[“Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”] Mark Zuckerberg is suing Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer from Indiana, has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer uses a commercial Facebook page to advertise his le … | Continue reading
[Who the fuck needs COINTELPRO?] A little over a year ago, I linked to a puff piece about the AI-powered Friend pendant. Now, writers Kylie Robison and Boone Ashworth have reviewed the device for Wired, and they are not fans. It is an incredibly antisocial device to wear. People … | Continue reading
[Apparently, however, a psychologist might be helpful.] In the vein of “How to see the moon”, today we have “[H]ow to increase your odds of winning the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot”. Given the headline, this article should’ve been three words: “Buy more tickets”. It’s a weird t … | Continue reading
[Florida’s Surgeon General says that exposing vulnerable people to vaccine-preventable disease is “part of the experience of life”.] Hey, speaking of terribleness in Florida, the state is now planning to end all school vaccine requirements. That’s incredibly stupid. At least Ars … | Continue reading
[We’re living through it.] Alligator Alcatraz is the nickname of the disgraceful South Florida Detention Facility recently constructed by Florida Governor/Trump lickspittle Ron DeSantis. That nickname has seen official use, which speaks volumes about the cruelty of those in power … | Continue reading
[You DO sound corny being scared of the subway.] Earlier this year, Hamilton Nolan did an excellent job explaining why fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.Link: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary | Continue reading
[Soon, our wretched flag may be replaced.] In recent years, multiple states have worked on improving their flags. In good news, Minnesota completed the update to their flag last year. Sadly though, against all taste and reason, Maine’s gorgeous Lone Pine flag failed to be approve … | Continue reading
[Barbers used to be dentists, and maybe one day, they will be again.] Have you ever been brushing your teeth, and realized you had a hair in your mouth that you’d just been pushing all over your teeth and gums, and then you needed to extract the wispy little bastard from your fro … | Continue reading
[Interviewing 8 billion people would take awhile.] Last week, I read the headline “Fewer foreign tourists are visiting Boston this summer. Some blame Trump”. My first thought was “…and others also blame Trump?”. There really is no one else. It’s patently obvious that the despicab … | Continue reading
[Rosa was “deprived of basic rights in the most un-American way possible”.] Rümeysa Öztürk was one of far too many people who have recently suffered at the hands of American authorities. After returning home to Boston from Mexico, Jemmy Jimenez Rosa was detained for ten days. Dur … | Continue reading
[They chose…poorly.] Hubris doesn’t always win. Rather than settling a case over a fatal crash involving its “Autopilot” technology for $60 million, Tesla decided to fight. As a result of losing that case, they now owe nearly $243 million instead, as well as legal fees since the … | Continue reading
[“The stimulation of Keijo for sexual relief is unusual.”] I bet when you study to be a marine biologist, they don’t tell you that one day you might be asked to manually stimulate an orca in the hopes of preventing it from having sex with its own mother. Link: https://www.bbc.com … | Continue reading
[There really should’ve been a dozen.] The Animal Rescue League of Boston has a ten-pack of pups up for adoption. Delightfully, they’ve named this pack of Beagles after bagels. An Off-the-Cuff Ranking From Best to Worst of the 10 Bagel Beagle Names, With Brief Explanations Poppy: … | Continue reading
[At least I’m one of the most valued Amtrak Guest Rewards® members.] Recently, Amtrak sent me a “member exclusive” email to let me know that the future was approaching the station. [A]s one of our most valued Amtrak Guest Rewards® members, we wanted you to be the first to know th … | Continue reading
[RFK Jr.’s incredibly dumbness is very, very bad for humanity.] According to the FDA, there might be radioactive shrimp in the food supply. That’s fun. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the public should avoid eating certain frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to c … | Continue reading
[Her glee is infectious.] Though this video of a grandmother and her granddaughter going to Walmart and googly eyeing up the place is a couple years old, it only just came to my attention.1 It was shared with me by friend-of-the-site Craig H., and now, I share it with you. Footno … | Continue reading
