A dark lord of the Sith spoke in favor of Flock cameras and wider public surveillance. Citing his Emperor's support, Darth Vader encouraged San Diego leadership to install more cameras.

If you needed any more convincing that Flock Cameras are the tool of the devil:

You might be surprised to hear that Darth Vader works better with George Lucas' terrible scriptwriting, but he does. — Read the rest

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Suffering unprecedented embarrassment on the international stage, morale issues are so deep that sailors are reputedly jumping overboard, but never fear: the United States Navy has a plan. Reportedly, they are considering renaming an aircraft carrier after Trump.

During President Donald Trump's first term, the Navy announced that the Ford-class carrier would be called the USS Doris Miller, recognizing an enlisted sailor who helped defend US forces from Japan's attack.

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There's nothing more frustrating than opening, closing, and reopening a PDF again and again, trying to make it do what you want. And don't get me started on the rigmarole of putting every PDF through Canva or converter apps just to make a single edit. — Read the rest

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The Day of Silence is a sacred Balinese Hindu observance, and tourists are expected to honor it too. Luzian Andrin Zgraggen not only failed in this obligation, but insulted it, an infraction that now lands him in an Indonesian jail for a year. — Read the rest

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Trumpian United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has a very weird idea about "sabotage."

In a desperate attempt to keep her boss- not the Attorney General, but Donald Trump- happy, Pirro is somehow trying to keep open a door to subject former Olympian David Hearne to more legal abuse. — Read the rest

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California's narrower guardrails on whatever exemption anti-vaxxers are currently using to reduce herd immunity work, while Florida's willingness to nod and wink at doubters has its MMR vaccination rate for youngsters falling like a rock.

Nationally, of course, we have RFK Jr telling people to take cod liver oil and squinting funny when people mention vaccines. — Read the rest

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In a first, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. issued a decision [PDF] sanctioning a plaintiff for "use of prompt-injection" in their electronic filings. [via Ars Technica]

"The Court identified text that had been formatted to be invisible to a human reader while remaining fully legible to any software that reads the document's text," Spader wrote. — Read the rest

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Mr. T's The Man with the Gold is one of my treasured books, so Netflix finally spending some Untold money on Laurence Tureaud feels like someone finally got something right over there.

In a time when Netflix is pissing money away on Melania and rehabilitating the DOA Raygun, it is a pleasant surprise to see Mr. — Read the rest

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Remember that Chinese mushroom that can cause you to hallucinate tiny people? The best guess for this bizarre effect is that the mushrooms contain some kind of psychoactive substance unknown to science, rather than cultural conditioning, because the effect is limited to a single species of mushroom.  — Read the rest

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The IKEA Complexity Index ranks IKEA's product line by the number of steps required to assemble them.

At the top of the list is the PAX Corner wardrobe ($1,755), which requires 236 steps to build, contains 743 parts, and comes with a 248-page user manual spread across 16 PDFs. — Read the rest

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There's a replica of Disney World's Magic Kingdom in a basement in O'Fallon, Illinois. But unless you are a Minifig, you can only view it from above.

Doug Schieppe started building it from Lego bricks six years ago during COVID, after his family trip to the full-size park had to be postponed. — Read the rest

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Four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina, including three of five surviving panels of his San Gregorio Polyptych, were heisted from the Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina in Sicily. The thieves came and went without triggering alarms, police say, and they don't know who is responsible. — Read the rest

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In a post earlier this week, I wrote about a 1958 James Bond comic strip in which the cartoonist drew the character like he was drawing Sean Connery. But Connery wouldn't be cast as Bond for the first movie until four years later. — Read the rest

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Kindle users have long turned off wifi to extend their ebook library loans. A new update is closing the loophole.

For slow readers and folks who borrow way too many books at a time, the 14- or 21-day loan periods for library books are problematic. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Easily build your next website with Sellful for just $399 (Reg. $1,497).

Starting a business sounds good — until you look at the upfront costs. But for all those administrative fees, the real uphill battle is building your website and then running it without hiring a pricey agency or choosing the wrong platform. — Read the rest

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Alexey Marushchenko, founder of a small Russian private military company named Yastreb ("Hawk"), is off to the gulag for 18 years after pleading guitly to charges of extortion, fraud, kidnapping and murder. With official support from a Russian general, Alexander Dembitsky, Yastreb recruited men to fight in the Ukraine war, but extorted money from those who signed up and brutalized those who refused to pay. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to AI Invoice Maker, an AI-powered invoicing app with 9 templates and 150+ currency support, for $19.99 (MSRP $39.99).

