Squirrels were melting into the ground during the last Southern California heatwave.

Scientists explain "splooting" as rodents spreading out to expose as much of their thermal mass as possible to the cooler ground. It looks cute, but residents should still avoid squirrels as the nefarious criminal masterminds of the wild animal world. — Read the rest

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On nice, sunny days in Southern California, people usually visit the beach. Today, however, the beach is moving into residential neighborhoods.

A hurricane is east and south of Baja California, a record heatwave just broke, and the Super El Niño doesn't give a damn, or it would probably just pass right over a dam, too. — Read the rest

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Trump spent millions in taxpayer money to put self-aggrandizing tripe on TV. A focus group of former supporters suggests the ads may be doing exactly the opposite of winning them back.

The Bulwark shared one of Trump's ego ads with some MAGAs whose enthusiasm has waned. — Read the rest

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A crazy spectacle erupted when a 20-inch Harvest Midstream natural-gas pipeline exploded Tuesday afternoon near La Boca, New Mexico, shooting flames an estimated 50 to 100 feet into the air and setting the surrounding brush and trees on fire.

Residents near La Boca described the pipeline explosion as sounding like an F-16 taking off in their neighbor's yard. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Mark Zuckerberg and his adorable pal Jolly assure you that A.I. is quite safe!

Ruben Bolling will be at the New York Comic Con Thursday 10/8 and Friday 10/9 — check here for info. — Read the rest

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Two Renoir paintings stolen last month in southern France were recovered this week, reports Le Monde. Swiped from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the Madame Colonna Romano and Jeune femme au puits are now safe under lock and key along with six suspects arrested since the September raid. — Read the rest

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Diaper Don is name-calling and attempting to use race to turn voters against a Michigan candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Repeating his earlier "slip" of calling Abdul El-Sayed "Mohammed," Trump now plays with the man's entire name and says it is because he feels like it. — Read the rest

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Tom Gammill stars in an absolutely hilarious new limited-run play in New York City, A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller.

Ernie Bushmiller was the author of the comic strip Nancy, about a little girl living with her glamorous Aunt Fritzi, and her tough boyfriend Sluggo, which he produced for hundreds of newspapers from 1938-1982. — Read the rest

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Only a few days ago, I noted that we're entering another golden age of video game adaptations after the 90s put us off the whole idea for a while. I love when I'm proven right almost immediately.

Unlike The Finals or ARC Raiders, Cyberpunk 2077's biggest strength is arguably its world and story: the game is an adaptation of a tabletop roleplaying universe that's been running since the 80s, and its revised version of that world has spawned spinoffs of its own. — Read the rest

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The gorgeous, adorable puzzler Machinarium is getting a sequel seventeen years after its release. Machinarium 2 looks to be a worthy successor to the original, with everything that made it great. According to the publisher Amanita:

Every environment in the game is hand-drawn, in a style inspired by old master drawings and Renaissance landscape paintings, and every robot is richly animated.

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TL;DR: Save up to 90% on domestic and international flights with Matt's Flights Premium Plan for just $39.99 (reg. $194).

It's hard being an aspiring traveler when flight costs look like…that. But with Matt's Flights Premium Plan, you can save up to 90% on domestic and international flights—or $500+ on average. — Read the rest

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The three-body problem remains unsolved—we can't generally predict the motion of three bodies for all starting conditions using regular maths—but there are many solutions showing periodic orbits given specific conditions. Three Body Orbits is a beautiful "atlas" animating 3,942 of them. — Read the rest

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The Pentagon's first military execution since World War II is scheduled for December 3, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says it will be livestreamed for the public. Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 fellow service members and injured 32 more in 2009, will be put to death by a firing squad. — Read the rest

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The FBI National Stolen Art File lists more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures and other "culturally-significant property" that has found its way out of galleries, museums and private collections and into swag bags. The sprawling online gallery provides a description, dimensions, artist, and, if available, a photograph. — Read the rest

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2014 horror game P.T. has left an enduring legacy behind, just as much for what it wasn't as what it was. It was a pitch-perfect bite-sized horror experience from the mind of gaming auteur Hideo Kojima. It wasn't, however, a full-sized, multi-hour game with a massive bag of tricks — that was teased at the end. — Read the rest

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Having no remotely credible reason to encourage voters to consider Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, America's angriest President resorted to racially motivated name-calling.

