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I wrote about that — and other Catholic concerns — at my friend Rusty’s newsletter while he took the day off.

Just press play. Trust me. Also see this! And maybe this. I would absolutely pay for tickets to watch this live.

You can do all kinds of fun, useful, and questionable things with a Flipper Zero, among other wireless mischief tools. Now, they can rewrite electronic price tags with TagTinker. Creators say it is for “educational research” and testing at a store is “strictly prohibited.” Maybe for my kid’s toy grocery store, though?

After a decade of weekly videos, Tom Scott largely disappeared from his hugely popular channel in 2024. Now he’s back! And apparently he has a whole series coming, in which he explores England.
To quote a commenter: the internet is healing.

In 2006, “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” got him to read some “Chuck Norris Facts” on air. His fav: “They wanted to put Chuck Norris’ face on Mount Rushmore, but the granite wasn’t hard enough for his beard.”

The solution is using Bluesky, of course. Naturally, a user with a blue check next to their name told Grok to put a bikini on the butterfly and the AI did — which seems like an even stronger advertisement for Bluesky than the one Bluesky itself posted.

Look, I’m more of an Oxford English Dictionary girlie, but I respect the hustle from Merriam-Webster. I hope our terminally online dictionary raises a cool billion.

And it sure is cute!

This is just a fun little series of Mastodon posts about a security breach at a “highly secure” data center... by a female mallard.

Look, this cover of “War Pigs” is amazing, and I’m not going to pretend I’m putting it here for any other reason. (Via Rafi Schwartz.) Check out Ukandanz’s Bandcamp for more.

That’s gotta be a bizarre thing to wake up to, but at least it didn’t block the Suez Canal?

The Microsoft Excel World Championship is a reminder that anything can be competitive (and fun) if you’re skilled enough. At the HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas last month, 12 finalists faced off by solving puzzles with spreadsheets in an effort to be named the world’s best spreadsheeter.

Today I learned that after Google stopped doing April Fools’ jokes in 2021 — a change we lauded — its Japan division started revealing zany keyboards on October 1st (because 10/1 = 101 keys) instead. Find the latest below; previous entries include the Gboard Teacup, Gboard Stick and Gboard Cap.

Sesame Street has come for your sad desk salad, folks,

Someone go get David Hume — we’re trying to figure out what blue is. I scored 174, true neutral.

The iconic desktop media player has enjoyed several revivals, but none as technically impressive as Rodrigo Méndez’s Linamp.

If last week’s big revamp and the launch of the Canva Enterprise package didn’t convince you, hang on one minute.

We stan a relatable king. Who hasn’t had their whole day leveled by emails?

Despite being a .Swoosh-exclusive this BSOD-themed shoe doesn’t have any NFT links or crypto wallet requirements (although you will need to register an account by April 18th).

Uh huh-huh-huh-huh. Shut up, Beavis.

The 3D X-ray startup Lumafield did a CT scan of a Stanley Quencher water bottle to show you without destroying one (but if your viral insulated cup does happen to break, you should return it).

The Wall Street Journal, BBC, 9 News, and other outlets report that McDonald’s “technology outage” temporarily closed restaurants in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK. There’s no word on any impact in the US, where the McGriddles must flow.

Residents of Fukuyama City are looking for a cat that fell into a vat of toxic chemicals at a metal plating factory. After reviewing security footage, officials believe it fell in the tank containing hexavalent chromium on Sunday night, crawled out, and ran off.

If you have a deactivated library card for Worcester Public Library in Worcester, Massachusetts, you can get it reactivated by bringing in a photo of a cat. Or a drawing of a cat. Or “any ungovernable animal.”

These are just a few of the names that Google has bestowed upon its AI products in recent weeks.

The next time you look at the screen on your phone or the RGB on your keyboard, thank Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue LED, who made it all possible and should have received way more recognition for it. His breakthrough is still changing the world.