[Perhaps Organic Valley should improve their packaging.] Recently, a little birdie tipped me off to the following post from a local Boston “Buy Nothing” group: It was immediately obvious to me that this poster was confused as to what exactly this product was. The item pictured is … | Continue reading
[The mailboxes are due on Maple Street.] Wednesday’s post “Adequately Explained by Stupidity” generated quite a few responses, which led to a deeper dive into the whole mess. In particular, readers Chris C., Chris D., and David S. helped me get to the bottom of things. Sadly for … | Continue reading
[“Chuck them down the slide and wish them well!”] It was undoubtedly a bad scene on yesterday’s Breeze Airways Flight 704, when a traveler became unruly and violent. What stuck out to me, though, is that the passenger somehow managed to break out of restraints twice. It seems lik … | Continue reading
[Common sense is not nearly common enough.] On July 30th, I saw the following near Inman Square in Cambridge: As I cycled past this tragedy, I did a double-take, which is a very unsafe thing to do on a bicycle. I quickly stopped and backtracked to snap a picture. Rather than suff … | Continue reading
[9 out of 10 doctors say a couple beer miles a year is fiiiiine.] A decade ago, I wrote: For the uninformed, a beer mile is a rather ridiculous kind of race wherein participants drink a beer, then run a quarter mile, four times in a row. The world record for men is an absolutely … | Continue reading
[I don’t even really trust the “470 feet” part of it, but I’m willing to accept it.] Since 2015, Major League Baseball has used a system called Statcast to collect data about the game, measuring things like the speed of pitches or the launch angle for hits. One of Statcast’s most … | Continue reading
[Still, I’d sort of like to try it?] This week, I learned about the dearly departed Fly Over slide at the Duinrell amusement park in the Netherlands. From 1994 to 2010, a waterslide which completely submerged the rider was in operation. You can click to watch a very unsatisfying … | Continue reading
[Remind me not to wear greens when I hike.] Using artificial intelligence in place of humans has problems. Using AI to augment humans, however, certainly seems promising. Recently, Italian rescue workers were able to locate the body of a missing hiker thanks in part to AI analysi … | Continue reading
[The reasons don’t seem unclear to me.] Today, friend-of-the-site Chris D. passed along with the latest in fucking around and finding out. Hunter Asher Watkins was fatally gored by a South African buffalo he had been hunting. Local residents call the buffalo species found in the … | Continue reading
[Do icebergs get spooked?] Thanks to friend-of-the-site Oliver Y. for alerting me to Dennis Lehtonen’s amazing pictures of icebergs overlooking Innaarsuit, Greenland. I’m still not sure why folks shouldn’t travel in large groups though. Link: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/0 … | Continue reading
[Once they came up with the name, they really had to make it happen.] The Microsoft Smurface is very dumb, and it should be all blue. Nevertheless, let us recognize what an absolutely tremendous name it is. If you want one, act fast, because it’s limited to just 100 units. Link: … | Continue reading
[A month-long vacation in North Korea would sure be something.] When a country is strengthening its ties with North Korea, they should really consider stepping back and asking themselves some hard questions. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/moscow-pyongyang-dir … | Continue reading
[“Thaw & Eat!”] On a recent trip to Costco, I saw these “Mega Packs” containing 24 Uncrustables: While I’ve never had an Uncrustable myself, I’m certainly aware of them. Next to them, however, was something I’d never heard of before: “CrustOffs?! More like Knock-Offs, am I right? … | Continue reading
[More of a scene, anyway.] When police came to question an employee at a well-known family entertainment center, the man donned a mouse costume, perhaps in an effort to evade them. So it was that this scene came to be: “We were eating, and they did the announcement that Chuck E. … | Continue reading
[Their (computer) scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.] If you’ve ever thought “Sure, a high-performance German automobile sounds great, but I also want to take video meetings in Microsoft Teams while I drive”, w … | Continue reading
[Tying health insurance to jobs was really just a lousy idea.] How screwed up is the state of healthcare in America? At the age of 45, Venus Williams recently returned to her old job as a professional tennis player, at least in part for the health insurance. Link: https://www.wbu … | Continue reading
