health Two men just learned via Grindr that they are HIV-positive Xeni Jardin

facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder

Space Last night's massive boom over Puget Sound was likely exploding meteor David Pescovitz

Games Pandemic hoarding sim: Manic Toilet Paper Shopping Simulator Gareth Branwyn

california Fairyland donkeys react to classical music Rusty Blazenhoff

housing An entire village built on the roof of a huge building David Pescovitz

crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow

city living A writer explains why she quit big cities and moved to the midwest Mark Frauenfelder

News Maria Butina plea hearing set for Thursday, her spy boss Torshin missing, Putin unhappy Xeni Jardin

fake news Noah’s Ark found, a Palace coup, and a Hollywood poker scam, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

burning man The playlist of the 2018 Burning Man Temple Burn Rusty Blazenhoff

trump Trump's insane new "Media Accountability Survey" Jason Weisberger

News 'I've had Twitter sex with 12 Russian hackers,' nude model who sexted Guccifer 2.0 tells tabloids Xeni Jardin

babies "You Died" Rob Beschizza

obits Ms Sheila Michaels, activist who popularized "Ms." honorific, dead at 78 Rob Beschizza

music North Korea wakes its citizens with creepy dystopian music Rob Beschizza

picks Wearing hockey gear, Putin reacts to FBI director James Comey's firing: 'We have nothing to do with that' Xeni Jardin

smurfs Review / Smurfs: The Lost Village Rob Beschizza

gender Crowdfunding a subscription to Ms. for every state official in Wyoming, home of America's worst wage-gap Cory Doctorow

politics The peculiar struggle to make parts of India "Open Defecation Free" Cory Doctorow