I never expected to have an OnlyFans account, but all manner of strange things are possible in 2026, so here we are. Science funding is under attack in the United States, and researchers are exploring alternate funding sources to keep the work going. — Read the rest

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Given recent events, it's safe to say that in many communities, Flock's creepy, all-seeing automated license plate readers (ALPR) have become as unwelcome as a fart in a space suit. The company's 90,000 ALPR devices have become a spiteful thing across America: called upon by law enforcement for things as perverse as tracking the movements of a woman who chose to have an abortion to 'immigration-related searches' by law enforcement officials on behalf of ICE (Flock has adamantly stated that they have no contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. — Read the rest

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The 1960 mystery-comedy Scent of Mystery was the only film ever released in Smell-O-Vision, which delivered 30 odors to vents under the theater seats. Inventor Hans Laube called the mechanism the "smell brain": a belt of perfume containers wound onto a motorized reel, cued by markers on the film print, with needles puncturing a membrane so fans could push the scent down the pipes. — Read the rest

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Wolfgang Pauli has a real law of physics named after him, the exclusion principle. Colleagues named a second one after him as a joke, "according to which a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room." The Pauli effect was the reputation he built for making laboratory apparatus fail by walking into the room. — Read the rest

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If you've been thinking about snagging a robot to vacuum your house, suck up crap in your swimming pool or cut your grass, you might want to hustle your buns: The FCC is broadening its ban on robotics from overseas being sold in the United States. — Read the rest

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Jacob Tremblay is playing a teenage Ted Kaczynski in Netflix's upcoming UNABOMBER, and researching the role took him somewhere he didn't expect: Harvard. "I didn't even know he went to Harvard until I read the script; I think most people don't," Tremblay told Tudum. — Read the rest

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No matter whether they get locked up in Castle Rock or Bangkok, life is rough for sex offenders. There's a caste system in the clink that places rapists, sex traffickers and pedophiles just below a burning bag of monkey shit in the incarceration food chain. — Read the rest

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DEVO co-founder Gerald Casale has a new animated music video out, and it does not hold back on Donald Trump. In "Just Do It!," Casale turns Trump into a cartoon dictator marching a MAGA zombie army through the collapse of American democracy, smashing the Liberty Bell with a sledgehammer, watching the Statue of Liberty crumble, and running down protesters in an ambulance marked "Freedom." — Read the rest

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Fun fact: over 60% of all workshop injuries are the result of using a table saw without really knowing how to use a table saw. We're talking somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 cuts, slices and amputations, every year — and that's just in North America. — Read the rest

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AI companies are buying old books, scanning them and destroying the remains, writes Emanuel Maiberg at 404 Media. The program is enabled by ISBNdb, maintainers of a vast book database, which helps them buy vintage physical media in bulk: "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," its pitch reads. — Read the rest

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In 1969, filming in Mozambique, Tippi Hedren watched lions take over a house that people had just abandoned and decided it should be a movie. She and her husband Noel Marshall began taking in rescued big cats and living with them at their California ranch, then cast themselves, her daughter Melanie Griffith and his two sons in Roar, shot with untrained lions, tigers and leopards in nearly every scene. — Read the rest

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Glen Hansard was a singer, songwriter and, to many in the Irish music community, a kind friend. At 4:30 this morning, Glen died while riding his motorcycle in the area around Dublin. His management left a brief message on his website, earlier today:

With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning.

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Replacing the text in popular comic strips is a common meme format, and few artists are displeased to see their work mutating online. Websites can generate these pics for users lacking image-editing skills. But when sites seek payment, a line is crossed. — Read the rest

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President Trump's friendship with dead billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is still a matter of endless public discussion. And it's rumored he plans to pardon convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in return for "exonerating" him. Already moved to a cushier prison, Maxwell has reportedly worked on a "commutation application" to this end. — Read the rest

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Peppa Pig's proprietors today won a copyright battle in London's High Court against the creators of Wolfoo, a YouTube character long accused of imitating the petulant piglet. It's not the similar style that mattered, at least in this part of the fight, but the direct lifting of audio clips from the British childrens' show. — Read the rest

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Tesla sells a few hundred Cybertrucks a month to human beings, maybe. It's the biggest flop in U.S. automotive history, outflopping even the legendary Ford Edsel. Summarizing a paywalled report by Bloomberg News, Yahoo! News reports that the discrepancy between public sales targets and actual sales is what measures the machines' respective failures. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: AcePDF Converter & Editor is $23.97 (reg. $99.99) with tools to convert, create, edit, merge, split, compress, protect, and OCR PDFs.

