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Nancy Pelosi has no time for Mike Lindell’s hallway goblins
Some questions deserve answers. Some deserve a pillow over the microphone.
23 mins ago • Jason Weisberger
Could a Nabokov novel have been the ‘father of all hypertext demos’?
In 1969, IBM wanted to show off Ted Nelson’s early hypertext system at a conference, and Nelson secured permission to demonstrate it using an unlikely…
1 hr ago • Ellsworth Toohey
Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won’t ride in it
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is so ready for the future that some of the people who trained it reportedly will not get in the car.
2 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
Retro Pokémon-inspired indie game looks very cool, but not long for this world
Making a direct Pokémon-inspired game in 2026 is a pretty risky move. It’s common knowledge that Nintendo will defend even the smallest perceived attack…
2 hrs ago • Grant St. Clair
Until Dawn gets a surprise sequel announcement
This is where I would clown on Supermassive Games for taking more than a decade to craft any sort of follow-up to Until Dawn, the interactive 90s horror…
2 hrs ago • Grant St. Clair
Mike Mignola throws Uri Tupka to the devils
Mike Mignola’s wonderfully strange Lands Unknown universe keeps getting stranger.
2 hrs ago • Gareth Branwyn
The E Ink device that keeps you on schedule without the rabbit hole
Ask anyone who knows me: I’ve got the memory of a frigging goldfish and not in that happy Ted Lasso kinda way. Being able to pretend that I’m a…
2 hrs ago • Séamus Bellamy
Scientists use yeast from body of Ötzi the Iceman to make “very very good” sourdough
Yeast survived for millenia inside a mummy, and can still be used to make bread.
2 hrs ago • Gail P Sherman
“Tiny Grandma” brings joy to the world
As Grant St.
2 hrs ago • Jennifer Sandlin
Will the new season of Silo stack up to the first two in the series?
Over the past few years, Apple TV+ has churned out some of the best episodic science fiction television that we’ve seen in decades.
2 hrs ago • Séamus Bellamy
Amazon uses AI to invent products you can’t buy
Welcome to AI Slop Shopping
20 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains unveils “our pool is bigger than skyscrapers” chart
At last, water infrastructure for people who think “long” and “tall” are rival sports.
20 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
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