Sex Office of the Director of National Intelligence admits its employee held down 15 other jobs and played games all day Cory Doctorow

politics State Department inspector general Steve Linick fired on a Friday night, weird, wonder why? Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 Renowned mathematician and "Game of Life" inventor, John Conway, died this week of COVID-19 Gareth Branwyn

photography Vintage snapshots of people sleeping David Pescovitz

News Yet another Chinese woman arrested for trespassing at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Xeni Jardin

dogs Corgi sneaks up on a strawberry Xeni Jardin

trump Trump asks Congress to permanently reauthorize NSA's expiring power to access domestic call records Xeni Jardin

soothsayers Shingy, AOL's secret weapon for staying hip, is leaving Mark Frauenfelder

national unintelligence Trump wants to fire DNI Dan Coats, eliminate 'unnecessary' Office of Director of National Intelligence: Axios Xeni Jardin

Comics Cartoonist Kayfabe Show and Tell, Outlaw Comics! Ed Piskor

parody "Happy Furry Monsters" and other Sesame Street parody mashup songs Rusty Blazenhoff

picks Les Moonves' wife Julie Chen borrows the Camille Cosby playbook Gina Loukareas

cuisine The Glory of the Fluffernutter Richard Kaufman

leaks The guy in charge of protecting American spies who blow the whistle on corruption just got frog-marched out of his office and suspended Cory Doctorow

corruption Trump's NSA will be able to share its firehose of surveillance data with 16 government agencies (Thanks, Obama) Cory Doctorow

picks FBI and ODNI now back CIA's assessment that Russia hacked U.S. election for Trump win Xeni Jardin

#fixthepolice NYPD: We can't tell you how much cash we seize because it would break our computers Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya

law "Prolific litigant" bought $40 used printer then sued seller for $30,000 Rob Beschizza

music Hear The National, War on Drugs, Jenny Lewis, and others play the Grateful Dead David Pescovitz