Dave Chappelle stood outside a restored 19th-century schoolhouse in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on Thursday—not for a Netflix special, not for a comeback tour, but for a ribbon-cutting ceremony that probably won’t trend on Twitter. The Union Schoolhouse, built in 1872, once served as one of the village’s earliest integrated schools….
AI
Read more
Anthropic Just Proved AI Can Outthink Every Security Expert. Now What?
Anthropic just announced it built an AI model so capable of finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities that releasing it to the public would be — their words — potentially catastrophic for “economies, public safety, and national security.” The model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of high-severity security flaws during testing. Not…
Culture
Read more
Whacky Wednesday: Aviation Malfunctions, Political Defiance, and Florida Being Florida
Welcome to Whacky Wednesday — the weekly roundup where reality stops pretending it has a plan. This week: a cabin door that decided altitude was the perfect time to open, a mayor caught pantless on surveillance footage who refuses to resign despite a 4-2 no confidence vote, and a Florida…
Culture
Read more
The Hurricane Cone Lied to You. Here’s What It Actually Means.
The National Hurricane Center’s iconic “cone of uncertainty” — the five-day track forecast graphic that’s been a fixture of cable news panic coverage since 2002 — is getting its first major redesign this summer. After two years of experimental testing and public feedback, the updated version debuts when the first…
Culture
Read more
Tuna Nuggets and Shrimp Burgers: When Seafood Pretends It’s Meat
Americans eat about 19 pounds of seafood a year. Iceland eats 200. The gap isn’t about access—it’s about appetite. Or more specifically, the lack of one when confronted with something that looks like it crawled out of a nightmare and tastes like the ocean floor. So the seafood industry did…
Business
Read more
The Service Department Trust Problem: A Mercedes Tech, a Stolen Car, and a Dealership’s Spectacular Implosion
Kimberly Porter dropped her Mercedes C300 at the dealership for service — routine stuff, the kind of transaction that’s supposed to be boring and forgettable. What she got instead: a phone alert at 1 a.m. showing her car was on the move. She tracked it to a sports bar using…
Business
Read more
WRTV Fired Its Newsroom Mid-Broadcast. The New Owner Promised “More Local News.”
At 3 p.m. on March 31, the staff at Indianapolis ABC affiliate WRTV was prepping for the 5, 6, and 7 p.m. broadcasts. By the end of the night, most of them were unemployed. Circle City Broadcasting — which already owned two other Indianapolis stations — completed its $83 million…
Culture
Read more
How One Ancient Tortoise Survived Nearly Two Centuries of Chaos — And a Heartless Scam
Jonathan the tortoise turned 193 this year. He’s lived through the invention of the telegraph, the airplane, the internet, and whatever fresh hell social media became in 2024. And on April 1, 2026, someone tried to kill him off with a fake death announcement — complete with a crypto donation…
Culture
Read more
DEAD BROKE AT 90 DAYS: The Survey Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to See
Financial collapse three months away. That’s the average cushion most Americans say they have before the bills stop getting paid. Not six months. Not a year. Three. A national survey of 1,421 adults, conducted in February 2026 by JG Wentworth, found that 40.8% of respondents could cover basic living expenses…
Culture
Read more
Classrooms Go Retro to Combat AI — But the Pop Quiz Got a Warning Label
A Cornell German instructor hauls in vintage typewriters once a semester and makes her students write essays without spell-check, translation apps, or the ability to delete mistakes. No screens. No autocorrect. Just manual keys, ink ribbons, and the unmistakable ding at the end of each line. Grit Matthias Phelps started…