Boing Boing, April 15, 2026
Spawning worms, stubborn “no” bots, and a 1903 pitch for a 10,000-year clock
Happy Wednesday! Today we’ve got the palolo worm, whose split-in-half spawning doubles as a Pacific calendar, an open-source Polymarket bot that makes money by betting “no” on everything, and news that someone already pitched Bezos’ 10,000-year clock — back in 1903. Plus Orwell predicting AI slop novels in 1949, Johnny Somali sen…
