Mystery object fell from space in North Carolina mountains (boingboing.net)
Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)
After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it (boingboing.net)
Death: a process, not a point, says cutting-edge research (boingboing.net)
Los Angeles PD wants to remotely access 10,000 public and private security cameras (boingboing.net)
The late Mojo Nixon had an appropriately amusing tour rider. (boingboing.net)
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Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed (boingboing.net)
Trump: Civil War didn't need to happen, could have been "negotiated" (boingboing.net)
U.S. retailers admit they lied about shoplifting, retail crime again (boingboing.net)
"I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020 (boingboing.net)
Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views (boingboing.net)
New research in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, from University of Kent researchers Louis Bachaud and Sarah Johns, explores how members of various manosphere communities (think Andrew Tate and his ilk) misuse research and concepts from evolutionary psychology to bolster their own misogynistic views.
Why diamonds suck (boingboing.net)
Almost all major advertisers have fled Elon Musk's Twitter, new data shows | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
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Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days (boingboing.net)
School board member blames "Holy Spirit" for making her share a Nazi meme (boingboing.net)
School board member blames "Holy Spirit" for making her share a Nazi meme (boingboing.net)
Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out (boingboing.net)
Unity isn't a game engine. It's a malware-pushing advertising network which merged with a game engine to acquire a delivery channel and now wears its skin. This is fine for the bigger devs and publishers structured around platform relationships, but for everyone else? Gamemaker, Godot, Unreal, Defold… pick a flavor, they're...
Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster" (boingboing.net)
Nebraska governor Jim Pillen, a Republican not noted as a women’s rights supporter, yesterday issued an executive order “defining” males and females and the attributes thereof. The anti-transgender political grandstanding offers fusty explanations of the sexes–men are “bigger, stronger and faster” on average–in...
TIL Spiders might dream. New study finds evidence of REM-like movement in arachnids (boingboing.net)
HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …
Kevin Mitnick, famous fugitive hacker, dead at 59 (boingboing.net)
Kevin Mitnick, 1963-2023 (boingboing.net)
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Crossword puzzles outperform socializing in dementia prevention (boingboing.net)
A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users (boingboing.net)
Twitter seeing 52% of its links removed on google after user requirement change (boingboing.net)
