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Boy George's Pro-Israel AI Slop Reggae Song was Promotional Stunt for Playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar
Manager Paul Kemsley announced on Instagram that the singer will no longer appear in the West End production after releasing "We Will Dance Again.
 • Rob Beschizza
Unpublished novel's $2.4m deal pulled over AI concerns
Foreign rights agent Sandy Hodgman withdrew the Minotaur/Macmillan manuscript after publishers couldn't authenticate how the writing evolved.
 • Rob Beschizza
YouTube crackles down on ASMR content
Six creators including ItsBunniiASMR, whose channel had 227,000 subscribers, were terminated for violating sex and nudity policies.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, July 31, 2026
Facial-recognition bouncers, stolen cannonballs, and honeycomb polygons on Mars
 • Boing Boing

July 2026

Spacecraft sent on rescue mission now spinning out of control
Katalyst's LINK craft lost two of three reaction wheels while trying to boost NASA's Swift Observatory into a stable orbit.
 • Gail P Sherman
Fall asleep to monotonous Wikipedia entries with this podcast
Recent episodes cover Middle-earth, French fries, and concrete, read slowly in a soft monotone with ads only at the start.
 • Gail P Sherman
The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years
Each flower opens twice, once female and once male, and a gene called SDMYB has controlled the timing for the same span.
 • Jason Weisberger
DOJ admits the Reflecting Pool "vandal" was the contractor
Prosecutors have asked to dismiss Hearn’s felony case without prejudice after their original vandalism account collapsed.
 • Jason Weisberger
This gun lesson skipped directly to the consequences
A 21-year-old Nebraska man shot himself in the leg while filming a firearms demonstration outside a Lincoln Scheels store on Thursday.
 • Jason Weisberger
A $12 Chico's shirt enters the Mitch McConnell proof-of-life mystery
Skeptics questioned whether billionaire Elaine Chao would wear the budget blouse in the July 26 photo, with one friend saying she would rather die.
 • Jason Weisberger
Preacher who loves a "captive audience" meets the person running the flight
Whitney Lynn called it "spiritual warfare" when a flight attendant told her to grab her bags and get off the plane.
 • Jason Weisberger
Patronscan's "ultimate bouncer" never forgets a face in San Francisco's gay bars
Three Castro bars including Mix and Badlands now scan IDs and store patron data for up to five years, prompting EFF legal concerns.
 • Rob Beschizza
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