Boing Boing, May 19, 2026

AI fakery, sinking Cybertrucks, ancient mystery blobs

Happy Tuesday! A Wharton professor caught Granta publishing what appears to be an AI-written prize finalist, a Cybertruck owner discovered that ‘wade mode’ is closely related to ‘sink mode,’ and a 20-foot blob that washed up in Tasmania in 1960 turned out to be a whale — 21 years after the fact. Plus a Roman doctor preserved by Vesuvius, and bear-deterr…