For decades, swaths of the American media have failed to treat Elon Musk like a CEO with a track record of missed timelines and broken promises. Instead, he is portrayed as a misunderstood supergenius playing 11-dimensional chess with civilization in the balance. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Take your programming to the next level with cross-platform development and AI-powered collaboration. Discover Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for just $49.99 (Reg. $499.99).

Want to take your programming skills to the next level? The key is simple: learn how to work with AI instead of against it. — Read the rest

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In April 2019, Steve Bannon texted Jeffrey Epstein a three-step plan to rescue his reputation: "First we need to push back on the lies; then crush the pedo/trafficking narrative; then rebuild your image as philanthropist." Bannon had spent months filming Epstein for a planned documentary — roughly 12 hours of interviews without ever raising the subject of his abuse of girls and young women or his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution, according to TheWrap. — Read the rest

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Trump's war secretary, "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth, is threatening to blackball Anthropic's Claude over politics, as Trump denounces "woke AI" in favor of CSAM-generating "MechHitler" Grok.

It would appear that by questioning the Pentagon turning Claude into a mass surveillance tool, and developing self-firing AI weapons, Anthropic got on the administration's bad side. — Read the rest

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Unsurprisingly, Kash Patel's FBI has formally informed Minnesota officials that it will not be cooperating and will not provide access to information or evidence it collected in the fatal January shooting of Alex Pretti. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension called the lack of cooperation "concerning and unprecedented." — Read the rest

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No federal criminal charges were ever filed for offenses at Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch. Multiple women said they were sexually assaulted at the 7,600-acre New Mexico property, including Virginia Giuffre, who was abused there repeatedly. Allegations go back to at least 1996, when a 16-year-old girl was targeted. — Read the rest

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"As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto 'Ignorance is Strength,' this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. — Read the rest

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Stephen Colbert said Monday that CBS's legal team called his show and told him, "in no uncertain terms," that he could not interview Texas state Rep. James Talarico on the broadcast, Variety reports. Then they told him he couldn't mention not having Talarico on. — Read the rest

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The first thing Barack Obama wanted to know when he became president was where the aliens are. He admitted this, laughing, during a lightning-round Q&A on Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast, published Saturday. When Cohen asked, "Are aliens real?" Obama said, "They're real." — Read the rest

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"We can't have American producers closing American factories and offshoring," hedge fund billionaire John Paulson told CNBC in September 2024. "We need to protect American jobs and protect American manufacturing."

Paulson is now closing the Eastlake, Ohio plant of Conn-Selmer — America's biggest maker of band and orchestra instruments — and moving tuba, sousaphone, and student French horn production to a new factory in Qidong, China. — Read the rest

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This heartwarming video shows a pigeon caring for a pregnant cat and her babies. The pigeon collects straw and builds a bed around the cat for comfort. After the kittens are born, it keeps adding to the nest, ensuring they're all cared for. — Read the rest

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Wooly Story (1964) is a quietly enchanting stop-motion short from Czech animator Hermína Týrlová, who makes everyday materials feel alive. In nine minutes, a simple ball of yarn awakens with curiosity, slowly unraveling into playful movement and mischief. Without dialogue, the film lets texture, motion, and timing do all the storytelling. — Read the rest

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This may be a step towards telling new Star Wars stories on the big screen, or just a merchandising blitz.

The Mandalorian and Grogu is the next feature-length Star Wars movie, releasing in theaters. It seems to leap directly off the little screen and onto the big, feeling even more like an episode of the TV series than Star Trek attempts at movies with their television casts. — Read the rest

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These photos capture the subtle art of deep sleep marks—imprints left on skin after napping on objects. The collection includes marks from a TV remote, earbuds, and even a palm print.

Each photo tells a story about where someone dozed off. — Read the rest

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Skateboarder Ted Barrow takes a look at the yesterday and today of Los Angeles' famous beachfront skate spots, from the Santa Monica Pier to the Venice Pavilion.

Whether you grew up watching skate movies or in West Los Angeles, the skate spots along Santa Monica and Venice Beach are iconic. — Read the rest

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The winter Olympic events consist of skiing, skating, or sliding in a variety of wild ways. Biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and target shooting, has some competition for the title of "craziest sport combining other sports" at the Olympics with the debut of skimo. — Read the rest

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Casio's Moflin is an adorable artificial pet, which is to say a toy that's hooked up to AI so that it's squeakings and movements have some element of verisimilitude and the unexpected. The Tribble-like "AI Companion" is designed to "support, reassure, and grow with you through life's everyday moments," as the literature goes, and comes in gold and silver. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Send voice messages directly through Gmail or Outlook with a lifetime subscription to Chorde for $39.99 (MSRP $199).

