coronavirus An eerily beautiful drone video of shutdown San Francisco David Pescovitz

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

#blacklivesmatter A powerful portrait series of Black Americans killed by police that uses time as a visual medium Thom Dunn

music Radiohead to stream concerts for shut-ins Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann

retro encabulators Even experts can be tricked by meaningless babble uttered by a slick BS artist Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Touring the haunting ruins of abandoned Second Life university campuses Cory Doctorow

books An excerpt from "Bullshit Jobs," David Graeber's forthcoming book about the rise of useless work Cory Doctorow

science fiction Theorizing a post-capitalist future with Kim Stanley Robinson Cory Doctorow

robots Alt-Right trolls argue for hours with Twitter bot Rob Beschizza

battersea Apple's London headquarters to be housed at Battersea Power Station Mark Frauenfelder

crimes American Porn Psycho Rob Beschizza

short story Dandelion Leo Vladimirsky

tumblr Nihilisa Frank finds the existential darkness in the art of Lisa Frank Laura Hudson

Sex The millennials are all right, and so are their sex games Laura Hudson

art 16 cartoonists who changed the world Monte Beauchamp

North Korea's creepy fake civilian village fools no one Alastair Bonnett

Zen and the art of fantasy writing Boing Boing