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AI’s giant rural job machine mostly appears to manufacture hype
The AI boom has discovered rural America, where struggling towns are being promised salvation in the form of enormous data centers, industrial temples…
 • Jason Weisberger
The UK has formally declared Badger Badger Badger worthy of preservation
This is either a triumph of digital preservation or compelling evidence that even the archivists have given up.
 • Jason Weisberger
Fake courtesy machine automates the modern art of insincere politeness
There’s something weirdly comforting about a machine that openly admits what most modern social interaction quietly is: repetitive, performative…
 • Jason Weisberger
Dave Baker’s “Halloween Boy” resurrects pulp adventure comics
Dave Baker‘s Halloween Boy Vol.
 • Gareth Branwyn
Surprise, there’s another gaming price hike
If you’re sick of reading this, imagine how sick I am of writing it — to say nothing of the people who actually have to pay for it.
 • Grant St. Clair
The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship flunks health inspection
Fruit flies, mold, and refrigeration failures, oh my!
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Bear-deterring “Monster Wolves”sold out in Japan
Japan has a growing bear problem, and one deterrent is so popular that it has sold out.
 • Gail P Sherman
Dr. Pompeii, Dr. Pompeii! Emergency! Come right away!
Even ancient doctors occasionally lost patients to weather-related scheduling conflicts.
 • Jason Weisberger
JD Vance attacks “crazy leadership in Washington” from his convenient seat inside Washington leadership
Somewhere, irony quietly packed a bag and left the country.
 • Jason Weisberger
Drew Friedman’s new Mel Brooks portrait marks the comedian’s 100th birthday
Drew Friedman has released a limited edition fine art print of Mel Brooks, hand-numbered and signed in a run of just 20, to mark Brooks’s 100th birthday…
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Two-thirds of US doctors now ask an AI chatbot for treatment advice
About 650,000 American physicians — roughly two-thirds of the country’s doctors — now use a chatbot called OpenEvidence to help decide how to treat…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tiny conspiracy notes keep turning up inside sealed groceries in Pennsylvania
Someone has been folding 2-by-3-inch slips of paper into sealed packages of Lucky Charms, Lindt chocolate, Milk Duds, Tylenol, and Velveeta Skillets…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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