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Boing Boing, March 13, 2026
AI doubts, lost Doctor Who, and incense between your toes
 • Mark Frauenfelder
BuzzFeed doubts it can stay in business after pivot to AI
As 2023 beckoned, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti shut down the site’s Pulitzer prize-winning newsroom, then turned on ChatGPT, and soon announced that AI…
 • Rob Beschizza
Whiskey Pete admits to committing war crimes
“No quarter” literally means refusing to take prisoners and executing everyone instead.
 • Jason Weisberger
Democrats shockingly do not cave to Republican demands on DHS
The Senate once again failed to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, with the measure falling 51-46, well short of the 60 votes…
 • Jason Weisberger
Lawsuit claims protein bars have nearly twice the claimed calories
Trying to shed pounds scoffing those David Protein bars stacked at your local Target?
 • Rob Beschizza
Elon Musk admits xAI “was not built right” as co-founders flee
It would appear Elon’s playing shell games, burying Twitter’s debt in xAI, and xAI’s problems in SpaceX right before its IPO are not encouraging his…
 • Jason Weisberger
Roblox will now have AI politely rewrite your trash talk
Roblox is rolling out a new AI system that doesn’t just block profanity in chat: it rewrites it.
 • Jason Weisberger
Watch Cart Narcs’ glorious year of lazybones getting busted
Cart Narcs is a fantastic YouTube channel showcasing lazy people reacting when called out.
 • Jason Weisberger
From carbon sequestration to metal filtering, fungi do the planet’s heavy lifting
About 13 billion tons of CO2 disappear underground each year, pulled down by mycorrhizal fungi — a volume equal to roughly a third of annual fossil fuel…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Your willingness to look stupid determines the quality of your creative output
Sharif Shameem’s friend Aadil was standing in a Whole Foods trying to write something clever on a birthday cake.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Pentagon insists on clouding the number of injured and killed US service people
Whiskey Pete doesn’t want to use the very clear statistics of Wounded in Action or Killed in Action; he wants to find clarity through doublespeak.
 • Jason Weisberger
Two lost Doctor Who episodes found in a dead collector’s home videos
Peter Purves, 87, was lured to the Phoenix Cinema in Leicester under false pretenses.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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