Copyfight Public Domain Game Jam: what games can you design with the bounty of 1924? Cory Doctorow

gaming "Pokémon Go grandpa" has 64 smartphones attached to his bicycle David Pescovitz

History Last person collecting a civil war pension dies Rob Beschizza

News Protesters shut down I-35 freeway in Minneapolis Xeni Jardin

News Trump bizarrely orders halt to W.H.O. funding amid coronavirus pandemic Xeni Jardin

News Unhinged Trump coronavirus briefing: 'There will be death,' says 1,000 military personnel going to NY Xeni Jardin

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Environment Rare snow in Iraq turns Baghdad into winter wonderland Xeni Jardin

deaths Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020 Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Happy Public Domain Day 2020! Cory Doctorow

News China has 500+ Uighur camps and prisons and is holding far more than one million, activists say Xeni Jardin

donald trump 'Baby Trump' balloon is going to LSU-Alabama football game to mock Donald Xeni Jardin

politics President tweets something dumb again, slurs 'three lowlife reporters' at Washington Post Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Aethervision: "newsreels" that recap the week's news using public-domain, pre-1924 footage Cory Doctorow

art Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery turns 21 Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain Cory Doctorow

elections Partisan Gerrymandering Upheld by Supreme Court Xeni Jardin

Business Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, as 'dangerous' Xeni Jardin

books The creator of Encyclopedia Brown wanted to remain a mystery Mark Frauenfelder

trump New York Times prints 'I'm fucked' on front page ? Xeni Jardin