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Boing Boing, March 25, 2026
A lost robot, a suspicious fortune, and a grandmother’s Wikipedia page
 • Boing Boing
This guy used AI to document his grandmother’s life on a personal Wikipedia and now you can, too
After the pandemic, Jeremy, the creator of whoami.wiki, visited his grandmother and found a cupboard stuffed with 1,351 loose photographs spanning…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A clown fought a robot in 1897, and we can finally watch it
A 45-second film from 1897 — the earliest known cinematic depiction of a robot-like figure — has been rediscovered after being lost for over a century.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Unknown traders made a fortune shorting oil 15 minutes before Trump reversed Iran threat
Between 10:49 and 10:50 AM GMT on Tuesday, 734 oil futures contracts changed hands.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The autism spectrum has 39 dimensions, and every profile is unique
When people say “autism spectrum,” most picture a straight line — “a little autistic” on one end, “very autistic” on the other.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Second Duggar brother faces criminal charges involving children
Joseph Duggar — of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” the reality show about a large fundamentalist Christian family — was arrested Wednesday in Tontitown…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Toyota ad offers critical purchase information
If you are looking for a Toyota that can transport a fully grown male, look no further than Toyota Del Rio’s advertising.
 • Jason Weisberger
Thieves steal Sea Scouts sailboat, leave worse one behind
Worse things happen at sea
 • Jason Weisberger
Meadow is a small square smartphone with a few useful apps
The Meadow is a square smartphone, compact but not tiny, with good apps such as music, photos, maps and ride-hailing, but no evil apps such as social…
 • Rob Beschizza
Iran refuses to deal with Kushner and Witkoff any longer
Reports through Pakistani officials attempting to broker a deal between the US/Israel and Iran have reported that the Iranians refuse to waste more time…
 • Jason Weisberger
Feds threaten to pull funding unless SJSU bans trans athlete policy
Trump’s Department of Education is threatening to yank federal funding from San José State University unless it rewrites its policies to exclude…
 • Jason Weisberger
OpenAI shutters Sora, continues to burn money
OpenAI has burnt Sora, its AI TikTok clone, in the name of “focus”, and is back to fundraising, having lost Disney in the process.
 • Jason Weisberger
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