youtube Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow

Business Microsoft is about to shut off its ebook DRM servers: "The books will stop working" Cory Doctorow

clowns Evil clown arrested Rob Beschizza

teeth Teen forced dentist to remove braces, at gunpoint David Pescovitz

music Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald "Khalis" Bell, RIP David Pescovitz

animals Watch Pigeon vs. Rat, a decidedly NYC brawl David Pescovitz

art Modern porcelain sculpture about greed made in classical Chinese style Andrea James

korea After being accused of sexual assault, the mayor of Seoul is found dead Mark Frauenfelder

statues Melania statue in Slovenia is removed after it was burned by mysterious "vandals" Carla Sinclair

marketing Hello, Dolly… and goodbye, Bob's Big Boy?! Rusty Blazenhoff

kung fu The kung fu nuns of Kathmandu Andrea James

News SUV plows into BLM protest in NYC's Times Square, similar potentially deadly attacks happening around U.S. Xeni Jardin

escalation tactics Miami-Dade cop aggressively hits black woman in the face after she calls him "white" Carla Sinclair

Tom the Dancing Bug How Trump really dealt with Russia's bounty on US soldiers Ruben Bolling

Technology YouTube bans 6 channels for hate speech, white supremacists Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer among them Xeni Jardin

anti-endorsement Daughter of GOP candidate begs "Please for the love of God do not vote for my dad" Mark Frauenfelder

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

books Please don't microwave your library books David Pescovitz

COVID-19 New York Times shows how the virus won Mark Frauenfelder

politics Former GOP Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina endorses Joe Biden Rob Beschizza