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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 the DOT has reported on what broke. - Read the rest The post FAA orders nationwide ground stop: please do not call it "AI" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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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 prohibits counties and municipalities from "funding, promoting, or taking official action related to DEI." - Read the rest The post Florida's new identity politics law cancels St. Patrick's Day parade appeared first on Boing Boing.

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:

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 added "$246,026.40 in attorneys' fees and $14,058.30 in expenses," then another "$201,592.60 in attorneys' fees" after the Supreme Court "declined to hear it." - Read the rest The post Kim Davis's karma bill: $565,285.91 for refusing a gay marriage in 2015 and then refusing to pay for it appeared first on Boing Boing.

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 prop in the films to guarantee its authenticity. - Read the rest The post Darth Vader's lightsaber sells for a record $4.875 million appeared first on Boing Boing.

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. - Read the rest The post Person Do Thing: make friends guess a word using only 34 simple words appeared first on Boing Boing.

Former comedian Russell Brand was jailed for 10 years and 6 months at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday after being convicted last week on charges of rape and sexual assault."You were clever - and in many people's eyes, funny and charismatic," said Judge Joel Bennathan before imposing the sentence. - Read the rest The post Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for rape and sexual assault appeared first on Boing Boing.

Watch one very happy dog sit in a grass field, surrounded by pigeons. The dog has one very gentle temperament and sits there blissfully well. The pigeons climb all over him, flapping around and squawking. The dog just looks happy to have made some new friends. - Read the rest The post A gentle dog sits happily while a flock of pigeons climbs all over him appeared first on Boing Boing.

Toys "R" Us and Halloween went hand-in-hand back in the day. It's impossible not to feel nostalgic when thinking about it if you lived through that era as a kid. Luckily we have old commercials like this one from 1983 to remember how much fun the store was. - Read the rest The post In this 1983 Toys "R" Us Halloween commercial, Mom turns into a witch appeared first on Boing Boing.

This video made me laugh especially hard because I recently had a very similar experience in my own garden. If you've ever been gardening only to see some of your plants disappearing under the ground, as if they had decided to hide away, then you might know what I'm talking about. - Read the rest The post Watch a garden plant get pulled underground, just like in a cartoon appeared first on Boing Boing.

Here is a baby flamingo compilation from the San Antonio Zoo. Baby flamingos don't have their iconic pink feathers yet. What makes them especially cute is the way that they look a bit awkward trying to figure out how to walk. - Read the rest The post Baby flamingos at the San Antonio Zoo are still figuring out their legs appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Check hotel rooms, rentals, and cars for hidden cameras, audio bugs, and GPS trackers with this pocket-size detector, now $39.99 (reg. $59.99).In The Conversation, Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who hunts for a bug by ripping his apartment apart, floorboards and all. - Read the rest The post Peace of mind fits in a jacket pocket with this $40 camera and bug detector appeared first on Boing Boing.

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People hoping to see mummies at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, were instead treated to a small sign that said, "We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect."The museum had removed the remains of an ancient Egyptian priest, a mummified hand, a mummified head and a mummified foot. - Read the rest The post Glasgow museum pulls its mummies, citing lack of consent from the dead appeared first on Boing Boing.

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 Japan's Daiso is like a dollar store, except a thousand times better appeared first on Boing Boing.

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. - Read the rest The post Good Trailcams collects the animal kingdom's most candid moments appeared first on Boing Boing.

No longer will Americans have to go without delicious and inexpensive industrial dyes in their foodstuffs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly to allow additives to be added to food without safety review so long as they aren't proven to be carcinogenic and introduced at levels below 0.5 parts per billion. - Read the rest The post New FDA loophole would allow toxic chemicals into food appeared first on Boing Boing.

A crazy spectacle erupted when a 20-inch Harvest Midstream natural-gas pipeline exploded Tuesday afternoon near La Boca, New Mexico, shooting flames an estimated 50 to 100 feet into the air and setting the surrounding brush and trees on fire.Residents near La Boca described the pipeline explosion as sounding like an F-16 taking off in their neighbor's yard. - Read the rest The post New Mexico pipeline explodes, launches 100-foot flames and starts a wildfire appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom Gammill stars in an absolutely hilarious new limited-run play in New York City, A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller.Photo: Ruben BollingErnie Bushmiller was the author of the comic strip Nancy, about a little girl living with her glamorous Aunt Fritzi, and her tough boyfriend Sluggo, which he produced for hundreds of newspapers from 1938-1982. - Read the rest The post A theatrical morning with Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller appeared first on Boing Boing.

