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Japan Short doc looks at Japan's 'evaporated people' and the industry that helps them run away Rusty Blazenhoff

rona "Leopards ate my face" subreddit bans posts about coronavirus scoffers who later die of it Rob Beschizza
History Forced internment of British civilians during World War II Maggie Koerth
Science Cosmically speaking, we are over the hill Maggie Koerth
Science The world's most disgusting Russian nesting dolls Maggie Koerth
Science An interstellar bummer Maggie Koerth
Science Human disease kills coral Maggie Koerth
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Entertainment Walking Dead 11: zombie comic is a parable about the ethics of survival and disaster Cory Doctorow
video Midsommar director's next film is about small town COVID denialism Grant St. Clair
tv Black Mirror is depressing again, and I love it Grant St. Clair
News Oh look, just two regular folks taking a leisurely stroll away from their car on train tracks Ellsworth Toohey
travel Commuter turns British rail's legendary awfulness into free travel hack Ellsworth Toohey
Technology reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits Mark Frauenfelder
politics Look at the Assad family's boring-ass bunker Ellsworth Toohey
Republican AGs abhorrent predilection for pregnant teens Jason Weisberger
Games Reforj is a lowpoly take on the Minecraft open-world formula Rob Beschizza
movies From Million Dollar Baby to Requiem for a Dream: the most depressing mainstream films Ellsworth Toohey
exhausted expired ex-presidents Lincoln Project brutally trolls Donald Trump as a Broken Man: "limp, old, tired, impotent…" (video) Carla Sinclair
Disney Families go broke for Disneyland: Are magical memories worth the financial misery? Yoy Luadha