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Boing Boing, August 19, 2025
Supercomputer brains, AI's expensive flop, and a church on the move
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Boing Boing
Angry crowd chants "Shame!" while Rep. Stefanik flees from stage (video)
MAGA Rep.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Vegas learns tourists prefer countries that don't threaten them
Apparently, threatening to turn Canada into America's attic and treating Mexico like a hotbed of rapists and drug lords isn't great for tourism.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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FBI's Bongino gets unwanted partner after public meltdown
As Fox News reported Monday, FBI deputy director Dan Bongino — who threw a public tantrum over the Trump administration's handling of Epstein files …
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Ellsworth Toohey
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New app lets couples charge admission fees to their wedding
Why send boring old wedding invitations when you can include invoices in the envelope?
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Mark Frauenfelder
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Stanford creates brain implant that decodes thoughts, requires mental password
Scientists have created a brain implant that can decode a person's inner thoughts with 74% accuracy, but only after they mentally "speak" a personalized…
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Study finds 95% of AI pilot projects failed to generate significant revenue
A report published by MIT's Decentralized AI project found that 95% of the generative AI programs at U.S.
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Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
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Judges block West Texas A&M's ban on drag shows
West Texas A&M University, a public college in the Lone Star state, banned drag performances in 2023. The Fifth Circuit court has now blocked the ban…
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Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
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What it takes to move a church 3 miles
You can watch live today as Kiruna, in the north of Sweden, moves a 35m-tall, 672-tonne (741 U.S.
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Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
Park ranger fired over trans pride flag on El Capitan
Shannon "SJ" Joslin, a ranger and biologist at Yosemite National Park, was fired August 12 after they "failed to demonstrate acceptable conduct" by…
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Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
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The Good Liars hit Washington DC
With Trump acting on every impulse his melting brain provides him with, the militarized takeover of Washington DC that has seen hordes of armed federal…
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Grant St. Clair
Watch Chuck Jones' 1965 Oscar-winning cartoon about a lovesick like and a dallying dot
In 1965 animator Chuck Jones adapted a short picture book called The Dot and The Line: a romance in lower mathematics as a 9-minute cartoon.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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