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Trump makes the dead endorse his war
Perhaps they also endorsed his crypto-credit card scam.
 • Jason Weisberger
A decade of cult podcast episodes vanished, then reappeared online
By Ferdinando Buscema
Apple’s upcoming leasing program may come with a big caveat
A program rumored to launch as soon as next week will allow customers to lease Apple hardware, but financing companies can lock down those devices for…
 • Gail P Sherman
Enter Rachel Lichtman’s groovy, shag-carpeted world of Golden Sands
I just discovered, through Frank Santopadre’s podcast Fun for All Ages, the radio and television universe of artist Rachel Lichtman’s imagined…
 • Ruben Bolling
Tom the Dancing Bug: Follow Little Donald Trump’s Odyssey
Tom the Dancing Bug: Follow Little Donald Trump’s Odyssey
 • Ruben Bolling
10-person passenger brawl sends EasyJet flight back to airport
Budget carrier EasyJet sent a Liverpool-bound flight back to Tenerife after a fight broke out among the 186 passengers aboard on Tuesday evening.
 • Rob Beschizza
Products are getting worse on purpose
Worse on Purpose is a website about the decline in product quality and the forces driving it, ranging from mundane cost-cutting to enshittification.
 • Rob Beschizza
A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball
On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground recorded a single subatomic particle arriving…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Frozen 2 should be rated R
Designer and writer Matt Webb has a bone to pick with the movie ratings board.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Germany told parents to destroy this talking doll
In 2014, a talking doll named My Friend Cayla was voted Innovative Toy of the Year.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop
AI companies are facing a data problem of their own making: the open web is clogged with AI-generated text, and training new models on that sludge…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Open-source firmware and software for e-readers
FreeInk is an open-source ecosystem for e-ink readers, aiming to replace locked-down software and walled gardens with a stack that includes everything…
 • Rob Beschizza
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