web theory Teen Bo$$: a magazine advising tweens on how to get rich by being "social media brands" Cory Doctorow

ghosts Quarantining with ghosts David Pescovitz

skateboards Santa Monica Airlines sent me an awesome Natas Kaupas/Burrito Breath deck Jason Weisberger

music Remix of bug-eyed megapreacher ranting about Covid-19 Rob Beschizza

elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow

slime How to make vast amounts of "thick and glossy" slime Rob Beschizza

microsoft Microsoft’s Cortana is sleeping with the fishes Seamus Bellamy

florida Student body president at University of Florida is facing impeachment proceedings over payments to Donald Trump Jr Thom Dunn

politics Trump pushed AG Barr to hold press briefing to say POTUS broke no laws in Ukraine phone call Xeni Jardin

zoology Paris zoo opens a new exhibit with an immortal mutant slime mold called "The Blob" Thom Dunn

happy mutants Slime Tango: an inverse tug-of-war, played with blobs of slime Cory Doctorow

Science Snail slime inspires new super-strong reversible glue David Pescovitz

politics William Barr, Nihilist: 'Everyone dies' Xeni Jardin

Business PwC study: The new #1 reason CEOs get booted is because they are sexual predators and thieves David Pescovitz

Gadgets Review: Graco TrueCoat 360 airless paint sprayer Rob Beschizza

delightful fungi The weird beauty of fungi: time-lapse videos Mark Frauenfelder

parody "Happy Furry Monsters" and other Sesame Street parody mashup songs Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Trump ordering military to occupy US-Mexico border through Christmas Xeni Jardin

parasitology John Oliver presents all the swamp creatures Trump has poured in the swamp Mark Frauenfelder

paypal Paypal closes accounts on far-right social network Gab Seamus Bellamy