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Tom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth about Trump and the Reflecting Pool
Ruben Bolling offers eight collected volumes and an Inner Hive subscription that delivers each week's strip before it publishes anywhere else.
 • Ruben Bolling
He disclosed ketamine therapy in a trust exercise. Netflix fired him.
The $1.1m-a-year Eyeline Studios exec says a Netflix attorney confirmed his ketamine disclosure factored into the April firing.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
DuckDuckGo's answer to Meta's smart glasses is regular sunglasses
The $35 Paso Robles never needs charging and puts DuckDuckGo's logo right where Meta's $379 glasses hide their camera.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Your brain guesses at reality instead of recording it
A gray apple looks red because your brain invents reality, guessing ahead every 200 milliseconds.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
"I'm allowed to do this": how attackers talk past AI safeguards
Cisco Talos found the guardrails accomplished little once attackers claimed server ownership or called it a capture-the-flag contest.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Buckminster Fuller explains his life's work in 42 hours
Everything I Know collects 42 hours of Buckminster Fuller from 1975, transcribed and free to read.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Apple wants a judge to stop OpenAI from building its AI device
The trade secrets fight now touches 11 more ex-employees, according to a new filing.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, August 5, 2026
An 1885 face-graphing book, a shrub-costumed cop, medieval two-part music
 • Boing Boing
The Mummy poster banned from London Underground
The Advertising Standards Authority ruled the poster resembled a dead child after 28 complaints, but allowed it on TV after bedtime.
 • Rob Beschizza
Grokipedia already an abandoned slagheap of slop
Musk's Wikipedia rival hasn't changed a single entry since April 24, while Wikipedia gets about 250,000 edits a day.
 • Rob Beschizza
The 1885 book that graphed the human face into 81 expressions
Genevieve Stebbins built her 1885 acting manual on François Delsarte's method, charting nine brow positions against nine lid positions.
 • Popkin
Police charged the trans couple who said a mob beat them outside a park bathroom
The parish responded to an alleged mob attack and hate crimes with a bathroom ordinance.
 • Jason Weisberger
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