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Wednesday September 3, 2025. 05:00 PM
In a world that tries to tell you what to be with a promise that you can achieve it with the right amount of cash and attention to one fad after another, it can be difficult to love yourself. The way you look, the clothes you wear, the way you talk, and how you move are...
Lawmakers in Texas passed a 'Campus Protection Act' which banned 'speech or expressive conduct protect by the First Amendment' on campus after 10 p.m.: a far-right haymaker flailing at students' constitutional rights. The broad prohibitions could knock out university...
One of the best reasons to buy a Rakuten Kobo e-reader instead of one of Amazon's popular Kindle e-ink devices is the free extras that the company gives to its customers. In addition to the ebooks and audio content Kobo users have access to, they've also been able to easily...
Polygon was known for its thorough and high-quality game coverage, but Vox sold it to a content farm which immediately laid off many of the best writers. Not months later appears Rogue, a new site from some of those laid off earlier this year. — Read the rest The post Rogue ...
For the first fourteen years of his life, Viraj Dhanda, who has autism and apraxia, was non-verbal, non-communicative, and assumed to be intellectually disabled. It wasn't until his father, Sumit, experimented with various communication and keyboard devices that Viraj could ...
Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world: JOIN THE INNER HIVE! Coming soon! Volumes 1 and 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug! — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug's...
With the recent news that Ubisoft has been selling off some of its older IPs (to Atari of all companies), I thought it might be nice to check up on Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, the company's ill-conceived, ill-received NFT game. — Read the rest The post Ubisoft's...
I don't care for most first-person shooters, but I've always had a soft spot for the Borderlands franchise. I love the cell-shaded art, the largely shitty selection of weapons, and outrageous characters. It's mindless fun wrapped up in a pretty package. — Read the rest The p...
Tuesday September 2, 2025. 11:33 PM
This short video of percussionist and sound effects specialist Josh Harmon (who describes his work as 'spreading joy through sound and rhythm!') collaborating with musician, composer, bandleader and all-around national treasure Jon Batiste to create vintage cartoon sound ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government wants to make sure that its citizens are prepared for every possible catastrophic scenario, and they're prepared to scare the shit out of them to do it. According to the Associated Press, the Japanese city's 37 million residents were treated ...
I know that AI threatens to put basically anyone that doesn't do manual labor out of work, but I didn't expect that to be so voluntary so soon. As they so often are, Reddit is ahead of the curve, with one user bragging about using ChatGPT to fake a COVID test and...
State trooper Sam Zahn's eighth identified sober victim of a false DUI arrest turns out to be a sober 71-year-old former US Attorney. WSMV News has uncovered sixteen cases of sober people arrested for DUIs, eight of them by the same trooper, Sam Zahn. — Read the rest The po...
The Ohsees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, Osees—their name is about as consistent as their sound. Psych rock, garage rock, surf rock, post-punk, Osees have done it all and continue to evolve. During this year's annual residency over the holiday weekend at San Francisco's intimate ...
A deadly tropical disease transmitted by blood-sucking 'kissing bugs' has established itself in California and the Southern United States. Chagas disease, once considered a distant threat, now affects an estimated 300,000 people in the U.S., with California harboring the...
Your smartphone is a snitch, and it's been ratting you out for years. Every app you use, every ride you take, every post you like — it's all part of an invisible social credit system that's been shaping your life without your knowledge. — Read the rest The post The...
Chris Columbus, who directed two Harry Potter films, says there will be no cast reunion because JK Rowling is a transphobe. Rowling unsurprisingly launched into a transphobic rant on Xitter. 'It's never going to happen with all that political stuff. Everyone in the cast has ...
This is a bizarre story: North Carolina Republican election official James Yokeley Jr. was caught on video putting drugs, cocaine, and MDMA, in both his teenage granddaughter's ice cream and her friend's. Yokeley had the kids wait in the car while he went in to buy them...
Johannes Vermeer painted 'The Guitar Player' in 1672, a year so calamitous for the Dutch that they dubbed it the 'Disaster Year.' War and economic turmoil had nearly obliterated the art market. Yet this masterpiece, which remained in Vermeer's family long after his death,...
Who would have thought that outsourcing your thinking to an unreliable electric box could make you stupid? According to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, folks who use AI regularly to help them write essays, books, and the like are getting...
Y'all know that I love a good J.D. Vance meme, and I sharing them with friends (I see you, Bretton!) is my love language. Well, imagine my delight when I found out recently that there's a whole dang mural highlighting one of the original bald baby Vance images that launched...
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