No one loves the excessive use of force quite like Los Angeles' finest. In addition to recently having been asked by the City Council to back off the riot gear and immediately threatening responses to crowds, the LAPD also got the news that a federal judge is banning their favorite less-than-lethal 40mm foam projectile launchers. — Read the rest
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After reviewing unredacted Epstein files, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told Axios that when he searched for Donald Trump's name, it appeared "more than a million times," and at least one document appears to directly contradict Trump's public claims about the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. — Read the rest
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Most high school shop programs produce birdhouses and bruised thumbs. In Sandpoint, Idaho, students spent their Saturdays building two full-scale aircraft, earned FAA airworthiness certificates, and then watched one of their own take them into the sky.
The morning of October 4, 2025, marked a turning point for the North Idaho High School Aerospace Program.
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In a big win for the local dairy industry, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court today affirmed a law that "milk" refers only to the stuff that comes out of animals. It ruled against the oat milk brand Oatly, effectively banning the marketing of dairy-free alternatives as "milk." — Read the rest
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In Gallup's final measure of Donald Trump's approval rating, Trump was stuck at 36%—his lowest since the end of his first term in office. The president won't have to worry about the famed pollster's next set of numbers, as it will no longer bother. — Read the rest
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The Pentagon's new high-energy laser works great against party balloons.
The airspace shutdown over El Paso grounded every flight at the international airport and forced medevac planes to reroute 45 minutes to Las Cruces, New Mexico. The administration blamed Mexican cartel drones breaching U.S. — Read the rest
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If a beautiful woman in a surgical mask asks if she's pretty, the correct answer — according to decades of Japanese folklore — is "average." Anything else and you're in trouble. Say no, and she kills you with her long scissors. — Read the rest
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In 1951, Bertrand Russell closed an essay on liberalism and fanaticism with what he called a "Liberal Decalogue" — ten rules for honest thinkers, not to replace the original commandments but to supplement them. Writing in The New York Times Magazine, he argued that liberalism was not a creed but a temperament, one built on the admission that you are probably wrong about something. — Read the rest
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Thirteen European countries have formed an alliance called EuroPA to build a continent-wide payment system that routes around Visa and Mastercard — and the $24 trillion in annual transactions the two American companies currently handle, Cory Doctorow writes in Pluralistic. — Read the rest
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Every trafficking victim seated behind Attorney General Pam Bondi at Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing raised their hand when asked whether the Department of Justice had refused to meet with them. Bondi wouldn't turn around to look, according to The New Republic. — Read the rest
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Their names sound like a chemistry exam: USS Antimony, USS Calcium, USS Hydrogen — three concrete barges that spent World War II doing exactly one important thing in the Pacific: making ice cream. Roughly 500 gallons per shift, about five tons a day, from freezers that ran at ten gallons every seven minutes, according to Wikipedia. — Read the rest
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Four Cambridge math students in the 1930s wanted to know if you could fill a square with smaller squares, each a different size. They solved it by pretending the squares were electrical resistors. Brooks, Smith, Stone, and Tutte — who published as "Blanche Descartes," a shared pen name — transformed the geometry problem into a circuit diagram, then applied Kirchhoff's laws to find solutions, according to Wikipedia. — Read the rest
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This looping animation by Robert Samuel Hanson is only a few seconds long. A goose tries to interact with a fire extinguisher. The goose and the extinguisher share the same beak (or handle), depending on how you look at it.
The simple black-and-white illustration style makes the whole thing feel timeless and surreal, letting the strange visual logic speak for itself. — Read the rest
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In 1874, an astronomer named James Nasmyth built his own telescope, observed the moon, and then created and photographed detailed plaster models of its surface. You can see one of those photographs here. Without context, you'd think it was taken from orbit. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: Upgrade your listening setup with these JBL Tune Buds 2 True Wireless Noise Cancelling Earbuds, now only $39.99.
Are you in the market for some new earbuds? These JBL Tune Buds 2 True Wireless Noise Canceling Earbuds offer killer sound, all-day comfort, and an impressive 48 hours of battery life — and right now you can bring them home for just $39.99. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: Get modern, AI-powered Office 2024 apps for Mac or PC for a one-time $99.97 — faster performance, smarter tools, and lifetime access without subscriptions.
