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Robert Tinney, who painted iconic Byte magazine covers, RIP
Robert Tinney, who painted iconic Byte magazine covers, RIP
Gouache applied by airbrush — that was the secret behind the impossibly smooth, vivid covers Robert Tinney produced for Byte magazine across 80-plus issues from 1975 into the late 1980s.…
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February 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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A Python library that gets 130 million downloads per month requires human review for all submissions after an AI wrote a smear piece on a developer.
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An AI agent published a hit piece on the developer who rejected it
Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions after a…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Oni Press drops the graphic biography of Juneteenth's unlikely champion, proving that sometimes one person really can drag the rest of us toward doing the right thing

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A graphic history of Juneteenth and the woman who refused to let it go
Oni Press has just released a graphic biography on the origin story of Juneteenth, as told through the life of the woman most responsible for making it a national reality.…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Disney World is bulldozing its dinosaur kingdom this month to build a Tropical Americas land instead. Progress marches on, leaving giant reptile footprints in its wake.

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DinoLand U.S.A., R.I.P.
This month, DinoLand USA, the dinosaur-themed land in Disney World's (Orlando) Animal Kingdom ceased all operations, to be torn down to make way for the construction of a Tropical Americas…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Those "autonomous" Waymo cars cruising San Francisco? They're being driven by humans sitting in other countries.
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Those Waymo robotaxis? Humans in other countries drive them
We don't have a cure for cancer, or personal jetpacks to use on our commute to work, and if they can actually get AI to work, millions will lose their…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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WhatsApp and Telegram were the final holdouts for encrypted chat in Russia. Not anymore—both got the axe yesterday, with authorities helpfully suggesting alternatives.

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Russia blocks Telegram and Whatsapp
Whatsapp and Telegram were among the last encrypted communications platforms permitted in Russia, but that ended yesterday: the two apps are now blocked there, authorities confirmed. They encouraged people to…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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54-year-old Republican county chairman in Utah reportedly tortured his teenage daughter because her room wasn't clean 'to his standards.'
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Republican county chairman accused of torturing own daughter for not cleaning room
David Nephi Johnson, 54, is the chairman of Wasatch County Republican Party in Utah. His teenage daughter, police say, failed to tidy her room "to his standards." Police are interested…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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While other North Korean kids follow strict hair length rules, Kim Ju Ae gets to wear hers long. Perks of being the chosen heir.

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Kim Jong Un picks his 13-year-old daughter as successor
She's thirteen, wears her hair long (forbidden by her peers), and has been standing taller than her father in state photos lately. Kim Ju Ae, the only publicly acknowledged child…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Nothing says true love like having to lie about how you met because your matchmaker was a convicted sex trafficker

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FBI file claims Epstein introduced Melania to Trump, contradicting the fairy tale
In another glaring contradiction, the oft-repeated insistence by convicted felon Donald Trump and Amazon film star Melania that Jeffrey Epstein didn't introduce the two lovebirds has taken a shot across…
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February 12, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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Ted Lieu had enough of Pam Bondi's evasive non-answers and decided to cut straight to the point: I think you're lying to Congress

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Congressperson tells Pam Bondi he believes she is lying to Congress
California Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) was clearly exhausted by Attorney General Pam Bondi's evasive, non-answers to questions, but he wouldn't stand for her lies. The Attorney General evaded nearly every…
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February 12, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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Nothing says 'MAGA family values' quite like shooting your own daughter over politics.

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"I have two other daughters": Texas man shoots daughter after argument about Trump
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"…
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February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Gallup's parting gift to Trump: a final 36% approval rating before they stop tracking presidential popularity forever.

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After 88 years, Gallup will no longer poll presidential approval ratings
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…
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February 11, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Whiskey Pete deploys military-grade lasers against a stray quinceañera balloon

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"Cartel drone threat" that shut El Paso's airport was a party balloon
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…
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February 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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The Pentagon's new laser defense system has claimed its first victory: one party balloon over El Paso. Meanwhile, every flight at the international airport was grounded.

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"Cartel drone threat" that shut El Paso's airport was a party balloon
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…
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February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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Nothing says 'I'm totally here to serve justice' quite like refusing to make eye contact with the people seeking it

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Bondi refused to turn around and face the Epstein victims sitting right behind her
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…
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February 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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"What the actual fuck": inside Anthropic's experiments on Claude's soul https://boingboing.net/2026/02/10/what-the-actual-fuck-inside-anthropics-experiments-on-claudes-soul.html
"What the actual fuck": inside Anthropic's experiments on Claude's soul
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…
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February 11, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Brain scans of 25,000 people: cannabis use and aging have opposite effects on brain wiring. Cannabis users also scored higher on 6 of 9 cognitive tests. boingboing.net/2026/02/09/c...
Cannabis users' brains look younger, big study finds
Brain imaging study of 25,000+ people finds cannabis use is associated with connectivity patterns typical of younger brains.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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I wrote on @boingboing.net about a previously unseen 1978 SNL rehearsal for a sketch with the Rolling Stones
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Video of a previously unseen 1978 SNL rehearsal with the Rolling Stones
This footage of a Friday, October 6, 1978 Saturday Night Live rehearsal with the entire cast and the Rolling Stones has apparently been unseen until it appeared on YouTube a…
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February 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Nothing funny is going on here.
February 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Hurry! Four seats have been sold! Only 100 remain.
February 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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🐱🐻🐷 A Busy, Busy Immigration Enforcement Operation,
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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Tom the Dancing Bug: A Busy, Busy Immigration Enforcement Operation
Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! JOIN US FOR 2026 IN THE INNER HIVE, and…
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January 14, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told ABC he's a soybean farmer who feels farmers' pain. He's actually a $500M landlord who owns $25M in farmland and collects up to $1M yearly in rent from actual farmers while negotiating China crop deals.

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October 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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People lost their livelihoods were harassed online, and received death threats for less offensive statements about Charlie Kirk. @boingboing.net
JD Vance downplays Young Republican leaders' pro-Hitler, racist, antisemitic comments: "Pearl-clutching"
Newsweek published the names of Young Republican leaders caught using racist slurs and joking about sexual violence.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Giraffe-suited singer arrested at ICE protest sparks free speech fight. Defense fund nears $100,000
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Giraffe-suited singer arrested at ICE protest sparks free speech fight. Defense fund nears $100,000
I recently reported on the wonderful “jest resistance” of musical comedian, artist, and film producer Rob Potylo, aka Robby Roadsteamer, who has been bringing his funny and biting protest activism — f...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM