Kids The father of the most hostile piece of street furniture in world history explains why he thinks he's right to make life harder for homeless people and socializing kids Cory Doctorow

Mars Elon Musk offers sperm to seed a Mars colony Allan Rose Hill

lawsuits U.S. sues Adobe over shady subscription plans and hidden fees Rob Beschizza

lawsuits HP fails to dodge lawsuit over scanners that run out of ink Rob Beschizza

Business Beyond the Holidome: Remembering Holiday Inn's humid, moldy, fabulous indoor mini-resorts Ruben Bolling

cemeteries Police request railings and other hostile architecture in cemetery to prevent people from having sex on the tombstones David Pescovitz

video games "Ramboos Big Adventure" is a video game designed to create a youth market for rambutan fruit Jennifer Sandlin

politics Human Rights Campaign declares a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans Elías Villoro

florida Neil Gaiman delivers powerful message at alt-graduation for DeSantis-threatened New College of Florida Rusty Blazenhoff

jerks The artist who posted that horrible personal assistant ad was Tom Sachs, and now Nike has dumped him Mark Frauenfelder

censorship Massachusetts Supreme Court upholds Constitutional Right to be a dick at town meetings Thom Dunn

pride The New York Times called out for editorial bias about transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people by its own writers Jason Weisberger

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

Culture Chokepoint Capitalism: how Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back Rob Beschizza

design Photo stream of urban design that's deliberately hostile to unhoused people David Pescovitz

gadgets Laptop with an ortholinear keyboard Rob Beschizza

Internet Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network Rob Beschizza

Space Space Force has an operational weapon, and there's no going back Thom Dunn

robots Robots made from ice to explore other planets David Pescovitz