- newJapan's Daiso is like a dollar store, except a thousand times better
Whenever I go to Japan, I like to shop at Daiso. It's kind of like a dollar store in the U.S., except the stuff is good.It was started by Hirotake Yano, who was born in Beijing in 1943. He had an interesting background. — Read the rest The post J…
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- newGood Trailcams collects the animal kingdom's most candid moments
It's been a little while since I've sat down and written about a hyperspecific corner of the Internet that brings me joy. Whether that's because I haven't been looking too hard or because the Internet is slowly being drained of joy is anyone's guess.…
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- newAI-written Disney guidebooks send tourists to rides that don't exist
An underground monorail, non-existent bizarrely skinny killer whales, directions to extinct attractions, guide maps that bear no resemblance to reality. AI-generated Disney theme park guide books are flooding the market, filled with hallucinated slop…
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- newTom the Dancing Bug: A Simpsonian look at Trump, Putin, and Musk!
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH a Simpsonian Donald Trump brings his friend Musky the Clown to meet his boss, Mr. Putin-"Back in 2012 Bolling — noting that the comic was more widely read than ever yet generating less money than ever — sta…
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- newI hate prediction markets, but I keep peeking at this midterm tracker
I have little faith in polls, and I hate prediction markets, but I can't help peeking at PressAudit's 2026 midterm tracker.The founder, Paul Renshaw, created this midterms page that shows prediction market odds from Polymarket and Kalshi on who is l…
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- newA book of Gothic horror stories designed as a nine-room boarding house
One of my favorite publishers of beautiful books, Beehive Books, has a Kickstarter for Death Is a Room: Illustrated Gothic Tales by Women Writers.It has nine Gothic horror stories by women writers, including Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Frances Hodg…
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- newVice City mod makes an entire GTA game bounce to your favorite song
If vibe coding is absolutely going to stick around, I'd rather have it used for goofy video game mods rather than, say, critical infrastructure. I categorically do not want Claude anywhere near the government or cybersecurity… but maybe, just maybe…
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- newStar Wars on a ten-dollar budget
This is George Lucas' vision. Forget the sequel trilogy or The Acolyte somehow managing to be one of the most expensive TV shows ever made and still ending up mid: Secondhand Movie Co.'s recreation of the original Star Wars with nothing but a metric…
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- newYou talk faster than you type, and this app finally does something about it
TL;DR: Voibe is a private AI voice dictation app for Mac and Windows, and a lifetime subscription is $79.99 (MSRP $199).Typing is slow. Not slow like dial-up, where the wait was obvious, but slow in a way that eats five or ten minutes from every ema…
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- newAnthropic lost $80.7 billion in six months and would now like your money
Claude maker Anthropic burned $9B feeding Claude and took a $72B noncash accounting charge in the first half of 2026. Get ready for an IPO; they hope to value the business in the low trillions.Anthropic is getting ready to bring normal folks into th…
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