crafts Secret society curios: classic Masonic and Odd Fellows folk art Andrea James

History An 1875 coffin for Little Joe, the canary who saved a mine crew Popkin

Games The Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake is real Grant St. Clair

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

weirdness Meet your fellow mudlarks at this curiosity shop Bob Knetzger

documentaries "Open Wide" tells the history of the "mewing" TikTok trend, through a deep dive into the controversial practice of orthotropics and its evangelists, John and Mike Mew Jennifer Sandlin

google Google infiltrated by "cult-like religious sect," says NYT reporter Mark Frauenfelder

gambling What Steve Forte can do with a pack of cards borders on the unbelievable Ferdinando Buscema

murder Leaks reveal how the "Pitbull of PR" helped Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers ignite the opioid crisis Cory Doctorow

AI Some pretty impressive machine-learning generated poetry courtesy of GPT-2 Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Twelve, "Conclusion" — with My Experience Giving Up Alcohol (and Kickstarter for a Print Copy) Ethan Persoff

books America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig explains corruption in words small enough for the Supreme Court to understand Cory Doctorow

music Sights and sounds of Haitian vodou David Pescovitz

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Séamus Bellamy

california 'Fuck Trump' projected on a building in California's 'Mayberry by the Bay' Rusty Blazenhoff

books Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland's DODO novel mashes up D&D, time-travel and military bureaucracy Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Revealing the cover and first excerpt of Autonomous, Annalee Newitz's long-awaited debut novel Cory Doctorow

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