neighborhood drama Watch epic Nextdoor chat about a lizard on the loose, amusingly reenacted on Jimmy Kimmel (video) Carla Sinclair
surveillance Neighborhood associations are installing license plate readers to privately police who drives on their streets Thom Dunn
Weird Neighbor accused of stealing skeleton in window with middle finger raised offensively Xeni Jardin
surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
police Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow
surveillance Cop says Amazon told him they had "partnered" with 200 US police forces to sell and tap into Ring surveillance doorbells Cory Doctorow
delightful creatures Watch this amusing doggo climb trees to snoop on neighbors (video) Carla Sinclair
art If you've ever wanted to smoke weed out of a fried chicken drumstick, now you can Jennifer Sandlin
Marvel cinematic universe Watch the trailer for Madame Web, Sony's silliest Spider-spin-off yet Thom Dunn
music Grammy-nominated Gospel singer nearly kicked off plane for singing as God requested (video) David Pescovitz
tabloids World War III starts (yet again) and RFJ Jr is not RFK, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
london "Like Covid with legs" — bedbug infestation in Paris is driving people to extreme behavior Mark Frauenfelder
animals Why did 1,000 birds die in one night last week by smashing into this Chicago building? David Pescovitz
donald trump Robert De Niro's delivers blistering statement on Trump: "When I look at him, I don't see a bad man. Truly. I see an evil one." Mark Frauenfelder