- newMAGA Mike fact-checks the Pope on Jesus
House Speaker by the thinnest margins, Mike Johnson took a moment to explain Christianity to the Pope. Suggesting that while Pope Francis might frown on war, there's always the handy "just war" doctrine for when the teachings of Jesus become a little…
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- newWhat if your calendar ran on a worm that splits itself in half?
Once or twice a year, on reefs across Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Timor-Leste, and other islands of the southwestern Pacific, the palolo worm tears itself in half. The front portion stays put in the coral rubble where the worm normally hides. The back end…
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- newAn open-source bot that only bets "no" on Polymarket is making money
Sterling Crispin, an artist and engineer, built a Python bot called Nothing Ever Happens that does one thing on Polymarket — it bets against every event. New prediction market opens? The bot buys "No." Automatically, around the clock, for every mar…
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- newYour odds of finding a 100-year-old message in a bottle: 1 in 8 million
With 8 billion people on Earth, mathematician Kevin Burke calculates that any one person's chances of stumbling across a century-old message in a bottle are about 1 in 8 million. The calculation takes just two steps, as Burke explains in The Conversa…
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- newHarassment streamer Johnny Somali sentenced to six months labor in Korea
Ramsey Khalid Ismael, the harassment streamer who calls himself Johnny Somali, spent months on camera insisting that no Korean court would ever put him behind bars. A Seoul judge just put him behind bars.Attorney Andrew Esquire, who has been trackin…
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- newLearn a new language at your pace with Promova for life
TL;DR: Lifetime access to the Promova app for language learning is now only $54.97 (MSRP $299.99) until Apr. 26 at 11:59p.m. PT.Want to learn a new language in a safe and supportive environment? Promova is a modern app that focuses on effective a…
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- newOrwell predicted the AI slop novel in 1949
Historian Laura Beers, who is part of the Bartz v. Anthropic class action settlement, writes in The Conversation about realizing that Claude wasn't just trained on the content of her books — it was trained on her voice. In March 2026, journalist Ju…
- 16 hours ago 15 Apr 26, 8:59pm -
- newIran's most effective weapon might be AI karaoke
The United States deploys fleet after fleet, and its leadership threatens to terrorize Iran and further hobble the glocal economy with a reciprocal blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has been busy winning the war by flooding the internet with wit…
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- newA keyfob-sized e-reader you can 3D print for about $30
YouTuber Paul Lagier has built an e-reader barely larger than an adult thumb out of a 3D-printed shell, an ESP32 microcontroller, a small battery, and a Heltec Wireless Paper e-ink display. The whole build runs about $30 in parts, according to Androi…
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- newSomeone already pitched Bezos' 10,000-year clock — in 1903
In the November 1903 issue of The Strand, a physician named David Watsu laid out a 150-foot pyramid for Hyde Park, faced in granite or terra-cotta, with catacombs for royalty, an observatory at the apex, and an octagonal central chamber built around…
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