happy mutants You can request hand-crafted reading-list recommendations from the Brooklyn public library online Cory Doctorow

public service Website shows you which government positions you can run for Mark Frauenfelder

Barbados If you can work remotely, Barbados want you to come and stay for a year Mark Frauenfelder

law I found out about this amusing Karen parody of American Girl dolls because they want it taken down Rob Beschizza

COVID-19 COVID Safety Guidelines for Shared Workshops Gareth Branwyn

corruption Trump administration gave a $700M bailout to a $70M truck company after it allegedly defrauded the Pentagon Thom Dunn

punk rock Celebrate Emma Goldman's birthday (belatedly) with this radical song Thom Dunn

#deletefacebook How Ben Shapiro exploits Facebook's networks of "racial bias, religious bigotry, and violence" to reach a huge audience Mark Frauenfelder

Business Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest of Black man in Detroit Xeni Jardin

Technology Senate GOP introduce bill to end 'warrant-proof' encryption, end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp is targeted Xeni Jardin

racism The US military is allegedly investigating the cause of racial disparities in the US military Thom Dunn

Gadgets Nearly 200,000 happy students can’t be wrong about this machine learning-AI deep dive training Boing Boing's Shop

Business Peter Thiel's Palantir gets $500 million from Japan, just before expected IPO Xeni Jardin

cool Library explains new curbside book pickup with "Ice Ice Baby" parody Rusty Blazenhoff

police violence A US Air Force Sergeant linked to Boogaloo Bois charged with killing police officer Thom Dunn

publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

coronavirus GOP Ohio lawmaker: 'African Americans or the colored population' get coronavirus because they 'do not wash their hands as well as other groups' Xeni Jardin

Technology Upload a photo of anyone to this site to find more images around the internet of that person Xeni Jardin

Business Google Maps will show COVID-19 travel alerts, crowdedness predictions Xeni Jardin