Boing Boing, May 8, 2026
Vanishing soda machines, Meta users, and bag handles
Happy Friday! A 1970s Coca-Cola machine that mysteriously stocked itself for two decades vanished from a Seattle sidewalk in 2018, and nobody has explained how. Carlo Rovelli says the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ is a recursive trick. And Meta’s daily user count just dropped for the first time ever, after $80 billion sunk into the Metaverse and rough…
