Whenever I go to Japan, I like to shop at Daiso. It's kind of like a dollar store in the U.S., except the stuff is good.

It was started by Hirotake Yano, who was born in Beijing in 1943. He had an interesting background. — Read the rest

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It's been a little while since I've sat down and written about a hyperspecific corner of the Internet that brings me joy. Whether that's because I haven't been looking too hard or because the Internet is slowly being drained of joy is anyone's guess. — Read the rest

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An underground monorail, non-existent bizarrely skinny killer whales, directions to extinct attractions, guide maps that bear no resemblance to reality. AI-generated Disney theme park guide books are flooding the market, filled with hallucinated slop that would drive a trusting tourist insane with misinformation. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH a Simpsonian Donald Trump brings his friend Musky the Clown to meet his boss, Mr. Putin

-"Back in 2012 Bolling — noting that the comic was more widely read than ever yet generating less money than ever — started a subscription membership called The Inner Hive. — Read the rest

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I have little faith in polls, and I hate prediction markets, but I can't help peeking at PressAudit's 2026 midterm tracker.

The founder, Paul Renshaw, created this midterms page that shows prediction market odds from Polymarket and Kalshi on who is likely to control Congress. — Read the rest

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One of my favorite publishers of beautiful books, Beehive Books, has a Kickstarter for Death Is a Room: Illustrated Gothic Tales by Women Writers.

It has nine Gothic horror stories by women writers, including Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Susan Glaspell. — Read the rest

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This is George Lucas' vision. Forget the sequel trilogy or The Acolyte somehow managing to be one of the most expensive TV shows ever made and still ending up mid: Secondhand Movie Co.'s recreation of the original Star Wars with nothing but a metric ton of cardboard and a dream is where it's at. — Read the rest

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If vibe coding is absolutely going to stick around, I'd rather have it used for goofy video game mods rather than, say, critical infrastructure. I categorically do not want Claude anywhere near the government or cybersecurity… but maybe, just maybe, things like ViceBounce are fine. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Voibe is a private AI voice dictation app for Mac and Windows, and a lifetime subscription is $79.99 (MSRP $199).

Typing is slow. Not slow like dial-up, where the wait was obvious, but slow in a way that eats five or ten minutes from every email, every Slack thread, and every prompt you feed into an AI chatbot, and you never notice because your fingers have been doing the work your whole life. — Read the rest

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Claude maker Anthropic burned $9B feeding Claude and took a $72B noncash accounting charge in the first half of 2026. Get ready for an IPO; they hope to value the business in the low trillions.

Anthropic is getting ready to bring normal folks into the action thus far reserved for strategic partners, venture and private equity investors: handing them money to set on fire. — Read the rest

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A Sacramento man claims ICE abducted his wife. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office issued an arrest warrant for the husband after her burnt remains were found in the woods.

Gurinder Singh Gill says ICE took his wife, Jasmine Gill, who had stepped outside. — Read the rest

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There are easier ways to watch a football game uninterrupted than taping your wife to a chair.

64-year-old Terry Ward is facing an abduction charge after finding a creative yet abusive way to get some time alone; he taped his wife to a chair in the basement. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: File your 2025 federal and state returns with H&R Block Tax Software Deluxe + State for $29.99 (MSRP $59.99).

October is a strange time to think about taxes, unless your 2025 return still isn't filed. H&R Block Tax Software Deluxe + State 2025 walks you through federal and state returns with plain step-by-step questions, and it's on sale for $29.99 (MSRP $59.99). — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Windows 11 Pro plus a 10-hour course showing you how to use it for $14.97 (reg. $237).

A new operating system usually comes with only a welcome screen and a few tooltips. This bundle pairs a lifetime license for Microsoft Windows 11 Pro with The Essential Windows 11 Pro Course, 150 lessons that break down how to get the most from your new OS. — Read the rest

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A man accused of stealing a flamingo was convicted on two counts of animal cruelty crime yesterday in Las Vegas. Mitchell Fairbarn, 34, "appeared emotionless" in court after jurors deliberated for several hours. In closing arguments, prosecutors made a clear distinction between the two charges: "one stems from what happened in the habitat while the second is for what happened in the hotel." — Read the rest

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Albertans overwhelmingly rejected moves toward independence yesterday, voting 3 to 1 in favor of staying part of Canada. With 79% of the ballots counted, 76% of voters in the western province chose to remain with 24% wanting a formal referendum.

"We are a solid country that's united from coast to coast to coast," said Alberta's former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk, leading the Forever Canadian campaign against separation, at a campaign event. — Read the rest

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When I was in Nagasaki earlier this month, I visited the Atomic Bomb Museum there. One of the displays, which showed the damage caused by the bomb that the U.S. dropped on the city, had long audio narration in Japanese only. — Read the rest

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Minecraft, the world's most successful video game and now a blockbuster movie series, will soon bring its blocky voxelated world into reality. Minecraft World, first revealed in March, will open in 2027 at Chessington World of Adventures, just outside London, and will include a 70-room themed hotel. — Read the rest

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In 2013, Politizane explained America's untenable and growing wealth gap in what would become an all-time classic of data visualization. Thirteen years on, they're back with a four-part update. It makes for grim viewing: the wealth gap has become runaway income inequality, with the world's first trillionaire in the mix, a fast-sinking middle class, and a tax system that offers elites a myriad of legal dodges. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows as a one-time $14.97 purchase (reg. $229).

Most people use Office for the same handful of jobs, like a résumé, a household budget, and the occasional slideshow for work. So paying $99.99 a year for Microsoft 365 is already expensive. — Read the rest

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