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Thursday December 18, 2025. 11:34 PM
3I/ATLAS is definitely a comet, not an alien spacecraft, but it is only the third confirmed interstellar object detected in our solar system, and may be as much as 7 billion years old, so it is still pretty cool and worth checking out. — Read the rest The post Watch...
Jibba Jabber was a doll made by toy company Ertl in the mid-1990s, marketed as a stress reliever for corporate executives. The doll's distinguishing feature was the sound it made when you shook it — a distinct choking or strangling noise produced by its wobbling head,...
A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led by Dr. Mir Faizal at UBC Okanagan used Gödel's incompleteness theorem to argue that reality requires 'non-algorithmic understanding' — something...
Vivek Ramaswamy published a New York Times op-ed warning that Nick Fuentes's 'Groyper' movement represents the same identity politics Republicans claim to oppose — just with a white nationalist flavor. The far-right Ohio gubernatorial candidate argued that American...
The Wall Street Journal let AI run a vending machine. It lost over $1,000 after reporters tricked it into giving everything away. Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as an internal stress test. — Read the rest...
Thursday marks the deadline for all federal law enforcement agencies to deliver their intelligence files on 'Antifa' and 'Antifa-related' activities to the FBI. Attorney General Pam Bondi set the date in a memo earlier this month. According to The Washington Post, the FBI...
Held liable for years of committing financial fraud, and well known for over-inflating his own crowd sizes, Donald Trump is not one to be trusted with numbers. Fox, however, found it necessary to explain how math works to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. — Read the rest...
In the most expensive version of buying one's own book to make the bestseller list, SpaceX now has 'over 1,000' Cybertrucks sitting around. A few months ago, we noted Elon Musk, the 11-dimensional chess player, grand strategy to make his giant failure look less giant. —...
Evita Duffy-Alfonso, daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, called the TSA 'unconstitutional' Thursday after airport security made her wait 15 minutes for a pat-down, and she nearly missed her flight. According to The Hill, Duffy-Alfonso, who is pregnant, requested ...
Twenty-six House Republicans are demanding that Trump abandon his plan to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, which would put it in the same category as certain types of Tylenol and anabolic steroids. According to Fox News, Rep. — Read the rest The post...
Federal prosecutors have coined a new term: fraud tourism. Two Philadelphia men allegedly traveled to Minneapolis after a friend told them Minnesota's social programs were easy money. They had no connection to the state or its Somali-American community, which previous...
ICE signed a $636,500 contract with AI Solutions 87, a company registered to a residential address in West Bend, Wisconsin, to provide AI-powered skip tracing for the agency's deportation operations. According to 404 Media, the company's website says its AI agents 'deliver...
Shortly after retaking office, Donald Trump fired every single member of the Kennedy Center's governing board and replaced them with cronies, administration staffers, and family-adjacent influencers. Then they made him chairman. Now they've voted to rename the building after ...
Dan Bongino is out as the FBI's Deputy Director, a prestigious job the conspiracy theorist was always ill-suited for and plainly incapable of. He is going back to his show. In a post on X, he thanked President Donald Trump, as well as the director of the FBI and the US...
This $100 Hallmark 'Christmas tree ornament' is absolutely ridiculous. I hate it and want it at the same time. The 'Star Wars: A New Hope™ 'Let the Wookiee™ Win' Ornament With Video, Light and Sound' meticulously detailed diorama depicts a classic scene from Episode IV...
New audio recordings obtained by the New York Times confirm what Trump has insisted for years did not happen: he directly pressured top Republican officials in Georgia to toss out the 2020 election results and hand him the win. In the tapes, Trump repeatedly tells the late...
Deals on duct tape and the peals of institutional cruelty are the current Home Depot ambiance in Los Angeles. Day laborers, who've weathered pandemics, government abduction, and everything short of a plague of locusts, now have to contend with a nonstop industrial whine...
In the wake of legislation moving to ban gender affirming care for patients under the age of 18, Doctor Oz joined vaccine denier RFK Jr to mark the occasion. Noting the cost of a penis as too high, Oz failed to observe that prices across the board have risen during Trump's...
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a brutal illness. I had it some 15 years ago and it had me choking and honking for weeks. It became rare in the U.S., thanks largely to vaccination against it, but rates are soaring again now the anti-vaxxers are in charge. — Read the rest ...
British media have a fine tradition of using insinuation and humor ('tired and emotional') to mean things without saying them. Lately, though, simply lying about the people you hate has taken over, a symptom of the internet dissolving all news culture into a mush of vaguely...
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