It takes a special kind of person to randomly assault a black teenager, murder him, and claim it's self-defense, and then continuously find ways to be even more heinous after your… Read the rest of the article: George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's mother for $100M in order to promote a movie

It's frankly shocking that in more than 40 years since Yoda first debuted on the big screen, no one has asked the anarcho-linguist Noam Chomsky to explain the Jedi's syntactical… Read the rest of the article: What would Noam Chomsky think about the linguistic development of Baby Yoda?

Consequence of Sound was the first to report that Pete Davidson has begun handing out NDAs to all audience members at his recent comedy gigs. Imagine buying a ticket, then… Read the rest of the article: Famous comedians have turned to the same sleazy tactics as CEOs and politicians to protect their in-progress jokes

On November 13, noted vampire capitalist Peter Thiel gave a speech to donors at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research conservative think-tank on "The End of the Computer Age." Over… Read the rest of the article: Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank

The Literary Review in the UK has given out a Bad Sex in Fiction Award since 1993. It's a coveted literary recognition indeed; even Morrissey took the prize home in… Read the rest of the article: What happens when a neural network tries to write a bad sex scene

Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play is meant to be provocative—certainly moreso than most other Broadway productions that transfer from Off Broadway theatres. The play itself is about a group of interracial… Read the rest of the article: White woman interrupted a Broadway talkback to call the playwright "racist against white people."

Inspired by XKCD's classic diceware strip, a programmer named Alice created an open-source algorithm to randomly generate secure passphrases in Welsh. As difficult as it would be for any human… Read the rest of the article: This Welsh password generator might keep you safe from hackers, but definitely from dragons

It's kind of remarkable that the Guinness Book of Records has managed to secure such a prominent place in our culture, considering it was literally invented to encourage people to… Read the rest of the article: Someone has finally broken the Guinness World Record for long-distance throwing of a hot dog sausage in a bun

Back in September, a rare print edition of Space Adventures #7—originally published by the new-defunct Charlton Comics in 1953—sold for $1,800. The comic book speculator market isn't normally the kind… Read the rest of the article: That time Charlton Comics published a trans sci-fi story in 1953

For the last year, the Detroit Free Press has been reporting on the strange saga of the University of Farmington, a fake educational institution outside of Detroit. Homeland Security Investigations… Read the rest of the article: ICE arrested 250 foreign-born people for the most heinous of crimes: pursuing higher education

There's a popular saying in the Gaeilgeoir, or Irish Speaker, community: "Is fearr linn Gaeilge briste, ná Béarla cliste," which basically means "Broken Irish is better than clever English." I'm… Read the rest of the article: The Irish language has the best weird translations of common animal names

I know a guy who works at Boston Dynamics. He spends all day fussing over how to get a robot leg to bend the right way. It's kind of boring,… Read the rest of the article: That Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics has a new job on the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad

In early November, the New York Times published an article called "I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too." Naturally, this struck my curiosity,… Read the rest of the article: I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile.

On at 8:55am local time on Saturday, November 23, 2019, the Chinese government "successfully" launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket into orbit. Leaving from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center,… Read the rest of the article: A spent Chinese rocket booster destroyed part of a village near the launching site

While I was familiar with the internet art of catfishing, I was not aware of the practice of catching catfish by hand, which is apparently called "noodling." Then I saw… Read the rest of the article: How to catch a subterranean catfish using mentos, eggs, and Coca-cola

New Age spirituality has never been my thing. If you're into it, hey, that's cool; it's just not for me. I don't really stay up nights worrying about it, and… Read the rest of the article: A deep dive into the bloody mines of the Healing Crystal industry

Imagine 100 Billion in Under 60 SecondsWatch this video on YouTube Created by Twitter user Betty Cam, this is a really clear and simple way to wrap your around the… Read the rest of the article: Visualizing just how stupidly wealthy Bill Gates really is, in under 60 seconds

Watch this video on YouTube In a move that is so bombastic yet embarrassing that it sounds like something straight out This is Spinal Tap—ya know what, let's just let ABC… Read the rest of the article: KISS played a concert on a boat for great white sharks, but none of them showed up

Though the wonderful wizard of Northampton may strike me down, I must confess: HBO's new Watchmen series is really, really good. I would argue that it actually has more in common… Read the rest of the article: A handy pamphlet for coping with extra-dimensional anxiety

Rupert Murdoch has never met an irrational fear of the Boomer set that he couldn't exploit for cash. Which is why Fox News filed a trademark for "OK Boomer" earlier… Read the rest of the article: Fox News has filed a trademark for "OK Boomer" — and they're not the first ones to do it