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TL;DR: Create more natural AI-written content with thislifetime subscription to UmanWrite All-in-One AI Writing Platform, on sale now for just $79 (MSRP $1,799).Sure, AI can produce polished copy, but sometimes that's the problem. You don't want your writing to sound like it was written by a robot. - Read the rest The post Stop settling for robotic AI copy with this $79 writing tool (MSRP $1,799) appeared first on Boing Boing.

Seth Moulton, young, well-funded and endorsed by The Boston Globe's editorial board, ran the perfect centrist campaign. He boosted new technology, maintained a billionaire-friendly tone, and muted his liberal record with reactionary talk about trans athletes. More than anything, though, he cast himself as generational change against Ed Markey, his 80-year-old opponent and one of the U.S. - Read the rest The post Progressive stalwart Ed Markey thrashes centrist challenger with Maine Dems appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: TheMagTag Tracker Cardis an ultra-slim, travel-friendly smart card compatible with the Apple Find My app to help you keep track of your belongings. Get it now for just $23.99 (reg. $59.99) and enjoy up to 5 months of battery life from a single charge. - Read the rest The post Ditch the AirTag bulge with this $24 ultra-slim MagTag tracker card appeared first on Boing Boing.

Today in "things I never thought I would type:" Refrigeration units in multiple military commissaries across the United States may have been hacked.On the otherwise quiet Substack Signal and Silence, "M. Elizabeth" posted an investigation into a string of refrigeration failures at military installations. - Read the rest The post Someone may have told a bunch of military fridges to defrost appeared first on Boing Boing.

A chill dog-merging card game is now on mobile. Dogpile combines Suika Game and Balatro to form an adorable, time-wasting masterpiece.Dogs of the same suit, ace through king, merge into the next largest suit, and man, do they get large. - Read the rest The post Dogpile mixes Suika Game and Balatro into a dog-merging card game appeared first on Boing Boing.

I'm looking forward to reading A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts, the new graphic novel from writer/colorist Oliver Mertz and artist Alex Diotto. And not just because that is one hell of a killer title.The book is set in the Washington, DC punk scene of the 1990s, where teenager Ari Ackerman is trying to navigate the usual adolescent minefield while dealing with something decidedly less usual: his cancer-stricken father keeps dying and coming back to life. - Read the rest The post A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts mixes DC punk with dead superheroes appeared first on Boing Boing.

Gabriel Kennedy (aka Prop Anon), author of the acclaimed biography Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson, is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to bring his definitive history of underground icon (and Boing Boing patron saint) Robert Anton Wilson to life in an official audio format. - Read the rest The post Robert Anton Wilson and the art of being difficult to manipulate appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH new names for American geographic features are humbly proposed-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US INTHE INNERHIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic - before it's published anywhere, plus lots of other stuff! - Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: Lake America, and other new geographic names for the Trump era appeared first on Boing Boing.

Cedartown Police Department in Georgia has no explanation for why one of its officers shot and killed HeeHaw, a miniature donkey, while supposedly searching for a lost child. Police chief Jamie Newsome posted a video to Facebook in which he said "it is with heavy heart that I report that a Cedartown police officer shot and killed a donkey." - Read the rest The post No explanation for why Georgia cop shot dead beloved miniature donkey HeeHaw appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:A lifetime subscription toInternxt's 10TB encrypted cloud storage planfrees up space on your devices, and it's on sale for new users at $269.97 (reg. $2,900).Storage warnings pop up right when you can't afford to deal with them. - Read the rest The post Free Up Space for Good With a $269.97 Lifetime 10TB Cloud Storage Plan appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Restroom Archive is an online repository of toilets, bathrooms and other publicly-assessible venues for spending a penny or two. It currently has 94 restrooms archived from 35 cities, representing the work of 166 archivists.'Everyone uses restrooms, yet as spaces, they are considered taboo, rarely discussed, acknowledged, or considered," writes the site's creator, designer Jake Welch. - Read the rest The post Explore America's public restrooms at The Restroom Archive appeared first on Boing Boing.

Are you tired of paying a few dollars for a whole package of toothbrushes that clean your teeth without providing live footage of them or optimizing the task with machine intelligence? Dyson's $500 AI-powered CameraJet toothbrush will waterfloss your choppers and its built-in camera will show you them from every angle. - Read the rest The post Dyson toothbrush has AI and a mouth camera appeared first on Boing Boing.

