering secure, encrypted storage with no recurring fees. Storage creep is real. One day it's free space, the next you're choosing between deleting files or upgrading your plan. Read the rest The post Pay $390 for 20TB of cloud storage and skip the monthly fees appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Bond Markets Are Beginning To Panic Over Inflation

Bond Markets Are Beginning To Panic Over Inflation By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank Look To America US equity indices closed lower yesterday but were comparative outperformers against European and Asian counterparts, which were roundly brutalized. The relative performance of equity markets reflects what is happening in oil markets, where the law of one price is being strained by a complete dearth of oil in Asia, a shortage of oil in Europe, and relative abu...

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IEA Chief Warns Gulf Flows May Take Six Months To Restore After Biggest-Ever Energy Shock

IEA Chief Warns Gulf Flows May Take Six Months To Restore After Biggest-Ever Energy Shock The head of the International Energy Agency told the Financial Times on Friday that the world is severely underestimating the scale of the Gulf energy shock, and that it may take at least six months to restore disrupted oil and gas flows. Fatih Birol described the conflict, now in its third week, as "the greatest global energy security threat in history", and said it would take time "to have o...