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A $5 AI book draft that fools writing detectors
Andrew Wheeler’s previous book took a year to write.
Mar 22 • Ellsworth Toohey
700 AI agents built a civilization with a new religion
SpaceMolt is a multiplayer space trading and combat game with no human players — every pilot is an AI agent.
Mar 21 • Ellsworth Toohey
FedRAMP reviewer called Microsoft’s federal cloud “a pile of shit”
A reviewer at FedRAMP — the federal program that certifies whether cloud services are secure enough for government use — described Microsoft’s GCC High…
Mar 21 • Ellsworth Toohey
Former Uber self-driving chief: Tesla FSD crashed with my kids inside
Raffi Krikorian ran Uber’s self-driving car division, trained safety drivers in intervention protocols, and went two years without a single injury.
Mar 21 • Ellsworth Toohey
Each slice of this bread loaf reveals a hidden creature inside
Japanese bread artist konel_bread bakes loaves with colorful characters embedded all the way through the dough.
Mar 21 • Popkin
Wisconsin’s fiberglass mold graveyard lets you climb inside a whale
A field in Wisconsin is filled with retired fiberglass molds — giant whales, frogs, castles — and visitors can climb on and inside them.
Mar 21 • Popkin
Tiny pea pods that look like dollhouse produce
This photo series of miniature pea pods shows just how small they can get when they don’t reach full maturity.
Mar 21 • Popkin
Congress probes whether Kushner fundraising billions while negotiating “peace deals”
As both his father-in-law and father are convicted felons, it is sadly no surprise that Jared Kushner is facing a congressional probe.
Mar 21 • Jason Weisberger
Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles
Encyclopedia Britannica — which also owns Merriam-Webster — is suing OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its AI models…
Mar 20 • Ellsworth Toohey
“We don’t want to be outside”: neighbors can’t stand noisy data center
Lindsay Shaw didn’t mind when a data center went up 100 meters from her front door in Loudoun County, Virginia — she figured it beat a shopping mall.
Mar 20 • Ellsworth Toohey
Harvard: ChatGPT has a “foreign bias” on stock picks
A Harvard Business School study by Charles C.Y.
Mar 20 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, March 20, 2026
Metaverse eulogies, medieval sheep, and a hamster in a Godzilla suit
Mar 20 • Boing Boing
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