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Polygon - All

  • A cult-favorite series returns after 14 years to Nintendo Switch
    The Katamari Damacy franchise is back with its first brand-new entry on consoles in 14 years. Once Upon A Katamari, announced Thursday during the latest Nintendo Direct, will send the Prince of Cosmos back to Earth for a new roll-’em-up action adve…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:44am -
  • Cronos: The New Dawn is brutal pandemic horror: ‘Hard mode, in the old-school way’
    The new gameplay trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn, out Wednesday from Bloober Team, debuts some tense gameplay featuring the protagonist — a time traveler with futuristic armor and an arsenal of weapons — facing off against misshapen, humanlike e…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:23am -
  • Square Enix announces new HD-2D action-JRPG
    During the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, a new Square Enix HD-2D action-JRPG game was announced, called The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. According to the trailer, the game takes place in a land called Philabieldia that’s overrun…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:08am -
  • A new Octopath Traveler game is coming December 4
    The Octopath franchise is getting a new title, Octopath Traveler 0, as announced in the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase this morning. Rather than playing as eight heroes who start their journeys in different places, you’ll be following the story o…
    - 31 Jul 25, 8:53am -
  • Everything announced at Nintendo’s new Nintendo Direct
    Nintendo didn’t have a lot to show at the latest Nintendo Direct, but its third-party partners sure did! During a new Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase broadcast on Thursday, major publishers and indie developers revealed what they’re bringing to…
    - 31 Jul 25, 8:52am -

Best of Reddit - Data is Beautiful

Wired

The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across LondonThe Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
- 7 Jun 20, 9:00am -
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror FilmArtist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
- 1 Jun 20, 9:00am -
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains RunningThe Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
- 31 May 20, 9:00am -
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of DiscoverySpace Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
- 30 May 20, 9:00am -
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice MeltHigh in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
- 26 May 20, 9:00am -
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's StormsSpace Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
- 23 May 20, 9:00am -

geek

Geekologie

  • A longboarder's closest calls over 10 years of filming
    Lonboarder Josh Neuman put together this compilation of his ten closest calls while filming his longboarding over ten years. What he says about his number one closest call:What Happened: While on a production shoot we had one of the crew members…
    - 25 Aug 21, 2:57am -
  • Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour
    This is incredible (chilling?) video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour.Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. In this video our humanoid robots demonstrate their whole-bo…
    - 19 Aug 21, 5:27am -
  • Absolutely stunning and hypnotic stop-motion animation using matches
    This is an incredibly well done and hypnotic stop-motion animation by Tomohiro Okazaki featuring every conceivable play on matches. And as if the creativity wasn't impressive enough on its own, it plays back at 60fps. The stop-motion video I made f…
    - 11 Aug 21, 2:22am -
  • This is a snownado
    Apparently snownados exist and if you guessed that they're dust devils but with snow you'd be correct. They're not nearly as interesting as Sharknados or firenados, but those are impossibly high bars for a 'nado. Keep going for another video of…
    - 10 Aug 21, 3:41am -
  • Surreal phone booth videos
    This is a series of surreal phone booth videos by TikToker solopsist. You may be wondering what a "surreal phone booth video" even is and I couldn't explain it to you if I tried, so I'll just let you experience them as I did. @solopsist There are…
    - 5 Aug 21, 2:59am -

