Riot Fest has packed its lineup for 2026, with the Pixies, the Sex Pistols (sans Johnny Rotten), Patti Smith, and… William Shatner? The 95-year-old actor/space tourist/horse semen owner/singer and his heavy metal band the *uckers — the asterisk appears to actually be part of the name, not censorship — will perform live for the first time at the three-day annual music festival. — Read the rest

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For the past decade and a half, one question has been at the forefront of gamers' minds: what the absolute hell is Bethesda Game Studios up to? Although no AAA dev cycle could ever reasonably be accused of being snappy, Bethesda's apparent inability or unwillingness to do anything with two of the biggest RPG franchises in the industry has been a source of great frustration and speculation alike. — Read the rest

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I'm blown away by eleven-year-old Samuel Henderson, who has an amazing ability to mimic birds. Sam lives in Oklahoma, where he's become a bit of a local celebrity. He's also begun sharing his incredible talent on his social media, where his mom describes him as "bird caller extraordinaire." — Read the rest

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Tesla is finally selling a bicycle, something the company's fans have apparently been speculating about excitedly for years. This bike, however, is not an e-bike and is not for adults. It's a toddler balance bike.

The $225 "Balance Bike for Kids" has a silver and black design, complete with Tesla branding, and actually looks pretty cool, not that most toddlers care about that. — Read the rest

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In May 1974, locked inside California's Vacaville Prison, Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson put together a manuscript they called The Periodic Table of Energy — a system of correspondences among the periodic table of elements, Leary's "neurogenetic theory of evolution," the Tarot, the I Ching, and the zodiac. — Read the rest

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"Surveillance Monitor" gets a new meaning.

LG's screens have apparently entered their "consent is someone else's problem" phase: some monitors can trigger silent Windows software installs, while some LG TV terms reportedly tell you to warn guests they may be recorded by AI voice features to comply with local wiretapping laws. — Read the rest

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The internet is the world's most efficient copy machine, and everything it touches — music, movies, books, code — slides toward a price of zero. In an essay called "Better Than Free", Kevin Kelly argues that isn't a death sentence for creators. — Read the rest

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Trump Border "Czar" Tom Homan's message is clear: when masked men come for you, surrender first and ask questions after they bash your head into the pavement.

Make the violence more convenient for the government, or suffer the consequences? This Republican talking point is pretty ripe, as the party of guns and guts now thinks letting the Gestapo stomp your head is the American way. — Read the rest

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Andrew Tate, the misogynist influencer facing rape and sex-trafficking charges in multiple countries, was arrested in Miami this weekend, putting another accused sex offender from Trumpworld's orbit back in the legal spotlight.

Reuters reported that the Tates returned to Florida in February 2025 after Romania lifted travel restrictions while they remained under criminal investigation there, and that the Financial Times had reported Trump administration officials pressured Romanian authorities to lift the ban. — Read the rest

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California already had feral pigs. Then a Monterey County landowner added Russian wild boars for sport hunting, and nature responded with a century-long "absolutely not."

Like many problems in California, a rich man decided he wanted to do something and to hell with the public good. — Read the rest

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Spain won the World Cup, but Grandpa Pudding Brains saw a gold trophy, cameras, and a stage, so naturally he seemed to assume the ceremony had taken a wrong turn away from him.

Reuters reports that Trump and Infantino were booed as they entered the field for the trophy ceremony. — Read the rest

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Trump's FDA appears to have shat the bed on the cyclospora outbreak: a major lettuce recall disrupted the food chain, the outbreak kept spreading, and now the agency says its positive product test was wrong.

On July 19, FDA said its lab experts re-reviewed a Taylor Farms de Mexico lettuce sample that had been reported positive the day before and concluded the result "does not represent true amplification" and should be considered a false positive. — Read the rest

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It seems the "Avengers: Doomsday" trailer is here, giving away all the goodies.

