May 4, 2015

• Last night at an anti-Muslim event near Dallas, two gunmen were killed after shooting a security guard.
• Elite patronage drives art-world delusion: "That by looking at political art we are somehow engaged in a deeply political act."
• Texas's new governor capitulates to conspiracy theorists, deploys State Guard to monitor military training exercise.
• After winning this weekend's bout, Floyd Mayweather's net worth shot up by 37%.
• Related: Thousands of people skirted pay-per-view fees by streaming Twitter feeds of the fight.
• "The kids of tomorrow won't freak out over terabytes of storage. They'll freak out over kilowatt-hours."
• Two decades after approving medical marijuana, California hears new legislation to regulate an out-of-control industry.
• Related: An unusual DEA raid on an LA dispensary reveals the bewildering conflict between state and federal drug laws.
• Sex offenders build colony, find community.
• The Intercept investigates how 43 students disappeared in Mexico.
• Smith College reverses course to accept transgender applicants.
• "The biggest threat to Parkour—as even Parkour's all-male founders would agree—is testosterone."
• The shut-in life.
• The Onion stealthily became the Web's best sponsored content publisher.
• People who become Odinists may do so because they like Thor, but actually they're joining a racist movement.
• "While buying homemade gifts is a lovely thing to do, thinking of it as a social good is problematic."
• The oral history of Redman on Cribs.