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Granta published a likely AI-written story as a prize finalist
Ethan Mollick, the Wharton professor who studies AI adoption, ran “The Serpent in the Grove“ through Pangram — an AI-detection tool that claims 99…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tesla Cybertruck owner, intending to test “wade mode,” learns about “sink mode”
“Numerous water safety violations” is a spectacular phrase when discussing a pickup truck.
 • Jason Weisberger
Greenlanders offer Trump envoy the universally understood finger gesture for “no to annexation”
In what appears to have been a pilot program for “colonialism, but make it weirdly condescending,” Trump emissary Jeff Landry reportedly tried to win…
 • Jason Weisberger
The 1960 blob that gave all mystery blobs their name
In August 1960, something washed ashore on a remote beach in western Tasmania, about two miles north of the Interview River.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
AI’s giant rural job machine mostly appears to manufacture hype
The AI boom has discovered rural America, where struggling towns are being promised salvation in the form of enormous data centers, industrial temples…
 • Jason Weisberger
The UK has formally declared Badger Badger Badger worthy of preservation
This is either a triumph of digital preservation or compelling evidence that even the archivists have given up.
 • Jason Weisberger
Fake courtesy machine automates the modern art of insincere politeness
There’s something weirdly comforting about a machine that openly admits what most modern social interaction quietly is: repetitive, performative…
 • Jason Weisberger
Dave Baker’s “Halloween Boy” resurrects pulp adventure comics
Dave Baker‘s Halloween Boy Vol.
 • Gareth Branwyn
Surprise, there’s another gaming price hike
If you’re sick of reading this, imagine how sick I am of writing it — to say nothing of the people who actually have to pay for it.
 • Grant St. Clair
The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship flunks health inspection
Fruit flies, mold, and refrigeration failures, oh my!
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Bear-deterring “Monster Wolves”sold out in Japan
Japan has a growing bear problem, and one deterrent is so popular that it has sold out.
 • Gail P Sherman
Dr. Pompeii, Dr. Pompeii! Emergency! Come right away!
Even ancient doctors occasionally lost patients to weather-related scheduling conflicts.
 • Jason Weisberger
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