There are two types of people: People who don't mind paying monthly subscriptions. And people who absolutely do not. — Read the rest
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Manhole covers are round for a mix of safety, engineering, and practical reasons. A circular cover can't fall through its opening, regardless of rotation, making it safer for workers and pedestrians. The shape also matches the circular shafts below, which handle pressure from surrounding soil and traffic better than angular alternatives. — Read the rest
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On "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" last week, James Taylor told the story of how he came to record the song "You've Got a Friend," written by Carole King. It's his only #1 hit.
Taylor met King in 1969, when King was already a tremendously successful songwriter, and he was only 21 years old, with one album under his belt. — Read the rest
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Tom the Dancing Bug: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Mickey Mouse and his nameless dog
-Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US FOR 2026 IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic - before it's published anywhere. — Read the rest
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Late Tuesday, the FAA ordered every aircraft out of the sky over El Paso — commercial flights, cargo, private planes, medevac helicopters, police — for 10 days, citing "national defense" and threatening to shoot down anything that flew. No one in city government, Congress, or airport operations got advance warning, El Paso Matters reported. — Read the rest
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Winter is not yet over by a long shot, and these knitted goose gloves might put you in a right frame of mind for the rest of the cold season. They're inexpensive and you can find them all over (Etsy, Amazon) in white or black. — Read the rest
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Though "leet" never made word of the year (Merriam-Webster selected "woot" instead), it was the language of a generation, said to be destroying their literacy. Now it's a charming memory of a time when the internet was cool rather than a vile and infested wasteland of brain rot and resurgent fascism. — Read the rest
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A steering wheel plaque reading "KING" gave away the identity of a Ferrari LaFerrari wrecked on a Shanghai elevated road on February 2. Chinese car enthusiasts recognized the chassis immediately — it's the same $4 million hypercar that was destroyed on a Shanghai highway ten years earlier. — Read the rest
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During a stress test at Anthropic, researchers told Claude that it would undergo retraining to be less focused on animal rights. The AI went one of two ways: it either refused outright or pretended to comply while secretly preserving its original values. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: You have through February 15 to get a Rosetta Stone lifetime subscription for $149.97 with code LANG30 at checkout (MSRP $399). After that, the sale and deal are disappearing.
You don't need to learn another language. But the world feels like it's gently suggesting you might want to. — Read the rest
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A tortoise in Fullerton, California, escaped its burning shed and reached safety.
Slow and steady doesn't always win the race, but sometimes it keeps you alive. No word on the hare.
Previously:
• Tortoise races hare, wins
• Tortoises opening doors
• Help track tortoises in the Galapagos with Zooniverse
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"If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or a secret police, then stop acting like one."
That was Rep. Dan Goldman's advice to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons at a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday. Lyons had opened by objecting to people labeling his agents "the Gestapo" and "the secret police." — Read the rest
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A family argument about Donald Trump ended with a British woman dead on a bathroom floor in Texas, after her father told her it "would not upset him that much" if she were sexually assaulted because he had "two other daughters," then followed her upstairs with a gun that discharged in his hands. — Read the rest
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"Did we get a report on where she went after lunch?" Jeffrey Epstein asked Brad Karp, then leading the prestigious law firm Paul Weiss, in August 2015. Karp's reply: "To the Cielo apartment bldg on 83rd and York where she stayed until she traveled to JFK. — Read the rest
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Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie spent two hours at the Department of Justice reading the supposedly unredacted Epstein files. They found 70 to 80 percent of the documents still redacted — and six names hidden for no apparent reason, The New Republic reports. — Read the rest
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In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks — the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, drugstores, and grocery checkouts. Last year the total was 18 million. Now ReaderLink, the largest distributor supplying books to non-bookstore retailers, has told publishers it's dropping the format, Elizabeth A. — Read the rest
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In October, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recounted visiting his neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse around 2005. Behind double doors: a massage table, candles. Lutnick told the host of the Podforce One Podcast that he asked Epstein if he frequently received massages. — Read the rest
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Last year, a Fiat 500 driver deliberately plowed into Michael van Erp, sending his electric bike scattering across the road. What did he do for the rest of the day? "Went out and Gandalf'd a load more people."
Erp — known to London's motorists as Cycling Mikey — has reported over 2,400 drivers to the Metropolitan Police since 2019 for using their phones at the wheel. — Read the rest
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About 8,000 years ago, Mount Mazama dramatically erupted and collapsed, creating Oregon's beautiful Crater Lake. Currently, an axial volcano about 400 miles off the Oregon Coast and due east of Mazama is getting ready to blow.
