brown note New military "noise gun" very loud indeed Rob Beschizza

troll taming How to deal with unreasonable or mean people on Twitter Mark Frauenfelder

ducks Award-winning duck eats yeast, explodes, and blinds a man Thom Dunn

music Meeting Little Richard at his old Hyatt haunt David Katznelson

baking Pandemic sourdough waffles Jason Weisberger

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

restaurants Behind the velvet rope hierarchies of NYC restaurant reservations David Pescovitz

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

christ what an asshole "The Tragedy of the Commons": how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought Cory Doctorow

useful stuff What does writer and human guinea pig AJ Jacobs keep in his bag? Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids The Obamas split, the Queen’s bag of blood, and, oh yes, WWIII is coming, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

late stage capitalism #29leaks: someone leaked 15 years' worth of data from London's most notorious shell-company factory Cory Doctorow

trump Why CBP won't accept supplies for separated children in migrant detention camps Xeni Jardin

scammers Turning the tables on tech support scammers Rob Beschizza

trumpism The NRA begs gun nuts for donations, spends lavishly on its board of directors and execs Cory Doctorow

Technology Facebook's '15 months of Fresh Hell' detailed deliciously by WIRED Xeni Jardin

donald trump Trump to armed border agents: “If judges give you trouble, say, 'Sorry, judge, I can't do it.'” Xeni Jardin

foia The strangest FOIA redactions (and FOIA releases) MuckRock has seen over the years JPat Brown

tattoos From Bears Ears in Utah, a 2,000-year-old tattooing tool is rediscovered Xeni Jardin

fake news Queen in drunken brawl, Prince Harry’s hell, and Meghan Markle’s secrets, in this week’s dubious Royal tabloids Peter Sheridan