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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 ...

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 ...

The UK House of Lords voted 144-143 on Thursday to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members, passing by a single vote. The measure was pushed by Conservative peer Gabby Bertin, who argued the content "normalises child sexual ...

In case you haven't heard of Med Beds -- well, first off, I'm jealous of you, because you clearly aren't cursed with knowledge of what the QAnon right is getting up to nowadays. Let me curse you: it's the latest buzzword to come out of the MAGA cult ...

Preston Byrne, the US attorney who has been merrily trolling UK regulators on behalf of 4chan, has co-authored a draft bill, the UK Free Speech Act, with the Adam Smith Institute, according to The Rage. The bill would codify First Amendment-style ...

On a recent podcast, Marc Andreessen, whose firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) manages tens of billions in VC assets, said he engages in "zero" introspection -- calling it a Freudian invention with no pedigree before 1910 that serious people should skip ...

Robert Morris, the Gateway Church founding pastor convinced last year of raping a 12-year-old girl, is out of jail after six months. Morris pleaded guilty to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, and the short sentence was part of ...

A federal judge today ordered the Trump administration to stop work on the White House ballroom project unless and until Congress approves it. Judge Richard Leon, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001, concluded that "no statute comes close to giving ...