Boing Boing, September 30, 2025
Journalist's disappearing act, AI soap stars, and AOL's final screech
Happy Tuesday! Today’s stories feature AOL’s quiet farewell to dial-up internet after nearly 30 years, as the final modem emits its last screech today. Meanwhile, PBS finds its new Reading Rainbow host in viral TikTok sensation Mychal the Librarian, and a baffling case of kidnapping-by-burial as a Texas man forces a driver to dig…
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