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video games Creator of Stardew Valley: "It’s important to me not to just entertain, but to delight" Jeffery Klaehn

Gadgets This cash management account lets you literally pay it forward Boing Boing's Shop

makers Revisiting Make:'s weekly Math Monday column Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets From your home to the road to your pet, these items will help improve every aspect of your life Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Coronavirus cured (again), Britain’s Royals clash (again) and the woman who pees alcohol (unprecedented) in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News UPDATED: Tony Robbins accused of sexually assaulting high schooler at summer camp Xeni Jardin

podcast A small city mayor explains why safe drug injection sites are so effective Thom Dunn

Dungeons & Dragons What's new in tabletop gaming (Halloween edition) Gareth Branwyn

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

late stage capitalism Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies Cory Doctorow

content Ruined pub still getting TripAdvisor reviews Rob Beschizza

computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow