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B-kyuu gurume: Japan’s cult of perfect cheap food
There’s a Japanese phrase for the kind of meal you remember years later, even though it cost eight dollars and you found it by asking a taxi driver…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Elise Stefanik flames out, fades away
New York’s Elise Stefanik has announced she’s suspending her run for New York governor, will not seek reelection to Congress, and appears to be exiting…
 • Jason Weisberger
PlayStation 1 yule log
What could be more cosy this holiday season than a roaring yule log, crackling away in an emulated PlayStation 1. It’s the work of RetroGameRevival.
 • Rob Beschizza
Researchers discover profanity unlocks temporary superpowers
Science has confirmed what anyone who has ever sworn at a stuck jar lid already knows: yelling a well-timed expletive can make you stronger.
 • Jason Weisberger
The New Jersey amusement park so dangerous it bought the town extra ambulances
Between 1978 and 1996, a water park in northern New Jersey operated under a simple philosophy: let the guests control the action, and accept that some…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Why gift card fraud victims almost never get their money back
The AARP runs ads claiming that any request to pay by gift card is always a scam.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
New York’s school phone ban accidentally created a teen social revival
When New York State banned phones in public schools bell-to-bell this September, Governor Hochul pitched it as a way to improve classroom focus.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Melania Trump debuts a trailer that is very impressed with itself
Get ready for empty theaters.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, December 19, 2025
AI predictions, podcasts, and sheep detectives
 • Boing Boing
Google.ai predicts its own enshittification timeline
Google.ai is a new front-end for Google’s AI services.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
The Nerd Reich podcast investigates Silicon Valley’s slide into authoritarianism
Journalist Gil Duran’s podcast “The Nerd Reich“ does what tech journalism largely failed to do for two decades: treat Silicon Valley’s libertarian…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Lawmakers posture as if they’ll do something as the Trump Administration keeps delaying the Epstein files release
Threats of prosecution loom as Democratic lawmakers rattle sabers and the Trump DOJ ignores the deadline set by Congress to release the Epstein files.
 • Jason Weisberger
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