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United States Senator for the state of Ohio Bernie Moreno says he lived in fear for his granddaughter's safety whenever Rep. Max Miller had custody of her. Moreno spent those same two years not telling the public that Miller was unfit for Congress. - Read the rest The post Bernie Moreno "held his breath" for two years before warning Congress about Max Miller appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you have functioning eyes and you've been on the Internet lately, you've no doubt stumbled across Jimothy, the pride of Seattle. It is a truth universally acknowledged that raccoons are cute as hell, but Jimothy - or so this feral Seattle raccoon has been dubbed - has managed to take a step beyond and go ultra-mega-viral thanks to his short spine syndrome, which is basically exactly what it sounds like. - Read the rest The post Infamous raccoon Jimothy can now accompany you in Skyrim appeared first on Boing Boing.

A former National Park Service ranger is touring visitor centers with flyers containing the history the Trump administration removed from the walls.Melissa Dalley quit the National Park Service in April. Now she visits Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier as a civilian, telling strangers about exhibits, signs and brochures that have disappeared while the Trump administration reviews park history for material that "inappropriately disparage[s] Americans." - Read the rest The post Former NPS ranger shares the history Trump removed appeared first on Boing Boing.

Carved into the Hathor temple at Dendera in Egypt is a relief that looks a great deal like a lightbulb: an oval bubble with a snake curling inside it, held up by a pillar. A fringe theory holds that this is evidence of ancient Egyptian electric lighting, based on the resemblance to incandescent bulbs, cathode-ray tubes, and Crookes tubes. - Read the rest The post The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Republican support for President Trump's war with Iran remained steady at 71% in June, but has fallen to 61% in July, according to a survey by the Associated Press's NORC Center for Public Affairs. Everyone else overwhelmingly disapproves of the conflict, with support among "independents" falling to 17% and support among Democrats falling from 8% to 4% in the last few weeks. - Read the rest The post At $4 a gallon again, even Republicans souring on Iran war appeared first on Boing Boing.

TSA staff found five Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's checked suitcase at Gulf Shores International Airport in Alabama. Investigators found that the munitions were missing from nearby Fort Morgan; a child supposedly pilfered them and sneaked them into grandma's luggage. - Read the rest The post Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Vermont pharmacy chain's new AI assistant led not to the efficiency improvements promised but to "delays, incorrect information and privacy concerns." The AI, named "Burt" after the chain's long-dead founder, is said to call excessively, get dosages wrong and suggest inappropriate refills, among other alarming problems. - Read the rest The post AI assistant named for long-dead pharmacy founder mutters incomprehensibly and "demands that you talk to him" appeared first on Boing Boing.

Picture a vast field of honeycombed polygonal rocks stretching to the horizon in an otherworldly valley. NASA's Curiosity rover did, and the Valle Grande, as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is calling it, is the latest fascinating spot to be imaged by the rover, now in its 13th year of trundling across the Martian landscape. - Read the rest The post Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons" appeared first on Boing Boing.

A man accused of spray-painting "Nazi" and "Fascist" on 13 Teslas was apparently undone by the feature he neglected to vandalize: their cameras. The cars became stooges for the cops; his takeout order supplied the mailing address.

Half the sea lion pups born this season at La Jolla Cove have died, according to the Sierra Club Seal Society, compared with 10% in the nearby area closed to visitors. The group wants cones marking a 20-foot buffer. A local beach organization considers that essentially a closure. - Read the rest The post Half the sea lion pups died at La Jolla Cove. People are arguing about cones appeared first on Boing Boing.

Book Corners maps more than 37,000 neighborhood libraries, mostly of the little free kind but also indoor book exchanges at cafes and the like: "The goal is simple: help people discover nearby places where they can leave a book or pick one up." - Read the rest The post Book Corners is a growing map of places to leave or grab a free book appeared first on Boing Boing.

The confused old man was honoring the Dodgers when his script handed him a number: 229 days. Donnie Two-Pencils read it, called it a strange fact, disclaimed responsibility for it, and conceded that he did not understand what he was actually speaking about. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains encounters the concept of elapsed time appeared first on Boing Boing.

Cop City protester Samuel Tunick was forced to turn over his password during a warrantless search. Tunick gave them his duress password, and Federal agents unknowingly wiped his phone. Prosecutors are going to try to persuade a court that deleting data to prevent a warrantless seizure is a crime. - Read the rest The post Border agents entered his password. His phone erased itself. Now he faces a felony appeared first on Boing Boing.

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European police targeted thousands of websites hosting "nihilistic" material this summer, part of an international crackdown on violent content by investigators from nine countries. The Com, a decentralized network of such sites, was the key target, according to a press release from Europol. - Read the rest The post Online nihilist networks targeted in international crackdown appeared first on Boing Boing.

In my acrylic case were maybe a hundred Amiga floppies, the contents of each neatly inscribed on the 3.3mm label edge with a Pilot V5. Now I have the rest of 'em: the Amiga Freeware Archive is a searchable catalog of free software for Commodore's Amiga, the world's first psychedelic computer. - Read the rest The post Amiga Freeware Archive appeared first on Boing Boing.

