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Monday May 5, 2025. 05:48 PM
As far as claims to fame go, 'calling a 5-year-old the N-word' wouldn't be my first choice, but Rochester, Minnesota woman Shiloh Hendrix seems to be making it work for her. Hendrix, who formerly went by AngloSaxonWoman on Twitter, was captured hurling the slur at both an...
TL;DR: Replace Microsoft 365 with a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2019 while it's on sale for $29.97. I see you there, rocking that old school PC. No judgement. I still have a Dell from 2016. One of the only reasons I've thought about upgrading to a newer machine is...
Michael Jeffries, the former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO charged with two others over young men allegedly sex trafficked at parties, was ruled unfit for trial by a federal judge. Reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other ailments, Jeffries was ordered hospitalized...
President Trump isn't out with rural voters in the latest PBS/NPR/Marist poll, conducted in late April among 1,439 adults, but he's down sharply from the February high—and less than half of them now approve of his performance in office. The first 100 days did not go well....
Fluoride protects teeth against decay, but adding it to the water has long been a source of conspiracy theories and conservative anxiety—see Alex Jones ranting about gay frogs for a recent frisson of fear along such lines. With Trump in the White House, RFK Jr. — Read the...
Texas Republican Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville) introduced a bill that would outlaw furry behaviors (such as meowing and defecating in litterboxes) from schools there. Challenged to provide an example of this sort of thing happening, he was unable to do so and the bill died in...
'I taught an AI to commentate Pong in Real Time,' writes Parth Parikh, almost confessionally. '… xPong is all about Pong — but with a twist: there's LLM-based commentary generation integrated into the game.' And so it does, with all the euphoric detail of game day. — Read...
Bose, the company that makes decent speakers, invented something astonishing more than 20 years ago: an electromagnetic suspension system for automobiles. The footage of it in action (already curiously dated, thanks to the vintage of the test vehicles and low resolution of...
Sunday May 4, 2025. 01:41 PM
Dance Your PhD is an annual contest run by Science magazine that challenges PhD holders or candidates to explain their thesis through dance. The contest was started by John Bohannon in 2008 when he was a Science correspondent. Although he has moved on to other work, he still ...
If, like me, you've run out of clever ways to express your true feelings about the current regime—I mean, there's just so many iterations of 'f*cking a*sholes' one can utter before the sentiment loses its punch—I've got a great new resource for you! — Read the rest The p...
Root the box turtle is missing a front foot. He gets around pretty well in his enclosure at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is covered in wood chips. However, Root gets to explore outside his enclosure three times a week for enrichment. — Read...
Saturday May 3, 2025. 09:29 PM
Someone stole $90 million from a company I was involved in. I'm a poor judge of people. The company collapsed. Some things I can't learn. I tend to like people too much. So it's hard for me to be a good judge of people, no matter how much I try. — Read the rest The post The...
Meet Lollipop, a deaf rescue dog who absolutely loves to stand and walk around on a big rubber exercise ball. I am amazed at how well she can balance and at the grace with which she is able to move all around the floor while staying on top of the ball–she can even twirl in...
I've recently stumbled upon a new way to relax that I wanted to share with you: watching videos of folks shedding their horses! A quick search for 'horse shedding ASMR' brings up lots of examples—some of my favorites feature adorable horses named Raven, Frisby, and Mr. —...
TL;DR: This bundle comes with Microsoft Visual Studio Pro and beginner coding classes for just $56. Learning to code is a lot harder than it sounds. Movie hackers make it look so easy, but shockingly, there's more to it than putting on a big coat and saying 'mainframe' a...
Friday May 2, 2025. 11:59 PM
Scientists discovered they could influence people's choices without offering better rewards – simply by offering them patterns. The research, published in Nature Communications by Haran Shani-Narkiss, Baruch Eitam, and Oren Amsalem (2025), emerged from an international...
TL;DR: Get live weather updates with your own advanced radar when you get a Weather Hi-Def Radar lifetime subscription. What's the point of a weather app if it wouldn't get you accused of witchcraft during the Dark Ages? Gonna be honest, most weather apps are so laughably bad...
White House senior advisor Stephen Miller is on a mission to place America's federal court system under White House control. His lawsuit filed by the America First Legal Foundation directly targets Chief Justice John Roberts. While packaged as a routine records request, it...
Sweden, land of universal healthcare and furniture you can't pronounce, has delivered a flat-packed rejection to South Africa's biggest tantrum-thrower. As reported in Newsweek, Tesla sales crashed 80.7% in April, with registrations plummeting from 1,052 to just 203....
Georgia county jail officials panicked, going into lockdown when an inmate convicted of murder disappeared — only to realize more than 12 hours later that the missing man was still at the courthouse. Apparently, the cops forgot to retrieve him. 'There was a mix-up of who...
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