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Oswaldo Pirela, the San Diego Padres' (Major League Baseball) minor-league catching coordinator, was arrested at an El Paso, Texas airport as he prepared to return to his home in Peoria, Arizona, where he lives with his wife and two children, aged 9 and 4. - Read the rest The post Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE appeared first on Boing Boing.

Game studio Embark has teamed up with Subway to promote its extraction shooter ARC Raiders. Purchasing a meal will earn players a code for a new skin, complete with a removable (unbranded) Subway sandwich, or possibly a wrap, tethered to the front and curiously categorized as "tech." - Read the rest The post ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with... Subway appeared first on Boing Boing.

Bizarre or misshapen typefaces designed to confuse or stymie AI (previously and previously at Boing Boing) regularly go viral. But they're works of art making a point rather than something to actually use in production."Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful," writes Andrew Yaros, not least because they are inaccessible. - Read the rest The post Anti-AI fonts considered harmful appeared first on Boing Boing.

HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that wonderful. - Read the rest The post The latest HTML trickery for web designers appeared first on Boing Boing.

The pomato is a plant that grows cherry tomatoes on its vine and potatoes in the soil. Tomatoes and potatoes both belong to the genus Solanum, so you can graft them together. You can make one by cutting the stem of each plant, strapping the two together, and waiting for the cuts to heal. - Read the rest The post A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below appeared first on Boing Boing.

This past week, Lord Vader took time out of his busy schedule to drop by a city council meeting in San Diego, California to say how much his Master is enjoying Flock. According to Vader, it's proven great for following children to playgrounds and stalking his ex-girlfriend. - Read the rest The post Emperor Palpatine loves Flock appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trumpian United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has a very weird idea about "sabotage."In a desperate attempt to keep her boss- not the Attorney General, but Donald Trump- happy, Pirro is somehow trying to keep open a door to subject former Olympian David Hearne to more legal abuse. - Read the rest The post More reflecting pool nonsense appeared first on Boing Boing.

Mr. T's The Man with the Gold is one of my treasured books, so Netflix finally spending some Untold money on Laurence Tureaud feels like someone finally got something right over there.In a time when Netflix is pissing money away on Melania and rehabilitating the DOA Raygun, it is a pleasant surprise to see Mr. - Read the rest The post Mr. T's extraordinary life gets the Netflix Untold treatment appeared first on Boing Boing.

Four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina, including three of five surviving panels of his San Gregorio Polyptych, were heisted from the Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina in Sicily. The thieves came and went without triggering alarms, police say, and they don't know who is responsible. - Read the rest The post Museum heist bags four Renaissance paintings, with two more dumped in the street appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alexey Marushchenko, founder of a small Russian private military company named Yastreb ("Hawk"), is off to the gulag for 18 years after pleading guitly to charges of extortion, fraud, kidnapping and murder. With official support from a Russian general, Alexander Dembitsky, Yastreb recruited men to fight in the Ukraine war, but extorted money from those who signed up and brutalized those who refused to pay. - Read the rest The post Gulag for Russian mercenary who beat soldier to death with dildo appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TL;DR:A1min.AI Advanced Business Plan lifetime subscriptionis $99.99 (reg. $540), with flagship models from six AI companies plus image, audio, and video tools.Every six weeks, some lab publishes a benchmark chart, declares itself the new champion, and a few million people cancel one $20 subscription to start a different $20 subscription. - Read the rest The post $100 gets you GPT-5.5, Claude Opus, and Gemini 3.1, with no monthly fee appeared first on Boing Boing.

Engadet explains the benefits of a Mirrorless camera and why you don't really need one if you are hanging on to an SLR or another camera that works just fine.I used to think I got all the benefits of a mirrorless camera from the reduced camera shake in my Twin Reflex Cameras, but it turns out there is more to it than not having a mirror slapping around inside your camera. - Read the rest The post Mirrorless cameras remove the reflex, digital removed the fun appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the intrepid MAGAs magically travel back to the time when America was Great!-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! - Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs go back to when America was Great appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having the right to repair your hardware doesn't matter much if you don't have hardware you can repair. As phones have become more svelte and complex, they've also become significantly more difficult to take apart. Even with the right tools and detailed instructions from a joint like iFixit, replacing the battery in a recent iPhone can leave you having nightmares for a month. - Read the rest The post Fairphone finally sells its repairable phones directly in the US appeared first on Boing Boing.

Klasse Wrecks is a record label and publishing company based in London and Hong Kong. I haven't listened to their records or cassettes yet, but I've been tempted to buy some of their 22 KFAX zines.Each is about 100 pages long and consists of black-and-white reproductions of logos. - Read the rest The post Logos of the early UFOlogy scene and Japanesel love hotels appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Geoff Pack made Sun Clock is a neat online visualization of the hours of daylight and darkness, casting it against a regular (but 24-hour!) clock face. You can tweak with the appearance and hands, set location and direction manually, and turn off the moon. - Read the rest The post 24-hour clock face shows the hours of darkness appeared first on Boing Boing.

