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Joe Nobody's harrowing and infuriating webcomic about life at Élan School, a cultlike and abusive "troubled teen" wilderness camp in Maine (previously at Boing Boing), is now a three-volume graphic novel shipping to backers. [Via Glenn Fleishman,

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette dates to 1786, was the first newspaper to open west of the Allegheny mountains, and was set to close in two weeks, leaving the city as America's largest without a city-based paper. The Venetoulis Institute for Local ...

According to a job listing on Japanese recruitment site HRMOS, the Pokémon Company is hiring an ecologist, possibly to work on Pokémon Pokopia. The job calls for a PhD in science, engineering, or agriculture, and experience in research related to ...

In 1980, Isaac Asimov published a negative review of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in the New Yorker. His central complaint was that Orwell didn't understand technology. The telescreens that Big Brother uses to monitor citizens struck Asimov ...

Anyone on X who slaps a siren emoji and "BREAKING" on every post now faces a permanent revenue deduction. Nikita Bier, the platform's head of product, announced the change as part of a broader crackdown on users who recycle news and post clickbait ...

Europe and the U.S. are frequently at odds with the second Trump administration, but governments and companies there are heavily dependent on U.S. technology. France announced plans to switch from Microsoft Windows to Linux as part of a shift toward ...

Donald Trump's belligerent attitude toward Canada sank Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives in the last election there, handing an unexpected win to new Liberal leader Mark Carney. But while Carney became Prime Minister, he did not secure a parliamentary ...

Helium boils at 4.2 kelvin -- colder than anything else on the periodic table. Superconducting magnets in MRI machines must be kept below 9.2 kelvin, and liquid helium is the only practical coolant to achieve this. (Liquid hydrogen boils at 20 kelvin ...

By the time most kids are old enough to understand what a privacy policy says, they've already spent years inside Gmail. Proton is now offering a different path: parents can reserve a Proton Mail address for a child and keep it sealed -- no inbox, no ...

Between 2018 and 2024, one faction of chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park killed 7 adult males and 17 infants from a rival group. Fourteen more adult males vanished -- bodies never recovered. The study, published in Science and led by Aaron ...