Only a few days ago, I noted that we're entering another golden age of video game adaptations after the 90s put us off the whole idea for a while. I love when I'm proven right almost immediately.Unlike The Finals or ARC Raiders, Cyberpunk 2077's biggest strength is arguably its world and story: the game is an adaptation of a tabletop roleplaying universe that's been running since the 80s, and its revised version of that world has spawned spinoffs of its own. - Read the rest The post Cyberpunk 2077 to get a live-action adaptation appeared first on Boing Boing.

The gorgeous, adorable puzzler Machinarium is getting a sequel seventeen years after its release. Machinarium 2 looks to be a worthy successor to the original, with everything that made it great. According to the publisher Amanita:

Somehow, intending to leave people thinking he meant he is protecting Southern California, home to a good percentage of the United States military might, R&D, and educational institutions, Grandpa Pudding Brains once again invites Iran to shoot missiles it does not have at the United States. - Read the rest The post "A missile into San Diego or Los Angeles," Trump again describes the danger he brought home appeared first on Boing Boing.

"I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports." - JD Vance's personal definition of socialism.Sycophant and Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, was asked for his personal definition of socialism and answered with talking points intended to inflame tempers and anger bigots. - Read the rest The post JD Vance defines socialism with bigotry, not economics or socialism appeared first on Boing Boing.

Neal Agarwal's site, Neal.fun, is filled with, well, fun stuff from the vaguely tortuous Password Game to the wholesome Internet Roadtrip. His latest creation, in collaboration with Wired, feels like an indictment of late-stage capitalism. Spend Elon Musk's Money is a follow-up to Spend Bill Gates' Money, in which you make virtual purchases to deplete all the filthy lucre. - Read the rest The post Wired and Neal.fun team up to spend Elon's trillion dollars appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: The refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2 packs a six-core Ryzen 5 PRO processor, 16GB of RAM, and Windows 11 Pro into a tiny desktop for $329.99 (reg. $749.99).Desktop computers are supposed to occupy an inconvenient amount of desk. - Read the rest The post Your monitors may take up more space than this tiny Lenovo PC appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Los Angeles. L.A. Desert city. Winner of water wars, destroyer of the Owens Valley.The Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula will soon offer Dune fans the opportunity to stick their hands into a box full of unbearable pain, and I don't mean watching Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya act. - Read the rest The post Will you survive the Gom Jabbar? Los Angeles gets a real-life Arrakis, waiver included appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having repeatedly tried to call his Florida dinner club "The Winter White House," Dementia Don has found a new grift: turning part of his private golf club into a new Presidential retreat a la Camp David without the gravitas or tradition. - Read the rest The post Trump wants to turn his private golf club into a presidential retreat appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tempe police released a video showing Eryn Bonner failing to obey the cops. Sadly, for Tempe's finest, the video also shows what they did about it. One of their officers shoves the 21-year-old ASU student to the ground, tackles her against a police bicycle and then punches her in face. - Read the rest The post Tempe cop punches 21-year-old woman in the face; police union calls it the "minimum required" appeared first on Boing Boing.

It's taken 37 years for Nintendo's humble Game Boy to hit puberty, but the hour has finally come. What's even cooler than a video game console you can carry around in your pocket? One the size of an actual person that runs on game cartridges a family of four could eat dinner on, of course. - Read the rest The post Game Boy becomes Game Man with giant-sized version appeared first on Boing Boing.

Defending a war only he wanted, Donald Trump offered Los Angeles and San Diego up as sacrificial lambs to Iran. Scoffing, Iran has no interest in civilian targets. The war has cost the United States over 80 aircraft, and at least 8 US bases have been hit. - Read the rest The post After hitting U.S. bases, Iran's LEGO propagandists tell Trump: "bases, not bedrooms" appeared first on Boing Boing.

