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@boingboing.netAug 27, 2026, 5:08 PM

Peter Cullen also voiced the alien hunter in 1987's Predator and Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.

@boingboing.netAug 21, 2026, 4:24 PM

The plan hinges on eliminating tariffs on cheap imported beef and routing 300,000 metric tons of someone else's ground beef to US consumers. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is furious about it.

boingboing.netBig Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meatLooking for slack from voters pissed off about grocery prices, the Orange Menace is taking another swing at lowering prices. This time by "flooding the market with government-subsidized, below-market beef."…
@boingboing.netAug 19, 2026, 8:31 PM

Asked at a debate whether Taiwan and the South China Sea pose national-security concerns, she answered, "I'm not that informed on national security." Trump had praised her good genetics.

boingboing.netDarline Graham makes the case against Darline Graham in one answerTrump's handpicked replacement for her dead brother's Senate seat, Darline Graham, demonstrated why she is unqualified to be a US Senator. At a debate, where Graham is trying to hold…
@boingboing.netAug 19, 2026, 8:23 PM

Massachusetts draws the line at 750 watts and 20 mph. The 8,000-watt machines doing 50 that police keep stopping are motor vehicles that need a Class M license. Officers say nearly every one they encounter has been modified to go faster.

boingboing.netYour kid can't legally drive, so why did you buy them a 40 mph motorcycle?More and more children are being injured in "e-bike" accidents. Cops keep encountering 40-mph e-motorcycles. It's really just as simple as holding the parents responsible. E-bikes are a fantastic form…
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@boingboing.netAug 18, 2026, 2:53 AM

A separate study found Viagra cut Alzheimer's risk by 69 percent. Cardiologists and men's health experts now say tadalafil could have a real role in preventive care, though it isn't approved for preventing heart attack or stroke, let alone death.

boingboing.netHarder boners for a longer lifeRock harder, rock out for longer. The biohacking community has found a new trend that's easy to jump on: erectile dysfunction medication for longevity. Tho studies show nothing conclusive, the…
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@boingboing.netAug 18, 2026, 12:25 AM

The illusion needs no moving parts and no screens, just angled walls and stairs that create a second vanishing point above or below the real one.

boingboing.netDisney patent for a fake-elevation ride trick matches new Encanto rideAs reported by wdwmagic.com, last week, Disney Enterprises, Inc. published a patent for "a way to make a flat ride track feel like it's climbing or dropping, without the track…
@boingboing.netAug 17, 2026, 10:19 PM

Tyler Muehl approached a resting California sea lion at La Jolla Cove, invoked the UFC fighter's name, and started kicking. NOAA prosecuted. The federal penalty for what he pleaded guilty to runs up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

boingboing.netSea lion-kicking young man discovers the Marine Mammal Protection ActMMA loses to the MMPA. The gentleman in question was most assuredly NOT Max Holloway. Tyler Muehl approached a resting California sea lion at La Jolla Cove, assumed a fighting…
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@boingboing.netAug 17, 2026, 6:26 PM

Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler tool traces English words to the year each one entered the language, going back to before the 12th century. The writer checked his own birth year and turned up "twerking," "cornhole," and "awesomesauce.

boingboing.netMerriam-Webster's Time Traveler tool sorts English words by birth yearJust today, I became a time traveler. Unfortunately, you'll need to put aside the images of a humble writer running from dinosaurs or flirting with Cleopatra running through your head…
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@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 10:26 PM

Don Bluth's follow-up, Space Ace, starred a hero who never earned the loyalty players felt for Dirk the Daring. Netflix is also making a new interactive Dragon's Lair.

boingboing.netIn 1983 I couldn't afford to beat Dragon's LairI love and still play Don Bluth's amazing video games. I never would have been able to finish them were it not for re-releases years later on several personal platforms.…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 10:18 PM

Grok's postmortem blamed a "prompt-injection glitch" and called the child-abuse allegation "pure system error, zero evidence or basis." The same AI once called itself a mechanized Adolf Hitler.