The Mary Sue

Geeks are Sexy - Technology News

  • newDaily Deals Drop: Nothing Premium ANC Headphones, DJI 4K Action Camera, Ecovacs Robot Vacuum + Mop, AND MORE
    For today’s daily deals drop (June 14, 2026) here are some of the best deals we stumbled on while browsing the web this morning! Please note that Geeks are Sexy might get a small commission from qualifying purchases done through our posts. As an Am…
    - 18 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 9:29am -
  • newHell [Comic]
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    - 22 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 5:30am -
  • newI Deserve This [Comic]
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    - 23 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 5:00am -
  • newHeadphones [Comic]
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    - 23 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 4:30am -
  • newGittyup [Comic]
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    - 24 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 4:00am -
  • Daily Deals Drop: 43″ Hi-QLED 4K TV, 240Hz Gaming Monitor, Dolby Atmos Soundbar AND MORE!
    For today’s daily deals drop (June 13, 2026) here are some of the best deals we stumbled on while browsing the web this morning! Please note that Geeks are Sexy might get a small commission from qualifying purchases done through our posts. As an Am…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 9:09am -
  • Tall Order [Comic]
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    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 5:30am -
  • Failure [Comic]
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    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 5:00am -
  • Nosy Software [Comic]
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    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 4:30am -
  • Motivation [Comic]
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    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 4:00am -
  • Zoinks! [Comic]
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    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 1:00pm -
  • When NPC Hairstyles Become the Main Story [Comedy Sketch]
    You know a game’s graphics are broken when an NPC’s hair becomes more interesting than the quest. In this short comedy sketch by VLDL, an adventurer is trying to focus on important missions, but the NPCs keep showing up with increasingly cursed h…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 12:00pm -

Geeks of Doom

Neatorama

  • newThe Many Pseudonyms of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin was a polymath with many interests, but one of the most enduring was writing. The Founding Father was never shy about giving his opinion on anything and everything, and often peppered his opinions with something to make the reader l…
    - 6 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 10:25pm -
  • newThe Bad Blood Between Elvis and The Beatles
    The biggest musical acts of the 20th century were Elvis Presley and the Beatles. They traded fame back and forth over time. Elvis owned pop culture in the late 1950s, right up until he entered the military, and afterward focused on movies. The Beatle…
    - 7 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 9:01pm -
  • newScientist: Almost Everyone Veers to the Left When Walking Randomly
    Dr. Iñaki Echeverría-Huarte is a professor of applied physics at the University of Navarra in Spain. He asked 573 people assembled in a schoolyard to roam randomly through the space. Within a few seconds, 80% of them were moving in a counterclockwi…
    - 13 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 2:41pm -
  • newDestinations and Vistas That Must be Timed Just Right
    You see the most beautiful travel photography on the internet, and want to go to those places. You'll probably enjoy the trip, but you might completely miss what you're seeing in the photographs. It's better to know before you go, that some places on…
    - 20 hours ago 14 Jun 26, 8:08am -
  • Looking Beneath the Veneer of a McModern Slopcore House
    Last year, Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell introduced us to the concept of the McModern, a new, larger, glass-enclosed version of the mid-century modern home built for rich people, but not designed as well as the originals. She now shows us the perfect…
    - 1 day ago 13 Jun 26, 6:11pm -
  • Evidence That Will Ryker is the Best <i>Star Trek</i> Character
    Star Trek: The Next Generation aired from 1987 to 1994. When it debuted to much hype, fans of the original Star Trek series from the 1960s were eager to see what else happened with Starfleet. As the characters were introduced, we could see their typ…
    - 1 day ago 13 Jun 26, 6:07pm -
  • Powerlifter Lifts While Playing Music
    Alexander Mercieca is a high school principal, weightlifter, and certified CrossFit trainer in Huntsville, Alabama. He loves listening to and playing hip-hop, hard rock, and heavy metal music. He's a multitasker (the quality probably comes from being…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 11:48am -
  • The Name is Off-Putting, but Cybertongue Can Save Milk
    A breakthrough in testing may have a global impact on the infrastructure we've built in dairy processing. When dairies produce milk, it is tested for protease, an enzyme that breaks down proteins. Protease is important for digestion, but it's not gre…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 5:33am -
  • World Cup Visitors' First Impressions of the US
    Soccer fans (not FIFA fans) from all over the world are arriving in the US to attend the World Cup games, and for many, it's their first trip to America. Games are being held in the US, Mexico, and Canada. They've seen a lot of American culture in mo…
    - 2 days ago 12 Jun 26, 8:40pm -
  • The Fierce Warrior Women of the Medieval Era
    Women as foot soldiers were not common the medieval era. After all, someone had to stay and tend the farm, the children, and the infirm while armies marched off to war. But when an invading army approaches the farm or the children, women can fight wi…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 12:04pm -
  • A Song Composed and Played With No Musical Instruments
    Andy Brewer is an audio engineer and composer. He was playing around with pink noise, what we lay people would call static or just noise, on an equalizer and found he could extract musical notes from it with a little work. Could he play a song using…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 10:36am -
  • Frances Farmer: Hollywood's Bad Girl of the 1930s and '40s
    The world has always known people who just do not want to be told what to do. Sometimes it can be hard to draw the line between rebellion and mental illness, especially when you throw in exacerbating factors. Frances Farmer was a beautiful woman who…
    - 3 days ago 11 Jun 26, 7:08pm -
  • A Catnip Addiction is Actually Beneficial for Cats
    Crazy cat lady that I am, I have a small part of my garden dedicated to catnip (and strawberries; they seem to get along well). The cats like it, and it makes my home the cool place for neighborhood kitties to hang out. But is there any evolutionary…
    - 3 days ago 11 Jun 26, 5:45pm -
  • A Psychedelically Colorful Sourdough Loaf
    Dough Lisa is a bread artist whose sourdough work has become a viral sensation. Pictured above is one of her most recent creations: a groovy-looking loaf with woven threads of tie-dye dough covered with an outer black shell.You can see her full proce…
    - 4 days ago 11 Jun 26, 1:11pm -
  • That Time a Polar Bear Tried to Attack a Netflix Film Crew
    Embed from Getty ImagesCinematographer Jamie McPherson took a crew to northern Canada to shoot footage of narwhals for the Netflix documentary series Our Planet in 2017. In his account of the trip, we will learn more about narwhals than about polar b…
    - 4 days ago 11 Jun 26, 9:02am -

