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books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

Business Price of U.S. crude oil crashes below $0, first time in history Xeni Jardin

photography The new Barbie Polaroid camera actually sounds pretty wonderful Thom Dunn

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow

Games The game Operation was born as a test of desert survival skills David Pescovitz

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann

elizabeth warren for president Once again Senator Warren's stories check out, her critics' do not Jason Weisberger

music The Theremin is almost 100-years-old David Pescovitz

Science Gorgeous photos of undersea life, in black and white Clive Thompson

Sex Meet HBO's sex scene coach David Pescovitz

happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow

art 'Station Eleven' is a haunting tale of the apocalypse Jason Weisberger

picks Former CDC director Tom Frieden pleads guilty to sex abuse case but gets no jail time Xeni Jardin

lunchbucket joe Joe Biden is no longer sniffing women's hair on the campaign trail Mark Frauenfelder

books Becky Chambers' 'A Closed and Common Orbit' brought me to tears Jason Weisberger

picks La Croix CEO's wacky 'handicapped' slur makes me want to stop drinking La Croix Xeni Jardin

tabloid journalism Did the ‘National Enquirer’ finally get one right with its sensational exposé of Bezos’s affair? Peter Sheridan