In Disney Princess terms, Luke is the plucky Little Mermaid yearning to be part of another world, while Rey is more like a retro throwback to the quietly patient ethos of Snow White and Cinderella—right down to rescuing BB-8 and making him her “animal sidekick.”

www.avclub.com/women-of-…


Trump’s big beautiful income tax dodge

www.salon.com/2026/05/2…


Hulk Hogan and the American Dream

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A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser

boingboing.net/2026/05/2…


This website shows you exactly what sites know about you

boingboing.net/2026/05/1…


AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused.

www.theverge.com/ai-artifi…



Watching “Court Martial” episode of #StarTrek #TOS. The remaster looks great. You can really see the stunt man in a Kirk wig during the fight scenes.


Behold! The most glamorous space miner ever.


Mmmm… Horny chicken.

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nag…


Because you’re a scumbag who stalks the parents of murdered children as he talks about himself in the third person?

Jones called the appeals court decision “a massive victory,” saying the lawsuits against him “failed to silence us and it’s created a Streisand effect to only boost people’s interest into why we’re under such attack."

www.npr.org/2026/04/3…



I see you Day Moon.



ICE deports man with U.S. birth certificate after traffic stop

boingboing.net/2026/04/2…


Better use for AI than the usual slop

Drake Equation Dashboard (AI)

ritholtz.com/2026/04/d…


That’s clearly a doctor.

www.pocho.com/maga-forg…


Because my time and sanity have no value.

xkcd.com/3233/


Bunny! Pack your bags! We’re going to Pakistan!


This is fine but doesn’t anyone use alt+space to access the window menu anymore? Also we’ve already got Run and Command Palette in Powertoys and a half dozen other “Spotlight” like apps for Windows. I guess people have just always hated the Start Menu.

www.theverge.com/tech/9117…