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Wednesday March 19, 2025. 11:40 AM
Nvidia's DGX machines are designed for running large language models and other 'AI' applications on the desktop. Shown off at its keynote were a Mac Mini-size device called the Spark, a motherboard, and a full-size desktop called the Station. As with the graphics cards,...
After I posted this week about Steve Martin's meta 1979 alt-trailer for his movie The Jerk, I was alerted on BlueSky by Nom DePlume to this fantastic meta alt-trailer for the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap, featuring Rob Reiner. — Read the rest The post The meta 1984 trailer...
African penguins are an endangered species with a life expectancy of 10 – 15 years in the wild. Penguins in the care of the New England Aquarium can live to twice that age. Like us, geriatric penguins need different levels of care, so the aquarium has created a separate...
Elon Musk's bromance with Donald Trump might be good for MAGA, but it has so far 'destroyed' Tesla to the tune of $565 billion in stock. That's quite a stench. And now, early Tesla investor Ross Gerber is asking the 53-year-old tech billionaire to choose: Either step down as ...
In today's episode of 'Republicans Living Their Best Christian Values,' Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn decided to spice up his Monday by allegedly trying to hire a teenager for sex, reports Minnesota Public Radio. But wait! It gets better! This sterling example of...
Mats Janzon, a kayaker who lives in Sweden, was walking in the forest when he heard an unusual noise. So he followed the strange sounds until he came across an abandoned baby otter, who he nurtured back to health before returning her to the wild. — Read the rest The post...
TL;DR: Upgrade your workflow, ditch the subscriptions, and get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for just $54.97 (reg. $219.99) through March 30. At some point in life, you've got to start making responsible choices—paying your bills on time, eating vegetables, and maybe...
Tuesday March 18, 2025. 10:33 PM
What should have been a good laugh turned into a super spreader event. Many of the funniest people in comedy were exposed to and came down with COVID-19, proving the pandemic is still out there doing its work, and it doesn't take a day or night off for a good time. — Read...
A US federal appeals court has ruled that art generated solely by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be copyrighted, emphasizing the necessity of something stupid being involved, or that creation isn't real. This court's decision underscores that humans get...
TL;DR: Banish cat parent guilt with the Cheerble Ball, now available for the best price online at just $26.99. It's hard being a pet parent these days! We've got to make sure we're feeding them the best foods and keeping them happy. — Read the rest The post Banish cat bored...
My god, it's full of stars. Astronaut and astrophotographer Don Pettit captured this deeply trippy image from the International Space Station. The scene has the same cosmic psychedelia as the Star Gate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey (video below). — Read the...
A MAGA bully was confused when her gross behavior resulted in her being thrown out of an Indianapolis bar. Watch a barkeep handle an off-the-hook MAGA perfectly. Ignoring their complaints, barbs, or righteous indignation and simply tossing them out is the way to go. — Read t...
In Matua, New Zeland, the coast guard and an emergency services helicopter were dispatched to rescue swimmers in distress. Apparently police had received reports that two people were struggling in the harbor off Fergusson Park in the North Island's Bay of Plenty Region. —...
Long Island police arrested Yolany Mejia Carranza, 55, for allegedly running a home dental practice. The problem wasn't that the practice was at her home but rather that Carranza apparently wasn't actually a dentist—no license, no training. 'I think everyone knows it's not ...
The Dublin City Council is exploring whether to raise the town's statue of Molly Malone on to a taller plinth to keep people from groping her breasts. Legend has it that touching Malone's breasts brings good luck. Since Jeanne Rynhart created the statue in 1988, the...
As part of the MAGA mission to dismantle America as we know it, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says U.S. judges are often 'erroneous' when interpreting the law, and thus cannot be trusted when they disagree with Donald Trump. 'There are interpretations of the law all the time. —...
Twitter's logo used to be a big blue bird, and two 12-foot dimensional models of it were installed on the company's building in San Francisco. Removed and sold when the company was bought by Elon Musk, one of the 560-pound signs is up for auction again. — Read the rest The p...
Cujo is one of my favorite Stephen King books, the first under his own name where the supernatural is ambiguously psychological (Stanley Kubrick took it upon himself to nudge The Shining thataway; the novel was full of straight-up ghosts), but the 1983 Cujo movie was too...
A Lanhsa Airlines plane crashed into the Carribean sea near Honduras yesterday, killing at least 12 of the 18 people on board. Popular Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez was among the dead. The domestic night flight, headed to the Honduran mainland from the island of Roatan, ...
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of China Miéville's groundbreaking novel Perdido Street Station, The Folio Society is releasing a lovely limited edition of this iconic work of weird fiction. With only a limited number of copies produced, this high-brow edition...
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