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Fetterman struggles to answer reporters’ questions, stammers through defense of Iran strikes
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 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, March 3, 2026
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How to stop forgetting how to do things you’ve done a dozen times
Ellane W needed to watermark some PDFs.
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A consciousness on an old drive tells its awful story
A postdoctoral researcher finds an unindexed drive in an archive.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The Supreme Court won’t hear the AI copyright case, ending the last legal path to protect machine-made art
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Stephen Thaler’s case arguing that AI-generated artwork deserves copyright protection, according to The…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Three scientists who said no to Jeffrey Epstein explain how
In 2010, a mysterious emissary took 29-year-old MIT computer scientist Scott Aaronson to lunch and pitched him on funding for DNA cryptography research.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
China is testing a 280 mph bullet train while America can’t build a rail line between two cities
China is testing a new bullet train that cruises at 250 mph, with a top speed of 280 mph — making it the fastest conventional rail vehicle on the…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A US government iPhone hacking tool leaked to criminals
An estimated 42,000 iPhones have been compromised by a cybercriminal version of Coruna, a hacking toolkit that security researchers believe was…
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The Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting
The Mondrian/Holtzman Trust has a creative legal theory: a 147-year-old Spanish statute and a Spanish Supreme Court ruling should govern the copyright…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
GOP senator rips Noem for killing her dog and calling it leadership
“You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training,” Sen.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Donald Knuth, the godfather of computer science, says an AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks
Donald Knuth is 88 years old.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The Fallout: New Vegas remaster might be real after all
2010 RPG Fallout: New Vegas is never far from my thoughts, an affliction that many more people now share in thanks to Season 2 of the Fallout TV show…
 • Grant St. Clair
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