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From D.E. Rising and The Standard Dispatch & Mail:As announced by Electrek today, Tesla has officially discontinued its Solar Roof tile program, with sources confirming that Tesla had informed its network of installers that the roof...
How LLMs Set My Fiction Free. Writing no longer felt like experimenting. AI made it fun again. Christopher Sorrentino
For most of his life, Scotty Bowers was nobody in particular: a gas station attendant, then a bartender, a man who mowed lawns and did odd jobs around Los Angeles for decades. In 2012, at 88 years old, he published a memoir claiming that...
I’m tapping this out on the phone on the train back home at Monday lunchtime, after a weekend in Essex with my sister doing more sorting out of the old family home. We had three four-drawer filing cabinets remaining before we’d complete...
The 1883 book “Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings” included a story about what we today would call a “poltergeist” which appeared to center around an enigmatic farm servant. While the tale purports to be true, at this distance of...
Wannes Bellaert, PhD researcher and academic assistant, Ghent University Photo credit: OSeveno, via Wikimedia Commons Once again a new Europol legal framework On the 24th of June 2026, the European Commission proposed a new legal...
Snow White—17 years old—didn’t come meowing for food when I entered the kitchen at 6 a.m. An hour later I found her lying motionless on the sofa. I stared until she moved, slightly, nestling her face more deeply between her back paws....
Respect is due to Ingrid Burrington, courtesy of whose Perfect Sentences newsletter I was reminded of this David Graeber classic from The Baffler, whose topic (and, interestingly, some of whose digressions) are serendipitously relevant...
When I presented my panel paper “Teaching White Supremacy in Marvel Comics” at the Comics Studies Society conference in June, I said this fall I would be changing my first-year writing seminar from “Superhero Comics” (a version of which...
By Onslaught Six, Roz Leahy, Maeve MurrayTidal Wave GamesOSELevel 2? Engage with multiple factions of orcs, beastmen, rodentia, and cults. Infiltrate the followers of a doomed machine. Fall prey to a vampiric lord. Escape from the moat...
The Hebrew word for "frog", צְפַרְדֵּעַ tzfardea, appears 13 times in the Tanakh. All of them are related to the plague in Egypt. Eleven of them are in the book of Shemot during the narrative of that plague, and two are from separate...
Mancub came in when my alarm went off to tell me that the sunlight has gone away and I needed to bring it back. While I was sitting outside with coffee, the sun broke through briefly, and he commented over his shoulder (very much an...
Unlike the millions of years it takes for most mountains on Earth to form, lunar mountains crop out near-instantly, geologically speaking.Mountains on our dear Earth primarily form when two colliding plates of Terra’s crust lift up...
After years of biohackers spending thousands of dollars on custom ice barrels, chiller units, and backyard livestock troughs, health tech startup Frigid Flow announced a major breakthrough today. Their innovative new product is the...
PrologueAs a kid of the late 80's, Hulk Hogan was my hero. Not Terry Bollea, the performer who portrayed The Hulkster. Hulk Hogan the character. 💡Hulk's theme songWhen it comes crashing down and it hurts insideYa' gotta take a stand, it...