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Boing Boing, June 4, 2026
Iceman yeast sourdough and a wasp-hijacking beetle
 • Boing Boing
Grandpa Pudding Brains goes chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the delusions you’re used to.
 • Jason Weisberger
The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom
Nguyễn Thành Nam studied chemistry in France, returned to Vietnam, and, in 1963, founded a religion centered on the coconut.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Robo-party clown ignores Asimov’s first law of robotics
This clown was clearly a big hit, or rather, a kick!
 • Jason Weisberger
AI beat law professors in 75% of blind matchups, Stanford finds
A Stanford Law study put AI tutors up against actual law professors, and the machines won.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Trump’s war in Iran cancels summer vacation
Turns out summer travel is also downstream from bad decisions.
 • Jason Weisberger
Nancy Pelosi has no time for Mike Lindell’s hallway goblins
Some questions deserve answers. Some deserve a pillow over the microphone.
 • Jason Weisberger
Could a Nabokov novel have been the ‘father of all hypertext demos’?
In 1969, IBM wanted to show off Ted Nelson’s early hypertext system at a conference, and Nelson secured permission to demonstrate it using an unlikely…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won’t ride in it
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is so ready for the future that some of the people who trained it reportedly will not get in the car.
 • Jason Weisberger
Retro Pokémon-inspired indie game looks very cool, but not long for this world
Making a direct Pokémon-inspired game in 2026 is a pretty risky move. It’s common knowledge that Nintendo will defend even the smallest perceived attack…
 • Grant St. Clair
Until Dawn gets a surprise sequel announcement
This is where I would clown on Supermassive Games for taking more than a decade to craft any sort of follow-up to Until Dawn, the interactive 90s horror…
 • Grant St. Clair
Mike Mignola throws Uri Tupka to the devils
Mike Mignola’s wonderfully strange Lands Unknown universe keeps getting stranger.
 • Gareth Branwyn
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