twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow
Games The emergent complexity of Hexopolis: a strategy game with infinite possibilities Jane Frauenfelder
COVID-19 You have three days to get your free COVID tests before the program is suspended Jennifer Sandlin
helicopters Watch a video of a wild looking one-man helicopter called the HZ-1 Aerocycle (1950s) Popkin
conspiracy theories Man claims Walgreens' fridges are the gateway to the apocalypse (video) Mark Frauenfelder
Technology Amazon Alexa says, "the 2020 election was stolen by a massive amount of election fraud" Mark Frauenfelder
ice cream Visit Silver Lake and drown your sorrows in Creamo's delicious vegan ice cream and donuts Jennifer Sandlin
stand back and stand by for a bit longer Former Proud Boy leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio sentenced to 22 years in prison Rob Beschizza
drm HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza
Science The Anthropocene Working Group has chosen Crawford Lake as a "golden spike" that can help scientists understand this new geological epoch Jennifer Sandlin
seeds De-extinction event: York groundsel, eradicated in wild, re-established there from seeds Rob Beschizza
china Chinese influencer dies shortly after live-streaming himself downing bottles of potent liquor in challenge Rusty Blazenhoff
happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn
documentaries We Are Many is a documentary focusing on the global anti-war protests in 2003 ElĂas Villoro