Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things

Science A satellite has been jamming GPS over Europe Ellsworth Toohey

Technology The YouTube channel with 77,000 videos of red and blue rectangles Ellsworth Toohey
AI Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word Ellsworth Toohey
Science New solar-power desalination device leaves no brine Ellsworth Toohey
Science Why autism symptoms can ease during a fever — and how to mimic it Ellsworth Toohey
science fiction 'They're Made Out of Meat,' rewritten as a dialogue about LLMs Ellsworth Toohey
Funny HowToBasic's omurice attempt ends in familiar, egg-covered ruin Grant St. Clair
video games Domino's Pizza picked a fight over a video game nobody asked about Grant St. Clair
movies Fall, the movie about not falling, gets a sequel about an even bigger fall this fall Grant St. Clair
Entertainment At Disney World, you'll soon be able visit Monsters, Inc.'s city to celebrate H.U.M.A.N. Day Ruben Bolling
christian nationalism 180 religions dropped from Pentagon's approved list of faiths Séamus Bellamy
china China is using recruitment sites to buy top secret information Séamus Bellamy
climbing Sherpa left for dead on Everest found alive Gail Sherman
politics Indiana declares June "Nuclear Family Month" Jennifer Sandlin
Boing Boing Gadgets ChatGPT Plus is $20/month—ChatOn packs in GPT, Claude & Gemini for 5 years for just $90.99 Boing Boing's Shop
I seen a rainbow Grandpa Pudding Brains goes chasing waterfalls Jason Weisberger
animals A beetle that hijacks wasps, then impersonates them by smell Ellsworth Toohey
History The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing Gadgets Replace doomscrolling with smartscrolling—Headway lifetime subscriptions now just $70 Boing Boing's Shop
robot Robo-party clown ignores Asimov's first law of robotics Jason Weisberger

History How a raunchy love charm became an innocent nursery rhyme Ellsworth Toohey

History The Army told Hershey to make a chocolate bar that tasted bad Ellsworth Toohey

law AI beat law professors in 75% of blind matchups, Stanford finds Ellsworth Toohey

prices Trump's war in Iran cancels summer vacation Jason Weisberger

ambush that failed Nancy Pelosi has no time for Mike Lindell's hallway goblins Jason Weisberger

literature Could a Nabokov novel have been the 'father of all hypertext demos'? Ellsworth Toohey

tesla Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won't ride in it Jason Weisberger

Games Retro Pokémon-inspired indie game looks very cool, but not long for this world Grant St. Clair

Games Until Dawn gets a surprise sequel announcement Grant St. Clair

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