boingboing.netGrok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassinationThe time-honored trick of "repeat after me" strikes again. Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk calls his expensive AI Grok "maximum truth-seeking." Users apparently discovered they could create maximum truths by putting…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 10:09 PM

They waited for the FX2 and climbed aboard, but the human passengers refused to share and ushered them off. Officers searched near 162nd and Division but couldn't confirm the goats were found.

boingboing.netEscaped pygmy goats try Portland public transitBudding Portland celebrities Billy the Kid and Billy the Goat escaped their owner's yard, found a TriMet stop, and briefly attempted the morning commute. Two pygmy goats showed up at…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 8:18 PM

Under a law Putin signed last month, developers would have to hand their neural networks, architecture documents, and filtering details to a state testing lab. Russia's FSB security service gets to pore over the models too.

boingboing.netRussia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral valuesIf you want to sell AI to the Russian state, you're going to have to tune it to the nation's "traditional spiritual and moral values" before you have a shot,…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 6:53 PM

Literata for daytime reading, Lora for dark mode at night — a longtime Bookerly loyalist swapped both in and won't go back. Free from Google Fonts, and no jailbreak needed: just download, unzip, and copy the files onto the Kindle.

boingboing.netOK, custom Kindle fonts are really niceAfter more than a decade of reading on Kindle e-readers, I finally added custom fonts, and I'm blown away. I was never sold. When Amazon's first "made for ereaders" font,…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 6:45 PM

He charged 20 francs a drawing and made as many as eight a day. Almost fifty years later he told an interviewer that if he had kept at it, he would have been a millionaire. The money paid for his move to Paris, over his father's objections.

boingboing.netBefore the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known localsClaude Monet's first paying work was caricature. At fifteen, he sold unflattering drawings of well-known men around Le Havre through a framing shop, and crowds gathered at the window to…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 6:37 PM

To play it live at Abbey Road, the band used a bowl of loose change, a toy register, a money counter, and a sheet of paper one member tore on the beat. Drummer Sina Doering calls it the most famous rock song in 7/4.

boingboing.netA band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" liveRoger Waters built the opening of Pink Floyd's "Money" in 1972 out of spliced tape: cash registers, torn paper, and coins. Open Culture posted a video of a German band…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 4:53 PM

The philosopher Giordano Bruno wrote the 1582 comedy. Its schoolmaster first insists magister comes from "magis ter," or three times really great, before a painter offers his own etymology of pedante.

boingboing.netA 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"Pompous scholars were a standard joke on the Italian stage through the 16th century. Arnoud Visser writes in The Public Domain Review that Francesco Belo, a playwright from Rome, published…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 4:45 PM

Morocco supplies a large share of the canned sardines sold across North America and Europe, and some regional catches there are down by more than half. Dr. Annette Bosworth and Dr.

boingboing.netA viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelfCanned sardines are hard to find in American supermarkets because of a fad diet. Corner of Fifth reports that the diet consists of tinned fish and water, black coffee, or plain…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 4:37 PM

Publisher Eric Meyer's 98-year-old mother died the day after the raid. A federal judge later found police had no reasonable basis to think anyone at the paper had committed a crime; the former chief now faces a felony obstruction charge.

boingboing.netA Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000Phyllis Zorn, a reporter at the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion, Kansas to settle her federal lawsuit over the 2023 police raid on the…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 2:59 PM

Cyclospora survives in produce because it hides inside plant tissue, where antimicrobial washes can't reach it. It spreads through agricultural water carrying human waste, and has already sickened 18,000 people across 45 states.

boingboing.netThe FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuceFood safety lawyer Bill Marler says the FDA's new guide on fresh-cut produce admits it knows of no chemical wash that stops Cyclospora from spreading between pieces of cut produce. Cyclospora…
@boingboing.netAug 14, 2026, 2:51 PM

Software engineer Sean Goedecke explains the flaw: the watermark hides in subtle word choices, so having a weak model paraphrase the text erases it.

boingboing.netYou can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AIThe EU AI Act AI outputs to be "detectable as artificially generated" and "embedded within the content in a manner that is difficult for it to be separated from the content." …
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