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The only curse on Venice’s cursed island is us
Poveglia was not man-made. Its bad vibes were.
 • Jason Weisberger
A paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist dictator who sealed Albania off from most of the world, was sure enemies could strike at any moment — “like the snake that…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
A spite house is a building put up to punish someone — by blocking a neighbor’s light, ruining a view, or planting a permanent monument to a grudge in…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Latent Space as a New Medium
AI models contain a vast, compressed map that they pull every answer and image out of.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Smearing yogurt on your windows can cool a house by 6 degrees
When a heatwave hits the UK, where almost no homes have air conditioning, staying cool takes improvisation.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Chipotle Mexican Grill actually opening a restaurant in Mexico
Chipotle Mexican Grill is not a Mexican company: the U.S.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, July 13, 2026
From medieval swears to sugar in deep space
 • Boing Boing
A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
A tick bite can make you become allergic to hamburgers.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1999, a hoaxter claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
In 1995, a Dutch television repairman named Jan Sloot claimed he had cracked something impossible: a way to store an entire feature film in a single…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
Juliane Koepcke survived a plane breaking apart at 10,000 feet on Christmas Eve, woke up alone in the Peruvian Amazon, and then had to do the only thing…
 • Jason Weisberger
Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
The mountain marked him dead. He disagreed.
 • Jason Weisberger
CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
Streaming’s TOS somehow makes “everything” feel like nothing.
 • Jason Weisberger
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