- newFAA orders nationwide ground stop: please do not call it "AI"
The Trump Administration is so invested in their silly names for things that during a frightening nationwide all-ground stop at our airports, Markwayne Mullin is policing language instead of explaining what the heck is going on.Neither the FAA nor t…
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- newGet MS Office 2024 Pro Plus for $48 for life while it's on sale
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the entire Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows for just $47.99 (reg. $249.99) while it's on sale.Upgrading your productivity suite when there's a good bargain is always a win, and Microsoft Office is sur…
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- newFlorida's new identity politics law cancels St. Patrick's Day parade
Using hatred to write laws, instead of thinking about the consequences, does have consequences.Florida's pudding-eating Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1134 to stop local governments from spending public money on "identity politics." The law prohibi…
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- newIranian LEGO propaganda videos just keep getting better
Post-election Iranian LEGO propaganda hits even harder.The Trump Administration has been bested by Iran's propaganda engine at every turn. These LEGO videos are just going to be legendary in history classes.Pig Donald is great.Previously:• Afte…
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- newKim Davis's karma bill: $565,285.91 for refusing a gay marriage in 2015 and then refusing to pay for it
Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has spent a decade refusing to pay the fines for standing behind her bigotry instead of doing her job. Now, she's evidently in hiding.The fee began at $50,000 for refusing a gay marriage. Her decade of appeals…
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- newDarth Vader's lightsaber sells for a record $4.875 million
Darth Vader's hero dueling lightsaber that was used in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi sold for $4.875 million. It's the highest price ever paid for a Star Wars item at an auction. Experts screen-matched the lightsaber to the same pr…
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- newJames Hoffmann on the coffee industry's origin videos: "your pity is valueless"
There are two kinds of coffee origin videos, and in this report straight from Peru, coffee YouTube's biggest star, James Hoffmann, has a problem with both of them. One typical video is romantic: the steep hill, the birds, the sun offer a story that…
- 5 hours ago 13 Nov 26, 12:45pm -
- newPerson Do Thing: make friends guess a word using only 34 simple words
My friend Uri Bram created a party guessing game called Person Do Thing. To play, you draw a card from a deck with a "target word" on it. No one else can see the word. You have to try to get the group to guess the word using only 34 simple words. —…
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- newA dying coral brushed a healthy one in a lab tank. It came back to life
Coral reefs are dying from rising ocean temperatures. They lose their color and die. A serendipitous event in a Stanford lab may have given scientists a way to save them.In a tank at the Hopkins Marine Station, a healthy coral fell onto a bleached o…
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- newRyan Heshka's pulp-horror paintings open tonight in Seattle
Painter Ryan Heshka's terrific mini-exhibition, Gate Kreepers, is coming up at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle.Gate Kreepers runs November 14 to December 5. Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 6–9 p.m. Roq La Rue, 117 W Denny Way #217, Seattle.…
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