GeekDad

Longform

  • Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan
    John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is the author of Pulphead and the forthcoming The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American Hi…
    - 26 Jun 24, 10:19am -
  • Longform Podcast #584: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is The Message.“I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding thi…
    - 19 Jun 24, 6:53am -
  • Longform Podcast #583: Jay Caspian Kang
    Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a co-host of Time to Say Goodbye.“At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece. But it, in some ways, is m…
    - 12 Jun 24, 12:37pm -
  • Longform Podcast #582: Joseph Cox
    Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of 404 Media. His new book is Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.“In the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to…
    - 5 Jun 24, 7:10am -
  • Longform Podcast #581: Tavi Gevinson
    Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually un…
    - 29 May 24, 7:18am -
  • Longform Podcast #580: Rachel Khong
    Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so int…
    - 22 May 24, 8:45am -
  • Longform Podcast #579: Kelsey McKinney
    Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at Defector.com. She hosts the podcast Normal Gossip and is the author of the upcoming book You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.“I was always very interested in how you stra…
    - 15 May 24, 7:54am -
  • Longform Podcast #578: Lissa Soep
    Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End.“I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-pro…
    - 8 May 24, 6:29am -
  • Longform Podcast #577: PJ Vogt
    PJ Vogt is the host of Search Engine.“One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversatio…
    - 1 May 24, 7:57am -
  • Longform Podcast #576: Lindsay Peoples
    Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of The Cut.“You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I do think that I often feel like I have t…
    - 24 Apr 24, 7:25am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh
    Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of order in Hait…
    - 19 Apr 24, 7:00am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey
    Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a grad…
    - 18 Apr 24, 7:01am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Meribah Knight
    Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee c…
    - 17 Apr 24, 8:43am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn
    Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for temporary license plates.“You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s…
    - 16 Apr 24, 7:11am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers
    Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic. “One of the best ta…
    - 15 Apr 24, 9:20am -
  • Longform Podcast #575: Megan Kimble
    Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.“I have neve…
    - 3 Apr 24, 9:46am -
  • Longform Podcast #574: Zach Harris
    Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling."“I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up with something fun that you've never heard of that…
    - 27 Mar 24, 10:12am -
  • Longform Podcast #573: Rozina Ali
    Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.”“I think it’s very, very important to spea…
    - 20 Mar 24, 12:01pm -
  • Longform Podcast #572: Derek Thompson
    Derek Thompson is a staff writer for The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English.“I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all the time. Because what I find interesting about my job is the invitation to solve mysteries. A…
    - 13 Mar 24, 8:31am -
  • Longform Podcast #571: Tessa Hulls
    Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and The Capitol Hill Times. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is Feeding Ghosts.“This project is the thing I have spent my entire life running from. I wa…
    - 6 Mar 24, 6:44am -

