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Extended trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
Chris Nolan may be done making Batman movies, but you could be mistaken for thinking otherwise with how dark, gritty and full of black armor his…
 • Grant St. Clair
Boing Boing, May 5, 2026
LLM brains, psilocybin scans, Steam Controller sold out
 • Boing Boing
The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model
Are humans just LLMs in meat suits?
 • Mark Frauenfelder
One psilocybin dose may reshape brain wiring a month later
A new paper in Nature Communications, covered by Ian Sample at the Guardian, claims a single 25mg dose may leave behind anatomical changes in the wiring…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
After Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again
This Friday, May 8, Meta will turn off end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Stunning new scans reveal RMS Titanic debris field in eerie detail
Newly released 3D scans of the RMS Titanic wreck site reveal a sprawling debris field where everything from delicate tableware to massive machinery lies…
 • Jason Weisberger
When your yacht is too big for Monaco, Italy, and reality
Jeff Bezos may be looking to unload his record-setting sailing yacht Koru after discovering that a 417-foot floating monument to excess is…
 • Jason Weisberger
This destroyed Nintendo 3DS restoration is supernaturally relaxing
A nearly destroyed Nintendo 3DS gets a meticulous second life in this restoration video, and watching it is ASMR-level satisfying.
 • Grant St. Clair
HowToBasic goes vegan with extremely cursed burger recipe
I never thought I’d see the day when HowToBasic, the unhinged YouTube chef most famous for adding an artery-clogging amount of raw eggs to the…
 • Grant St. Clair
Steam Controller launches at $100, sells out in under an hour
Rejoice!
 • Grant St. Clair
Cardboard Wars is a loving parody of Star Wars all in cardboard
Cardboard Wars is the best fan-made Star Wars creation since Troops. The 52-minute Star Wars parody on YouTube is a worthy successor to Spaceballs and…
 • Gail P Sherman
Trees that refused to be stopped by brick walls and cracks
This collection of photos celebrates trees growing on the sides of buildings, through small cracks, and in one case, straight out of a narrow slit in a…
 • Popkin
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