The practice of using a website visitor’s device to mine cryptocurrency has expanded—and evolved—at an alarming rate.

These fantastic comics from ExtraFabulousComics are exactly that!

Sharing emotion-driven narratives that resonate with other people is something humans are quite good at. We’ve been sitting around campfires telling stories for tens of thousands of years, and we still do it. One reason why is because it’s an effective way to communicate: We remember stories. But what makes for good storytelling? Mark Magellan, a writer and designer at IDEO U, puts it this way: “To tell a story that someone will remember, it helps to understand his or her needs. The art of storytelling requires creativity, critical-thinking skills, self-awareness, and empathy.” All those traits are fundamentally human, but as artificial intelligence…

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If there was any doubt that what Elon Musk called a “Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea” was actually just one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets flying over California, remember that this photographer knew it was coming and had time to position several cameras to catch a stunning timelapse of the event.

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This guy got tired of the constant wave of negative press that has plagued the news cycle over the last year and decided to share the other stories that you didn’t hear about.

A bit of uplift like this is a great way to end the year.

These ridiculous craigslist ads graced our lives during 2017 and were the little grains of salt on top of the complete meal of insanity that was 2017.

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John Lennon’s description of his first LSD trip turned into an animation. You can read the longer story in a Rolling Stone article.

2 years ago we (writer Ehud Lavski and illustrator Yael Nathan), began creating short comics and uploading them to the internet. The only thing we hoped for was that they will find an audience and will resonate with people.
So far, our comics have been read over 10 Million times and many people have a strong emotional response when reading them.

If an extraterrestrial civilization were to observe and study our planet from an objective perspective, there is no doubt that among the millions of species on Earth, homo sapiens stands out. This species sits on top of the food chain, has extended its habitats to the entire planet, and in recent centuries, experienced an explosion […]

These expertly-crafted dark comics are going to make you raise your eyebrows in bewilderment even as you’re laughing your ass off at their awesomeness.

These comic creators are probably some of the best around right now.