Diaper Don pulled out all the stops on his classic rhetoric of hate: calling Abdul "Mohammed," invoking "jihad," and attempting to declare El-Sayed "a terrorist sympathizer." — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Store up to 100TB of zero-knowledge encrypted files with an Internxt lifetime subscription on sale for $974.97 (reg. $9,900) through October 11.

Dropbox costs $288 per year for a mere 15TB of storage space, and that's only if you pay for it all at once. — Read the rest

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A golden statue of Donald Trump was unveiled this week at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Jens Galschiøt's 8.5-foot sculpture depicts the gold-leafed president naked and sitting on the back of a smaller man in bronze. Trump holds the scales of justice in one hand and a golf club in the other. — Read the rest

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Rebranding Artificial Intelligence as "Super" Intelligence will work about as well as rebranding data centers as "theme parks."

Following Donald Trump's lead, billionaire and phallic-shaped rocket enthusiast Jeff Bezos says he prefers calling AI "SI" because nobody likes artificial sweetener or artificial flavoring, and "artificial" sounds as fake as AI is. — Read the rest

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Demoscene Recomp features four classic PC demoscene productions on the web, using the original code recompiled "instruction for instruction" to run natively in the browser: "The C is compiled to WebAssembly, together with models of the hardware the demo talks to" including a VGA card and, of course, a Sound Blaster. — Read the rest

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Somehow, intending to leave people thinking he meant he is protecting Southern California, home to a good percentage of the United States military might, R&D, and educational institutions, Grandpa Pudding Brains once again invites Iran to shoot missiles it does not have at the United States. — Read the rest

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"I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports." — JD Vance's personal definition of socialism.

Sycophant and Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, was asked for his personal definition of socialism and answered with talking points intended to inflame tempers and anger bigots. — Read the rest

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A new online game turns looking for a job into a game like the Oregon Trail, only more depressing. In the Job Trail, players choose to play as a recently laid-off designer, copywriter, or software engineer looking for a new employer in the AI-hellscape that is 2026. — Read the rest

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Neal Agarwal's site, Neal.fun, is filled with, well, fun stuff from the vaguely tortuous Password Game to the wholesome Internet Roadtrip. His latest creation, in collaboration with Wired, feels like an indictment of late-stage capitalism. Spend Elon Musk's Money is a follow-up to Spend Bill Gates' Money, in which you make virtual purchases to deplete all the filthy lucre. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2 packs a six-core Ryzen 5 PRO processor, 16GB of RAM, and Windows 11 Pro into a tiny desktop for $329.99 (reg. $749.99).

Desktop computers are supposed to occupy an inconvenient amount of desk. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Save on a streamlined office experience with 93% off Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows — that's a subscription-free license for just $14.97 (Reg. $229).

It's Q4, which means it's time to lock in. Now is not the time for clunky processes and friction in your workflows. — Read the rest

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Los Angeles. L.A. Desert city. Winner of water wars, destroyer of the Owens Valley.

The Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula will soon offer Dune fans the opportunity to stick their hands into a box full of unbearable pain, and I don't mean watching Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya act. — Read the rest

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Having repeatedly tried to call his Florida dinner club "The Winter White House," Dementia Don has found a new grift: turning part of his private golf club into a new Presidential retreat à la Camp David without the gravitas or tradition. — Read the rest

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Tempe police released a video showing Eryn Bonner failing to obey the cops. Sadly, for Tempe's finest, the video also shows what they did about it. One of their officers shoves the 21-year-old ASU student to the ground, tackles her against a police bicycle and then punches her in face. — Read the rest

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It's taken 37 years for Nintendo's humble Game Boy to hit puberty, but the hour has finally come. What's even cooler than a video game console you can carry around in your pocket? One the size of an actual person that runs on game cartridges a family of four could eat dinner on, of course. — Read the rest

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