Are you a better yapper than a writer? If you've got the gift of gab, but never feel like it translates to writing, it might be time to start writing emails with your voice. — Read the rest

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The venture capitalist son of Anthony Scaramucci shows off his investing prowess by setting the record for the most expensive Pokémon card purchase of all time at $16.5M.

The Mooch was one of Trump's most laughable clowns, and he did his damage to the reputation of the United States in record time. — Read the rest

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While wireless charging hasn't standardized enough to eliminate the need for three different surfaces, it has gotten pretty good. This Energizer stand handles all my portable devices and then some.

I try to keep a Kindle Paperwhite SE, Apple Watch, iPhone, Apple iPod, and iPad Pro charged up and use them all daily. — Read the rest

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Cursing and controversy rarely mix with curling or Canada. But a tense game between the Canadian and Swedish men's teams at the Milano Cortina Olympics delivered both. The incident shocked fans of the typically sportsmanlike game.

The Swedes told officials that Canadian Marc Kennedy had touched the stone's granite portion during delivery, somewhat sarcastically asking for rule clarification. — Read the rest

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Green's Dictionary of Slang, the largest collection of English vulgarities, slurs and other ne'er-do-well words, is now free to read online thanks to author Jonathon Green. It is 'Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been…or is ever likely to be,' according to the Journal of English Language and Linguistics. — Read the rest

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Millions of people in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and beyond are today enjoying pancakes, because it is Pancake Day. Formally Shrove Tuesday, a tradition rooted in centuries of religious practice and culinary custom preceding Ash Wednesday, it's now mostly about the pancakes. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 for Windows is on sale for $44.97, giving you a lifetime license to build professional flowcharts, network diagrams, and data-linked visuals without a subscription.

Some people are visual learners. Others are visual thinkers. And if you're the type who sees processes as boxes connected by arrows, you already know that waving your hands around in a meeting just doesn't cut it. — Read the rest

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"I think it's beyond borderline — 25 amendment." That was Steve Bannon texting Jeffrey Epstein on December 31, 2018, about President Trump. Epstein had texted Bannon, "He is really borderline," and Bannon went further, telling the convicted sex trafficker that Trump should be removed from office, Raw Story reports. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get control of your data with 91% off a 10TB subscription to Internxt Cloud Storage for just $249.97 (Reg. $2,900).

You pay for your phone, so why are you renting to keep your own files on it? Tired of paying monthly fees for phone storage, email storage, photo storage, and more? — Read the rest

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A neighborhood Facebook page called Montco Community Watch had been doing what neighborhood pages do — posting tips about ICE sightings near specific streets and landmarks in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in English and Spanish, for its roughly 10,000 followers. In September, DHS served Meta with an administrative subpoena for the names, email addresses, and postal codes of whoever ran it. — Read the rest

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I love Acemagic's ad for its NES-styled mini PC, with posters for AI Slop Mario and Legend of Slop and a depressing neon sign exhorting you to "Relive your Glory Days." You'll be needing the Retro X5's AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor and AMD Radeon 890M iGPU if you want to get good frame rates in Frievatass JE or Zeriagic. — Read the rest

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Mike King is a brilliant but accidental graphic designer who started as a late-70s punk rocker in Portland, Oregon, making show posters for his own bands and other acts at small venues. Before he knew it, he was creating gorgeous, fascinating concert posters as a career for some of the world's biggest musical acts. — Read the rest

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Wendy's plans to close 5%-6% of its restauraunts in the United States within months and allow others to skip breakfast. With 6,000 outlets, that means more than 300 "underperforming" venues will soon be gone.

Wendy's interim CEO Ken Cook: "By closing consistently underperforming restaurants, we are enabling our franchise partners to increase focus on locations with the greatest potential for profitable growth. — Read the rest

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A camera trap in a tiger reserve captured footage of something never seen before: six Amur tigers in one frame.

In footage from the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, an adult tigress walks past the camera on a dirt road. — Read the rest

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During Brett Kavanaugh's 2018 Supreme Court fight, Epstein coached Steve Bannon on how to undermine Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged that then-Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her — specifically, that she should be accused of using medications that impair memory. — Read the rest

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Texas-based pet microchip registry Save This Life abruptly shut down earlier this month, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of pets unprotected.

