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Wednesday September 10, 2025. 02:00 PM
Recently, Gorillaz put on a few special shows at House of Kong, the physical art exhibition the band has set up to celebrate 25 years of music (including the 7-year hiatus right in the middle, apparently). The first three sets were crowd-pleasers, playing the virtual band's...
Two days ago, a new Banksy work appeared on London's Royal Courts of Justice. Though the mysterious street artist's work is customarily tolerated by authorities, not least for its high value at auction, this one was immediately hidden from view: it depicted a judge...
Elisabet Lann, newly-appointed as Sweden's health minister, collapsed Tuesday at her introductory press conference. Security personnel and other officials rushed to help her up; unconscious for several moments, she regained her composure and later said she'd suffered a...
In an age of blocky pixels, vectorbeam monitors offered sharp arcade action in games such as Asteroids, Tempest and Star Wars. The Vectrex game console brought the technology home, but the system's high price and thin selection of titles made for a short run on shelves—and ...
The iPod and its innovative clickwheel are history, and with it in the dustbin went dozens of downloadable games that Apple briefly made available in the 2000s. Thanks to the company's DRM system, the age of the hardware and sheer rarity of some titles, it took a...
Anthropic, operator of LLM chatbot Claude, proposed paying a $1.5bn settlement to authors whose books it pirated to build its $183 billion language model. The district judge in charge of the case finds it underwhelming, and even suggested it is being shoved 'down the throat...
Today, one of the most important tech events of the year took place: the announcement of Apple's latest mobile hardware. It's such a big deal that the media wranglers for other companies stay the hell away from posting about their new products. — Read the rest The post...
2025 has been filled with chaos so far, and this year's Burning Man festival was no exception. Burning Man 2025 began with a murder (read here), and ended with a torrential downpour that left thousands of people stranded and stuck in the mud. — Read the rest The post Burnin...
Right now, if you were to walk into your local Target, Walmart, or Costco, you likely wouldn't be able to find any Pokémon TCG (trading card game) products. Scalpers buy as much inventory as they can, then sell it for more than the manufacturer's suggested retail price. —...
Every once in a while a book comes along that feels less like reading and more like having your creative brain blown wide open. ULTRAWILD: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth (Lerner/Graphic Universe, Sept. 2025) is that kind of book. — Read the rest The...
A former executive of a podcasting company that relied on human talent has decided to lean into AI, cause paying humans is so yesterday. 'I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites. — Read the rest The...
Tuesday September 9, 2025. 11:05 PM
Apple's announced its latest products today. The biggest news was the $1000 iPhone Air, a 5.6mm-thick (0.22 inches) phone that Apple called a 'paradox you have to hold to believe.' (The iPhone 16 is 7.8mm (0.31 inches thick) It also announced updated iPhone 17 models. — Read...
TL;DR: Convert DVDs to digital files for life with DVDneXtCOPY. No subscription. Just $29.99. That stack of old DVDs you never watch isn't going to shrink itself. Whether they're packed with cherished home videos, rare concert recordings, or classic films you can't find...
Undersea mapping projects uncovered forty years of toxic waste dumping directly into the Pacific off the coast of Southern California. A recent Scripps study shows some of those barrels are altering the chemistry and biological makeup in the areas surrounding leaks. — Read...
The Mouth of Moron seems frustrated; either she or the White House press pool can't keep track of her many lies. If the evidence is real, but you call it a 'narrative,' does it magically cease to be evidence? This evidence seems pretty damning, but these folks don't believe ...
Tiny Chef is a fantastic, feel-good unicorn chaser for all the garbage we're dealing with every day. My daughter introduced me to the Tiny Chef during his initial run on social media, and before his Nickelodeon show was picked up. We've been cheering for this guy,...
Infinite Canvas is a map that you and others can explore and add new AI-generated tiles to an ever-expanding Studio Ghibli-inspired landscape. Clicking any tile reveals the AI prompt that created that particular piece of the world. I added an espresso kiosk. — Read the rest...
Speaker of the House 'MAGA' Mike Johnson insists that if you aren't licking a boot, you're a stupid lib. Attempting to paint anyone who thinks the military invading cities with Black mayors, and lower crime rates than those in his own non-invaded Red State, as crazy...
Writer AJ Jacobs has come up with a counterintuitive approach to beating procrastination: embracing the discomfort. In the latest edition of his Experimental Living newsletter, AJ describes his mindfulness technique for tackling dreaded tasks: I force myself to lean into...
The book makes it clear that many wealthy and powerful individuals were aware of Jeffrey Epstein's activities and were more than happy to participate in them. Donald Trump's note is one of the most telling. via House Oversight Committee You can view the entire disgusting...
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