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If you open up the navigation app Waze on a hot day in Los Angeles, you might be surprised to see that users have reported hazardous 'Icy roads' in certain parts of the city. That's because the warning is not about cold and slippery roads, but Immigration and Customs...
In the spirit of Pete Seeger, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and many other outspoken legends of music, Jesse Wells sings 'Join Ice.' Nearly 50 people were abducted across 28 incidents from August 22–25, with ICE targeting Home Depots, car washes,...
I genuinely can't believe this hasn't happened sooner. Virtual band Gorillaz, best known for putting out three extremely good albums and then just sort of coasting for the next fifteen years, has finally entered battle royale Fortnite, best known for absorbing every bit of...
This is an incredibly sad story. Yahoo Serious, now aged 72, has been evicted from his home as the elderly owner is hospitalized with dementia and needs the funds. As of two weeks ago, Serious had disappeared. Yahoo Serious, the 80s Australian flash-in-the-pan and star...
The City of St. Peters, Missouri, keeps changing the laws and suing Chris Bank for growing sunflowers in his front yard. This year, the city altered the ordinance again, this time classifying sunflowers as a crop and limiting them to 10% of a front yard. — Read the re...
Crowd footage from a Will Smith concert went viral due to all the AI slop in it such as monstrous faces, mangled text, swarming flesh tesseracts, the usual. All of which suggests that Smith is using technology to add sparkle to his fading stardom. — Read the rest The post...
Anker's 250W Prime Charging Bank is a beast in its menagerie of battery banks and power gadgets, and comes with a 2.26-inch 480×200-pixel display so you can keep track of all the gadgets it's charging. Thanks to Aaron Christophel, you can play classic iD first-person shooter...
Donald Trump is gobsmacked that his teenage son Barron knows how to turn on a computer. In this Fox News clip, Trump brags to Laura Ingraham about Barron's 'unbelievable aptitude in technology' — a claim based entirely on his son's ability to press a button. — Read the...
Constitutional scholars use the 'autocratic signaling' when leaders test public tolerance by 'just wondering' if dictatorship might be preferable. Trump did exactly that today when he complained about Illinois Governor Pritzker's resistance to his plans for a military...
Monday August 25, 2025. 11:00 PM
You've invested in your PC hardware, now it's time to let your software catch up. Windows 11 Pro is now just $12.97 (reg. $199), and it comes packed with features designed to elevate your gaming experience, from ray tracing support to instant load speeds. — Read the rest ...
Attorney Marc Lopez offers some golden rules for avoiding police entrapment. This is an excellent rundown of many tricks the Police will use to attempt to entrap you at a traffic stop. Simple, innocuous-sounding questions can be used to raise suspicion and allow the cops ...
I am waiting for Trump to tell us that watches are just a confidence trick invented by the Swiss. During a Monday Oval Office meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump reflected on his relationship with China. 'They have to give us magnets, if they don't give ...
Remember when Google started as a helpful librarian then became a pushy salesperson? This scenario— enshittification—is an example of how 'all the internet platforms we rely on were turning into piles of shit,' says Cory Doctorow, who coined the term. — Read the rest ...
Fire-fighting pilots are some of the bravest folks around. Firefighting Plane Scooping Water byu/Jarstadian ininterestingasfuck This post on Reddit is incredible. Altitude alarms are screaming as the pilot opens a big scooper and fills up his plane. So much of the...
Rap legend Snoop Dogg couldn't explain how same sex couples can have children, and instead decided to flame inclusion in children's films. In Lightyear, which was released in 2022, Buzz Lightyear's best friend Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) reveals that she is engaged to...
Robert Reich, economist, professor, author, and political commentator, shares these five ways to push back against Trump's fascist state. Numbers one and three are things we can easily apply to our daily lives, and we've seen that boycotting brands that align with Trump...
On July 13, 1990, A deep earthquake loosed a fatal serac, causing an avalanche that killed all but two of forty-five climbers camped beneath it. Lenin Peak, a 7,134-meter-high mountain in northeast Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, was the former USSR's tallest mountain and became ...
In 1942, the tomb of an Egyptian general, Amentefnakht, was uncovered intact. The systems used to keep this Mummy undisturbed for thousands of years are amazing. While there is considerable conjecture and circumstantial evidence showing how ancient Egyptians sealed tombs ...
America's democratic foundations have collapsed, according to journalist Garrett Graff. The United States has crossed the threshold into authoritarianism under President Trump's second term. From military occupations of opposition-led cities to arbitrary detentions and...
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