This is inspired. Waldo Jaquith created a Mastodon bot in response to the cliché email opening sentence of "I hope this email finds you well." "Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails," Jaquith explains. — Read the rest The post I hope this email finds you… (a very funny bot) appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

The long-held promise of Artificial Intelligence was that machines would do all the drudge work and we would be left to create. In this AI-enabled utopia, assembly, construction, and hard labor of all kinds, as well as boring sorting and filing and such, would be handled by smart machines while we painted pictures, wrote poems, and sang songs together. — Read the rest The post Punk rocker Jenny Toomey takes stand against AI music appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

TL;DR:Are you tired of looking at a cluttered desk or bedside table? Level up the way you charge your devices with the 15W Nightlight Wireless Charging Pad, and it's on sale for $39.99 (reg.$99) or 59% off. For most of us, there's a mess of unsightly charging cords by our bedside to keep all of our gadgets powered up. — Read the rest The post Give your charging routine a literal glow-up with this nightlight power combo for $40 appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

An attempt to prove the existence of alien astronauts has revealed an ancient, all-too human practice — grave robbing. According to Reuters, journalist Jaime Maussan presented two mummified "alien" bodies to a Mexican congressional hearing on UFOs in 2023. They had elongated heads and three fingers on each hand…and were quickly identified by scientists as human corpses. — Read the rest The post Alien corpse was human, stolen by grave robbers appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

In 2022, Sour Patch Kids joked about a collab with Oreos: Thinking ? about ? SOUR PATCH KIDS ? flavored ? @Oreo cookies pic.twitter.com/1DWZSNpQ6K — Sour Patch Kids (@SourPatchKids) January 29, 2022 But what was a joke has become a reality. — Read the rest The post Sour Patch Kids Oreos are apparently real now appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Sen. Thom Tillis is a Republican who says the biggest threat to his party is not the Democrats, but something far, far worse: Marjorie Taylor Greene. "I think she's uninformed, she's a total waste of time," the North Carolina lawmaker said about the Georgia's MAGA kook last night on CNN. — Read the rest The post GOP Sen. Tillis warns of "biggest risk" to Republicans: Marjorie Taylor Greene (video) appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

You know those somewhat-sappy videos where couples answer questions about each other? This isn't one of those. It looks like one of those but, as you'll see, it's 1000% a spoof. In this video, each couple is put on the spot with a seemingly simple, though pointed, question: "What's your partner's least attractive feature?" — Read the rest The post Funny spoof on those "couples answering questions" videos appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

YouTuber Max Fosh has made the rounds here at Boing Boing a couple of times, and not for nothing. Whether it's hiring the SAS for a game of paintball or working as an Uber Eats deliveryman on horseback, he's often up to something as bizarre as it is creative- and this time around, that means masterfully preparing gourmet dishes from insects and offering them up to unsuspecting food critics. — Read the rest The post Serving insects to unwitting food critics appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

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