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Acupuncture hits different in Nebraska
I am not sure who failed harder, the AI used to create the image, or the social media manager who let it out into the wild:
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he’s bigger than Elvis
Well, the carnival found its one-man sideshow.
 • Jason Weisberger
Backrooms is a blockbuster
A wild $35m Friday night haul put Kane Parsons’ Backrooms on track for a $75m weekend (including Thursday’s $10m preview take)—far more than what was…
 • Rob Beschizza
Stars ditch Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert series after they realize he’s behind it
The Freedom 250 concert series, pitched as a “Great American State Fair” to take place on the National Mall over 16 days in July, looks like an…
 • Rob Beschizza
Tiny E-ink note-taking gadget
Paul Lagier built a tiny note-taking device with an e-ink display, a couple of buttons, and no significant functionality except recording what you say…
 • Rob Beschizza
Site tracks significant U.S. layoffs
The US Layoffs Tracker is updated daily with the latest disclosures under the WARN Act, which requires employers with 100 or more workers to give 60…
 • Rob Beschizza
A murderer’s daughter listened to a podcast about her dad and got physically sick
In January 2025, a woman who writes under the byline Heather Jane got a Google Alert: CBC had a new podcast, Sea of Lies, about her father.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
This weekend’s blue moon is also a micromoon (but won’t be blue and isn’t smaller)
This weekend’s Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon’s apogee, the furthest point from Earth in…
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, May 29, 2026
Tooth regrowth trial, $500M AI bill, Trump renaming
 • Boing Boing
RFK Jr.’s “just a rash” disease filled Texas hospital beds
The disease did not get nicer while we were ignoring it.
 • Jason Weisberger
Her wedding necklace cost $75,000. She died guarding a worthless mine
In March 1935, Sue Bonnie pushed through three feet of snow to her friend’s cabin on Fryer Hill outside Leadville, Colorado.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Judge orders Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center
President Trump had his name added to the John F.
 • Rob Beschizza
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