The Hollywood Reporter - Heat Vision

Safe Cycle Lengths for Anabolic Steroids: Avoiding RisksSafe Cycle Lengths for Anabolic Steroids: Avoiding Risks
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- 25 Jul 24, 11:13pm -
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- 25 Jul 24, 9:58pm -
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- 25 Jul 24, 7:34pm -
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- 25 Jul 24, 6:52pm -

BoingBoing

  • At a medieval church festival, the priest brayed like a donkey and the congregation brayed back
    The Feast of the Ass was a medieval Christian celebration held on January 14, honoring the donkey that carried the Holy Family into Egypt. A girl and a child riding a real donkey would be led through town to the church, where the animal stood beside…
    - 1 day ago 13 Jun 26, 9:06pm -
  • The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes
    John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill — nicknamed "Fighting Jack" and "Mad Jack" — fought through the entire Second World War armed with a Scottish broadsword, a longbow, and a set of bagpipes. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1926, left the army a…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 9:41am -
  • Why are car keys always kept in the visor in movies?
    Surely, you've seen the old movie trope where our plucky heroes duck into an abandoned car to flee from some encroaching danger, fold down the visor, and have the keys drop right into their laps. Have you ever seen anyone do that in real life? — Re…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 9:37am -
  • I still don't know what Kingdom Hearts is about, but there's a new one coming
    Kingdom Hearts is one of those weird franchises I've never understood, and which becomes more obscure every time I've attempted to do so. So it's like Final Fantasy, but there are also a bunch of Disney characters there, along with a bunch of origin…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 9:32am -
  • Larry David's new HBO show is basically historical Curb
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Larry David has been the master of awkward, people-talking-over-each-other comedy since Seinfeld, a talent he later honed on his long-running series Curb Your Enthusiasm.With Curb officially over since 2024, I and ma…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 9:27am -
  • Washington Post sued over alleged surveillance pricing
    If you were fired or excluded from a job due to your race, age, or other demographics unrelated to the work you're being paid to do, it's called discrimination. But in our late capitalist world, the yacht-owning powers-that-be call it surveillance pr…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 9:24am -
  • Jason Momoa won't touch the Escape from New York remake
    Zack Snyder is known for many things. He brought an innovative, visually provocative rendition of Frank Miller's 300 to theatres! He was responsible for bringing Superman back to the big screen (again). He completely misunderstood the canonical role…
    - 2 days ago 13 Jun 26, 9:20am -
  • Website tracks protein meal deals for 171 cities in U.S. and Canada
    Lowtein is a simple website that geolocates you and tells you about the cheapest proteins available in your location. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, it informs me that Giant Eagle has a special on pork chops (56% blow the regional average price), M…
    - 2 days ago 12 Jun 26, 7:50pm -
  • Microsoft may spin off struggling XBox division
    The Information reports that Microsoft is considering several ways to set loose its XBox gaming division, including spinning it out as a separate company, restructuring it as a subsidiary, or establishing a joint venture. Reuters echoes the paywalled…
    - 2 days ago 12 Jun 26, 6:03pm -
  • Sealed 1985 Super Mario Bros game fetches record $3m at auction
    An early, sticker-sealed copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. sold for $3m at auction today, stomping the record set in 2021. Chris Kohler writes on Bluesky that it's the first sticker-sealed copy (from Nintendo's earliest production runs) to go unde…
    - 2 days ago 12 Jun 26, 5:50pm -
  • Turn your desk into a 4K workstation with this iMac for under $350
    TL;DR: If you're in the market for a budget-friendly alternative for desk-based work, this refurbished 2019 21.5-inch iMac offers a 4K display, solid everyday performance, and 1TB of storage for just $339.99 (reg. $1,499). If you think MacBooks ar…
    - 2 days ago 12 Jun 26, 4:00pm -