LightInk is an e-ink wristwatch (compare to Watchy) that can run exclusively on solar power. A tribute to the solar watches of yore, the inexpensive ESP32-based design brings WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa and GPS to a tiny wearable device with a 200*200 1.54-inch display panel. - Read the rest The post E-Ink watch runs on solar power appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Consumer Rights Wiki documents anti-ownership and anti-consumer shenanigans ranging from planned obsolescence to subscription traps, with every shady and sketchy practice in between. Right-to-repair restrictions are far from history despite it becoming the law of the land in state after state. - Read the rest The post Consumer Rights Wiki tracks every shady and sketchy trick they pull appeared first on Boing Boing.

Florida's Department of Transportation has revoked permits for Flock surveillance cameras installed on state roads, effectively ordering local law enforcement to remove those in their jurisdictions within 30 days. In a memo sent to agencies statewide, FDOT cited widespread reports of abuse and said it will no longer approve new requests. - Read the rest The post Florida revokes Flock camera permits appeared first on Boing Boing.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning wholesome American consumers not to microwave squishy toys. Viral videos showing the heat causing the items to expand, mutate or explode are racking up millions of views online: "These demonstrations are dangerous and should never be attempted or imitated," the commission states. - Read the rest The post Cheap squishy toys deemed hazardous, especially if you microwave them appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Supreme Court of the United States today allowed construction of a massive ballroom on the White House grounds to continue, though Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that it's "probably illegal." The majority instead dodged the issue, ruling 5-4 that the National Trust for Historic Preservation had no standing to challenge the project in the first place. - Read the rest The post Supreme Court allows construction of "probably illegal" White House ballroom appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Microsoft Windows 11 Proadds security, virtualization, and business tools like BitLocker, Hyper-V, and Windows Sandbox, and a lifetime license for one compatible PC is currently $7.97 (reg. $199).Eight bucks doesn't buy much anymore, but apparently it can buyWindows 11 Pro. - Read the rest The post Windows 11 Pro costs less than lunch right now at $8 appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Curiosity Streamis a full documentary streaming platform, and a lifetime subscription is on sale now for $149.99 (reg. $399.99).Netflix has like three good documentaries every year. For dedicated documentary lovers, that's nothing. If you want to really get your fix on educational content and soothing narration, check outCuriosity Stream. - Read the rest The post Netflix's smartest competition doesn't charge a monthly fee appeared first on Boing Boing.

ASCII CITY is an explorable cyberpunk city rendered in three dimensions with plain text characters. You can run the streets, enter buildings and take lifts to see it all from different elevations. There's no audio, story or "game" in there yet, but buying it buys access to future version and continued development. - Read the rest The post ASCII CITY: a cyberpunk city explored in pseudo-3D plaintext appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: GetMicrosoft Office 2024 Professional Plusfor $49.97 (reg. $249.99), with lifetime access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access on one PC.Microsoft 365 keeps Office on a recurring payment schedule, but that's not the only way to get the desktop apps. - Read the rest The post Skip the Microsoft 365 subscription with Office 2024 for $50 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Open Waters is a game in development designed to induce thalassophobia: the intense and supposedly irrational fear of large bodies of water. The teaser trailer had me clenched within seconds and that was before that thing even showed up.

Lawmakers in Mato Grosso, Brazil, find their work increasingly disrupted by capybaras wandering into the state legislature in Cuiaba, which was built next to a wildlife park. The large rodents, native to South America, are famously relaxed but not particularly interested in parliamentary procedure. - Read the rest The post Capybaras invade state legislature in Brazil appeared first on Boing Boing.

Evidently, George Santos is too low for Kalshi.Kalshi gave the already convicted fraudster its first-ever lifetime ban! Santos bet on himself, then allegedly tried to manipulate the market by lying about whether he'd show up to Trump's State of the Union. - Read the rest The post George Santos Pete Roses himself out of Kalshi appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched yesterday on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will soon begin its mission as NASA's latest eye on the final frontier. If the James Webb Space Telescope is the telephoto, this one is our wide-angle shot. - Read the rest The post Roman Space Telescope launches to study space in wide-angle view appeared first on Boing Boing.

