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How one climber’s false summit claim helped turn K2 into a graveyard
High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don’t leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation.
 • Jason Weisberger
Federal judges confirm California voters knew exactly what they were doing
A federal court has ruled that California’s new congressional maps are legal
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, January 14, 2026
FBI raids reporter's home, ICE violence escalates, and Trump's bizarre throat-clearing
 • Boing Boing
Man spent 40 years perfecting a lettuce cigarette
In 1959, a colleague challenged New Jersey pharmacist Puzant Torigian to make a nicotine-free cigarette.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
DHS agent permanently blinds 21-year-old protester
A 21-year-old protester will never see out of his left eye again after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a “nonlethal” round into his face…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Ohio’s pink chocolate silos never held any chocolate
Drivers on Interstate 480 can’t miss the playful trio of hot-pink towers rising from the Malley’s Chocolates complex in Brook Park, Ohio.
 • Popkin
These neon mushrooms look like underwater coral
Meet the clavarioid fungi, better known as coral fungi.
 • Popkin
This subreddit is full of beautifully worn-out objects
Browsing r/Wellworn will fill your screen with delightfully used items.
 • Popkin
Matt Storer makes parodies about wizards and his hair
And before you get mad, he’s literally written an entire song about his hair’s state of distress.
 • Grant St. Clair
Bandcamp bans AI-generated music, unlike Spotify’s slop-filled playlists
If it wasn’t the ICE recruitment ads that drove you off Spotify, it was probably the deluge of AI slop pushed by the platform.
 • Grant St. Clair
“Are you dead?” app goes viral in China with 10 million downloads
An app that asks “Are you dead?” went viral in China and hit the top of Apple’s App Store with over 10 million downloads.
 • Gail P Sherman
MTV Rewind is a searchable archive of over 33,000 music videos from the channel’s glory days
Before it became a dumping ground for terrible reality TV, MTV was a cultural phenomenon.
 • Séamus Bellamy
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