Hurricane season and winter weather bring the same concern to many households: blackouts. For some, power returns within hours. For others in areas with aging infrastructure or unreliable grids, outages can last days. In these situations, a backup power solution is essential—but … | Continue reading
Donald Trump just slipped to new lows in popularity, with an approval rating of only 37%, according to a poll released today by CNN/SSRS. "Approval of the president has dipped across partisan and demographic lines since the summer in CNN's polling," the outlet reports. — Read the … | Continue reading
Some places in the world fell back chronologically yesterday. Whether you enjoyed an extra hour of sleep, some quiet time sipping coffee in bed, or whatever your Sunday looked like, here's to embracing that extra hour. And as a little food for thought: time is a construct, and so … | Continue reading
Watch clay slicing pro Ellard Devane's trippy horror animation, "Nosferatu Zombie Chainsaw Massacre." My favorite thing about it is that all the special effects are done by hand, not with AI. To make these videos, Devane uses the classic stratacut technique, where a block of colo … | Continue reading
If you've ever wanted to own a piece of the magic from pioneering, legendary electronic band Kraftwerk, you're in luck, because almost 500 items from Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider are being auctioned in a couple of weeks in Nashville, Tennessee at the Musicians Hall of F … | Continue reading
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If I told you one of the most harrowing looks at how dangerous LLMs can be to the human psyche came from a YouTube video originally intended as a comedy, would you believe me? The danger of having a digital sycophant willing to believe and affirm everything you tell it is backed … | Continue reading
Who among us isn't a badass in our own mind? Who hasn't watched a Mission: Impossible movie and thought, "I could totally do that"? If you've ever pictured yourself unleashing your totally real kung fu skills you totally have on an annoying person in your life (and don't lie, you … | Continue reading
Authoritarian governments of all stripes love — and need — to keep a tight leash on their citizens. Ten years ago, the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China was kinda comfortable with allowing its citizens to engage in capitalism and explore what the free m … | Continue reading
Lençóis Maranhenses may be the most magical-looking place I've ever seen in a video. This stunning location is on the northeast coast of Brazil. Here, you can find an otherworldly-looking intersection of sand dunes and blue lagoons. Despite its desert-like appearance, Lençóis Mar … | Continue reading
Ben Cohen, co-founder of ice cream company Ben & Jerry's, announced this week that he's creating a new watermelon-forward ice cream flavor to call for "a permanent peace in Palestine" and for "repairing all the damage that was done there." The BBC explains that the watermelon has … | Continue reading
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Google is ending support for first- and second-generation Nest Thermostats, meaning they will be unpaired and removed from Google's Nest and Home applications. They won't be bricked, just relegated to non-networked functionality. These models are nearly 15 years old, too, though … | Continue reading
Republican House Rep. Nancy Mace is well-known for peculiar behavior, and her latest effort meets the high standards set by "received a threatening message in her own handwriting" and "seriously injured by a handshake." Her latest performance: melting down in the airport at polic … | Continue reading
AeroPresses make delicious coffee, but can require deft hand unless you're happy with a little premature drip through the filter. Hence the official flow control cap and third-party alternatives such as the Fellow Prismo. But there's a problem: they were only available for the st … | Continue reading
I went looking for the smallest good arcade stick, and I found TheTboxShop's $160 FS-Mini, a 3D-printed design intended for fighting games but surely good for all of them. It comes in thirty color options, with stick or all-button designs, and there are several variants to pick f … | Continue reading
President Trump announced today that the refurbishment of the White House's Lincoln Bathroom is complete, and posted photos of the new interior to his website. "Highly polished, Statuary marble!" he wrote. Such finery is fit for great leaders and echoes the presidential bathroo … | Continue reading
TL;DR: The 2024 ASUS Chromebook CM30 with Detachable Touchscreen is down to $159.99 ($329.99) with free shipping. Between your laptop that weighs too much for your liking and your phone that's too small for real work, there's the ASUS Chromebook CM30 — a detachable touchscreen hy … | Continue reading
A Tennessee man spent 37 days in jail for reposting a Facebook meme. Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer, was arrested in late September after sharing a meme referencing a school shooting while commenting on the murder of Charlie Kirk. — Read the rest The post Te … | Continue reading
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, is defending the platform against Elon Musk's cartoonishly vapid attacks. In a recent New York Times interview, Wales dismisses Musk's accusation that Wikipedia is "woke" by pointing to the site's actual mechanisms for transparency. "You see t … | Continue reading
Democrats 66 (D66), a liberal centrist party, has narrowly beaten Geert Wilders' right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands' general election. With all but a few thousand votes yet to be counted, D66 will receive 27 seats to PVV's 26—a sharp decline for the latter, whi … | Continue reading
Author, editor, activist, and podcaster Susie Bright is one of the smartest and funniest people I know. I think I first came across her work in The Whole Earth Review in the late 1980s. After that, we often participated in many of the same forums on The Well and became friendly. … | Continue reading
Budimir Šobat set a world record by holding his breath underwater for 24 minutes and 37 seconds. According to Outside Online, Šobat, who lives in Croatia, trained for years, motivated by caring for his daughter, born with brain damage and later diagnosed with autism. — Read the r … | Continue reading
