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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...