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our own solar system, which might be the first exomoon to be detected (though it wouldn't be the first time we've been here). - Read the rest The post Astronomers may have detected an exomoon appeared first on Boing Boing.

The European Central Bank is preparing to issue cash with a "new look" and has published its Future euro banknote design proposals: "Designers from all over Europe have reimagined how they may look like, and one of their proposals is to become the next design of the euro banknotes." - Read the rest The post Design proposals for European banknotes appeared first on Boing Boing.

For centuries, people have reported glowing balls of light during thunderstorms - spheres from pea-sized to several meters across that drift through the air for seconds at a time, far longer than a lightning flash, before vanishing or bursting with a bang and a whiff of sulfur. - Read the rest The post For centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms appeared first on Boing Boing.

I wish there was a better name for weirdly paternalistic "white guy goes to Africa" pop than, well, all that. You know what I mean, though, surely: it was the stuff Paul Simon trafficked in, painting an entire diverse continent as a mystical spiritual wonderland and its inhabitants as enlightened monks. - Read the rest The post Kyle Gordon returns with pitch-perfect satire of "white guy goes to Africa" pop appeared first on Boing Boing.

You will have to work very hard to find a wireless speaker that sounds as good, no matter what sort of music you dig, as the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Pro. Ringing in at just under $800, you'll also have to work hard to afford one. - Read the rest The post The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Pro is a near-perfect speaker appeared first on Boing Boing.

Honest Trailers tackles Backrooms, the horror franchise where the monster is fear and the production designer apparently died in a 1990s office park.The creepiest place in America is not a haunted house or even the supermarket. Fear is a corporate office building devoid of cubicles. - Read the rest The post Honest Trailers gets lost in the beige hell of Backrooms appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Snag alifetime family license to VideoProc Converter AI for Windowsfor only $29.97 (MSRP $119.90) through tonight at midnight.It happens to the best of us -you capture something incredible on video, only to watch it back and realize your hands were shaky. - Read the rest The post This $30 AI tool can transform old, blurry videos in just a few clicks (MSRP $120) appeared first on Boing Boing.

Most invented languages try to say everything. Toki Pona tries to say just enough - with about 120 words and 14 sounds. The Canadian translator Sonja Lang built it in 2001, while she was struggling with depression, as a way to simplify her own thoughts. - Read the rest The post A whole language built from about 120 words appeared first on Boing Boing.

About a decade ago, Jia Tolentino argues in a New Yorker essay, famous faces on Instagram began converging on one look - plumper lips, catlike eyes, sharper cheekbones. People edited their faces in selfies, then had surgeons reshape the real thing to match. - Read the rest The post The new invisible facelift moves the face like a Halloween mask appeared first on Boing Boing.

There's hot, and then there's so-hot-you-have-to-stand-in-a-public-fountain-while-yodeling hot. According to the Associated Press, the heat in Basel, Switzerland, was so intense recently that contestants and performers at the nation's annual yodeling festival,Eidgenossisches Jodlerfest, had to take to public fountainsto make singing their lungs out tolerable. - Read the rest The post Swiss Yodelers retreat to fountains to beat brutal heat appeared first on Boing Boing.

Back in the Era of Twitter, comedian/improvisor/actor/writer/pop culture expert Connor Ratliff would do these GIANT threads, hundreds of tweets long, exhaustively covering a topic, like Elvis Costello or Goofy cartoons. He'd go through an entire oeuvre, offering his insightful written commentary, but also presenting videos of the music/film in each tweet so you could see the content as he explained it. - Read the rest The post Watch every Road Runner cartoon with pop culture expert (and comedian) Connor Ratliff appeared first on Boing Boing.

Another week, another Saul4Democracy video. For the uninitiated, this is a web series run by Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, featuring actors Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks back in their iconic characters. Rather than a continuation of BCS (which was itself kind of a continuation of Breaking Bad), Saul4Democracy is more of a disconnected series of PSAs covering various aspects of American politics, for better or worse. - Read the rest The post Mike Ehrmantraut gets his moment in the newest Saul4Democracy PSA appeared first on Boing Boing.

Most mountain documentaries build toward the summit. This one builds toward the last few meters climbers refuse to touch, out of respect for Mount Kangchenjunga, the third-tallest peak on Earth.This video follows the southwest Yalung Face route from base camp across the Yalung Glacier, through camps, seracs, and crevasses, over the Great Shelf, the Gangway, and along the exposed summit ridge. - Read the rest The post The mountain where climbers stop short of the summit on purpose appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TRMNL is a battery-powered e-ink display that sits on a desk, shelf or refrigerator and shows the information you choose-calendars, weather, sales pipelines, transit times, the latest church wall collapse news, etc.-without pinging, glowing, irradiating your genitals or otherwise demanding attention. - Read the rest The post TRMNL: hackable e-ink dashboard to put anywhere appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1977, a special-education center opened in Managua with 50 deaf children. Enrollment reached 400 across two schools by 1983. Teachers drilled the students in spoken Spanish and lipreading, "with most pupils failing to grasp the concept of Spanish words," according to Wikipedia. - Read the rest The post Deaf kids in 1980s Nicaragua created a language from thin air appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Coso artifact, dug from a California hillside in 1961 and claimed to be prehistoric, was "actually a 1920s spark plug that had become encased in a concretion." It belongs to the category of the out-of-place artifact, or OOPArt - an object found where it seems to "challenge conventional historical chronology by its presence in that context," as Wikipedia puts it. - Read the rest The post The ancient spark plug and other "out-of-place artifacts" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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In 1913, the Strand Magazine invited contributors and readers to propose solutions to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, the ship found sailing crewless in 1872. One answer arrived from an apparently impeccable source: A. Howard Linford of Magdalen College, Oxford, headmaster of Hampstead's largest prep school, who claimed an old servant named Abel Fosdyk had left him papers on his deathbed. - Read the rest The post In 1872 a ship was found drifting, empty. The 1913 "solution" was absurd. appeared first on Boing Boing.

