Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Somewhere in Eureka, California, a bookstore owner opened a package last week and found a first-edition Edward Gorey book tucked in with a hundred dollars in cash and a full written confession from a man she’d never met. The book went missing back in the early 1980s. Nobody reported it. Nobody chased it. It just …
Post the actual date on social media and watch what happens. Within twenty minutes, somebody’s in the replies explaining why you’re wrong, usually with a tone that suggests you personally wronged their family. It’s rarely a gentle “hey, small correction.” It’s mean, like you committed a crime by being slightly off, or even completely right …
Six flat cats showed up in a vacant lot in Cape Coral, Florida, and I have not been able to stop thinking about them since. They’re cutouts. Two-dimensional cat effigies staked into the dirt of an empty lot on Southwest 25th Place, facing outward like the world’s least convincing neighborhood watch. A second batch turned …
Kyle Steffen had a problem. Kids in his Wyoming, Minnesota neighborhood kept cutting across his lawn on their bikes on the way to Goodview Park, and years of yelling out the window hadn’t changed a thing, so he tried something new. A trap. Specifically: a plastic sheet studded with roughly 40 three-inch screws, points up, …
Stanford researchers just spent months studying how people actually talk to AI chatbots, and the takeaway is blunt: the lonelier you already are, the worse an AI companion tends to make you feel. Not better. Worse. Researchers in Stanford’s Diyi Yang lab surveyed more than a thousand people who use Character.AI and dug through 244 …
Karoline Leavitt announced this week that she’s stepping down as White House press secretary at the end of the month, and the reason she gave was that she wants to spend more time with her kids. Fine. Maybe that’s true. But I’ve heard this exact line so many times from so many people leaving so …
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