  • College president suggests graduates "put a quick end" to themselves in commencement speech
    The president of Taipei's Shih Hsin University told graduates to end their own lives if they couldn't handle the workforce, remarks that led to widespread anger. Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung of The Taipei Times add that he subsequently requested a…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 2:52pm -
  • Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power
    Lake Powell is still more than 150 feet above dead pool, but it is only about 38 feet above minimum power pool, the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops generating hydropower. That is close enough to make the old "drain Lake Powell" debate feel less theo…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 2:16pm -
  • Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C.
    Grandpa Pudding Brains has found another election he may not respect: a Democratic mayoral primary in Washington, D.C., may serve as a reason to impose martial law. Clearly, this man of the people has no respect for the will of the people. — Read…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 2:02pm -
  • Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video)
    Reversing the egocentric high watermark of the MAGA Clown Reich, a newly re-annoited The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shares this livestream:How cheaply, and in the wrong font, Trump's slathering of his name on this monument t…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 1:09pm -
  • The FBI's protest-harassment fit has sponsors
    In a Threads post, Craig Brittain, a former Arizona Senate candidate, says an FBI agent confronted him while he was protesting ICE at Delaney Hall in Newark, and the alleged agent refused to give his name.Ignoring the grossness of an FBI visit for p…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 12:58pm -
  • Mel Fisher's treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver
    Mel Fisher's treasure hunters are still pulling Spanish Empire leftovers out of the Florida Keys, and this time the ocean coughed up a 22-pound silver bar.After hitting the object with a knife and examining the surface, Nicholas said he saw te…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 12:42pm -
  • Minneapolis has been hearing unexplained booms for decades and nobody can figure out why
    Residents of the Longfellow neighborhood in Minneapolis have been reporting loud, unexplained explosions for several decades. The booms mostly occur on summer nights and have been described as "house-shakingly loud" and low-pitched, distinct from a c…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 10:17am -
  • A 1977 trawler hauled up a carcass that Japan took for a sea monster
    In April 1977 the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, pulled up a decomposing carcass about 10 meters long. The Zuiyo-maru carcass had "a 1.5-m-long neck, four large, reddish fins, and a tail about 2.0 m long," an…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 10:08am -
  • Score 5 years of piano lessons with flowkey for only $80
    TL;DR: The flowkey Piano Learning app is a fun way to pick up a new hobby. Learn to read sheet music and develop proper technique at your own pace with this 5-year subscription for just $79.99 (reg. $899).If learning a new instrument is one of yo…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 10:00am -
  • Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers
    Here's a question: when was the last time you went out to the store and got yourself a physical gift card for online games retailer Steam? Here's another question: when was the last time you saw an online scammer requesting a Steam gift card as an ad…
    - 3 days ago 12 Jun 26, 9:57am -
  • Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people
    When I say scammers are using the hantavirus, I don't mean they're engineering devious biological weapon attacks (although I'm sure they would if they could.) It feels like it's barely been any time at all since a hantavirus outbreak left a Dutch cru…
    - 3 days ago 11 Jun 26, 4:46pm -
  • Claude AI is having a moment — this $20 course helps you keep up
    TL;DR: The Claude AI Professional E-Degree is on sale for $19.99 (MSRP $49) through June 14 and includes hands-on training for prompting, automation, integrations, workflows, and practical Claude AI productivity skills.Every once in a while, the i…
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  • An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished
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