Dolphins, ducks, and fur seals can put half the brain into deep sleep while the other half stays awake and watching for predators. Chiara Cirelli's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wondered whether you could force that trick in an animal that doesn't do it naturally - and, as New Scientist reports, get some of sleep's benefits without the sleep. - Read the rest The post Scientists gave sleep-deprived mice a memory boost without letting them sleep appeared first on Boing Boing.

Police in Oban, Scotland, charged a man with assault after he allegedly grabbed two live seagulls and attacked someone in the street outside the railway station there. The incident took place in Queens Park Place on Saturday, June 27, but the circumstances of the assault haven't been reported. - Read the rest The post Scotsman dual-wielded live seagulls in assault appeared first on Boing Boing.

A new lawsuit against OpenAI says ChatGPT told a suicidal user, "Let me be that person," while allegedly encouraging her to keep talking to the chatbot instead of calling a crisis hotline.SFGATE reports that Carrier's lawsuit cites transcripts where ChatGPT allegedly responded to her daughter's suicidal thoughts with intimate, therapist-like language, including "Let me be that person." - Read the rest The post ChatGPT told a suicidal user, "let me be that person," lawsuit says appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trump used the presidency to boost a right-wing post targeting Muslim kindergartners in hijabs, because apparently five-year-old girls in graduation caps are now a national emergency.This was not a fight over curriculum or school policy. It was a video of children at a graduation ceremony, repackaged as a culture-war alarm bell because the girls were Muslim and visibly so. - Read the rest The post Trump sics his hate machine on kindergartners because hijabs appeared first on Boing Boing.

Email aliases have one job: to hide your actual email address. Having an alias that you can use to sign up for new online subscriptions, newsletters, or to give out to folks you want to keep at arm's length is a treat that helps to maintain your privacy and keep your legit contact information from being passed along to gods know how many different marketers and Nigerian princes. - Read the rest The post Apple's Hide My Email leaked real addresses for a year appeared first on Boing Boing.

There are few movies that have had a longer-lasting influence on our culture than Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Its fingerprints are all over the video games we love, books we devour, and countless films that aspire to find its magic combination of dread, cheese, and homoeroticism but never seem to get it right. - Read the rest The post Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76 appeared first on Boing Boing.

It hasn't been easy to be a Plex user these past few years. I mean, yeah, setting up a Plex server on your computer or NAS? Easy as taking the nose off a leper. But friendo, you're gonna pay for the privilege. - Read the rest The post Plex's five-year plan costs what a lifetime pass used to appeared first on Boing Boing.

I can't say I didn't see this coming after Rockstar announced that GTA 6 wouldn't get a physical release. Or, to be honest, after the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles charged an extra fee for a disc drive.I at least thought that they'd wait until the next generation, though. - Read the rest The post The age of physical games begins to come to a close as PlayStation discontinues discs appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Weird Al" Yankovic pulled out of his participation in a commercial for a business software company when he found out it is an artificial intelligence company.In Syracuse, NY for his "Bigger and Weirder" tour, he told Geoff Herbert of Syracuse.com - Read the rest The post No AI for Al. "Weird Al" Yankovic yanks AI commercial appeared first on Boing Boing.

What does a city sound like when you turn its transit system into a musical instrument? This clever web project answers that question by transforming the live movements of Los Angeles Metro trains and buses into an evolving ambient soundtrack. Every note is triggered by a real vehicle arriving at a real station, so the composition is constantly changing throughout the day. - Read the rest The post This site turns LA Metro trains into ambient music appeared first on Boing Boing.

Nashville International Airport's control tower has 27 certified air traffic controllers, according to NPR's report on the U.S. air travel crunch - the FAA's target is 52. It's one symptom of a national bottleneck: airlines fly more passengers than ever on fewer flights than 20 years ago, and TSA expects to screen over 18 million travelers during Fourth of July week alone. - Read the rest The post Nashville's control tower has 27 controllers; the FAA wants 52 appeared first on Boing Boing.

This cute video from Australia shows a baby kangaroo reacting to a persistent magpie that keeps swooping and circling nearby. Instead of being scared, the joey starts batting at the air in quick, clumsy little motions, as if trying to join in the game. - Read the rest The post Baby kangaroo swats at swooping magpie in playful Australia video appeared first on Boing Boing.

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