picks Former CDC director Tom Frieden pleads guilty to sex abuse case but gets no jail time Xeni Jardin

useful stuff How to get rid of hideous pantry moths Mark Frauenfelder

useful stuff How to get rid of hideous pantry moths Mark Frauenfelder

law 'Pick-up artist' jailed after threatening women Rob Beschizza

elections Orban humiliated: Hungary's crypto-fascist Fidesz party suffers string of municipal election defeats Cory Doctorow

#metoo Harvey Weinstein's "life ruined", his lawyer complains Rob Beschizza

health The widening health gap between America's rich and poor is the result of worse health for the poor, not better health for the rich Cory Doctorow

britain Why Essex is crap, or at least why everyone thinks it is Rob Beschizza

Business Now that Uber and Lyft are public, their inevitable financial collapse is much clearer Cory Doctorow

the uncanny Bizarro Bazar keeps the world weird Ferdinando Buscema

#metoo Emma Thompson's letter to Skydance about John Lasseter Rob Beschizza

art Liartown, USA leaves Tumblr over NSFW-ban; announces new 544-page Crap Hound book "devoted to images notable for their lack of positivity" Cory Doctorow

facebook Sheryl Sandberg's fingerprints are all over every one of Facebook's scandals Cory Doctorow

politics Beach Week (2018), a film by the Coen Brothers Rob Beschizza

News Bill Cosby jailed for 3 to 10 years after judge rules hims a "sexually violent predator" Rob Beschizza

Science A CRISPR-based hack could eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes Cory Doctorow

politics Top conservative lawyer insinuates Kavanaugh classmate and 'lookalike' was Christine Ford's alleged attacker Rob Beschizza

Women Invent the Future: a science fiction anthology from Doteveryone Rachel Coldicutt

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

science fiction 84K: A grim meathook future novel of exterminism, with a theory of change and a glimmer of hope in its centre Cory Doctorow