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science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

ghosts Quarantining with ghosts David Pescovitz

coronavirus Build your own makeshift "quarantine pool table" Rusty Blazenhoff

late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow

music Listen to Jäh Division's dub covers of Joy Division David Pescovitz

unpleasant people Rude guest stories Rob Beschizza

videos Oakland to expand managed homeless shantytowns of prefab sheds Cory Doctorow

travel I owe Anthony Bourdain so much Seamus Bellamy

san francisco What happens when you tack $80 in cash on corkboards Rusty Blazenhoff

sexual assault Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller accused of punching, choking, and sexual assault Carla Sinclair

picks Thanksgiving, 1993: The Admiral Theater Jason Weisberger

Reminder Magnets Reminder magnets to help you keep your life in order Caroline Siede

happy mutants Unfuck Your Habitat: compassionate cleaning advice, even for people terrified by Marie Kondo Cory Doctorow

Bwitches Bwitches adds a witchy twist to the twentysomething web series Caroline Siede

Mars Inside a Martian house on Earth David Pescovitz

stories The "dark tales" spoken by an amazingly prolific sleep-talker Rob Beschizza

Games A Canadian teenager used America's militarized cops to terrorize women gamers for years Cory Doctorow

books The Abaddon: graphic novel based loosely on Sartre's No Exit Cory Doctorow

offworld The queer masculinity of stealth games Riley MacLeod