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"I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020
Boing Boing,
Prices on just about everything in the United States have gone up — way up. Here are some figures from an article in Bloomberg titled, "Just How Bad Is the US Cost-of-Living Squeeze? We Did the Math"that reveal how much prices have jumped since 2020:2020: Groceries = 25% Pets = 17% Electricity Bills = 25% (51% in California) Natural gas = 29% Rent =+20% Used Cars = 35% Car Insurance = 33% Child care = 32% Bloomberg interviewed several U.S. — Read the rest
Sports Illustrated deletes articles by fake AI writers after exposé
Sports Illustrated used to publish essays by Kurt Vonnegut and Frank Deford. Now it publishes uncannily bland drivel by AI-generated personas, a fact revealed by Futurism in an exposé. Moreover, its response to the article implies that it has outsourced editorial to a content farm and it has no direct knowledge of who or what wrote it. — Read the rest
Mike Pence hits Donald Trump under oath by zapping a comma from his book
The small but potent comma might seem like an innocuous part of English grammar, but sometimes it can radically change the meaning of a sentence — as in the old example, "Lets eat, Grandma," vs. "Lets eat Grandma." And sometimes, a misplaced comma can make the difference when it comes to evidence of a Trump trial, as is the case with what Vice President Mike Pence says he didn't mean to write. — Read the rest
Trump's J6 legal defense: he never swore to support the Constitution, despite taking an oath to protect it
In MAGA land, where lies are cherished sacraments, Trump is the god-emperor of prevarication. He is so used to getting away with telling fibs that he forgets that people who haven't been brainwashed won't give him a free pass. For example, Trump's lawyers argue that the former President is exempt from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which reads as follows: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. — Read the rest
A conference organizer lists imaginary women speakers to increase the appearance of diversity at his events
404Media tells the tale of Eduards Sizovs, the founder of a tech conference who also created several fictional women to help increase the appearance of diversity at said conference. Sizovs has been caught listing women who only exist as bios on his event's website as speakers. — Read the rest
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Half-Life retrospective documentary
Half-Life is 25 years old, and its makers posted a documentary about its development, covering everything from the early days of Valve to the game's genre-defining success. Dave Riller, lead designer, says that when they founded the company, only three people there had even shipped a game. — Read the rest
Woman falls to death through rotten floorboards into 48ft well under home
An 83-year-old woman died Sunday while helping her daughter move out of a 100-year-old house in Salem, South Carolina. Rotten floorboards gave way underfoot and she fell into a 48-ft well long hidden beneath them, reports WHNS's Alvieann Chandler. According to Oconee County property records, the house was originally built in 1920. — Read the rest