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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Defending a war only he wanted, Donald Trump offered Los Angeles and San Diego up as sacrificial lambs to Iran. Scoffing, Iran has no interest in civilian targets. The war has cost the United States over 80 aircraft, and at least 8 US bases have been hit. — Read the rest

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An engagement accompanied by the Southern California standard, a mariachi band, was interrupted by an angry woman declaring, "This isn't Mexico!"

Technically, the bitter bigot is correct. Mexico ceded California in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Culturally, she's pretty far off tho. — Read the rest

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Josh Lieb has been a comedy writer/producer for some of the best comedy on television: The Daily Show with John Stewart, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, etc. He's been writing funny and interesting children's books recently, and his latest is a Choose Your Own Adventure picture book that's that's more comedy than adventure. — Read the rest

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I mean, fair play, if the Hollywood machine can turn games like Minecraft and Call of Duty into movies, nothing is off limits. If you've never played Embark's twin titans The Finals and ARC Raiders, the former is an immensely stylish capture-the-flag shooter with some of the best movement in any game I've played and the latter is an extraction shooter responsible for ruining scores of friendships. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get 1TB of Koofr cloud storage for $129.99 (MSRP $810) during Deal Days with code KOOFR through October 11. It's a lifetime plan, so you pay once instead of adding another recurring cloud storage bill.

Cloud storage usually comes with a monthly or annual bill that keeps coming back. — Read the rest

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The Texas Senate race is already off the rails. The Republicans are desperately trying to discourage folks from voting for James Talarico, without reminding them that the candidate they would be voting for is Ken Paxton.

It is great to see Talarico has a sense of humor and understands what it takes to win in the US these days. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The flowkey Piano Learning App is only $67.97 (MSRP $899) for a five year subscription until Oct. 11 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

No more excuses — learn piano for a one-time fee of $67.97 with the flowkey Piano Learning App. — Read the rest

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Autonomous is an AI-forward company that sells everything from a coaster that tracks how much water you drink, a creepy-cute Pixar-esque companion lamp, to $20,000 backyard office pods. Another offering is the Autonomous Key, which promises to help kick the doomscrolling habit. — Read the rest

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Embark's promised big next step in Arc Raiders is set to release on October 8th. Will it bring back the fading player base?

Arc Raiders had one of the most exciting launches and ramp-ups in years. It held on for a few months, but then rapidly lost players, at a rate that seemed intentional but was not. — Read the rest

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For the first 15 years or so of this century, subscription satellite TV was available in Latin America with a one-time purchase of a pirate box. The channel operators tried to stop it, and the pirates nimbly worked around the locks. — Read the rest

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The Orange Menace, who has notably been sued by women over alleged "affairs" during his current marriage, gave his bag carrier a good once-over and then described her as a "perfect person," where perfect seems to mean her legs.

While musing over television vehicles for Natalie, Diaper Don also offered up Los Angeles and San Diego to Iran as targets for retribution. — Read the rest

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Disneyland's fume-soaked Autopia has been given until February 1st, 2027, to change or shut down.

A few years ago, Disney got caught running Autopia cars that were not emissions-approved. They agreed to a 30-month timeline to clean up its grossly polluting car ride, or shut down. — Read the rest

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Steve Hilton has a really creepy and weird ad for Governor of California, and its probably not helping him.

I guess first-time voting has changed a lot since I was a kid! The ad even has Republicans pissed off.

Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a Christian nationalist, said the ad promotes "lesbianism," which he called a "pandemic" among high school and college students during his Facebook live on Saturday, and called it "grotesque" and "insensitive."

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