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Boing Boing, August 15, 2026
Arcade quarters, a chatbot's assassination talk, and transit-riding pygmy goats
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Boing Boing
In 1983 I couldn't afford to beat Dragon's Lair
Don Bluth's laserdisc classic finally became beatable thanks to Steam re-releases and YouTube playthroughs.
Aug 14
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Jason Weisberger
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Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination
The AI blamed a "prompt-injection glitch" after users tricked it into repeating inflammatory X bios verbatim.
Aug 14
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Jason Weisberger
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Escaped pygmy goats try Portland public transit
Billy the Kid and Billy the Goat boarded the FX2 Tuesday before passengers ushered them off, and their owner has since added a lock.
Aug 14
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Jason Weisberger
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Russia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral values
Federal Law No. 243-FZ covers models with 1 billion or more parameters, and the FSB gets to inspect them starting March 2027.
Aug 14
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Rob Beschizza
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Boing Boing, August 14, 2026
Adversarial hoodies, empty sardine shelves, and Monet's cartoon locals
Aug 14
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Boing Boing
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OK, custom Kindle fonts are really nice
Literata for daytime reading and Lora for dark mode, all installed free with no jailbreak required.
Aug 14
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Jason Weisberger
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Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals
The caricatures sold for 20 francs each when he was 15, and paid for his move to Paris against his father's wishes.
Aug 14
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Popkin
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A band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" live
A German band recreated the Pink Floyd sound effects at Abbey Road Studios, 54 years after the 1972 tape.
Aug 14
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Popkin
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A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"
By 1600 almost 50 Italian plays mocked the Renaissance pedant and his mangled schoolroom Latin.
Aug 14
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Popkin
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A viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
A 3-day sardine-only diet went viral while Moroccan catches fell by half, so canned sardines are missing from shelves.
Aug 14
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Ellsworth Toohey
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A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
Phyllis Zorn's federal settlement follows $600,000 from Marion County and comes three years to the day after the 2023 raid.
Aug 14
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Ellsworth Toohey
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