History Spy-cam shots from 1890 Rob Beschizza

twitter Crashed computer at Oslo pizzeria reveals covert facial recognition scheme Cory Doctorow

ioc Read the bizarre Olympic Committee demands that led Oslo to pull out of the 2022 hosting race Rob Beschizza

library This fancy New Orleans public library was once a private mansion Rusty Blazenhoff

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

Delightful Creatures Freya weighs 600kg, she's "unwittingly destructive," and she's having the best hot girl summer Jennifer Sandlin

passings Ivana Trump has died at age 73 Carla Sinclair

optical illustions Take a seat before checking out this optical illusion Carla Sinclair

newsletters Here's the latest issue of my Recomendo newsletter Mark Frauenfelder

DIY Hacking a cash register to use as a custom keyboard Clive Thompson

stop motion animation Watch this fantastic stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper Popkin

COVID-19 Trump-voting states are experiencing new Covid cases at a much higher rate than Biden states Mark Frauenfelder

Science Why Quillette sucks Rob Beschizza

futility closet In 1945, a group of American soldiers set out to rescue hundreds of horses from a Nazi farm in Czechoslovakia Futility Closet

video games You can now play the unauthorized Indiana Jones video game created by Czechoslovak protestors in the 80s Thom Dunn

sculpture Giant buttplug gnome statue unveiled by man suspended by hooks in own flesh Rob Beschizza

COVID-19 Toxic booze in Iran sold as coronavirus cure kills 300, sickens 1,000 Xeni Jardin

immigration The US Department of Justice has officially begun to un-naturalize citizens Thom Dunn

happy mutants Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance Cory Doctorow