Disney needs money, so they've packed this with as many people as they could, including the characters they killed off. Shockingly, they aren't CGI'ing in people who actually passed away. — Read the rest

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Every tool has two ends: the business end that does the work, and the end that meets your hand. Manufacturers obsess over the first and skimp on the second, which leaves anyone with a weak grip or sore joints to fix it themselves. — Read the rest

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In December 1958, a Soviet expedition reached Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the continent farthest from any coastline: 1,400 kilometers inland and 3,700 meters up in the coldest region on Earth. The year-round average temperature there is minus 58 degrees centigrade. — Read the rest

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Sergio Furnari, a Sicilian-born New York sculptor, plans to unveil a life-size Charlie Kirk statue in Times Square on the first anniversary of Kirk's assassination. But the announcement drew thousands of hostile comments to his Instagram account, reports Rhea Nayyar at Hyperallergic. — Read the rest

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Florence Foster Jenkins (1868 – 1944) has been called the worst opera singer who ever lived, and she filled Carnegie Hall anyway. A wealthy New York socialite, she sang coloratura arias wildly beyond her range — consistently flat, mangling the rhythm, her accompanist scrambling to follow — while dressed in wings and tinsel of her own design. — Read the rest

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Indiana's State Personnel Department booted a burger truck from the Statehouse Market over its slogan, "you'll love our meat in your mouth," but a First Amendment scholar suspects the state may have bitten off more than it can chew. Here's Jack Forrest, reporting for the Indiana Capital Chronicle:

Owner Scott Sims said the suggestive saying — "you'll love our meat in your mouth" — had rarely been an issue before.

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In October 2000, a stunning discovery hit the antiquities market in Pakistan: a mummy in a gilded coffin, wearing a golden crown, with a cuneiform inscription identifying her as Rhodugune, a daughter of the Persian king Xerxes. Experts dated the Persian Princess to around 600 BC, and Iran, Pakistan, and the Taliban each rushed to claim her. — Read the rest

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Minutes before she was to be killed at a slaughterhouse in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, a three-year-old, 1,600-pound heifer named Emily cleared the five-foot gate and ran. She stayed loose for 40 days through record snowfall in the winter of 1995, foraging in backyards and, at times, running with a herd of deer. — Read the rest

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Mexico's Ministry of Health has issued a travel advisory for citizens heading to the United States, where foodborne parasites have infected more than 1,600 people. The advisory was published by the National Committee for Epidemiological Surveillance, known as CONAVE. Newsweek was first to report in English, but neglects to link to the official Mexican advisory. — Read the rest

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Most people remember Pinocchio as a story about lying: tell a fib, your nose grows. But the late tech writer Om Malik argued in an essay that reading "misses almost everything." Carlo Collodi's original 1881 serial, before Disney sanded it down, is a bleak portrait of a society where "deception has gone ambient" — courts punish victims, experts are decorative, and the society is focused on spectacle instead of accountability. — Read the rest

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For most of human evolution, the air held about 300 parts per million of carbon dioxide. It has now surpassed 420 and is climbing by more than 2 ppm per year. A new open-access study in Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health argues that shift may already be showing up in our blood. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Snag a lifetime family license to VideoProc Converter AI for Windows for only $29.97 (MSRP $119.90) through tonight at midnight.

It happens to the best of us — you capture something incredible on video, only to watch it back and realize your hands were shaky. — Read the rest

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Most invented languages try to say everything. Toki Pona tries to say just enough — with about 120 words and 14 sounds. The Canadian translator Sonja Lang built it in 2001, while she was struggling with depression, as a way to simplify her own thoughts. — Read the rest

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In the 19th century, people living near the Barisal region of Bangladesh kept hearing what sounded like distant cannon fire booming out of a clear sky. The Barisal guns became one of the best-known examples of a "skyquake," a sudden loud sound with no corresponding earthquake activity. — Read the rest

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On December 5, 1945, five Navy torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise and never came back — the disappearance that launched the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Partway through, the flight leader, Lt. Charles Taylor, radioed that both his compasses had failed: "I am sure I'm in the Keys but I don't know how far down and I don't know how to get to Fort Lauderdale." — Read the rest

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Most UFO theories reach for outer space. The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis reaches down instead: it proposes that flying saucers come not from distant planets but from an advanced, hidden civilization that has been living on Earth all along — under the oceans, inside mountains, or beneath our feet. — Read the rest

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On the morning of July 17, a redditor who normally pays Amazon Web Services about five cents a month opened their inbox to a wall of billing alerts and a running tab of $2.5 billion. Their whole setup was a single S3 storage bucket, untouched since 2023 and not even public. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This Grade A refurbished 2020 MacBook Pro has 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 13.3-inch Retina display for $429.97 instead of $1,999.

A new MacBook Pro can cost the approximate GDP of a small moon colony. Or you could get this refurbished 2020 model for $429.97 and spend the remaining $1,569.03 on rent, groceries, or an unreasonable number of novelty lamps. — Read the rest

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