Nobody got into freelancing or running a small business because they loved making invoices. Yet somehow, invoice creation eats up more time than it deserves, especially when you're reformatting the same document every month or scrambling to remember which template you used last time. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: A 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan lifetime subscription is $99.99 (reg. $540), with flagship models from six AI companies plus image, audio, and video tools.

Every six weeks, some lab publishes a benchmark chart, declares itself the new champion, and a few million people cancel one $20 subscription to start a different $20 subscription.  — Read the rest

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Engadet explains the benefits of a Mirrorless camera and why you don't really need one if you are hanging on to an SLR or another camera that works just fine.

I used to think I got all the benefits of a mirrorless camera from the reduced camera shake in my Twin Reflex Cameras, but it turns out there is more to it than not having a mirror slapping around inside your camera. — Read the rest

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Karen Solomon, author of the book Hearts Beneath the Badge about how police officers serve their communities, is wanted by police after a police officer was found dead in her home. She is considered armed and dangerous and possibly wearing pajamas. — Read the rest

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First the monster, then the photograph. With Polaroid's help, you can catch all the Pokémon twice!

I always found Polaroids to be fun at a party and really nowhere else. Now you can pick one of three Pokémon edition Polaroids, starting at $99, and Pikachu out. — Read the rest

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Trump's handpicked replacement for her dead brother's Senate seat, Darline Graham, demonstrated why she is unqualified to be a US Senator.

At a debate, where Graham is trying to hold on to the job Donald Trump gifted her, the Senator was asked whether Taiwan and the South China Sea present national-security concerns. — Read the rest

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More and more children are being injured in "e-bike" accidents. Cops keep encountering 40-mph e-motorcycles.

It's really just as simple as holding the parents responsible. E-bikes are a fantastic form of transportation and should be encouraged. Unlicensed teens and pre-teens hooning them through busy city streets isn't legal, and their parents should be reminded with a ticket. — Read the rest

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Since he rode down his golden escalator, reviling Mexican immigrants, the Orange Menace has been lit up over every single poll he has heard of. Turns out he meant a different kind of pole.

Diaper Don explained that "top-of-the-line" flag poles have a certain taper. — Read the rest

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Having the right to repair your hardware doesn't matter much if you don't have hardware you can repair. As phones have become more svelte and complex, they've also become significantly more difficult to take apart. Even with the right tools and detailed instructions from a joint like iFixit, replacing the battery in a recent iPhone can leave you having nightmares for a month. — Read the rest

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In the crapshoot of streaming television, Slow Horses has been rolling nothing but sevens over the past five seasons. Its cast is solid, its writing is consistently tight and I've never had a problem with its pacing. And, as with all great TV shows of the modern age, none of the characters in the series, no matter how popular, seem safe from being liquidated: the show has killed off a lot of loveable losers over the years and is the better for it. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the intrepid MAGAs magically travel back to the time when America was Great!

-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! — Read the rest

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NASA posted before-and-after images showing a crater dug by a Falcon 9 rocket hitting the Moon's surface on August 5, 2026. The Luna Reconnaissance Orbiter took the shots after the spectacular coda to the Firefly Blue Ghost mission.

To capture imagery of the impact, engineers tilted the spacecraft so its cameras would point toward the crater each time LRO passed about 60 miles above the Moon, traveling 1 mile per second.

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Florida Republican Michael Caruso has strong opinions about pedophiles: they should receive the death penalty when convicted of sexually battering children under 12 years of age. He was arrested Tuesday and charged with five felony counts of child abuse.

Caruso, 67, formerly Palm Beach's House Representative and its current county clerk, allegedly kidnapped and molested a young child. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to VibefarmAI's prompt composition workspace, including a 10,000+ prompt library, for $39.99 (MSRP $179).

Anyone who uses AI tools regularly knows the frustration of landing on the perfect prompt, then losing it in a sea of chat history, half-remembered wording, or a screenshot you can no longer find.  — Read the rest

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