silicon valley What is "garbage language" and why is it so hard to avoid using? Thom Dunn

cars Car horns used to communicate "filthy language" David Pescovitz

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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

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poetry "Engage in the long, faithful work,” a beautiful graphic poem about learning anti-racism Thom Dunn

police brutality The cop who killed George Floyd has a long record of police brutality Thom Dunn

Gadgets With Learnable, learning to code doesn’t have to turn your brain into a pretzel Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids The Man Who Knew Too Much! Why China murdered its own ambassador, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Gadgets Save over 75% on lifetime subscriptions to Rosetta Stone, VPN Unlimited, and 12min Book Summary App Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus Introverts' joy of lockdown getting ruined by extroverts filling their schedules with video appointments Mark Frauenfelder

social distancing Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

pandemic fears Harvard Business Review talks to David Kessler about "anticipatory grief" in the face of a global pandemic Gareth Branwyn

Drugs Without the Hot Air: the best book I've ever read on drugs and drug policy, in an expanded new edition Cory Doctorow

fbi Both-side-ism comes for the FBI's abortion task force with exaggerated claims of "pro-choice violence" Thom Dunn

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politics American Dirt was too big to fail Rob Beschizza

Adulting Adulting merit badges Rob Beschizza