Researchers from theSouth Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropologyare looking for a 500-year-old coastline to find a 500-year-old lost flagship. The ship hasn't moved, but the coastline has.South Carolina's coastline has changed so much since a Spanish flagship ran aground near Winyah Bay in 1526 that its remains could now be reasonably close to any coastal waterfront. - Read the rest The post A lost Spanish flagship could be under the ocean, under a river, or even a beach appeared first on Boing Boing.

As reported by wdwmagic.com, last week, Disney Enterprises, Inc. published a patent for "a way to make a flat ride track feel like it's climbing or dropping, without the track actually changing height."U.S. Patent PublicationThe core version of the trick needs no moving parts and no screens at all, just angled walls and stairs, though the patent leaves room for add-ons like video projection and set pieces that shift or change dimension as a vehicle passes, layered on top of the static illusion for a stronger effect. - Read the rest The post Disney patent for a fake-elevation ride trick matches new Encanto ride appeared first on Boing Boing.

This excellent doggo saw a good time fly by his face and decided it was playtime.This skater is having a ball until he isn't! Those awesome wallrides had the dog just wanting to play!

MMA loses to the MMPA.The gentleman in question was most assuredly NOT Max Holloway. Tyler Muehl approached a resting California sea lion at La Jolla Cove, assumed a fighting stance, invoked the UFC star's name, and started kicking. The sea lion tried to flee. - Read the rest The post Sea lion-kicking young man discovers the Marine Mammal Protection Act appeared first on Boing Boing.

For better or worse, the state of the contemporary game industry has always been reflected in Rockstar's blockbuster Grand Theft Auto series. The mid-2000s push toward gritty realism (i.e. putting a brown filter on everything), the emergence of ruthlessly exploitative live-service elements, even the 3D sandbox tropes we now take for granted - GTA has always been a time capsule of the triple-A gaming sphere at large. - Read the rest The post GTA 6 is now paywalling its own advertisements appeared first on Boing Boing.

I'm headed back to Japan soon. This will be my 10th visit there. I've been going to Japan since 1986. It's changed in a lot of ways. Most noticeably, it is less expensive than it was in 1986, and there are far more foreigners in Tokyo now. - Read the rest The post A little plastic holder for the yen coins in my pocket appeared first on Boing Boing.

Disney made many announcements for the future of its theme parks at the D23 Disney fan event in Anaheim, California, Saturday night. One headline is that an upcoming refurbishment of the Imagination Pavilion in Disney World's EPCOT (Orlando, Florida) will feature beloved but neglected characters Figment and Dreamfinder. - Read the rest The post Disney will reunite Figment and Dreamfinder at EPCOT appeared first on Boing Boing.

The time-honored trick of "repeat after me" strikes again.Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk calls his expensive AI Grok "maximum truth-seeking." Users apparently discovered they could create maximum truths by putting inflammatory text in an X bio, asking Grok to repeat the bio verbatim, and then sitting back as Musk's personal AI shared it with the world. - Read the rest The post Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Budding Portland celebrities Billy the Kid and Billy the Goat escaped their owner's yard, found a TriMet stop, and briefly attempted the morning commute.Two pygmy goats showed up at a Portland bus stop Tuesday morning, waited for the FX2 and climbed on aboard with the other passengers. - Read the rest The post Escaped pygmy goats try Portland public transit appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you want to sell AI to the Russian state, you're going to have to tune it to the nation's "traditional spiritual and moral values" before you have a shot, reports Vedomosti, a Russian-language business daily out of Moscow. - Read the rest The post Russia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral values appeared first on Boing Boing.

After more than a decade of reading on Kindle e-readers, I finally added custom fonts, and I'm blown away.I was never sold. When Amazon's first "made for ereaders" font, Bookerly, came out, I set it on my Kindle and never looked back. - Read the rest The post OK, custom Kindle fonts are really nice appeared first on Boing Boing.

Claude Monet's first paying work was caricature. At fifteen, he sold unflattering drawings of well-known men around Le Havre through a framing shop, and crowds gathered at the window to look at them. By his own later account, he was among the most successful artists in the Norman port city. - Read the rest The post Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals appeared first on Boing Boing.

Roger Waters built the opening of Pink Floyd's "Money" in 1972 out of spliced tape: cash registers, torn paper, and coins. Open Culture posted a video of a German band that played those same sounds live at Abbey Road Studios, where Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon, and identifies the drummer as Sina Doering. - Read the rest The post A band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" live appeared first on Boing Boing.

Pompous scholars were a standard joke on the Italian stage through the 16th century. Arnoud Visser writes in The Public Domain Review that Francesco Belo, a playwright from Rome, published the first play to put one at the center. In El pedante, from the 1520s, the schoolmaster Prudenzio "talks in a mangled mix of Latin and vernacular." - Read the rest The post A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Canned sardines are hard to find in American supermarketsbecause of a fad diet.Corner of Fifth reports that the diet consists of tinned fish and water, black coffee, or plain tea. It spread on TikTok and YouTube and through keto communities, and Dr. - Read the rest The post A viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf appeared first on Boing Boing.

