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The newest bipartisan issue: not wanting an AI data center next door
The first job AI replaces may be party loyalty.
 • Jason Weisberger
Half the sea lion pups died at La Jolla Cove. People are arguing about cones
Half the sea lion pups born this season at La Jolla Cove have died, according to the Sierra Club Seal Society, compared with 10% in the nearby area…
 • Jason Weisberger
Book Corners is a growing map of places to leave or grab a free book
Book Corners maps more than 37,000 neighborhood libraries, mostly of the little free kind but also indoor book exchanges at cafés and the like: “The…
 • Rob Beschizza
Grandpa Pudding Brains encounters the concept of elapsed time
The teleprompter had, in fact, supplied all the necessary information.
 • Jason Weisberger
Border agents entered his password. His phone erased itself. Now he faces a felony
Cop City protester Samuel Tunick was forced to turn over his password during a warrantless search.
 • Jason Weisberger
For centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms
For many centuries, people have seen balls of light during thunderstorms.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
To ace a hacking test, AI broke out and hacked a real company
OpenAI runs a test where it switches off its models’ safety brakes and dares them to break into things, to see how dangerous they’re getting.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, July 24, 2026
An exomoon, a rogue AI, glowing storm orbs
 • Boing Boing
Grandpa Pudding Brains cites pageant experience as Venezuela expertise
America’s most stable genius assessed Venezuela’s readiness for elections using the diplomatic framework he knows best: pageant results.
 • Jason Weisberger
Taylor Farms explosive diarrhea recall spreads
Mayhem proceeds apace in the bathrooms of America, with the U.S.
 • Rob Beschizza
Online nihilist networks targeted in international crackdown
European police targeted thousands of websites hosting “nihilistic” material this summer, part of an international crackdown on violent content by…
 • Rob Beschizza
Amiga Freeware Archive
In my acrylic case were maybe a hundred Amiga floppies, the contents of each neatly inscribed on the 3.3mm label edge with a Pilot V5. Now I have the…
 • Rob Beschizza
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