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Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo
Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It’s an…
 • Rob Beschizza
Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs are making a Lord of the Rings game
Although its predecessor didn’t exactly grip me, sprawling medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance II proved to be one of my favorite games of the 2020s.
 • Grant St. Clair
Quantic Dream’s inexplicable live service hero shooter dies an ignominious death
Marathon may not have turned out to be the next Concord, but Spellcasters Chronicles might now have a decent claim to the title.
 • Grant St. Clair
Revisiting the strange world of Dick Tracy
When I was a kid first getting into comics, there was something about Dick Tracy that genuinely made me uneasy.
 • Gareth Branwyn
PlayStation to give its next game reveal a nationwide theater screening
Nothing says “confidence” quite like letting people get tickets to go see the announcement of a lineup of upcoming games in a proper movie theater.
 • Grant St. Clair
Boing Boing, May 20, 2026
Trump meme arrest costs sheriff's taxpayers $835,000
 • Boing Boing
A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser
Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tennessee man jailed 37 days for a Trump meme wins $835,000
Larry Bushart, a Tennessee retiree who spent his career in law enforcement, will receive $835,000 from Perry County and Sheriff Nick Weems to settle the…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
H.P. Lovecraft borrowed from this real Connecticut seismic phenomenon
The Connecticut village of Moodus lies over a seismic fault that produces shallow microearthquakes that cause weird booms, rumbles, and cracks.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
DOJ quietly slips Trump what looks a lot like permanent audit invisibility
One assumes the average taxpayer can also obtain permanent audit immunity by simply becoming president and installing loyalists.
 • Jason Weisberger
Anna’s Archive hit with $19.5M judgment and global domain order
Thirteen major publishers — Penguin Random House, Elsevier, HarperCollins, and ten others — won a $19.5 million default judgment against the shadow…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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