Harkening back to the good old days when Bub Rub and Lil' Sis were all the rage, this interview is pure gold. These two gentlemen may not like turtles, but they sure have their priorities in line.

A day after Los Angeles' crumbling infrastructure wiped out a critical roadway, these guys wanna know what is up with the Supreme clothing brand summer sale. — Read the rest

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Keith Thomas broke his neck diving into a pool in 2020 and was paralyzed from the chest down. Six years later, thanks to a set of brain implants that bypass his spinal injury, he can feed himself, drink from a cup, and feel the fur on his dog again, the Guardian reports. — Read the rest

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You know the trick of picking one voice out of a crowded room — the "cocktail party" problem. A new study in PLOS Biology looks at the messier moment when you switch your attention from one talker to another, and finds the brain doesn't hand off cleanly: for a beat, it tracks both voices at once. — Read the rest

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JD Vance reinforced the stereotype that the U.S. Vice President does nothing by asserting that it is a great time to raise a newborn. Apparently, JD has cracked the code on modern parenting: be vice president, surround your family with taxpayer-funded security professionals, and then marvel at how manageable everything feels. — Read the rest

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CNN Business has produced a headline so pure, so direct, so violently inevitable, that no rewrite desk should be allowed within 500 feet of it: "Taco Bell has a diarrhea problem."

The actual story is grim and gross: CNN reports that shredded iceberg lettuce sold at some Midwestern Taco Bell locations has been linked to a cyclospora outbreak involving more than 1,600 cases and nearly 100 hospitalizations. — Read the rest

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The 1,024,000² 2b2t World Download Project is a public archive of the Minecraft anarchy server 2b2t, preserving roughly 13.7 TiB of compressed world data covering a million-by-million-block section of the server's Overworld, plus smaller captures of its Nether and End dimensions. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a Babbel lifetime subscription covering all 14 languages for $159 (reg. $299) with code LEARN.

Plenty of language apps will happily teach you a stockpile of nouns and verb tenses, then leave you frozen the moment a real person answers back faster than your flashcards prepared you for. — Read the rest

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On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union — when the safety mechanisms failed. He leaned over and put his head directly into the path of a 76 GeV proton beam. — Read the rest

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In 2004, John Bergeron built an animatronic from about $2,000 in materials — a 5'10" metal skeleton with synthetic rubber skin, a wig, and women's clothing — and set out to market Tara the Android as "the world's first pop star android," complete with plans for live shows. — Read the rest

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In March of the year 536, the sky over Constantinople went dark for a year-and-a-half. The Roman historian Procopius wrote that "the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse." The statesman Cassiodorus described noon without shadows, a full moon "empty of splendour," and "a winter without storms, a spring without mildness, and a summer without heat." — Read the rest

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On the night of May 22, 1969, Sergeant Paul Meyer — a 23-year-old Air Force mechanic and Vietnam veteran stationed at RAF Mildenhall in England — drank heavily at a party, was arrested by Suffolk Police for being drunk and disorderly, and was escorted back to barracks to sleep it off. — Read the rest

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Modern voice AI can talk about anything, which is the problem: do you want therapy from your fridge?  On his blog Interconnected, Matt Webb posted excerpts from sci-fi stories about machines that talk only about one thing.

Like this ATM that discourages long convos:

He headed for the ATM in the back… he knew it was watching him as he walked up to it.

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Codex Micro is a keypad by Work Louder, for OpenAI, that's designed for use specifically with LLM-related tasks such as chatting to chatbots and marshalling agents, whatever that means. It has 16 RGB keyswitches (clicky or silent) in a 4×4 grid and 32 keycaps for various functions; the top corner switches are fancy rotary ones and it comes with dials and knobs for them. — Read the rest

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On October 25, 1924, witnesses at Margate, South Africa reported watching a huge white creature battle two killer whales offshore for three hours, using its tail to attack and lifting itself an estimated 20 feet out of the water. Farmer Hugh Ballance said it looked like a "giant polar bear." — Read the rest

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Decoy is a font where each glyph is ambigious, the idea being that machines will interpret it one way and humans another. In the example above, HAPPY HUMAN is the hidden blurred text behind the clearer SORRY ROBOT text. Some casual testing by the Hacker News crowd suggest it doesn't work very well, but it's an interesting demonstration of an idea ("Is it useful? — Read the rest

