Just when you think it can’t get any stupider, it gets stupider.

R.I.P the TiVo DVR (1999-2025)

The pioneer in digital video recording has officially ceased selling its DVR.

TiVo changed my life, and cloud DVRs will never match its precision and user-friendliness. It's the best piece of consumer electronics I've ever used.

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While I’m at it: You guys know what to do!!

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him

Two “feral and not trained” emus named Thelma and Louise are on the loose in South Carolina about three hours from the 43 monkey escape that happened days earlier

I generally don’t enjoy “what if fiction thing that seems nice is actually…EVIL?” But this piece arguing that Tom Bombadil is significantly more sinister than he seems (and possibly more so than Tolkien intended) is, to me, well-reasoned and fairly convincing

I've been thinking about this impulse, when a beloved artist is revealed to be a crummy person, to go back and explain away the beloved art. 🧵

The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) has the largest leg span of any arthropod, with claw to claw distances of 12.1 feet (3.7 m), so it's appropriate that the Japanese name is taka-ashi-gani ('tall legs crab')