Every PDF eventually reveals itself not to be the finished document you expected, but a locked little puzzle box waiting for someone to ask, "Can you just make one quick change?" — Read the rest

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Lenovo's putting in extra effort for its latest IdeaCenter all-in-one desktops, which usually come in dark gray and sometimes also in light gray: the new ones will come in muted shades of sage, puce, peach and, of course, midcentury control panel green. — Read the rest

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Not one senator objected to a nonbinding resolution declaring that Donald Trump should not pardon or commute Ghislaine Maxwell's sentence.

Finally, Senate Republicans have discovered a Trump action they will not defend. No senator objected when Jacky Rosen asked the chamber to pass a resolution declaring that Ghislaine Maxwell should receive no pardon, no commutation, or any other clemency. — Read the rest

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Unitree, the Chinese robotics company known for its humanoid robots, has announced a new wheeled quadrupedal robot. The combination of wheels and legs allows its Super Athlete AS2-W robodog to go almost anywhere, as seen in this promotional YouTube video. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug: Lucky Ducky, in "New Frontier"

-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere, plus lots of other stuff. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: flowkey helps beginners and experienced players improve with interactive lessons, video tutorials, and over 1,000 songs, now available for $79.99 for five years.

The best way to stick with piano is to actually enjoy practicing. flowkey combines step-by-step lessons with songs you already know, listening as you play and offering instant feedback. — Read the rest

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After decades, the SS Richard Montgomery's three masts are scheduled to come down in September. Specialist engineers will build a platform beside the wreck and cut the structures below sea level over several weeks. The approximately 1,400 tonnes of wartime explosives in its forward holds will be left exactly where they have been since 1944. — Read the rest

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Trump's giant, 10-foot-tall gold participation trophy honoring his "enthusiastic participation" in the Iran War is moving from Washington, D.C., to New York City!

The trophy is believed to be the largest ever awarded to a sitting President, and is an attempt to de-escalate the conflict through positive reinforcement.

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An English professor at South Florida State College was fired for assigning an award-winning short story to her freshman class. Now Vinita Prabhakar is suing her former employer, claiming it breached her First Amendment rights.

Prabhakar assigned Ottessa Moshfegh's "Bettering Myself," first published in The Paris Review and winner of the Plimpton Prize, to illustrate unreliable narrators. — Read the rest

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Blanche needed to hold a meeting with a group Epstein survivors to get past the Senate. It sounds less like he met with them, and more like he was a belligerent jerk for 30 minutes.

Epstein survivors waited months for a meeting with Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. — Read the rest

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"God damnit Donut!"

While the Dungeon Crawler Carl books are addictive, the audiobooks are incredible. Producer and voice actor Jeff Hays is the reason.

I got sucked into Dungeon Crawler Carl in early June, and rapidly read the first five books in under a week. — Read the rest

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A Devilskin concern in Dunedin, New Zealand, was tarnished Saturday night after a concergoer defecated in the moshpit. Metal fans were left "vomiting and crying" after those dancing there "completely spread" the matter around. "It started with a faint aroma," writes John Lewis of the Otago Daily Times

"It's on people's feet. People

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In the 1990s, I was introduced to the Chicago Handshake as a shot of Jagermeister and a beer. I was lucky; the modern version is far more disgusting.

A Chicago Handshake now means a shot of Jeppson's Malört served with an Old Style beer. — Read the rest

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Dementia Donnie really doesn't want to explain where the money went.

A reporter aboard Air Force One asked Trump where an estimated $13 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue was going. He replied that the Venezuela war had "paid for itself." Asked again, he said the money was "running the country." — Read the rest

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