brooklyn Competitive Winter Picnicking in Brooklyn Rusty Blazenhoff

china China's looming luxury housing projects attracting younger people looking for budget living Rob Beschizza

slavery As Nottoway "Plantation & Resort" burns, it's a great time to remind you that plantation weddings are wrong, period Jennifer Sandlin

Conservatives upset at DOGE officials being named Rob Beschizza

Gorton: a ubiquitous typeface you may never have heard of Jennifer Sandlin

Funny Sidetalk, NYC's unhinged street show Grant St. Clair

crime Rationalist death cult implicated in deadly shoot-out with border guards and other killings Rob Beschizza

art Man claims to be Oregon's public art googly eye upgrader Rob Beschizza

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

law Low Rider Culture and "No Cruise Zones" in California. Elías Villoro

Spoken Word with Electronics How to Make Sound Waves from Moonlight Ethan Persoff

tabloids Biden "lies" and Bob Saget "embalmed" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

media "Zombie" magazines: prestigious publications raised from the dead by hucksters, extremists and morons Rob Beschizza

crime U.S. prosecutors demand to interview Prince Andrew over Epstein ties Rob Beschizza

Cryptozoology Washington state government tweets photo of Bigfoot David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow

media Prince Charles' gay scandal, Tom Cruise destroys Scientology, and Michael Jackson's afterlife, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

youtube How Facebook tracks Android users, even those without Facebook accounts Cory Doctorow

surveillance The ACLU made the Border Patrol reveal its terrifying legal theories Cory Doctorow

computers George Dyson: look to analog systems for autonomy and intelligence David Pescovitz