ducks Commiserate with this adorable Existential Crisis Duck lamp Thom Dunn

Copyfight France and Germany just cut a deal to save the EU's #CopyrightDirective — and made it much, much worse (PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!) Cory Doctorow

short stories Movie trailer for Cat Person turns the viral short story into a high-stakes thriller Thom Dunn

politics Watch Vivek Ramaswamy perform as rapper "Da Vek" Jennifer Sandlin

weather Arcus clouds look like enormous rolls of rain Rob Beschizza

art The magical miniature critters and stop-motion animations of Chloe Bensinger Popkin

south korea World Scout Jamboree turns into scouting version of Fyre Festival Jennifer Sandlin

lawsuits Johnson & Johnson sues researchers who linked asbestos in talc to cancer Rob Beschizza

superheroes The Flash is performing below expectations. Some people are shocked. Devin Nealy

hollywood Director's Guild of America signs a deal to avert a strike Harry Hannigan

tabloids The Fat & The Furious, in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

photography Here's a good National Geographic photography tip Mark Frauenfelder

video games A first look at the remastered System Shock 2 Grant St. Clair

video games Maker of PS1-style lowpoly Bloodborne demake is now working on "Bloodborne Kart" Grant St. Clair

nyc "Museum of the Revolution" documentary is a brutal monument to predatory capitalism Greg Nussen

unions Major film schools scab WGA strike by bringing in movie executives to speak at commencement Thom Dunn

Science Why did early humans have perfectly straight teeth? Devin Nealy

media "The New York End Times" is the parody of record Elías Villoro

robin williams Robin Williams perfectly breaks down the upcoming financial crisis by mocking the 2008 financial crisis Devin Nealy

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