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Wednesday July 23, 2025. 08:31 PM
Congress was supposed to hold votes tomorrow, before their 5-week break — until the GOP heard that one of the votes was related to the Epstein Files. Uh-oh! That's when they suddenly dropped everything and took an earlier-than-scheduled vacation. But when Speaker Mike...
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Owning a Google Pixel phone might get you stopped by police in Spain. Law enforcement in Catalonia has begun eyeing Pixel users with suspicion, claiming these phones are becoming the device of choice for drug traffickers. But it's not the phone itself drawing police...
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If you think authoritarianism can't happen here, David Pressman's essay in the New York Times is a chilling wake-up call. As the former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, Pressman watched democracy erode and corruption skyrocket under Viktor Orbán — not through dramatic coups,...
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Pixel Moondust contains an archive of background tiles as found on the old web: less civilized weapons from a more elegant age. The backgrounds are organized by color and about 80 pixels square. There's even a guestbook you can sign. [via] Hello and welcome to my...
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Good news for anyone who needs medication! Donald Trump just promised to coerce drug companies into actually paying Americans who fulfill their prescriptions. 'We're going to get the drug prices down by 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500% — numbers that are not even thought to be...
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A dollar buys you one minute of digital billboard fame — unless no one follows, then your message stays forever. That's the premise behind MinuteText, a new experimental messaging platform launched on Product Hunt. Creator Patrik Barsi designed the platform as a digital...
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Support your friendly neighborhood independent comic strip: SIGN UP FOR THE INNER HIVE and you'll get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic at least a day before publication. Plus other exclusive content like extra comics, commentary, juicy gossip, puzzles, jokes, and...
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'Bob the Angry Flower' is the chaotic, hilarious weekly comic strip by cartoonist Stephen Notley. And in the strip's brand new compilation book (the 14th that's been published), The Machines, the theme is artificial intelligence. Posted with the permission of Stephen Notley...
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Aside from the price, one of the major points of contention surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2 has been its potential to be remotely bricked, or rendered useless. Nintendo's EULAs have always been fairly stringent, to put it mildly, which is undoubtedly one of the reasons...
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To say Bethesda has been fumbling the bag a little when it comes to Fallout is a bit of an understatement. We're coming up on a full decade since the last mainline installment, and Bethesda has done little to capitalize on the astronomical hype behind the surprisingly good...
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TL;DR: Save 90% on a Youbooks lifetime subscription and create a new AI book every month — forever! Every time someone told me, 'You should write a book!' I'd smile and change the subject. Because I wanted to — I just had no idea where to start, and even less time to...
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You can say a lot about rapper-singer-producer-fashion designer-truly ridiculous multi-hyphenate Tyler, The Creator, but he's certainly not predictable. He may still be on his tour to promote last year's Chromakopia, but that hasn't stopped him from writing, recording,...
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The iconic stone steps made famous in 'The Exorcist' began their life in 1895 as a simple public right-of-way next to a cable car barn in Georgetown, Washington D.C. Long before they became associated with one of horror's most chilling scenes, locals called them the...
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Draw a fish is a fun, interactive website. The concept is simple. Draw a fish and then release it into the stream of fish drawn by other users. Once you release your fish, you'll see it in a yellow circle. You can click on other fish to give them a thumbs up or thumbs down...
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Watch a courageous farmer save his goat from a huge snake. When a farmer discovers that a large, dangerous snake has wrapped itself around his sweet little goat, he handles the situation like a total badass. The farmer calmly removes the snake in a genius way. — Read the...
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Last night I watched the entire recent Jubilee 'Surrounded' debate, '1 Progressive vs. 20 Far-Right Conservatives,' featuring Mehdi Hasan and a whole cast of unsavory characters. I was struck at just how uninformed and willfully ignorant most of the 'far-right conservatives' ...
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Maingear's Retro95 PC looks like it was made in the nineties but packs a modern punch: it's offered with up to 95GB of RAM, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, an RTX 5080 video card and 8TB of NVMe storage. I'm pretty sure it can handle Doom. — Read the rest The post Retro95 PC...
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Tuesday July 22, 2025. 11:43 PM
This is Part Two of our three-part post on how U.S. citizens and green-card holders can protect themselves at the border, in which we interviewed deputy director of ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Nathan Freed Wessler. In Part One, we covered the rights of...
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Having failed to secure the Senate's confirmation and been passed over by the district judges, Alina Habba is now the former interim US Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Habba was only able to stay in the post as an interim U.S. — Read the rest The post Federal...
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TL;DR: Upgrade your chess game with the GoChess Mini smart board and storage bag for $249.99 with code CHESS. Tired of being humbled by 12-year-olds in online chess tournaments? Meet your new secret weapon: the GoChess Mini Smart Chess Board. — Read the rest The post Get sch...
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