I’m still shaking off the travel fatigue from the excesses of 2016. Don’t get me wrong, last month’s two conventions (the GOH gig at VancouFur and the Roastermaster spot at Albaco…

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of AI promises to empower everyone. But it mistakes personal optimization for a shared society, writes Petter Bae Brandtzaeg.

ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell knows what he's doing: this movie is silly, scary, and over-the-top all at once.

There are a few stars who have been all over our movie screens in 2026 but just one seems to be dominating our computer screens, too: Robert Pattinson.

Now 68, the horror icon has not only made cameos in the three most recent films—2013’s Evil Dead, 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, and Evil Dead Burn—but he’s also been on board as a producer or executive producer on them, as well as the upcoming Evil Dead Wrath.

To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.

Amazon is investing in a natural-gas-burning power plant, as part of a huge data center in Texas, that could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States, the company confirmed Friday.

A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.

Soriano Produce, a weathered white food truck advertising ice cream treats as well as fruits and vegetables, drew the attention of undercover agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement for what investigators said was a startlingly high number of food stamp transactions for such a small business.

AI-generated clips of fake podcasts are racking up views on Facebook by doling out banal relationship advice about how men are failing women.

Two Palestinian families have been trapped since Sunday inside their homes on a rocky West Bank hillside by a group of violent Israeli settlers, who set up a tent in the front yard of one of the houses.

President Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead go back to using steam catapults, a move Navy officials have fought for years and will likely cost billions of dollars.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week.The FBI reportedly ignored several of Hefner's tips about Epstein for 15 years, according to News...

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

Trump administration officials and other prominent Republicans falsely suggested this week that Covid-19 vaccines were linked to miscarriage, seizing misleadingly on old text messages of Dr.

High scale open social, unlocked for every builder. Bluesky operates public infrastructure for the AT Protocol — Jetstream, Relay, and the Bluesky API — as open services anyone can build on.

Four days after Alex Pretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the Homeland Security Department quietly opened an investigation at its office in St.

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, archive perusers, and history buffs who grew to love their areas of study because of the specific objects that constitute the field: the…

Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition

Recently, as I was scrolling through my phone, I realized I was suffering from a new kind of fatigue: slop-induced burnout.

First off, huge credit to @omg.jacky.wtf for actually getting this moving. A bunch of us have been talking about books, bibliographic data and shared lexicons for a while, but mostly with our heads down building our own projects. Jacky got people into a room and started turning that into something concrete. That’s important. I think the next step is getting the builders together and treating this a little like what happened with Standard.site. We already have working code and different approa...

DAP is, in many cases, a simple adding machine.

Despite her funding obstacles, the filmmaker says 'The Hunted' script "was extremely important for me to write."

Where hope even has a gift shop.

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.

Note: This is a draft -- of what, I'm not yet certain. It's possible that it could be the kernel of a video essay, especially given how Amabel Holland has been honing her own skill in that arena.

Google has dropped the minimum number of followers needed to be approved for a Search Profile on Google. Previously, it was 100,000 subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, X and Tiktok. Now it is 35,000 subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, and X but still 100,000 on TikTok.

That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.