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No matter whether they get locked up in Castle Rock or Bangkok, life is rough for sex offenders. There's a caste system in the clink that places rapists, sex traffickers and pedophiles just below a burning bag of monkey shit in the incarceration food chain. - Read the rest The post Diddy tossed in solitary after fight at Fort Dix prison appeared first on Boing Boing.

DEVO co-founder Gerald Casale has a new animated music video out, and it does not hold back on Donald Trump. In "Just Do It!," Casale turns Trump into a cartoon dictator marching a MAGA zombie army through the collapse of American democracy, smashing the Liberty Bell with a sledgehammer, watching the Statue of Liberty crumble, and running down protesters in an ambulance marked "Freedom." - Read the rest The post A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator appeared first on Boing Boing.

Fun fact: over 60% of all workshop injuries are the result of using a table saw without really knowing how to use a table saw. We're talking somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 cuts, slices and amputations, every year - and that's just in North America. - Read the rest The post Medical records and kids' phone numbers turned up in Google results appeared first on Boing Boing.

AI companies are buying old books, scanning them and destroying the remains, writes Emanuel Maiberg at 404 Media. The program is enabled by ISBNdb, maintainers of a vast book database, which helps them buy vintage physical media in bulk: "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," its pitch reads. - Read the rest The post AI companies are scanning and destroying old books appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1969, filming in Mozambique, Tippi Hedren watched lions take over a house that people had just abandoned and decided it should be a movie. She and her husband Noel Marshall began taking in rescued big cats and living with them at their California ranch, then cast themselves, her daughter Melanie Griffith and his two sons in Roar, shot with untrained lions, tigers and leopards in nearly every scene. - Read the rest The post A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt appeared first on Boing Boing.

Glen Hansard was a singer, songwriter and, to many in the Irish music community, a kind friend. At 4:30 this morning, Glen died while riding his motorcycle in the area around Dublin. His management left a brief message on his website, earlier today:

Replacing the text in popular comic strips is a common meme format, and few artists are displeased to see their work mutating online. Websites can generate these pics for users lacking image-editing skills. But when sites seek payment, a line is crossed. - Read the rest The post Cartoonist sues AI meme generator monetizing his work appeared first on Boing Boing.

President Trump's friendship with dead billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is still a matter of endless public discussion. And it's rumored he plans to pardon convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in return for "exonerating" him. Already moved to a cushier prison, Maxwell has reportedly worked on a "commutation application" to this end. - Read the rest The post U.S. Senate unanimously opposes Ghislaine Maxwell pardon appeared first on Boing Boing.

Peppa Pig's proprietors today won a copyright battle in London's High Court against the creators of Wolfoo, a YouTube character long accused of imitating the petulant piglet. It's not the similar style that mattered, at least in this part of the fight, but the direct lifting of audio clips from the British childrens' show. - Read the rest The post Peppa Pig prevails over Wolfoo in copyright case appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tesla sells a few hundred Cybertrucks a month to human beings, maybe. It's the biggest flop in U.S. automotive history, outflopping even the legendary Ford Edsel. Summarizing a paywalled report by Bloomberg News, Yahoo! News reports that the discrepancy between public sales targets and actual sales is what measures the machines' respective failures. - Read the rest The post Tesla Cybertruck overtakes Ford Edsel as "biggest flop" in U.S. auto history appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Lenovo's putting in extra effort for its latest IdeaCenter all-in-one desktops, which usually come in dark gray and sometimes also in light gray: the new ones will come in muted shades of sage, puce, peach and, of course, midcentury control panel green. - Read the rest The post Lenovo's all-in-one IdeaCenter desktops to come in colors appeared first on Boing Boing.

Not one senator objected to a nonbinding resolution declaring that Donald Trump should not pardon or commute Ghislaine Maxwell's sentence.Finally, Senate Republicans have discovered a Trump action they will not defend. No senator objected when Jacky Rosen asked the chamber to pass a resolution declaring that Ghislaine Maxwell should receive no pardon, no commutation, or any other clemency. - Read the rest The post The Senate unanimously tells Trump to leave Ghislaine Maxwell in prison appeared first on Boing Boing.

Unitree, the Chinese robotics company known for its humanoid robots, has announced a new wheeled quadrupedal robot. The combination of wheels and legs allows its Super Athlete AS2-W robodog to go almost anywhere, as seen in this promotional YouTube video. - Read the rest The post This $40,000 robodog breakdances instead of showing off kung fu appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TL;DR:flowkeyhelps beginners and experienced players improve with interactive lessons, video tutorials, and over 1,000 songs, now available for $79.99 for five years.The best way to stick with piano is to actually enjoy practicing.flowkeycombines step-by-step lessons with songs you already know, listening as you play and offering instant feedback. - Read the rest The post Master piano at your own pace with flowkey for $79.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

After decades, the SS Richard Montgomery's three masts are scheduled to come down in September. Specialist engineers will build a platform beside the wreck and cut the structures below sea level over several weeks. The approximately 1,400 tonnes of wartime explosives in its forward holds will be left exactly where they have been since 1944. - Read the rest The post The SS Richard Montgomery's masts are coming down. The bombs are staying put appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trump's giant, 10-foot-tall gold participation trophy honoring his "enthusiastic participation" in the Iran War is moving from Washington, D.C., to New York City!

