art A $6 tool for easily hanging pictures Jason Weisberger

donald trump Trump rally youth: 'Aunt Jemima was canceled… She was the picture of the American dream' Xeni Jardin

Gadgets This innovative toothbrush holder will reduce your exposure to germs Boing Boing's Shop

Science Coronavirus 'acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen,' say doctors Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Are you cut out to be a COVID-19 stay-at-home teacher for your kids? Maybe these DIY projects can help. Boing Boing's Shop

corruption Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won't disclose what kind of factory it will build Cory Doctorow

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

christ what an asshole New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: "cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one" Cory Doctorow

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books Beastie Boys & Run DMC in 'Together Forever,' new Glen E. Friedman photo book Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks Chris Merritt

Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow

happy mutants "The Stab": a forgotten nearly-was Haunted Mansion changing portrait Cory Doctorow

jeffrey epstein Jeffrey Epstein's accused madame Ghislaine Maxwell found at In-N-Out Burger in Los Angeles Xeni Jardin

security EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Dancing in the dark at Kathe Koja's DARK FACTORY Kathe Koja

tabloids Prince Harry’s paternity nightmare and the Royal Family changed forever, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow

Cooking Holy fudge is there conflicting information online about inducing brownie 'cakeyness' Jason Weisberger