Tony Bisson with a delightful short story, “They Are Made of Meat.”
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They’re Made of Meat by Tony Bisson
Tony Bisson with a delightful short story, “They Are Made of Meat.”
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Trump Action Tracker
Informative and depressing: the Trump Action Tracker. Tracks all the actions and orders taken and what they affect.
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Drinking all 102 official IBA cocktails
The International Bartender Association maintains a list of official cocktails, intending to represent different styles and flavors across the world. Adam Aaronson set out on a quest to drink all of them. A formative moment early in the quest came at Uncle Charlie’s Piano Lounge in Midtown with Ming and Alina. A divey gay bar…
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Ukrainian soldier escapes on e-bike delivered by drone
A wild story, something out of a dystopian war novel: Ukrainian soldier escapes on e-bike delivered by drone
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Stained glass Porsche
This is cool: Ben Tuna installed a series of stained glass artwork in a rusted, old Porsche
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Aura farming
According to the website Know Your Meme, the expression was popularized in 2024 largely in reference to anime characters and various celebrities. It generally refers to someone who does something repetitive to look cool and build, as Gen Alpha would say, aura. The phrase, aura farming, has risen in pop culture because of an Indonesian…
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Subliminal AI messages
Different AI models can send subliminal messages to other models. Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports. Worse still, these “hidden signals” appear completely meaningless to humans — and we’re not even…
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Niche Internet forums thriving
Delve deep into a hobby, and you will surely come across websites dedicated to those specific interests. Forums, with old school topic and thread organization still thrive. Here is a great listing of forum communities that are still active.
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Walk off win via catcher in interference
Bases loaded. Bottom of the 10th. Walk off win through catcher interference, which hasn’t happened since 1971.
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Tarantulas in cake boxes
Tarantulas are mostly harmless, but in Germany, a nightmare feel scenario appeared: approximately 1500 tarantulas being smuggled in cake boxes. Customs officials said on Monday they had found the shipment at Cologne Bonn airport in a package that had arrived from Vietnam. A Cologne customs office spokesperson, Jens Ahland, said they had been tipped off…