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Kevin Kelly is my friend and a co-author of our weekly Recomendo newsletter ("6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff" – subscribe for free here!). He was a co-founder of Wired magazine (he hired me to work there in 1993) and was the edi...
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Even the courtroom temperature is a plot against this sleepy, flatulent defendant. Amid his hush money trial, Donald Trump is even complaining of a deliberately cold courtroom, suggesting there is a conspiracy to discomfort him. Other reports claim t...
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Maryland High school athletic director Dazhon "DJ" Darien is accused of using AI to fake a racist rant in the voice of his school's principal Eric Eiswert, reports CBS News. The recording infuriated Baltimore and forced Eiswert to stay home for weeks...
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We live in the greatest nerd era of all time. For millennia, nerds were punched or a punchline while men of action had epic poems written about their heroics; later they played football and hooked up with the hot girl and ate pencil-necked geeks for...
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YouTuber Marques Brownlee got to try Disney's nearly-ready for VR 360° treadmill. The problem with VR remains that no one wants to suit up and walk to Amazon to buy a book to download to their Kindle. It has been a solution for problems already solv...
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Back in 2021, Popkin here at Boing Boing brought you a wonderful compilation of some bizarre commercials for 1-900 numbers from the 1980s and 1990s. My favorite is, of course, the commercial for 1-900-9099-CRY, which a user on YouTube called "the...