baseball A minor league Yankees affiliate team tried to throw an "OJ Simpson Trial"-themed baseball game Thom Dunn

robots The MLB is testing out Robot Umpires to optimize baseball. Thom Dunn

Chicago cubs What was my Major League Baseball game experience like during Covid times? Mostly better Kevin Reome

akil of dreams Long shot Akil Baddoo does this with his first MLB pitch, his parents go wild Kevin Reome

tabloids Harry and Meghan's "lies" revealed in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

dupe Verkada surveillance company used cameras to sexually surveil its own woman employees Mark Frauenfelder

artificial intelligence Forbes is developing AI that writes first drafts of articles Mark Frauenfelder

eu After chaos, the EU's plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards Cory Doctorow

sports San Francisco Giants are zapping their brains to improve performance David Pescovitz

politics Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Rich people don't move when their taxes go up Cory Doctorow

offworld We are not colonists Gita Jackson

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing