Real things that actually exist KFC introduces a firelog that smells like greasy fried chicken Rusty Blazenhoff

us news Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather offers to pay for George Floyd’s funeral & memorial, family accepts offer Xeni Jardin

baseball A minor league Yankees affiliate team tried to throw an "OJ Simpson Trial"-themed baseball game Thom Dunn

Science More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after "bombshell" report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct Cory Doctorow

privacy Gawker's new owners demand right to search journalists, ban encrypted email and institute dress code Cory Doctorow

china Call for boycott after the actor who played Mulan in the reboot supports Hong Kong's brutal police crackdown on pro-democracy protestors Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Barnes and Noble's new boss is James Daunt, who rescued the UK's Waterstones Cory Doctorow

happy mutants You treasure what you measure: how KPIs make software dystopias Cory Doctorow

student loans GOP wants to grab student loan payments right out of your paycheck Gina Loukareas

iphone Apple bothering people with unwanted "Carpool Karaoke" push notifications Seamus Bellamy

corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow

google A history of the tech worker uprising Cory Doctorow

design Vintage logos and motion graphics for today's Internet companies David Pescovitz

hollywood What's inside the Oscars gift bag, valued at $120K apiece Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Debullshitifying Uber's financial statement reveals a hemorrhaging fountain of red ink with no path to profitability Cory Doctorow

usausausa The first-ever independent audit of whistleblower retaliation in US spy agencies was looking bad for the agencies, so it was shut down Cory Doctorow

revenge When a debt collector threatened to rape a man's wife over a bogus debt, the man devoted a year towards getting his revenge Mark Frauenfelder

google Former female employees sue Google for paying them less than men Jason Weisberger

Games It Is As If You Were Doing Work is a browser game celebrating Windows 3-era cubicle drudgery Rob Beschizza