An English professor at South Florida State College was fired for assigning an award-winning short story to her freshman class. Now Vinita Prabhakar is suing her former employer, claiming it breached her First Amendment rights.Prabhakar assigned Ottessa Moshfegh's "Bettering Myself," first published in The Paris Review and winner of the Plimpton Prize, to illustrate unreliable narrators. - Read the rest The post English professor, fired for assigning "political" short story, sues South Florida State College appeared first on Boing Boing.

Blanche needed to hold a meeting with a group Epstein survivors to get past the Senate. It sounds less like he met with them, and more like he was a belligerent jerk for 30 minutes.Epstein survivors waited months for a meeting with Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. - Read the rest The post Todd Blanche tells Epstein survivors to "get to the point" appeared first on Boing Boing.

"God damnit Donut!"While the Dungeon Crawler Carl books are addictive, the audiobooks are incredible. Producer and voice actor Jeff Hays is the reason.I got sucked into Dungeon Crawler Carl in early June, and rapidly read the first five books in under a week. - Read the rest The post Jeff Hays will play Princess Donut in the Dungeon Crawler Carl adaptation appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Devilskin concern in Dunedin, New Zealand, was tarnished Saturday night after a concergoer defecated in the moshpit. Metal fans were left "vomiting and crying" after those dancing there "completely spread" the matter around. "It started with a faint aroma," writes John Lewis of the Otago Daily Times

In the 1990s, I was introduced to the Chicago Handshake as a shot of Jagermeister and a beer. I was lucky; the modern version is far more disgusting.A Chicago Handshake now means a shot of Jeppson's Malort served with an Old Style beer. - Read the rest The post Two marketers gave the Chicago Handshake its bitter modern recipe appeared first on Boing Boing.

Dementia Donnie really doesn't want to explain where the money went.A reporter aboard Air Force One asked Trump where an estimated $13 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue was going. He replied that the Venezuela war had "paid for itself." Asked again, he said the money was "running the country." - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains is asked four times where Venezuela's $13 billion went appeared first on Boing Boing.

It would appear the antifa thugs no one can find are inside the animal costumes.I am always shocked these people do not understand they are talking to The Daily Show. The two women in the red hats are literally making no sense, and the college dude offers racism. - Read the rest The post Jordan Klepper uncovers MAGA's deepest fear appeared first on Boing Boing.

There are plenty of "unlikable" comic book characters. And then there's Midge McCracken. Roberta Gregory's spectacularly sour, fractally negative, permanently rage-faced antihero is the sort of person who can turn any incident, regardless of how benign, into crippling psychodrama. She's exhausting, frequently offensive, often just plain wrong, and consistently hilarious. - Read the rest The post The longest-running solo comic by a woman was one epic rant appeared first on Boing Boing.

In July 1184 the 18-year-old German king Henry VI came to Erfurt to settle a land dispute between the Landgrave of Thuringia and the Archbishop of Mainz. Nobles, bishops and leading citizens of the town packed into an upstairs room of a two-story building near the cathedral. - Read the rest The post A king's court meeting dropped 60 nobles into a cesspit in 1184 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Boing Boing welcomes our sponsor, Incogni!In the data broker market, personal profiles are cheap.For a few dollars-or sometimes cents-buyers can access detailed records about real people.Addresses. Phone numbers. Relatives. Property history.That information fuels scams, spam, and identity fraud. - Read the rest The post EXPOSED: Your identity sells for less than $1 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A passing steamer noted in its log on December 15, 1900, that the light on Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides, was dark. Storms kept the relief boat away until December 26. Joseph Moore went ashore alone and found the gate and the door shut, the beds unmade, the clock stopped, the lamps cleaned and refilled, and one set of oilskins still hanging inside. - Read the rest The post Three lighthouse keepers vanished and left the clock unwound appeared first on Boing Boing.

On the morning of May 19, 1780, the sky over New England went dark enough that people burned candles from noon on. In Ipswich, Massachusetts, the roosters and the frogs started up at two in the afternoon as though night had arrived. - Read the rest The post New England needed candles at noon and nobody knew why appeared first on Boing Boing.

For more than a century, people have grumbled that dropped bread always lands butter-side down and chalked it up to plain pessimism. When the BBC science show Q.E.D. tossed toast into the air in 1991, it landed butter-down only half the time - exactly what chance predicts. - Read the rest The post Toast really does land butter-side down, and physics explains why appeared first on Boing Boing.

Algeria pulled off one of the great World Cup upsets in 1982, beating reigning European champions West Germany 2-1 - the first African or Arab team ever to beat a European team at the tournament.Algeria finished its group games a day before West Germany played Austria, so both European teams took the field knowing that a West German win by one or two goals would send both through and eliminate Algeria. - Read the rest The post Two teams quit competing mid-game, and FIFA rewrote the rules appeared first on Boing Boing.

