News The 11-foot8+8 bridge has met an unstoppable force (video) Jason Weisberger

fires Buffalo Bills tailgate party gets a bit too lit when one fan catches fire (video) Carla Sinclair

ron desantis Ice-cold DeSantis shows zero support for wife's speech Mark Frauenfelder

History Calculating Empires: an huge online chart of tech history Rob Beschizza

Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan's World Nomad Games: Yurt-building, headless goat polo, horseback wrestling, and hunting with eagles Natalie Dressed

sesame street Ad transforms Oscar the Grouch into darling of the contemporary art world Jennifer Sandlin

Funny If Blink-182 was a classic Broadway musical Thom Dunn

corruption On sportswashing, FIFA, and being a critical consumer of the sports you love Jennifer Sandlin

tabloids King Charles "purges" royal family in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

colonialism Zoos as colonialist enterprises Jennifer Sandlin

Harry Potter This "Gen Z Translation" of HARRY POTTER is a total vibe Thom Dunn

politics How right-wing Qanon activists won and lost control of a small town in Washington Rob Beschizza

useful stuff These cleaning wipes are better than a dirty rag Mark Frauenfelder

events To do in NYC: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir present Earth Riot Cory Doctorow

crime German bank robber staged a 5-day fillibuster with his legally guaranteed right to a post-sentencing "final word" Cory Doctorow

futility closet In 1944, an American soldier discovered a Yorkshire terrier in a New Guinea foxhole Futility Closet

class war Burning Man purges one-percenter camp that charged up to $100K, littered like crazy, and ripped off its attendees Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Jamie Dimon is getting fed up with the protesters who "occupy" him everywhere he goes Cory Doctorow

video Watch a timelapse of climbers breaking an El Capitan record Andrea James

music Mark Mothersbaugh from DEVO has a line of rad eyeglasses David Pescovitz