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Drug fueled plunge into a Bass Pro shop aquarium results in plea deal
Boing Boing,
Alabaman George Owens took a "lot of drugs" his wife thinks he "found" in his garage. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Until he pleaded guilty and took a deal, George Owens showed a surprisingly awful chain of judgment. — Read the rest The post Drug fueled plunge into a Bass Pro shop aquarium results in plea deal appeared first on Boing Boing.
Brooklyn Beckham Is Hawking Smoothies Now
The Cut,
But no, you can’t buy his at Erewhon.
Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries
mjtsai,
Graham Fraser: Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had […]
Coding Font Selection Tournament
Jason Snell: Leo Laporte pointed me to the very clever site Coding Font, which lets you step through a tournament-style bracket of monospace fonts to find the one you like the best. Unfortunately it’s lacking a bunch of the options mentioned above, but if you’ve ever been curious about switching up your terminal font, it’s […]
House Majority Leader blames NOLA terror attack on DEI
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La) has determined that DEI initiatives and "wokeness" led to the recent terror attack. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Congressperson Scalise seems to feel Police are spending too much time diversifying their workforces, attempting to serve better and be more representative of their communities. — Read the rest The post House Majority Leader blames NOLA terror attack on DEI appeared first on Boing Boing.
Scientists reveal why your life feels boring — and how to fix it
That dull feeling when your once-thrilling job feels routine or your dream home becomes just four walls isn't all in your head—it's your brain doing its job. Scientists call it "habituation," and there's a way to outsmart it. "Habituation is the brain's tendency to tune out what's constant or repeated," Tali Sharot, cognitive neuroscientist and author of Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There told NPR. — Read the rest The post Scientists reveal why your life feels boring — and how to fix it appeared first on Boing Boing.
Meet the new members: A Navy SEAL knocks out a Montana fixture
Politico,
Trump warns of new tariffs against Canada, Mexico, EU. And maybe Denmark, too.