picks I've been diving off the Conception many times Jason Weisberger

snakes Snake, 62, lays eggs without having been around a male for more than a decade David Pescovitz

Business Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest of Black man in Detroit Xeni Jardin

art Another flawless art restoration in Spain Rob Beschizza

coronavirus Stream this powerful theatre production about class and motherhood right now Thom Dunn

schools Yale University's hugely popular "Science of Well Being" happiness class is now free online David Pescovitz

futility closet A genderless evangelist rode through revolutionary America warning of the Apocalypse Futility Closet

copyright How the "monkey selfie" is affecting copyright law for art and writing produced by artificial intelligence Mark Frauenfelder

pizza Irish people have a very strange understanding of "pizza" Thom Dunn

web theory Distinguishing between "platforms" and "aggregators" in competition law Cory Doctorow

religion Pennsylvania to Ohio: we see your terrible life-threatening anti-abortion bill and raise you with funerals for unimplanted, fertilized eggs Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How to recognize AI snake oil Cory Doctorow

elves Horrors await poor Sophie Foster in 'Keeper of the Lost Cities: Legacy' Jason Weisberger

Business Google continues to funnel vast sums to notorious climate deniers Cory Doctorow

class war The complicated, nuanced story of how racialized French people fought to save their local McDonald's Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Robert Bork is the architect of the inequality crisis Cory Doctorow

gender Survey: Self-identified "pro lifers" are generally contemptuous of women Cory Doctorow

eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

Business Massachusetts says Purdue's profits from a single opioid addict were $200,000 Cory Doctorow