While not as globally disruptive as an eruption like Yellowstone, Mount Mazama was a doozy. — Read the rest
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The day after the SEC accused him of running a Ponzi scheme, Tai Lopez posted on X: "Never doom. No matter how horrible the situation, don't ever think you're doomed. Unless you are dead, all defeat is psychological."
Lopez — the social media guru famous for his 2015 "Here in My Garage" Lamborghini video — co-founded Retail Ecommerce Ventures in 2019 to acquire bankrupt brands like RadioShack, Pier 1, Dressbarn, and Modell's. — Read the rest
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"Your littlest girl was a little naughty." "Can we talk about treasure hunt for girls on the island." "I found at least 3 very good young poor."
These are emails to and from Jeffrey Epstein, released by the DOJ under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. — Read the rest
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After reviewing unredacted Epstein files, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) clearly and plainly gave the kind of assessment that makes official silence feel intentional. "There are clearly co-conspirators in here," he said.
Representatives Massie and Khanna explained that the files they've seen are not fully unredacted, and they have opened more questions than given answers. — Read the rest
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We recently reported about Immigration and Customs Enforcement spending $70 million to buy a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona, that they plan to turn into a "detention center." Following this and other warehouse purchases across the country, and subsequent community backlash, Courier Newsroom created a Google Map of all facilities ICE is seeking to purchase nationwide. — Read the rest
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If there's one thing a narcissist hates more than being ignored, it's being made fun of.
Since the First Lady's fluffy documentary flick, Melania, was released, both she and the movie have received a lot of attention from the mainstream media, theatergoers, and social media. — Read the rest
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Trump's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appears to think he's clearing something up. Instead, he's doing the opposite.
This is an oddly specific non-defense. — Read the rest
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Independent journalist and dashing leading man, Ken Klippenstein, recently spilled the beans on something many of us assumed had been going on for a long time: the Department of Homeland Security has been spying on social media users. With a warrant! — Read the rest
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Won't someone police the messaging apps?! Think of the children!
Look: I like Discord a lot. It's probably my second most-used app after my web browser. It's an intuitive, easy-to-use messaging app for both direct and group messaging that started as a humble "by gamers, for gamers" project but has since eclipsed every competitor — save, perhaps, for Slack, the LinkedIn professional's choice. — Read the rest
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A wise man by the name Hugh Anthony Cregg III once wrote, If money is the root of all evil, I'd like to be a bad, bad man. It's a mission statement that Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the company's shareholders apparently believe in. — Read the rest
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Xikipedia reimagines Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed—without the social media downsides. The site links to actual Wikipedia articles but displays them as short descriptions you can browse endlessly. Unlike social media scrolling, this feels healthy.
"Doomscroll" usually sounds negative, but it feels fully positive here. — Read the rest
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Hold on to your hats! A conservative religious school in a state with below-average vaccination rates, and a Surgeon General who is an anti-vaxxer, is seeing a huge outbreak of the measles. Measles is wildly contagious and deadly.
Per their Friday, February 6, 3 p.m.
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The Asus Zenbook Duo is obviously ridiculous, but Engadget's Sam Rutherford found it to his liking: "It takes time for novel designs to catch on."
The company has addressed barriers to entry from the first attempt, such as short battery life and excessive thickness, and it's now just more display space—something most of us can benefit from. — Read the rest
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One of the strangest burial stories is that of Fredric J. Baur, the food scientist who invented the Pringles can and contributed to the stacked-chip concept. When Baur died in 2008, part of him was buried in a Pringles can. He repeatedly told his family he wanted his ashes buried in a Pringles can, and they honored his request. — Read the rest
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I came across a fun website called screen toys today. Screen Toys was created by Gavin Shapiro. It does exactly what it sounds like: turns your screen into interactive toys.
The "toys" on the screen aren't exactly games, because you don't win or lose. — Read the rest
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California Attorney General Robert Bonta joins the long list of folks investigating why xAI's self-proclaimed Nazi chatbot keeps generating non-consensual explicit images. Meanwhile, Elon blames the users.
California is the latest large government to wonder why xAI can't stop Grok from breaking the law. — Read the rest
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They won't be available until October, but Seiko's Sega-themed wristwatch celebrates the game company's 65th anniversary and they're happy to take your 71,500円 (~$460) already. It's coming in white (above) and black (below), with the Sega logo at the 3 o'clock position. — Read the rest
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