animals Cats can feel an earthquake coming well before it hits Seamus Bellamy

Tokyo Watch this relaxing walk along Tokyo's Cat Street Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Amazon Web Services and Azure control half the cloud market. This training can help you handle both. Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus Turkey arrests 410 citizens for “provocative” coronavirus posts Xeni Jardin

Sex Amsterdam plans to move red light district into a new, indoor erotic mall David Pescovitz

marijuana I had dinner at LA's OG Cannabis Cafe Jason Weisberger

drugs This is the first cannabis-themed US restaurant that encourages you to smoke weed inside David Pescovitz

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

Business Starbucks adds oat milk to vegan non-dairy options Xeni Jardin

zero waste Coffee chain ditching cups in 2020, customers must "rent" or bring their own Rusty Blazenhoff

books How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English Cory Doctorow

education NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow

tabloids Princess Diana’s killer found (yet again) and Epstein scandal blackmail, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

cbd Wild popularity of CBD forces Christian bookseller to rebrand Gina Loukareas

Japan Tokyo Listening – an interview with author Lorraine Plourde Roger Park

happy mutants Where to catch me at Burning Man! Cory Doctorow

crap gadgets Samsung says its TV sets should be "regularly checked for viruses" Rob Beschizza

tabletop games Cryptid is a fun tabletop game of "honest misdirection" Mark Frauenfelder

music When William S. Burroughs met Bob Dylan David Pescovitz