- newPay $75 once and use any AI model (almost) forever
TL;DR: With your Chatplayground AI Ultimate Plan lifetime subscription, you'll be able to skip the monthly individual fees when accessing the top AI models. Grab yours now for just $74.97 (reg. $619).I don't know what's worse—handling monthly ind…
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- newHuman-crafted language lessons definitely hit different
TL;DR: Learn to actually speak in another language (not just tap buttons) with Babbel's human-built lessons—lifetime access for $159 using StackSocial's code LEARN.There's a weird thing happening with language learning right now. Everything is g…
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- A free book explains Tempest by reading every line of the source code
TEMPEST vs TEMPEST is a free book about two of the strangest-looking arcade games ever made. The first is Dave Theurer's Tempest from 1981, the Atari cabinet where you spun a metal knob to rotate around the rim of a glowing geometric tube, shooting s…
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- An editor who read "Crash" called JG Ballard "beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish"
When JG Ballard submitted Crash to Jonathan Cape in the early 1970s, a senior reader reportedly wrote on the manuscript: "This man is beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish." Cape published it anyway, and Ballard went on to write The Atrocity Exhibi…
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- Action Comics No. 1 heads to auction after a 40-year hold
In the early 1980s, a collector with limited funds was scanning auction catalogs and phoning in small bids, hoping something overlooked would slip through. One day the phone rang: his was the highest bid on Action Comics No. 1 — Superman's 1938 deb…
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- Inside DriveSavers, where data loss becomes a grief crisis
DriveSavers, a data recovery firm in Novato, California, has a lobby museum called the Museum of Bizarre Diskasters. On display: a laptop burned shut in a house fire ("like an oyster," an engineer said), a smartphone shredded by a snowblower, and a s…
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- Dead Wi-Fi won't kill your workflow with this $30 Microsoft Office
TL;DR: Pay $29.97 (MSRP $219.99) just once, get the full Microsoft Office Professional 2021 suite on your Windows PC—no subscription fees, no surprise charges—and you can keep working even without WiFi.There's something so refreshing about so…
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- Real Life Comix: 51 true NYC stories from 66 cartoonists (and Moby)
Fifty-one true stories about New York, from 66 people who've survived it. Real Life Comix: Only in New York is a 216-page hardcover memoir anthology co-edited by Dean Haspiel and Doug Latino, now on Kickstarter from Cosmic Lion Productions.The contr…
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- This goat-a-rific roadside attraction is a magical, hilarious delight
Ok, this goat-a-rific roadside attraction is going to the very top of my bucket list! A woman named Emily, who goes by "On the Go Emily" on social media and who provides travel recommendations and inspiration, shared a delightful find that she recent…
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- Young@Heart Chorus delivers stellar concert filled with political and protest music for these challenging times
I'm totally blown away by the supreme talent of the Young@Heart Chorus, which covers songs by Sonic Youth, Green Day, Coldplay, Jimi Hendrix, and more, and which features seniors ranging in age from 75 to 94. In addition to singing, many group member…
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