Audio Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs's plan to build a surveilling "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow

fashion Bulletproof thobes and abaya Cory Doctorow

Business Pepsi plans to use cubesats to display ads in the night sky Cory Doctorow

videos Pepsico launches a K-Cup for juice Cory Doctorow

science fiction Nebraska State Senator proposes constitutional amendment to allow corporations to create tiny, sovereign nations with no laws, taxes or rules Cory Doctorow

coronavirus Baseball stadium invites dancing robots to mask eerie emptiness during game Carla Sinclair

models Artist creates cool models of postapocalyptic levitating homes Andrea James

thailand Macaques have colonized a city in Thailand and converted a movie theatre into a cemetery Thom Dunn

tabloids Meghan runs off with Princess Diana’s jewels, Prince Andrew caught fleeing, and Ron Jeremy’s wood, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Troop of monkeys attack lab assistant, steal COVID-19 samples Jason Weisberger

podcasts Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder

politics Watch Serbia's president hold a weird virtual rally with supporters clapping on video stream Xeni Jardin

Hell Someone invented convertible hospital beds that turn into coffins Thom Dunn

video games "Tonight We Riot" is a brutal 8-bit side scroller about worker liberation Thom Dunn

Science Tom Hanks' blood could be used to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

late stage capitalism Doomsday Preppers are now selling timeshares, too Thom Dunn

podcasts Podcast: The case for … cities that aren't dystopian surveillance states Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow

Tabletop gamer's gift guide for 2019 Gareth Branwyn