Transportation Secretary and former "Real World" cast member Sean Duffy has uncovered a transportation problem demanding immediate federal attention: some truck drivers do not speak English.DHS claims it's targeting improperly issued commercial driver's licenses and fraudulent medical certifications. But Duffy made it abundantly clear who he wants off the roads. - Read the rest The post MTV's Sean Duffy threatens companies that hire truckers who don't speak English appeared first on Boing Boing.

ICE has imprisoned a 76-year-old for more than two months despite knowing Loreto Javar is fighting Stage 4 prostate cancer. His family says he's missed critical doctors' appointments, is losing weight, and can not reliably take his cancer drugs on schedule because the detention center sometimes serves lunch at 6 p.m. - Read the rest The post Is ICE trying to kill this 76-year-old cancer patient? appeared first on Boing Boing.

Don't want a giant ghost building full of power-sucking, heat-generating computers at the end of your street? Enjoy being "backwards and poor," says Diaper Don. Folks building data centers for the AI bubble now eye neighborhoods with excess power and space. - Read the rest The post Beholden to Big Tech, Grandpa Pudding Brains demands more data centers appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Star Wars: The Phantom Menace-cobranded Pepsi vending machine somehow survived decades outside a Pittsburgh fire station to become an ironic tourist attraction. Pepsi, alert to its growing fame, donated $10,000 to the firefighters who kept it stocked. But it disappeared last week, replaced by a similar machine crudely painted to resemble it. - Read the rest The post "Content creator" claims to have taken Pittsburgh's iconic Phantom Menace vending machine appeared first on Boing Boing.

Defrag98 is a fully-featured Windows 98 Disk Defrag tool simulator "faithfully reborn in your browser," complete with teal backdrop, bitmap-fonted gray user interface, and even the hollow clicks of a Microsoft Intellimouse. Once you click start, you are treated to the soothing grind of a Western Digital Caviar. - Read the rest The post Defrag your computer like it's 1998 appeared first on Boing Boing.

I saw a video about Monge's theorem on Instagram and thought it would be fun to vibe code an interactive demo.Monge's theorem states that given any three circles, you can draw a line tangent to each pair. Those tangent lines will cross at a point. - Read the rest The post Any three circles hide a straight line. Here's a demo that shows it. appeared first on Boing Boing.

MIT's building that houses its Department of Chemistry was shut down on August 27 after a grad student "self-reported to a local emergency room and claimed to have synthesized dimethyl mercury," according to MIT Emergency Management.

TL;DR:AdGuard DNSoffers centralized filtering for up to 20 devices, with custom rules, parental controls, real-time statistics, and a five-year subscription for $24.97 (reg. $719.64).Online trackers are nosy little things, and installing a browser extension only covers part of the problem. - Read the rest The post Your ad blocker can venture outside the browser for $25 appeared first on Boing Boing.

bsod.win is a single-serving website that mimics the classic 20th-century Windows Blue Screen of Death. Unlike the original, you can refresh the page to get a different outcome. Whether the Current Application Will Be Terminated or It May Be Possible To Continue, though, is mere illusion: here there is only blue death. - Read the rest The post Enjoy the Blue Screen of Death one more time appeared first on Boing Boing.

Since it was released last year, I've had it in mind that the reMarkable Paper Pro Move was in dire need of a Bluetooth keyboard. Not a keyboard case like the full-sized reMarkable Paper Pro has, mind you: a keyboard with the dimensions to fit inside of a case for the 'Move would make for a lousy productivity experience. - Read the rest The post This app turns a reMarkable Move into a typewriter appeared first on Boing Boing.

Dolly Parton died this week and it was bullshit. In this polarized era, there are so few people that we can all point to and agree upon as being a force of good in the world. Dolly? She was that. - Read the rest The post Zuckerberg polls so badly that only Putin ranks lower appeared first on Boing Boing.

This study comes out of Germany: the dark neuroscientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences tested 122 head-banging metalheads to see if there was any difference in their ability to tolerate pain compared to folks from the (presumably) Neil Diamond and Notorious B.I.G. - Read the rest The post German study finds pain tolerance rises during a metal festival appeared first on Boing Boing.

A lawsuit in El Paso County, Colorado, claims that chronic understaffing at Dollar Tree stores has made the national chain a "hunting ground" for public masturbators-and that the company has taken no serious action to prevent it.The Denver Post reports on "gooning" incidents at local stores, in which "perpetrators masturbate on or at unconsenting victims in public spaces for sexual gratification or online notoriety." - Read the rest The post Dollar Tree sued over public masturbation incidents appeared first on Boing Boing.