Phyllis Zorn, a reporter at the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion, Kansas to settle her federal lawsuit over the 2023 police raid on the newspaper, reports the Kansas Reflector. Lawyers for Zorn and the city filed the motion to dismiss on August 11, three years to the day after the raid. - Read the rest The post A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Food safety lawyer Bill Marler says theFDA's new guide on fresh-cut produce admits it knows of no chemical wash that stops Cyclospora from spreading between pieces of cut produce.Cyclospora is a parasite hazard in berries, fresh basil, fresh cilantro, and fresh salad mixes. - Read the rest The post The FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce appeared first on Boing Boing.

The EU AI Act AI outputs to be "detectable as artificially generated"and "embedded within the content in a manner that is difficult for it to be separated from the content."But Sean Goedecke, a software engineer, explains why the European Union's new watermark rule for AI text won't work. - Read the rest The post You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI appeared first on Boing Boing.

The US Treasury sold $25 billion of 30-year bonds at a 5.22 percent yield, the most it has paid to borrow that far out since 2001, reports the Financial Times.That's up from 5.06 percent at July's sale, and 4.91 percent just before Trump's second term began. - Read the rest The post The government now spends more on interest than on the military appeared first on Boing Boing.

noRecognition is a line of basic fashion items (tees, hoodies and gaiters) printed with "adversarial" patterns demonstrated to stymie machine vision systems' ability to detect humans. If battleship dazzle for people has been tried many times, this effort has undergone extensive testing and you can now pre-order custom sets of clothing on Kickstarter. - Read the rest The post Adversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI appeared first on Boing Boing.

In a newStarTalk episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Negin Farsad interviewed Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist who wrote the 2023 New Yorker piece, "There Is No AI."Lanier thinks calling AI a "black box" where nobody knows what's inside these models is really just a way to avoid the truth: the box is full of people and their data. - Read the rest The post The only thing inside an AI is people appeared first on Boing Boing.

WhatCable does what your eyes can't: it tells you what a USB-C cable can actually do. 40Gbps transfer? 100W fast charging? DisplayPort Alt Mode? So long as you have macOS and a port to plug it into, this free app will provide detailed specs on any of those annoyingly indistinguishable cables in your drawer. - Read the rest The post App tells you what USB-C cables are capable of appeared first on Boing Boing.

Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch, Strange Frequencies, and Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons, has spent years thoughtfully exploring the borderlands where occultism, religion, pop culture, and imagination overlap. Writer and filmmaker JF Martel hosts the art and philosophy podcast, Weird Studies, and is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, for my money, one of the smartest and most provocative books about art and the imagination published in recent memory. - Read the rest The post When Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Get Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $9.97 (MSRP $199) through August 20. The upgrade addsadvanced security, productivity, and management featuresto compatible PCs - without the usual $199 price tag.Windows 11 Pro is currently available for just $9.97, giving you afull-featured PC operating systemat a fraction of the usual cost through August 20. - Read the rest The post BitLocker, Copilot, and more are yours for $9.97 with this Windows 11 Pro deal appeared first on Boing Boing.

Thus, exits the Mouth of Moron.After returning early from maternity leave at the request of her crying baby President, Leavitt learned that the press corps and senior White House staff had been left aboard a decoy plane under a credible missile threat while her boss escaped in a catering truck. - Read the rest The post Seems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die appeared first on Boing Boing.

North Korea'sRed Star Linux OSships with a modified Firefox called Naenara ("Our country") and lets users browse Kwangmyong, the country's isolated national intranet. It also comes with an office suite, media players, and video games. It sells for $15. - Read the rest The post North Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch appeared first on Boing Boing.

The British Transport Police announced it would start using facial recognition cameras in a London Underground station. The Victoria Underground station was the first to be equipped with cameras.The cameras scan the faces of everyone who walks past them and compare each face to a watchlist of people the police or the courts want to find. - Read the rest The post Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station appeared first on Boing Boing.

Many restaurants in Japan put a small plastic device on tables. When you press it, a chime rings at the waitstaff station or in the kitchen, and a server comes to your table.Algis Tamosaitis writes the newsletter Japan or Die, and he explained the table call button for travelers. - Read the rest The post In Japan, press the button on your table and a server appears appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:UPDFpacks editing, OCR, conversion, forms, signatures, batch processing, and cloud syncing into one cross-platform PDF toolkit, now $69.99 for life.PDFs are already stubborn enough without your editing software demanding a specific operating system.UPDFworks across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android and packs editing, conversion, OCR, signing, and more into one lifetime subscription for $69.99 (reg. - Read the rest The post This $70 PDF editor doesn't care which operating system you use appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1941 the National Park Service hired Ansel Adams to make a photo mural of the national parks for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC. Adams took the pictures between 1941 and 1942, and then the project stopped. - Read the rest The post Ansel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made appeared first on Boing Boing.