china Watch trucks drive massive wind turbine blades up a mountain Andrea James

collapse porn Giant crane collapses Mark Frauenfelder

social distancing Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

Weird Neighbor accused of stealing skeleton in window with middle finger raised offensively Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann

tabloids Royal sex & drug scandal, the Queen & Michael Douglas dying, and Miley Cyrus’s demonic possession, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Sarah Pinsker's "Song for a New Day": outstanding dystopian rock-and-roll novel of rebellion and redemption Cory Doctorow

makers Thinking back on the special magic of Make: and Maker Faire Gareth Branwyn

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

elections Elizabeth Warren's latest campaign plank is a national Right-to-Repair law for farm equipment Cory Doctorow

trump 21 Savage's lawyer says ICE committed "civil law violation” to “punish and intimidate” Xeni Jardin

History What if Doggerland had survived? Rob Beschizza

late stage capitalism Electrification 2.0: Rural broadband co-ops are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Wanting It Badly Is Not Enough: Real Problems For Creators Deserve Real Solutions Cory Doctorow

Business We're going to be eating bugs really soon now, again Cory Doctorow

music Money Mark and Roger Federer's excellent tennis racket TV commercial David Pescovitz

law Farming while Black: farmers allegedly sold fake certified seed in an effort to bankrupt them Seamus Bellamy

science fiction Charlie Stross on the "soft genocide" of eugenics-tainted, alt-right climate dystopia Cory Doctorow

ireland Beware the goat gangs of Ireland Seamus Bellamy

tiny houses What it's like to live in the house from "American Gothic" Clive Thompson