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mercredi 6 août 2025, 22:10
Yesterday, we shared that Amazon had added a much-desired feature to their line of Kindle e-readers: Assistive Reading. Today, we learn it has been removed. Last week, Amazon released a new software update for its 11th and 12th generation Kindle e-readers. — Read the rest...
A serial parcel pirate was set upon and assaulted by the locals whose lives they had terrorized. 'You like to steal mail? You like to steal mail?' one of the residents can be heard in the footage as he confronted the man residents believe has been stealing their mail. ...
Not known for keeping cool and collected when presented with a challenge, President Ketchup-on-the-walls lashed out at CNBC's Joe Kernan for pointing out the 70% popularity Trump was touting might be his number among Republicans, but not all voters. CNBC host Joe Kernen ...
Pop Mart, the Chinese toy company behind this summer's essential toy for kids and grown-ups alike, is going after a U.S. retailer selling knockoffs: 7-Eleven, sued last week in Federal court. Labubu, meet Lafufu. [via Aftermath] 7-Eleven and the other Defendants have...
As reported by ABC News, VP JD Vance is hosting a little emergency dinner soirée with top deplorables to figure out how to package a totally-not-suspicious sequence of events for public consumption: 1) An imprisoned sex trafficker gets nine hours with a Trump-appointed...
Vibrio vulnificus is so hot right now… because it's so hot right now. According to a warning released by the Louisiana Department of Health, the flesh-eating bacteria is living its best life in the waters slopping up against the beaches of America's east coast. — Read the...
Constitution.congress.gov is the U.S. Congress's official website presenting the Constitution of the United States of America. Visitors noticed this morning that passages from it were missing, as can be shown by comparison with snapshots of the page at the Internet Archive's ...
I thought y'all might want to see some real, actual baby bunnies after perhaps being fooled by that recent fake, AI-generated video of those bunnies jumping on a trampoline that was recent circulating online. Referring to the fake video, Snopes explains: We reached out...
TL;DR: For two days only, you can get a Babbel lifetime subscription for $134.99 with code LEARN at checkout (MSRP $599). So you've mastered 'Where is the bathroom?' in high school Spanish, but can you charmingly compliment someone's smile in French? — Read the rest The post...
— Coming soon! Volumes 1 and 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug! Sign up now to be informed when the Kickstarter launches later this summer! Volumes 3-8 of the Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library are available right now… Click here for info. — Read the rest The...
A portmanteau of 'slop' and 'cybersquatting,' slopsquatting is the hot new thing in enshittification. Chatbots often hallucinate names, titles, software packages and of course domains to fill up the bucket when asked questions. There are predictable and persistent patterns...
In this video, or, rather, this film, now rendered in digital form after an unknowable sequence of transfers that surely involved video recording and/or transmission, we learn the basic computing terms of 1976. Meet Harry, a 1970s businessman overwhelmed by his backlog and...
Seattle Police report they arrested an armed man who 'copulated' with a refridgerator at the Trader Joe's on East Madison St and then threatened to kill everyone in the store with a knife. Those are the 'cold hard facts,' writes an evidently delighted press officer. — Read...
Stop what you're doing and marvel at the cinematic trainwreck currently achieving the impossible on Rotten Tomatoes: a perfect zero percent score. Not 'almost zero' — absolute zero, like the temperature at which all molecular motion stops. Which, coincidentally, is exactly ...
I thought Jim Acosta displayed real integrity when he made his grand exit from CNN to avoid giving in to Trump. It was a bold, brave move, and one that sent a clear message of defiance in a media landscape that so often toes the party line. — Read the rest The post Jim...
When two storms knocked out power to 90% of Houston last year, tech journalist Dwight Silverman decided it as time to buy back-up power. His article on portable power stations is worth reading if you want to keep your fridge and laptop working when the power goes out. — Read...
mardi 5 août 2025, 23:00
TL;DR: Learn one of 56 languages with the scientifically proven spaced repetition technique from Qlango for only $31.97 (reg. $119.99) until Sep. 7 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Language learning is hard! Unless you live in a new country for half a decade, getting those vocab words and...
Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, is literally trash made pretty. From 1906 to 1967 the town used this stretch of coast as an open dump — people hurled bottles, appliances, whatever, over the cliff. For the next fifty-plus years the Pacific surf worked like a giant rock tumbler,...
The 2008 Orbiting Carbon Observatory and its 2014 replacement cost hundreds of millions of dollars to put in space and the data recorded is of such 'exceptional' quality that farmers use it to track their fields, optimize yields and predict droughts. — Read the rest The...
Alpha-gal syndrome is an immune system misfire developed after being exposed to a tick bite. It is rapidly spreading across the United States and globally. Alpha-gal syndrome is actually an allergy to a sugar molecule with a tongue-twisting name:...
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