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Thursday January 1, 2026. 04:22 AM
For a Walt Disney World worker trying to stop a runaway boulder from rolling into the crowd, the good news is that it was a fake prop boulder. The bad news is that it still weighed 400 pounds and left him bruised and bloodied. — Read the rest The post Disney worker hurt...
There is a version of Brett Kavanaugh permanently preserved in the congressional record, tearfully explaining slang like 'boofing,' angrily insisting he liked beer, and treating a Supreme Court confirmation hearing like a disciplinary hearing he resented attending. That man...
Wednesday December 31, 2025. 11:52 PM
Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video. The format, popularized by Tik Tok, 'degrades our capacity to retain intentions,' according to research from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. —...
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A judge in England ruled this week that the presence of a microwave does not turn a single room into an apartment. The St. George Hotel in Great Yarmouth said its rooms were flats after housing officers found that 32 of its 62 rooms were being used to house homeless people....
The future of policing apparently includes enchanted forests. Buried in a local Fox News story about police using AI to keep streets safer is the part that actually matters: the software once decided a person had turned into a frog. Not metaphorically. — Read the rest The po...
Elon Musk spent 2025 promising Mars, robotaxis, artificial godhood, flying cars, and trillions in government savings. What we got was a familiar silence at year's end, broken only by the sound of goalposts being dragged farther down the field. Mashable did the thankless work ...
Perpetually unaware and refusing to be held back by facts, Donald Trump mourned a long-dead Israeli falcon as a bald eagle, to disparage the wind. Talk about being gone with the wind. Unable to identify a bald eagle, Trump saw an old photo of a dead bird and decided it was...
Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 graphics cards have a suggested retail price of $2,000. With big tech betting everything on generative AI and gobbling up the world's supply of high-end GPUs, the street price is already much higher—about $2,500 to start as of December 2025. —...
Julie K. Brown spent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald. Her 2018 'Perversion of Justice' series identified 80 victims, exposed the sweetheart plea deal that let Epstein walk in 2008, and generated enough pressure that federal prosecutors finally...
Lark Street Music in Teaneck, New Jersey, specializes in vintage guitars. It even has a wonderful vintage website. Buzzy Levine, proprietor of the store since 1981, reported the unexpected return of two recently-stolen mandolins, along with a handwritten note. 'SORRY, I BEEN ...
A Reddit user going by enigma_x asked Claude AI to 'build me an app that would delight me.' It generated a digital message-in-a-bottle service where strangers send anonymous notes across a pixelated ocean. You write something, cast it into the virtual sea, and receive...
Crossing into the United States? Customs and Border Protection can search your phone, laptop, or tablet without a warrant and without any suspicion. It's legal, and it's happening more often under the current administration. According to CBP data, agents searched electronic...
The Trump family's foray into smartphones keeps slipping further into the future. Trump Mobile, the wireless venture run by Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, has postponed delivery of its gold-colored T1 smartphone yet again, this time blaming the government shutdown for holding up ...
A self-described 'hippie who barely knows how to use a microwave' used Claude AI to build a fully functional music visualizer from scratch in a single day. According to a viral post on the ClaudeAI subreddit, the circumstances were perfect: wife visiting Ireland for...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has voluntarily surrended his gun license after a 'visit' from the Metropolitan Police intending to take it. The former Prince Andrew lost his title and position in the Royal family after more details emerged revealing the extent of his friendship...
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A law clerks' advocacy group filed a misconduct complaint against Judge Sarah Merriam, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, claiming she routinely bullies and mistreats her staff. 'She is a bully, in all the ways one might bully their employees:...
Following an announcement earlier this year, the Danish postal service has delivered its last letter. PostNord will also lose 1500 workers and remove 1500 postboxes. Letter delivery service will continue in Sweden, also served by PostNord, for now. Danes with stamps left can ...
An elementary school in Akwesasne, a Mohawk nation territory straddling Canada and the U.S., finds itself having to explain to enraged local parents why it has a large wooden crate in it called the 'time out box.' CBC News reports that 'several staff' are on leave and an...
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