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Library of Leng archives decades of articles about Magic: The Gathering
An online archive called Library of Leng has indexed more than 208,000 articles about Magic: The Gathering, some dating to the card game’s first years…
 • Rob Beschizza
CNN sues Perplexity AI over “verbatim” copies of articles
CNN is suing AI company Perplexity claiming its software generates verbatim copies of its news stories.
 • Rob Beschizza
Louis Wain cat paintings found in dumpster
Louis Wain was famous for his cat paintings, especially the more abstract and proto-psychedelic ones produced after he suffered a severe head injury and…
 • Rob Beschizza
Blue Origin rocket explodes during Florida test
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday evening during a ground test ahead of a forthcoming launch, destroying the vehicle and raising new…
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, May 28, 2026
CIA gold bars, starving whales, Temu’s €200m fine
 • Boing Boing
Scientists built a machine to solve what AI can’t
A team spread across Washington University in St Louis, the Indian Institute of Science, Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Cruz built a…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Games matter because games don’t matter, says a philosopher
In bridge, a heart trick earns 30 points while a club trick earns 20, numbers that mean nothing outside of the game.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A coder fed 20 years of his messages to AI to audit his friendships
Software engineer Vadim Drobinin used GDPR data-access laws to download his entire chat history — ICQ and IRC logs from the 2000s, VK, Twitter, and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Ex-CIA official arrested with $40M in gold bars at home
Every workplace has goldbrickers.
 • Séamus Bellamy
This horse-racing board game gives players zero control over anything
The same horse-racing board game has been published and republished for decades under at least seven different names — Dubble Kross (1991), The Horse…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Harris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states
People today do not fly to New York because they find Oklahoma City too inconvenient.
 • Jason Weisberger
Here’s the $250 bank note with Trump’s mugshot on it
Introducing a forthcoming hypothetical $250 bill featuring President Trump’s mugshot, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seemed unable to suppress a faint…
 • Rob Beschizza
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