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Miles Edelsten, a former Associated Press journalist, has created a video guide for navigating Tokyo's Kabukicho district, one of the world's largest red-light districts. His walk-and-talk documentary draws on years of reporting to explain the unique dangers lurking in this infam … | Continue reading
Puppy slayer Kristi Noem swears no American citizens have been detained in Trump's immigration crackdown. This is a bold statement considering ICE's own files read like a Kafka anthology. From Miami to Montana, hundreds of U.S. citizens have been jailed, deported, or "mistakenly" … | Continue reading
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania told Bill Maher that his stroke made him "free" to say whatever he believes, which apparently means quoting the Joker, mocking Gaza protesters, and embracing border crackdowns. The man once hailed as a tattooed progressive is now the kind of … | Continue reading
Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to have streamlined its operations: arrest the parents, forget the child. Witnesses in Aurora, Illinois, say ICE agents detained a couple and then left their toddler in the car: alone, crying, and confused. For an agency that insists it's … | Continue reading
England has Stonehenge. Virginia has Foamhenge — a life-sized replica built entirely from styrofoam by artist Mark Cline. The idea struck him in 1998 when he spotted 16-foot-tall foam blocks at a local insulation manufacturer. Six years later, on April Fool's Day 2004, Foamhenge … | Continue reading
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is widely considered the weakest entry in the long-running series. It's less "cute life simulator" and more "cute endless grind," putting quite a bit of time into maintaining the aesthetic of Animal Crossing while leaving the gameplay sorely underdev … | Continue reading
Strike 3 Holdings is often in the news for suing downloaders of the pornographic movies it owns, and whoever there monitors IP addresses must have thought it was Christmas: a network of thousands of IP addresses that ultimately led to the corporate network of Meta, the parent com … | Continue reading
A company named "The Knights of Ni" in apparent tribute to Monty Python and the Holy Grail was charged with Medicaid fraud, reports The Alaska Beacon. A criminal complaint filed in Anchorage's district court details seven counts including a scheme to defraud, first-degree theft a … | Continue reading
A Kentucky woman who ordered medicine opened the package to find that it contained "arms and fingers," reports Fox 19 News there. It sounds like the setup to a bad joke—"the mistake involved an airline company, a freight company and a courier"—and no further details are on offer. … | Continue reading
The U.S.'s Mariner 2 flew by in 1972. In 1975, a Soviet Venera probe was the first to return an image from the surface of another world, but in Venus's hellish atmosphere functioned for only a few seconds. Since then, there were more successful Soviet and American trips, the Euro … | Continue reading
TL;DR: Windows 10 is officially dead, so keep your PC alive with Windows 11 Pro for just $14.97. Windows 10 is basically a zombie OS now; no more updates, no more patches, and definitely no more protection. If you're still running it, it's time to move on before hackers and bugs … | Continue reading
Prince Andrew, who would now be king now had brother Charles been hit a little harder by that bus in the 1960s, will lose his formal princely title and must vacate the Royal Lodge. He will be known henceforth as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. — Read the rest The post Prince Andrew … | Continue reading
While millions of Americans wait for paychecks that aren't coming, FBI Director Kash Patel apparently decided that a romantic weekend in Pennsylvania was a matter of national security. Patel hitched a ride on a taxpayer-funded jet to see his girlfriend perform at a wrestling even … | Continue reading
Forty-two million Americans will lose SNAP benefits on November 1st as the federal government shutdown continues, NPR reports. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent letters to states on October 10 telling them to halt November distributions due to insufficient funds. SNAP has n … | Continue reading
A mummified dinosaur has given the most complete picture yet of dinosaur skin and, unexpectedly, hooves. Two unfortunate duck-billed dinosaurs perished 66 million years ago in what is now Wyoming and were covered by a flash flood. Fast forward to 2025, and the two Edmontosaurus a … | Continue reading
JD Vance just told a podcast that mistreating dogs makes you a "really terrible person" and that anyone who can "cause suffering to an innocent animal" probably doesn't care about human suffering either. He even went full true-crime enthusiast, citing Jeffrey Dahmer and Freddy Kr … | Continue reading
Remember those old Speak & Spell toys with their distinctly robotic voices? Hardware enthusiast atomic14 just recreated something similar using a microcontroller that costs only 10 cents – the CH32V003, a tiny 8-pin chip with just 16KB of flash memory and 2KB of RAM. — Read the r … | Continue reading
Donald Trump's ghoul, mayonnaise-fueled Stephen Miller, portrays Robert F. Kennedy Jr's dismantling of the infrastructure we rely on for public health as some shining stand for truth and science, rather than a turn towards ignorance and death. I should not have been surprised by … | Continue reading
Kennywood is a family amusement park in Pittsburgh with 8 roller coasters, 2 water rides, and a long and storied history that made it one of only two such venues to become National Historic Landmarks. It's been hosting adults-only nights lately, but has decided to cancel them bec … | Continue reading
Described by the Detroit Free Press as a "chronic thief" with 17 convictions for property offenses, 36-year-old Michael Prince was at it again outside a grocery store in Winnipeg, Manitoba when staff there emerged to give him a beating. Arguing that they left him with life-alteri … | Continue reading
Before it became the top TV streaming service, Netflix built its empire by mailing movies on-demand to viewers' homes, obliterating the rental video business and producing an estimated 5 billion DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. It finally shut down that service in 2023, after 25 years in … | Continue reading