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Experts warn men not to turn scrotums into septic DIY water balloons
Doctors are pleading with men to stop injecting assorted fluids into their testicles for social-media masculinity cred, which feels like the sort of…
 • Jason Weisberger
Waymo’s autonomous taxis remain strangely drawn to floodwater
Somewhere inside the neural net is apparently a very determined salmon.
 • Jason Weisberger
Democrats finally release 2024 autopsy, somehow forget to examine the body
After months of treating its 2024 election autopsy like the Ark of the Covenant, the Democratic National Committee has finally released the document…
 • Jason Weisberger
Police sue to stop Trump’s apparent Jan. 6 loyalty rewards scheme
Nothing says law-and-order presidency like a possible rebate program for political violence.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump’s ghoul boasts of massive imaginary fan club during Fox News masculinity pageant
The truly confident man, as we all know, must periodically explain his confidence to Jesse Watters
 • Jason Weisberger
LA’s Tesla road rager gets 7 years after taking his act to Hawaii
The baffling part isn’t that he did it again; it’s that he was in a position to.
 • Jason Weisberger
Would-be Pokémon Professor sues Nintendo for denying him the status
Kyle Owens, 34, should by rights be recognized as a Pokémon Professor, a status conferred by Nintendo to knowledgeable experts of the game franchise…
 • Rob Beschizza
Small potatoes: Oregon county backs away from Greater Idaho fantasy
The movement insists it’s undeterred, which is exactly what movements with no viable path forward tend to say.
 • Jason Weisberger
16 bytes of code generate this video and the music in it
Linus Akesson’s A Mind is Born, a chiptune and graphic demo generated by just 256 bytes of code, is famous for its incredible brevity and spookily good…
 • Rob Beschizza
Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo
Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It’s an…
 • Rob Beschizza
Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs are making a Lord of the Rings game
Although its predecessor didn’t exactly grip me, sprawling medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance II proved to be one of my favorite games of the 2020s.
 • Grant St. Clair
Quantic Dream’s inexplicable live service hero shooter dies an ignominious death
Marathon may not have turned out to be the next Concord, but Spellcasters Chronicles might now have a decent claim to the title.
 • Grant St. Clair
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