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mercredi 4 juin 2025, 19:56
Nothing reveals the hollow core of celebrity culture quite like watching A-listers desperately scramble to attach dolls to their $20,000 handbags. As Harper's Bazaar breathlessly reports, the fashion victim brigade is crazy for Labubu — a fuzzy devil doll that looks like...
In 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote an 50,000-word novel without using a single letter e. Wright's Gadsby tells the story of a determined 50-year-old who rallies young people to revitalize their dying town of Branton Hills. Wright had to perform linguistic gymnastics to...
Thirsty cockatoos in western Sydney have mastered the art of operating public drinking fountains, displaying problem-solving skills previously unseen in wild birds. Watch the video. The parrots figured out how to twist and hold fountain handles with their feet while drinking ...
Although Donald Trump has uncharacteristically stayed mum so far after Elon Musk called his Big Beautiful Bill a 'disgusting abomination,' turns out he's 'furious,' according to Fox host Brian Kilmeade. 'The Elon Musk thing caught the President by surprise,' he said on Fox...
A study analyzing 40,000 stories reveals what Aristotle intuited centuries ago — narratives follow a common, predictable structure consisting of three key elements. Using computer analysis, researchers Ryan Boyd, Kate Blackburn, and James Pennebaker revealed how language...
It's hard to imagine a better match of developer and IP than this. Fresh off the heels of the confusingly marketed but absolutely excellent Hitman: World of Assassination, developer IO interactive has announced its next project, a licensed game starring venerable superspy...
Bebe Buckskin's recently released Cree version of Led Zeppelin's 1970 rock classic 'Immigrant Song' is fantastic — and well worth a watch and listen. Bebe Buckskin, who was born Dani Ghostkeeper and describes herself as a 'Cree Métis blues-rock mama,' was raised on the...
Months after the initial reveal of The Witcher 4 filled certain kinds of gamers with blinding rage, CD Projekt Red has returned once again to pull the curtain back on its actual gameplay. Fair warning: if you got mad about the cinematic reveal, be warned that this demo...
TL;DR: Not a fan of paying fees for Microsoft 365? Me neither, which is why I ditched it for this Microsoft Office lifetime license instead, now less than $30 for life. I know I'm not the only one who hates paying subscription fees every single month. Like, — Read the rest ...
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The Washington Post is going to license Substack posts and use AI to polish content from 'nonprofessional writers', reports the New York Times. Owner Jeff Bezos's plan to have his newspaper's opinion page support 'personal liberties and free markets' has evolved, in...
Sales of Tesla electric vehicles have 'collapsed' in Québec, Canada's largest and most Francophone province, according to data from its vehicle registration authority. Only 524 Teslas were registered in the first quarter of the year, down 85 percent. While the drop is...
The parent company of Pornhub, Redtube and other popular smut sites is to suspend service in France today in advance of 'age verification' laws kicking in there. The laws would require adult sites to either maintain records of users' identities or integrate with third-party...
Twitter's Grok chatbot imposed 'White Genocide' discussion on unrelated chats, veered into Holocaust denial not long after, and is now 'reciting' fringe climate change talking points. It went from responses such as 'climate change is a serious threat with urgent aspects' to...
Ukraine's surprise attack on Russian airfields wrecked dozens of bombers with more than 100 drones in the country's most spectacular long-range retaliation yet. It got the job done with ArduPilot, an open-source software package more often used by hobbyists. ArduPilot's...
After splitting from the Trump Administration last week, Elon Musk dumped on the president's 'Big Beautiful Bill,' calling it a 'disgusting abomination.' 'I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore,' Musk said about Donald Trump's spending bill, Xitting out his criticism...
Hey, did you hear? It's been scientifically proven that dickheads are 80 times more likely to make dick moves. Just check out this case study: According to Gizmodo, Elon Musk's airborne demolitions company, SpaceX, recently won the right to incorporate the land around their...
There has been a resurgence country and bluegrass music with artists like Beyoncé, Sturgil Simpson, and Billy Strings getting big audiences. Who's next? Maybe Theo Lawrence — who? This unlikely 'American music' creator comes from France by way of Canada (multiple country...
A post claiming to be written by Trump, ranting about alt-rock/ska/punk band Fishbone playing the song 'Racist Piece of $H!T' at their recent performance at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, has been making the rounds on social media. It's riling up MAGA to be mad at...
mardi 3 juin 2025, 23:00
TL;DR: I jumped ship and grabbed lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2024 for $129.97 (reg. $149.99) while it's still on sale. It's the best decision I've made this year. Okay, real talk: it's 2025 and I am done with subscriptions. I mean, come on. Between Netflix, Spotify,...
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