An engagement accompanied by the Southern California standard, a mariachi band, was interrupted by an angry woman declaring, "This isn't Mexico!"Technically, the bitter bigot is correct. Mexico ceded California in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Culturally, she's pretty far off tho. - Read the rest The post "This isn't Mexico!" yells woman standing on land the U.S. took from Mexico in a war appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Texas Senate race is already off the rails. The Republicans are desperately trying to discourage folks from voting for James Talarico, without reminding them that the candidate they would be voting for is Ken Paxton.It is great to see Talarico has a sense of humor and understands what it takes to win in the US these days. - Read the rest The post Talarico ad hilariously highlights just how many scandals Ken Paxton has had appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Autonomous is an AI-forward company that sells everything from a coaster that tracks how much water you drink, a creepy-cute Pixar-esque companion lamp, to $20,000 backyard office pods. Another offering is the Autonomous Key, which promises to help kick the doomscrolling habit. - Read the rest The post Perhaps humiliation is the productivity hack we've been waiting for appeared first on Boing Boing.

Embark's promised big next step in Arc Raiders is set to release on October 8th. Will it bring back the fading player base?Arc Raiders had one of the most exciting launches and ramp-ups in years. It held on for a few months, but then rapidly lost players, at a rate that seemed intentional but was not. - Read the rest The post Will Frozen Trail turn it around for Arc Raiders? appeared first on Boing Boing.

The new Star Wars racing game is available for free on a service you likely forgot exists. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out today on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, but also on Amazon Luna, free to play for Prime members. - Read the rest The post Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to play for Prime members appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Doom, the classic first-person shooter, brought PCs to their knees in 1993. But now it runs on toothbrushes and earbuds and has even been implemented on the Commodore 64. Now it has been ported to SQL, the structured query language used by many relational databases. - Read the rest The post Doom ported to SQL appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Natural healing" coach Barbara O'Neill is permanently banned from providing health services in Australia, but will soon be touring Britain and Ireland to deliver lectures such as 'The Science of Breath' and 'What Really Does Cause Disease.'O'Neill has claimed that cancer can be treated with baking soda; the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission found in 2019 that she had discouraged mainstream cancer treatment, antibiotics and vaccination, and that her claims had 'real potential to have a detrimental effect on the health of individuals'

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Donald Trump sent U.S. service members to war in Iran. When an Iranian drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait killed six and left dozens wounded, nine report they were not classified as wounded and were left to figure out their own medical care. - Read the rest The post Wounded U.S. troops say the Pentagon left them to fight for their own medical care appeared first on Boing Boing.

Still failing to read the room, Sam Altman thinks the world should accept "some bad things happening" for the benefits of artificial intelligence.This is an incredible bargain to offer humanity while Forbes says you're worth about $3.3 billion, and the bad things under discussion include other people getting hacked, scammed, and otherwise abused by the technology that made you that $3.3 billion. - Read the rest The post AI billionaire Sam Altman says the world should accept "some bad things happening" for AI appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having abandoned Donald Trump for a longer-lasting future that doesn't involve being left to die with the press corps, Karoline Leavitt surprises us only by jumping to Fox News so quickly.Leavitt was one of Trump's most vile press secretaries. Not the pitiful joke of Scaramucci, or the weakness embodied by Spicey, Karoline "The Mouth of Moron" Leavitt was a hopped-up, supercharged version of Huckabee-Sanders with nothing but spite for the American people. - Read the rest The post Having spent enough time with her family, Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News appeared first on Boing Boing.

The President of the United States stood in a high school gym in Vandalia, Ohio, and described his vision of a Republican victory this November, insisting they'd "shove it up their ass." The audience cheered.Trump was stumping for Ohio Republicans Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy when he resorted to the kind of argument MAGA can really get behind:Apparently the face-eating leopards have evolved. - Read the rest The post Trump tells Ohio Republicans: "We're gonna shove it up their ass" appeared first on Boing Boing.

This is the kind of Paul Reubens story that just makes you love him more. The Pee-wee Herman actor had an incredible Mr. T memorabilia collection.The comedian amassed two A-Team kites, fake gold chains, "Gold" chain bubble gum, air fresheners, party hats, coloring books, an action figure, and a Mr. - Read the rest The post Paul Reubens' magnificent Mr. T collection is up for sale appeared first on Boing Boing.