los angeles Homelessness has killed five times as many Angelenos as murder Thom Dunn

Business LA's new rule: homeless people are only allowed to own one trashcan's worth of things Cory Doctorow

AI I interviewed the AI ghost of a famous dead porn star Thom Dunn

politics Headliners bail on heavy metal festival because Kyle Rittenhouse Jennifer Sandlin

machine learning engineers How Chase froze $180k and left a tech consultant scrambling Mark Frauenfelder

money 5 most evil con artists in history: Their shocking scams revealed  Ellsworth Toohey

News Victorian Crank Machine: a soul-crushing gadget designed to break prison inmates Mister Dobo

News The man who saved Star Trek has died Yoy Luadha

Lemonade from lemons 7-year-old starts a lemonade stand to bury her mother Thom Dunn

Delightful Creatures Proof elephants are smarter and funnier than most humans I know (sorry, humans!) Jennifer Sandlin

late stage capitalism Multi-level Marketing scheme "disguised as an advocacy organization" draws criticism Jennifer Sandlin

News Far-right extremist group Moms for Liberty claims it is "in no way affiliated" with far-right extremist group Proud Boys, despite photos of them together Mark Frauenfelder

money Alabama to spend more than $1bn on world's most expensive prison Rob Beschizza

climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn

cults "Warrior Poet" performs an ode to breasts and bodily autonomy, except when it comes to implants Jennifer Sandlin

twitter Did RFK Jr. just drop a hidden Nazi code in his tweet? Mark Frauenfelder

libraries San Francisco Library pushed into restricting public internet access because unhoused people use it Jason Weisberger

president Cornel West is running for President Jennifer Sandlin

nyc "Museum of the Revolution" documentary is a brutal monument to predatory capitalism Greg Nussen