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Science Virgin Orbit fails on first rocket launch attempt, 'next big test ASAP' for Richard Branson’s spaceflight firm Xeni Jardin

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Gadgets The Food Guard kicks plastic wrap to the curb and solves your missing lid problem forever Boing Boing's Shop

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

politics In leaked audio, Michael Bloomberg defends racial profiling: "throw them up against the wall" Rob Beschizza

tabloids Megxit Explodes – Who’s to blame? in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

card games My favorite new game, KnifeTank: The Shüffling, is now on Kickstarter Gareth Branwyn

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

Science Decades of antigravity research went nowhere Rob Beschizza

twitter An important, elegant thought experiment on content moderation regulation Cory Doctorow

books How "meritocracy" went from a joke to a dogma, and destroyed the lives of everyone it touched Cory Doctorow

Games Trans woman trains her new vagina's pelvic floor with a kegel-controlled version of Flappy Bird Cory Doctorow

Not OK Why did Trump make the "white power" hand signal when he mentioned AOC at the Young Conservatives DC summit? Mark Frauenfelder

Clooney’s divorce, Obama’s divorce, and the truth about Brad & Jen, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

john oliver John Oliver tackles the Sacklers: the litigious, secretive billionaires whose family business engineered the opioid crisis Cory Doctorow