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Monday January 20, 2025. 10:05 PM
Elon Musk's contribution to convicted felon Donald Trump's second inauguration was to perform the traditional Nazi salute. After Donald Trump credited him with voting machine manipulation, Elon Musk must feel pumped up. Here he offers an emotional salute that seriously...
In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum published a journal article detailing ELIZA, 'a program … which makes certain types of natural language conversation between man and computer possible.' He had created the first chatbot and named it after Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney character from...
The Lookout, a fantastic wildfire resource on YouTube, shares this fire map of Malibu by the decade. Some places burn at least once per decade. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The sense of rebuilding in some parts of California is coming...
Proving anything can happen on the Fortnite island, Godzilla is stomping around and letting loose his trademark screech. The designers at Epic put the effort in with Godzilla. The sound and feel are excellent. You may have to play many games to see Godzilla spawn, but...
If you need some good news today for… reasons, Information is Beautiful has you covered. The primary Information is Beautiful site is packed with infographics that concisely illustrate facts and data. Enter Beautiful News, which aggregates a wide range of good news...
In the days of my youth all the cool kids had butterfly knives, and then we didn't. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This video shares the history of the balisong, a fantastic knife from the Philippines that was briefly hugely popular in the US....
I ran across reports of two studies relating to AI today that combine to paint a sad picture. Kids are using LLMs to complete schoolwork, and the LLMs aren't even good at it. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest The post More...
A revered ride at Disneyland has been updated, which will cause complaints no matter how incredible or inconsequential the changes are. After making massive updates to how guests enter and exit Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, the ride and story have been updated with a few new ...
After Donald Trump's election victory in November, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk were named as co-heads of a vaguely-defined 'Department of Government Efficiency' charged with reducing the cost of running the country. If the inefficiency of having two unelected corporate...
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of 'Can You Feel It' with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech. The post Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream," the deep house mix appeared first on Boing Boing.
After 'donating' a free month of internet service to people who buy his hardware, Musk is sharing videos of his heroism. As is his expertise in everything, much of the aid Musk offered is illusory. Starting February 10, anyone who purchased a $349 kit and claimed the 'free' ...
A CyberTruck was seen roaming the streets of Manchester before the local authorities declared it illegal, announced safety concerns, and seized it. You may not be surprised to learn the owner of Cybertruck imported it to the United Kingdom, and began driving it around...
Made by MSCHF is a Phaidon art book about the Brooklyn art collective's principles and evolution. Founded in 2019 by a group of friends, MSCHF began as a series of project releases, dropped every two weeks. They now boast a team of twenty-five members and a loyal following...
Benj Edwards writes that it's 'Time to Make Computing Personal Again,' taking the technology back from the algorithms, the business incentives and all the other things that have made computers anything but the 'radical idea' they once represented to individuals. — Read the re...
This series of photos shows costumed mascots in Japan trying to fit through small openings. I think these mascots need a special train and entrance where they have more breathing room. Luckily, it looks like many of them are receiving help from people around them. — Read the...
Say what you will about president-elect Donald Trump, but one has to admit that he's mastered the art of extracting money from his supporters. He's not even paying for his own private planes. In light of this, it's little surprise that Trump has finally gone where grifts go...
I'm a big fan of pareidolia, which is essentially when something accidentally looks like something else. I've seen faces in electric sockets, fruit that is shaped like human fingers, and trees that look like they have eyes on them. I have yet to see, though, a lady who's...
These photos from the 1950s, shared by Vintage Everyday, show photos of the incredible time a 'Lipstick Tester' is having. The role of the lipstick tester was to simply sit in a chair while a group of women kissed his cheeks and forehead to see how the lipstick would...
Sunday January 19, 2025. 08:27 PM
It's not who is in charge now that matters, but who will be in charge tomorrow. After president-elect Donald Trump promised to issue an executive order blocking the ban imposed on TikTok by Congress (and found constitutional last week by the Supreme Court), the site allowed...
Sometimes, chimney smoke can rise up in a perfect-looking, unbroken, straight line, high into the sky above. When this happens, it looks as if a white rope is dangling into the chimney from the atmosphere above. This cool phenomenon can happen with the right combination of...
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