Michael Fultz is Brevard County Sheriff's Office's Deputy of the Year. But Fultz, 24, just resigned. Why? Because he was about to get fired after filming himself putting a service handgun in his ex-girlfriend's mouth, using racial slurs, performing a Nazi salute, making "inappropriate" video calls in uniform from a patrol car, getting pulled over (and let off!) - Read the rest The post Brevard County Sheriff Department's racist, Nazi-saluting, speeding deputy of the year used Flock to stalk his ex appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Design, model, and deliver BIM projects with a year-long subscription toAutodesk Revitfor just $399 (Reg. $3,005) - that's 85% off.Some things shouldn't be easy. Or cheap. Building design, for example, deserves to be an elevated art to give people the safety and security of a well-made building. - Read the rest The post Design the building of your dreams for 15% of the price appeared first on Boing Boing.

A man from Morgantown, West Virginia with the username "MrChildPorn" was arrested by Virginia State Police after no less than 48 reports of him "boasting of his large cache of 'child porn'," reports WBOY.Garrett Highlander, 20, posted about CSAM on Discord under a variety of monikers such as the above, according to a criminal complaint. - Read the rest The post Perhaps man with username "MrChildPorn" wanted to be caught appeared first on Boing Boing.

Belbury Poly's brilliant 2012 album The Belbury Tales (previously at Boing Boing) was a high point of hauntology, right at the point it wandered into folk horror and related aesthetics of "this municipal library used to be an auroch burial ground and contains strange Usborne books about computers that didn't exist" (Scarfolk, Wyrd Britain, Windows 95 Tips). - Read the rest The post Belbury Poly turns its haunted synths to 80s fantasy appeared first on Boing Boing.

Afterglow is a modern MacOS app that runs the classic Macintosh After Dark screen savers. Flying Toasters, Fish, Starry Skylines once helped cathode ray tube-monitors avoid burn-in and became a popular commercial software category in their own right.

TL;DR:AskAnyModel AIlets you compare responses from up to six AI models side by side, with 30 unlimited standard models and 500 monthly premium credits. Lifetime access to its Pro Plan is on sale for $39.99 (reg. $499).Asking one AI for an answer is useful. - Read the rest The post This $40 AI hub lets GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more duke it out appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts," wrote political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on social media last year. Today the Briton was taken into custody by ICE, having allegedly overstayed in the U.S. He last legally entered the county in 2019, officials say, and failed to show up for an immigration hearing in July. - Read the rest The post Far-right pro-Trump ex-gay still-British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE appeared first on Boing Boing.

Applicants who have had used the services of sex workers are not eligible to join the FBI, a prohibition the bureau now plans to drop. It will consider "in a more holistic manner" those candidates who have "engaged in the practice," reports the Associated Press. - Read the rest The post FBI drops ban on hiring people who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes appeared first on Boing Boing.

Steve Jobs couldn't be bothered to retrieve his old eighth-grade science project from the family home. He told his stepbrother to keep it instead. That decision just turned into $34,375.Jobs made "What is the SCR?" while attending Cupertino Jr. High in 1968. - Read the rest The post Steve Jobs told his stepbrother to keep his old stuff. Good call! appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Getlifetime access to 1min.AI, a multi-model AI workspace built for writing, images, documents, PDFs, audio, and more for just $79.99-for just 2 more days.Using one AI tool for writing, another for images, and a third for PDFs is how a perfectly normal browser window becomes a cry for help. - Read the rest The post Pay $79.99 Once and Put ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Under One Roof appeared first on Boing Boing.

Dementia Donnie visited NASA today and explained that his interest in space is apparently hereditary because his uncle was smart and liked space. His uncle also liked "nuclear," so we might be in trouble.The Orange Menace was at Johnson Space Center honoring, as only he can, the Artemis II astronauts when he started down a stream of consciousness about his uncle, John Trump, an MIT electrical engineer and physicist whom the president has spent years invoking as evidence of his own intellectual gifts. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains genetically believes in space appeared first on Boing Boing.

A teacher working Straford upon Avon in England was banned from the profession for life after giving them a pen with a hidden camera. Matthew Udall, teaching science, suggested the child use it to "write in a journal" and encouraged them to "change their clothes" before writing. - Read the rest The post Teacher banned for life after giving spycam pen to student and telling them to get changed appeared first on Boing Boing.