airlines Remembering Hooters Air, the "breastaurant" in the sky Annie Rauwerda

The long history of waking people up before alarm clocks Ellsworth Toohey

australia Hero wrestles gun from terrorist at Bondi Beach Séamus Bellamy

Sweet Home Colorado Lauren Boebert's reelection pitch boldly goes where few campaigns have gone before: UFOs Jason Weisberger

politics "We are Charlie": Scenes from the ongoing vigil and memorial for Charlie Kirk at TPUSA headquarters in Phoenix Jennifer Sandlin

politics Trump nominates self-proclaimed alpha male and Hooters fanatic for diplomatic role despite no experience Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

Games Combat Heroes: the 1980s RPG gamebook craze got so wild they were implementing multiplayer grid-based dungeon crawlers in print Rob Beschizza

tabloids JFK's second gunman, and alien life on Earth, exposed in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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History Why did Duke Nukem die? Devin Nealy

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tabloids Prince Andrew's "sex tape" and Queen Camilla's "revenge" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

police brutality ACAB: All Cops Are Batman Thom Dunn

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

privacy The top FBI lawyer who tried to force Apple to backdoor its crypto now says working crypto is essential to public safety and national security Cory Doctorow

if you can't open it you don't own it Inside NYC's slowly-vanishing repair shops Clive Thompson

surveillance Credit card activity as a predictor of mass shootings Cory Doctorow

fake news Quantum mechanics and Kevin Spacey, JFK's five assassins, and proof of reincarnation, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

art Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, RIP David Pescovitz