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Almost everything you've read about how Anthony Burgess came to write A Clockwork Orange may be invented — by Burgess himself, argues The Memory Hole. As the standard account has it, in 1959 a doctor gave the Burgess a year to live, so he churned out novels to leave his wife some money. — Read the rest

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Signalbox plots every train moving across Britain in real time (or close to it), each choo choo represented by a dot creeping along the lines. Click one to see its origin, destination and the stops along the way. As of 6:05 p.m. — Read the rest

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The Anti-Forbes List ranks the richest humans not by their net worth (illiquid, volatile and unrealizable as it is) but by the value their companies have created for other people, excluding themselves. The list shows the top 28; if the number seems peculiar, it's because that's where Elon Musk, with the largest net worth, slips to. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: EbookMagic uses AI to generate, format, and package ebooks with custom covers, Kindle-ready exports, commercial rights, and more – all with a lifetime license for $39.99 (reg. $149.99).

The hardest part of writing a book used to be writing the book. — Read the rest

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Heikki Lotvonen's Text Art Tools is a collection of websites and apps that make it easier to make what once was known as ASCII art but is now a vast and sprawling universe of options. I found out about PabloDraw, "The best RIPScrip editor," Telepaint, a "Teletext paint and animation program," and Textual Paint, "a textmode version of MS Paint that runs in the terminal," among many other creative curiosities. — Read the rest

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To celebrate what is somehow the tenth anniversary of Stranger Things, Netflix is turning up the nostalgia to 11 with Stranger Things: VHS special edition. According to a Netflix press release, the remastered episodes contain "visual and audio effects that seem to come straight from a video store rental," which means fuzzy video quality and pan-and-scan. — Read the rest

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Most countries give tourists a 30- or 90-day stamp and start counting the days. The Republic of Georgia gives you a whole year, no application required. In his travel newsletter Nomadico, Tim Leffel calls it the best tourist visa in the world — land in Tbilisi, get a stamp, and you can legally stay for 365 days. — Read the rest

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Anyone who's spent a lot of time in second-or third-world nations will tell you that tuk-tuks are definitely a thing. They're inexpensive to operate, compared to a car or truck, and serve in almost every capacity that you can imagine. From colectivos where public transport isn't available to makeshift dump trucks hauling supplies to a construction site. — Read the rest

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Fantagraphics Books is nearing completion of its ambitious mission to publish the entirety of master cartoonist Carl Barks's 1942-1966 run of Donald Duck comics for Western Publishing. Comics fans (full disclosure: including me) and historians generally consider it one of the best, if not the best, comic book runs of all time. — Read the rest

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Osamu Tezuka's influence on comics and animation is monumental. Before Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Chainsaw Man, and countless other manga and anime that found devoted audiences across the world, there was Osamu Tezuka. His storytelling, cinematic page layouts, and seemingly inexhaustible imagination helped invent the modern language of manga and influenced comics far more broadly. — Read the rest

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Americans filed 158 million card-transaction disputes in 2025 — up 29% since 2021, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek piece by Amanda Mull. Worldwide, the jump was even steeper, 46%. Bloomberg describes it as "friendly fraud" — shoppers disputing charges they know are legitimate, a habit TikTok now teaches with step-by-step tutorials on chargeback-ing your way to free stuff. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg. $199), no coupon code needed.

A Windows license for under ten bucks sounds like the setup to a scam, but this one's real, no code required, and it's only around through July 16. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: If you're looking for the perfect technological assist for all your browsing, streaming, and document-management needs, this refurbished 2018 MacBook Air is now just $199.97 (reg. $1,199)—grab your 128GB one in Gold.

12+ hours of battery life to keep you supported

MacBook Airs have all the reliability of MacBook Pros, plus everyday battery life, portability, and minimal financial headache. — Read the rest

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About a decade ago, Jia Tolentino argues in a New Yorker essay, famous faces on Instagram began converging on one look — plumper lips, catlike eyes, sharper cheekbones. People edited their faces in selfies, then had surgeons reshape the real thing to match. — Read the rest

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The Peking Man fossils — the Homo erectus skullcaps and bones from Zhoukoudian cave that anchored the theory that humans evolved in Asia — disappeared in December 1941 and haven't been seen since. 

With Japanese forces advancing through China, the fossils, representing at least 40 individuals, were packed into two wooden footlockers to be carried by U.S. — Read the rest

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