photography Spectacular photos of an active volcano in Bali Rusty Blazenhoff

books Pondok Pekak Library, a hidden gem in Ubud, Bali Tom Fassbender

Japan Japanese rapper Kan a.k.a. GAMI busted for 0.5 grams of weed Mark Frauenfelder

music That time Ministry's Al Jourgensen recorded a Shasta soda jingle David Pescovitz

Science These are the two COVID-19 data sites I incessantly check Jason Weisberger

coronavirus Florida Pastor arrested after encouraging people to come to church in person during the coronavirus lockdown Thom Dunn

china Kevin Kelly on the future of the Internet in China Mark Frauenfelder

alexa Easy ways to use Alexa just to mess with your children Thom Dunn

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

coronavirus How coronavirus impacts climate change and the US housing market Thom Dunn

Business Twitter: We killed “a large network of fake accounts” and others for abusing API feature that matched phone numbers to usernames Xeni Jardin

peanuts Planters Peanuts is killing off their cannibal capitalist mascot in the most capitalist way possible Thom Dunn

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

australia Australia is only a horrifying natural death trap so it can balance out the adorableness of the quokka Thom Dunn

futility closet In 1822, a desperate band of convicts fleeing a Tasmanian penal colony ended up resorting to cannibalism Futility Closet

AI The mystical Kabbalah roots of natural language processing David Pescovitz

happy mutants Lynda Barry is a Macarthur "genius" Cory Doctorow

Business Piketty on the "Brahmin left" and the "merchant right" Cory Doctorow

youtube Infowars relaunches YouTube channel one day after Susan Wojcicki takes action to reduce extremist content Xeni Jardin

scholarship Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them Cory Doctorow