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MAGA Mike fact-checks the Pope on Jesus
When your argument relies on convincing the Pope that Jesus was good with the warring on one another, you are probably losing that argument.
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Jason Weisberger
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Boing Boing, April 15, 2026
Spawning worms, stubborn “no” bots, and a 1903 pitch for a 10,000-year clock
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Boing Boing
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What if your calendar ran on a worm that splits itself in half?
Once or twice a year, on reefs across Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Timor-Leste, and other islands of the southwestern Pacific,…
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Your odds of finding a 100-year-old message in a bottle: 1 in 8 million
With 8 billion people on Earth, mathematician Kevin Burke calculates that any one person’s chances of stumbling across a century-old message in a bottle…
15 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Orwell predicted the AI slop novel in 1949
Historian Laura Beers, who is part of the Bartz v.
15 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Iran’s most effective weapon might be AI karaoke
The most expensive military in human history, humbled by engagement metrics.
15 hrs ago
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Jason Weisberger
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Someone already pitched Bezos’ 10,000-year clock — in 1903
In the November 1903 issue of The Strand, a physician named David Watsu laid out a 150-foot pyramid for Hyde Park, faced in granite or terra-cotta, with…
17 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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A piece of the Eiffel Tower’s original staircase is going to auction
An unidentified French businessman has been storing a 9-foot section of the Eiffel Tower’s original spiral staircase for more than four decades.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Why I’m avoiding Amazon’s Good Omens finale
A couple of years ago, serious allegations from the appropriately named podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman were backed up by Rolling…
17 hrs ago
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Séamus Bellamy
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Despite it all, Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens to get one more season
Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite writers ever.
17 hrs ago
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Grant St. Clair
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Catfishing is the Wikipedia guessing game I can’t stop playing
You may remember the Wikipedia gacha game we posted about a while back, which turns the Internet’s biggest database into a collectible card game in an…
17 hrs ago
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Grant St. Clair
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Adobe subscribers are now unpaid trainers for Firefly AI
The enshittification of Adobe Creative Suite may be complete.
17 hrs ago
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Séamus Bellamy
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