coronavirus Trump administration considers a centrally planned economy to deal with coronavirus Thom Dunn

politics Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign video team just made a killer ad for a Hawai'ian Democratic Socialist Cory Doctorow

california The SCOTUS decision to let California demand the pork industry become slightly less cruel is pretty important Jason Weisberger

star wars Season 2 of Andor to continue production without writers due to strike Thom Dunn

Science A new theory on how humans evolved their large brains Ruben Bolling

Audio Creative audio company delivers auralgasms with its website David Pescovitz

DRONES Arms manufacturer sponsors new opera about the horrors of drone warfare at the Kennedy Center Thom Dunn

television Looks like we're going to have to wait a while for season two of Arcane Devin Nealy

art How an AI drawing program shook the art world in the 1970s Mark Frauenfelder

animation Shugo Tokumaru / Katachi is a dynamic animation made solely from 2000 pvc silhouette cutouts Popkin

science fiction Kickstart the audiobook for Cory Doctorow's new novel, Red Team Blues Thom Dunn

stranger things Stranger Things stage show coming to London's West End later this year Thom Dunn

video games After Forspoken flop, its studio is absorbed by Square Enix Grant St. Clair

Guardians of the Galaxy + Chewbacca Star Wars has movie directors, but no direction Jason Weisberger

maga MAGA cultists advocate for Marxism to stop communist agenda Mark Frauenfelder

deaths Shoichiro Toyoda, who made Toyota a global automaker, dead at 97 Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Become the healthiest version of yourself with the PowerFit Elite Exercise Bands and Mat bundle Boing Boing's Shop

hip hop Bay Area hip-hop archive opens in Oakland library Rusty Blazenhoff

oceans Large amount of discarded plastic found in stomach of beached whale Elías Villoro

star wars We're getting a second volume of the Star Wars Visions series Devin Nealy