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Boing Boing, June 4, 2026

Iceman yeast sourdough and a wasp-hijacking beetle

60 mins ago • Boing Boing

Grandpa Pudding Brains goes chasing waterfalls

Please stick to the rivers and the delusions you’re used to.

4 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom

Nguyễn Thành Nam studied chemistry in France, returned to Vietnam, and, in 1963, founded a religion centered on the coconut.

4 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Robo-party clown ignores Asimov’s first law of robotics

This clown was clearly a big hit, or rather, a kick!

8 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

AI beat law professors in 75% of blind matchups, Stanford finds

A Stanford Law study put AI tutors up against actual law professors, and the machines won.

9 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Trump’s war in Iran cancels summer vacation

Turns out summer travel is also downstream from bad decisions.

9 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Nancy Pelosi has no time for Mike Lindell’s hallway goblins

Some questions deserve answers. Some deserve a pillow over the microphone.

10 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Could a Nabokov novel have been the ‘father of all hypertext demos’?

In 1969, IBM wanted to show off Ted Nelson’s early hypertext system at a conference, and Nelson secured permission to demonstrate it using an unlikely…

10 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won’t ride in it

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is so ready for the future that some of the people who trained it reportedly will not get in the car.

11 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Retro Pokémon-inspired indie game looks very cool, but not long for this world

Making a direct Pokémon-inspired game in 2026 is a pretty risky move. It’s common knowledge that Nintendo will defend even the smallest perceived attack…

11 hrs ago • Grant St. Clair

Until Dawn gets a surprise sequel announcement

This is where I would clown on Supermassive Games for taking more than a decade to craft any sort of follow-up to Until Dawn, the interactive 90s horror…

11 hrs ago • Grant St. Clair

Mike Mignola throws Uri Tupka to the devils

Mike Mignola’s wonderfully strange Lands Unknown universe keeps getting stranger.

11 hrs ago • Gareth Branwyn

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