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Boing Boing, August 20, 2026

Hidden AI prompts, a basement Magic Kingdom, and four stolen Renaissance paintings

Boing Boing
Aug 20, 2026
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Happy Thursday! Today's stories: A plaintiff buried prompts in court filings, apparently hoping an AI judge was reading. An Illinois man recreated all six Magic Kingdom lands out of Lego in his basement. Thieves took four Renaissance paintings in a museum heist and dropped two in the street. An edible mushroom reportedly causes visions of tiny people, a…

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