For sixty years, oceanographers had a research vessel that deliberately capsized itself. FLIP, short for Floating Instrument Platform, was a 355-foot ship that would flood its stern and pitch backward 90 degrees until it floated straight up and down. The front 55 feet stayed above water; the other 300 feet were suspended in deep, calm water, which made the platform almost immune to passing waves. - Read the rest The post This 355-foot research ship worked by flipping vertical in the ocean appeared first on Boing Boing.

Bertram "Bertie" Sheldrake ran his family's pickle factory in southeast London, converted to Islam as a teenager in 1903, and took the name Khalid. He founded mosques in Peckham and Dulwich, edited Muslim journals, and once converted a biscuit heiress to Islam aboard a chartered airliner over the English Channel. - Read the rest The post A London pickle maker was crowned king of a breakaway state in China appeared first on Boing Boing.

On October 22, 1895, a steam locomotive smashed through the upper-floor wall of a Paris railway station and came to rest on its nose in the street below. The photograph of the Montparnasse derailment is one of the most famous images in the history of transportation. - Read the rest The post In 1895 a train burst through a Paris station and stood on its nose appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tobi Lutke, CEO of online commerce giant Shopify, endorsed banker Eric Thor's suggestion for a "weighted voting proportional to the amount of income tax you pay." Moreover, he wrote, the poor and pensioners should have their right to vote stripped entirely: "Now you are a dependent and that means no voting, just like dependents under age. - Read the rest The post Shopify CEO endorses stripping voting rights from poor and pensioners appeared first on Boing Boing.

If large corporations are supposed to prefer subtle and well-lawyered forms of misconduct, no-one told Ebay, whose global security team ended up facing criminal charges over their unhinged harassment campaign against Ina and David Steiner, two journalists who criticized the company. - Read the rest The post Ebay and former execs to pay $55.7m after harassment campaign against journalists appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having shown the massive star Betelgeuse as an indistinct blob, astronomers at the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert have now imaged its long-suspected companion star, proving that the bloated supergiant is not alone."This is the conclusion of a century-long quest," wrote Miguel Montarges of the Observatoire de Paris. - Read the rest The post Supergiant Betelgeuse's smaller companion star imaged appeared first on Boing Boing.

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While it remains unclear whether Raygun was just a classless incompetent with a terrible sense of humor or the world's worst breakdancer, Netflix wants to find out.Untold Sports, which is described as "critically acclaimed" in the Netflix-authored article where I first heard of it, will be running a segment on the notorious Olympics crasher. - Read the rest The post Netflix honors Raygun with a documentary appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace's father lived through two world wars, the jet age, the moon landing and the rise of mass commercial aviation."There weren't airplanes in those days, I don't think," says the United States Moron in Chief. He's right about one thing: he doesn't think. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains says airplanes didn't exist during his father's lifetime appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tourists staged a photo shoot on the railway tracks leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau, where deportation trains carried thousands of people to their deaths.Video shows a woman posing on the tracks, adjusting her hair and changing postures while two companions photograph her. - Read the rest The post Tourists turned Auschwitz's death tracks into a photo set appeared first on Boing Boing.

Lil' Marco and Donald clearly hate Iran's anti-war propaganda. The Iranians just keep cranking out bangers...The LEGO diaper is really a chef's kiss.Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.Previously:

Evangelist Whitney Lynn has found the perfect audience: people strapped into seats several miles above the ground."I just love a captive audience," she wrote after preaching to roughly 200 passengers trapped aboard a commercial flight she happened to be on. - Read the rest The post Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon appeared first on Boing Boing.

With AI datacenters gobbling up all the available memory, spec sheets have stalled and system builders are making the most of what they can get. 8GB of RAM (system or GPU) is fine! But the latest AMD-based video card coming with just 4GB of VRAM in its entry-level model marks a clear step down: it's "the first modern GPU to ship" with so little memory, writes William Judd. - Read the rest The post New video card has only 4GB of RAM appeared first on Boing Boing.

Three times in Prague's history, a political dispute ended with someone being thrown out a high window. It happened often enough that the English word "defenestrate" - to hurl someone from a window - entered the language describing the Defenestrations of Prague. - Read the rest The post Prague settled political fights by throwing officials out windows appeared first on Boing Boing.

PocketByte is a modular handheld good for retrogaming, listening to music, watching videos or assisting you with your personal digits. It's all very chunky and retro; the keyboard, game controls or clickwheel modules plug into the main unit, which has a 2.8-inch 320*240 display, an ESP32 microcontroller, 8 megabytes of RAM and a microSD card slot for mass storage. - Read the rest The post PocketByte: a modular handheld gadget for "play, life, and tinkering" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can't explain. They call them fast blue optical transients, or FBOTs: blasts as luminous as a supernova, or brighter, but flaring and fading far faster, and glowing a distinctive blue. - Read the rest The post These cosmic blasts outshine supernovas and no one knows what they are appeared first on Boing Boing.