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Monday May 19, 2025. 01:44 PM
Without assuming anything about meaning or trying to decode the mysterious 15th-century Voynich Manuscript, Brian Grant wrote software that analyzed the structure of its inscrutable text to see if it corresponded to what one would expect to find in natural language. — Read...
Don't assume that the new thing is better for the environment than the old thing. This caution comes courtesy of Seagate, a company with a rich history in the old thing, and a study it commissioned, The Decarbonizing Data Report. — Read the rest The post Which has the larger...
The Journal of Imaginary Research publishes fiction presented in the form of formal research abstracts. The imagined research abstracts, and their imagined researchers were constructed by real academic staff, research staff, and research students. We, Dr Kay Guccione...
Sunday May 18, 2025. 11:00 PM
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Stick to what you know, I guess. Succession may have wrapped, but showrunner Jesse Armstrong clearly isn't done with making a farce out of the utterly empty inner lives of America's billionaires quite yet. Armstrong and HBO's new film Mountainhead looks to pick up right...
The latest addition to neal.fun is a road trip simulator using Google Street View and a custom overlay. Viewers vote every ten seconds to choose a direction. As expected with anything decided by an internet vote, it is total anarchy. — Read the rest The post This...
TL;DR: Protect your privacy while you travel with this hidden camera, GPS, and bug detector, now on sale for $39.99. It seems like every few weeks I see a video on TikTok from someone staying in an Airbnb asking if a device is a hidden camera. — Read the rest The post...
The dead-eyed, YouTube view-powered homunculus who calls himself Mr. Beast just can't seem to keep himself out of hot water. He's pissed off his own employees, contestants on his real-life Squid Games, the people who make his weird ghost kitchen hamburgers, and now he's...
With so many crossovers, collaborations and Fortnite seasons out there, it's starting to feel like entertainment – video games in particular – is just becoming this big amorphous mass of IP and corporate synergy. In the same way that Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon serves to...
Rob Bredow, the Senior Vice President of Creative Innovation, Digital Production & Technology at Lucasfilm, has a TED talk about the future of filmmaking, and yikes. If he intended to quell the fears that fans have about the use of artificial intelligence in movies, he...
ICE Barbie Kristi Noem is at it again – or at least the department under her stewardship is, unfortunately. Amidst the Trump administration's monstrous handling of immigration issues, suffering as a spectacle has repeatedly been a favored tactic. As long as it's an outgroup,...
Saturday May 17, 2025. 11:00 PM
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TL;DR: Enough with the ads! MagellanTV has thousands of documentaries with no ads or interruptions for just $149.97. I think we can all agree that streaming services have gone too far. In case you missed it, Amazon recently implemented ads across Prime video. — Read the rest...
Friday May 16, 2025. 11:00 PM
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Do you ever sit down at the end of a long day and think, 'Wow, I did absolutely everything I could… and somehow still accomplished nothing'? Well, buckle up, because this video is here to confirm your deepest fears. While you were busy answering emails and pretending not to...
Although a winner has not yet been crowned in the 2025 Eurovision competition, I have a bone to pick with it all the same. On its surface, Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer's interlude act 'Made in Switzerland' sounds like nothing more than a celebration of the contest's...
I had to skip to the end of this video after a few minutes to make sure it had a happy ending, and was very relieved when I found out it did. When a tortoise was walking around and minding its business, a bully tortoise came by and flipped it on its back. — Read the rest ...
A tow-job gone wrong wreaked havoc on a Texas Highway the other day. In this wild video, you can see one car towing another by an alarmingly thin piece of rope. The car on the rope is swerving back and forth on the highway across multiple lanes, causing total mayhem. — Read...
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Earlier this year, I compared the excellent Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 to Oblivion, another medieval-styled RPG that I hold very close to my heart. As luck would have it, the gaming gods saw fit to deliver a remake of Oblivion not long after, letting me put the two games...
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