[Boogie-Woogie-Woogie!] While listening to the radio broadcast of a recent Red Sox game, I heard a tremendous advertisement. Though I’ve provided a transcript as a footnote1, I urge you to take the 60 seconds needed to listen to the following recording: Your browser does not su … | Continue reading
[Repeat campers are an encouraging sign.] Parents are now sending their kids to screen-free summer camps, and Wired spoke to the founder of one such camp. I wonder how those parents might fare with their own digital detoxes. Link: https://www.wired.com/story/teen-summer-camp-no-s … | Continue reading
[I suppose the most easily-hunted animals are more likely to have viruses.] If you’re anything like me, you’ve never once discovered a single new virus. Meanwhile, Pepper the cat has now helped identify two. Link: https://ufhealth.org/news/2025/scientists-cat-contributes-to-secon … | Continue reading
[This sure isn’t how I’d like my tax dollars to be used.] Speaking of Rümeysa Öztürk, recent testimony from Homeland Security agents confirmed that prior to being snatched off the street, she was not informed her visa had been revoked: When asked by attorney Michael Tremonte if t … | Continue reading
[Is this the kind of world we envision for our children?] In a piece co-published by Vanity Fair and The Tufts Daily, Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk describes her reprehensible 45 days in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana. Her resilience and grace are astounding, and … | Continue reading
[Sadly for me, that doesn’t seem to be in right now.] When I wrote about garish weddings earlier this month, the linked page included an image that really caught my eye: The woman on Jeff Bezos’s arm is apparently Lauren Sanchez, his wife. I poked around a bit more, and wound up … | Continue reading
[Oh, also, Grok even more recently added a porny chat companion.] Earlier this month, Elon Musk wrote about X Formerly Twitter’s integrated chatbot: “We have improved @Grok significantly, You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” People did, in fact, notice a d … | Continue reading
[Completely full…of crap.] The word “full” means “containing as much or as many as is possible or normal”. It requires no modifiers, as it is a binary condition. Something either is full or it is not. And yet nearly every time I find myself on a plane, I hear announcements … | Continue reading
[Maybe we should all walk around with Q-Tips dangling out of our ears.] Chimpanzees in Zambia have been engaging in the seemingly pointless behavior of sticking grass into their ears. This behavior was exhibited by two distinct groups of chimps, who had no crossover. So, how did … | Continue reading
[Normal wear and tear is a thing.] In a vacuum, an AI-powered scanner for rental car companies to check for damage could be OK. Performing identical scans both before a rental goes out and after it returns should make for easy and useful comparisons that remove subjectivity and h … | Continue reading
[it was bananas - B-A-N-A-N-A-S.] Four years ago, I first wrote about the Savannah Bananas, who: …play Banana Ball, a variant of baseball where fans can catch foul balls for outs, walks are now sprints, and there’s a strict two-hour time limit. … Banana Ball is unlikely to replac … | Continue reading
[You won’t be stopped.] That’s where the money is. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/nyregion/nyc-atm-thefts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.Pfmm.5H2NqoZJh2Vp&smid=url-share | Continue reading
[You won’t get far.] Who would steal a car on a tiny island? Link: https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/only-on-nantucket-the-curious-case-of-the | Continue reading
[It sure was nice having some things be apolitical.] Last Friday, the Social Security Administration decided to celebrate Independence Day by spamming American citizens. Their nauseating email opened with this: This is simply not something a non-partisan government agency should … | Continue reading
[To ensure a tolerant society, we must be intolerant of intolerance.] A law that criminalizes the display of a sign that says “Everyone is Welcome here” is probably not such a good idea. Link: https://www.idahoednews.org/top-news/attorney-general-everyone-is-welcome-here-sign-can … | Continue reading
[Jahmai Webster’s wardrobe also deserves special mention.] In 1975, the Reds and Red Sox played an epic World Series, going to 7 games. Though Carlton Fisk’s Game 6 heroics are the most iconic moment of that series, it was the Reds who took home the trophy the next night. 50 year … | Continue reading