Microchipping is vital for protecting pets. Pets run away or get lost, and collars and tags can fall off. A microchip can be the difference between getting a pet back and losing them forever. — Read the rest

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If you haven't been convinced that bats are adorable or that some look like smaller, slightly misshapen doggos, here's your final evidence. Meet Duchess, a Western mastiff bat—the largest bat species in the United States. Duchess is simply gorgeous. Look at her giant floppy ears, sweet expressive eyes, and little piggy nose! — Read the rest

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Even though raw milk can cause sickness and death — see this tragic story of a New Mexico baby who died from listeria after its mother drank raw, unpasteurized milk while pregnant — raw milk enthusiasts, including many in the Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement, continue hyping the potentially dangerous beverage. — Read the rest

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By now you've seen clips from Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing and Attorney General Pam Bondi's pathetic "but the record Dow!" response to questions about the Trump administration's mishandling of the Epstein files. CNBC explains:

Attorney General Pam Bondi chastised House Democrats for ignoring stock market gains under President Donald Trump as they grilled her on the Epstein files .

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The 12-inch MacBook, discontinued long ago, was my favorite laptop. I kept mine well into the Apple Silicon era, and when it died, I went on eBay and bought another one. Microsoft's 12.5-inch Surface Laptop Go 3 feels closest, all told, but it has a low-resolution 1024-line display and comes with Windows 11. — Read the rest

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Courts have held that police can book people on DUI even if they pass field sobriety tests and blow under the limit on a breathalyzer. The predictable result is an explosion of false DUI charges. In Tennessee, 41 DUI arrests made by a single Highway Patrol officer were dismissed; local media found that 22 of the cases involved drivers with no alcohol or drugs in their systems. — Read the rest

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In December 2023, Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn allegedly activated a backdoor mechanism in a cryptocurrency they controlled, freezing investor wallets while exempting their own. A class action lawsuit filed February 12 in DC federal court alleges the pair had secretly acquired the token — called "Let's Go Brandon Coin," or $FJB — in December 2021, paying nothing. — Read the rest

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Conservative podcast host Tim Dillon called FBI Director Kash Patel a "big fat liar" and demanded his resignation. Candace Owens said he should step down. Joe Rogan amplified the criticism. The backlash — from the same right-wing media that once championed Patel — centers on what Salon describes as a pattern of "premature announcements and theatrical incompetence." — Read the rest

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Attorney General Pam Bondi told Congress on Saturday that the Justice Department has released all documents required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The lawmakers who wrote the law disagree.

In a six-page letter, Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche listed more than 300 "politically exposed persons" whose names appear in the files — Trump, Clinton, Gates, Prince Andrew, and, for reasons the DOJ didn't explain, Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, and Janis Joplin. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Try your luck at Bitcoin mining without the noise, heat, or four-figure commitment. The BlockChance Bitcoin Ticket Miner is $49.97 (reg. $149.99) and lets you participate in real Bitcoin mining like a digital scratch-off ticket. Deal ends Feb. 22 at 11:59 p.m. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get 1TB of cloud storage from Koofr for $129.99 with code KOOFR (reg. $810). Deal ends Feb. 16 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Cloud storage subscriptions are a lot like gym memberships: cheap enough to ignore, expensive enough over time to regret, and surprisingly hard to quit. — Read the rest

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ICE Barbie Kristi Noem ignited a political firestorm on Friday by suggesting her Department of Homeland Security has a role in ensuring "the right people" are voting in upcoming elections. Her comments raise concerns about DHS's limited role in policing elections. — Read the rest

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A friend sent me this music video. I don't know the song it parodies, but it is sheer lunacy.

Nothing like metal Muppets to get your day going. Much more fun than Elmo.

Previously:
• Muppets from Space's 'Brick House'
• Long-time voice of Kermit calls the current Muppets a tribute band
• The Muppets' version of Bohemian Rhapsody remains one of the best covers of all time

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TL;DR: For $19.97 (reg. $600), EDU Unlimited unlocks a library of 1,000+ online courses, progress tracking, certifications, and new content added monthly.

You could keep hoarding "learn Python" threads like digital souvenirs, convincing yourself you'll circle back (spoiler: you won't). Or you could drop $19.97 and finally build the skill set you've been humble-bragging about at brunch.  — Read the rest

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Once again, the internet has done what the internet does best: amateur sleuths have now turned their attention to an alleged Oval Office "audio incident," with one self-described sound engineer claiming to have isolated and enhanced the offending noise like it's the Zapruder film. — Read the rest

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After being sent home in the wake of failure, which turned fatal in Minneapolis, the face of Trump's immigration crackdown and self-styled Gruppenführer Greg Bovino resurfaced online. Apparently, acting under the misconception that anyone missed him at all, the internet did what it does best. — Read the rest

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Erika Kirk, the grieving widow of Charlie, who instantly declared herself CEO of his Turning Point USA organization, is facing renewed allegations of grooming after screenshots allegedly showing her sending flirtatious and intimate messages to a 15-year-old girl in 2014. Erika was 25 at the time. — Read the rest

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