Kaleb J. Cole (aka "Khimaere") is the 24-year-old leader of the Washington State cell of the Atomwaffen Division, an international network of violent Neo-Nazis. Aside from generally spewing hateful rhetoric,… Read the rest of the article: Seattle authorities used "Red Flag" gun laws to disarm a Neo-Nazi
Climate change is real. The state of Florida is particularly susceptible to its effects, being a largely coastal landmass. Hurricanes and floods strike with increasing frequency, damaging or outright destroying… Read the rest of the article: Florida GOP finally admits that maybe they shouldn't have banned the phrase "climate change" after all
The Lestina family of Bagley, Iowa were greeted with a wonderful Halloween surprise on the morning of October 3, when they awoke to find 5 inches of animal blood, fat,… Read the rest of the article: Iowa family wakes up to find 5 inches of blood flooding their house
The blob has no mouth, but I must scream. To be fair, it doesn't a stomach, or eyes, or feet, or anything resembling a brain, either (at least as far… Read the rest of the article: Paris zoo opens a new exhibit with an immortal mutant slime mold called "The Blob"
John Darnielle, the singer/guitarist of the acclaimed indie band the Mountain Goats, has never hidden his nerdy inclinations. Even his 2014 novel debut, Wolf in White Van, was a mesmerizing… Read the rest of the article: Watch John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats play a D&D campaign inspired by their newest record
Another one of Trump's close cabinet has been revealed as a lying con artist, surprising absolutely no one. This time, it's Peter Navarro, a Harvard-educated economist and policy advisor who… Read the rest of the article: Trump's "China muse" advisor has been citing a made-up economist for years
Roko's Basilisk is a notorious thought experiment regarding artificial intelligence and our own perceptions of reality, particularly as it relates to a hypothetically powerful AI. It's kind of like Newcomb's… Read the rest of the article: The worst thing about deepfakes is that we know about them
Five years after giving his supposedly-last interview, the Great Wizard of Northampton Alan Moore has once again deigned to allow someone to record a conversation with him for public consumption.… Read the rest of the article: David Bowie could have played Rorschach in Terry Gilliam's "Watchmen" adaptation
Extra-horny spiders is yet-another unexpected consequence of climate change. The warmer-than-usual weather has prolonged the male tarantula's annual mass booty crawl—and, by extension, their lives. The typical mating season for… Read the rest of the article: Mating season for Bay Area tarantulas just got longer
The Internet is always finding arbitrary new ways to compile ranked lists of musicians and their songs. Sure, the content mill demands it, as seen on Pitchfork, AV Club, Ranker,… Read the rest of the article: A highly scientific fictional approach to ranking musical artists using math
Latina author Jennine Capó Crucet recently spoke to students at Georgia Southern University about her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, about an Hispanic girl who feels out of place… Read the rest of the article: Georgia college students started burning books because someone called them white
The House Judiciary Committee actually held a hearing about gun violence in late September. But you probably didn't hear about it—either because the rest of US politics are so overwhelmingly… Read the rest of the article: Washington is finally starting to do something about gun violence, just not about mass shootings
Molly Osberg and Dhruv Mehrotra at Splinter have done some great work tracing at least 150 Wikipedia edits back to IP addresses at the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. Like… Read the rest of the article: Someone at the NRA has been quietly editing Holocaust Denial articles on Wikipedia
Tewksbury, Massachusetts is about 15 miles south of Salem, New Hampshire and 25 miles west of Salem, Massachusetts. It's also 25 miles north of Watertown, Massachusetts, where Eliza Dushku was… Read the rest of the article: Just in time for Halloween, a new Hellmouth opens near Salem
Corinthian Colleges, Inc. was yet another for-profit university that screwed over hundreds of thousands of people with pyramid schemes that promised a higher education at the end of some labyrinthine… Read the rest of the article: Federal judge dangles jail time in front of Betsy DeVos
Scientists in Queensland, Australia have pieced together the most complete pterosaur fossil collection yet—a big-headed reptile with a 12-foot wingspan they've named Ferrodraco lentoni, or "Butch's Iron Dragon." "It’s kind… Read the rest of the article: Flying T-Rex fossils found in Australia, because of course they were
I don't know who thought that "beating a black balloon with a bat" was the best way to decide and announce a baby's gender for them. But the balloon baby… Read the rest of the article: Disastrous gender reveal turns into dark ascension
A Punk Rock Future is a brand new fiction anthology featuring 25 speculative sci-fi and fantasy writers smashing the State in whatever fantastical futuristic form that it might take. Editor… Read the rest of the article: This new fiction anthology is punk as f*ck
There have been some tweets going around about a "wearable face projector" being employed at the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Wearable face projector#AntiMaskLaw #EmergencyLaw pic.twitter.com/Px3ATu6Lp1 — Happy Day (@HappySharingDay)… Read the rest of the article: Ant-facial recognition tech at the Hong Kong protests was an art project
Motherfoclóir is a delightful podcast about language and linguistics as they relate to Ireland ("foclóir" being the Irish word for "dictionary," and thus completely unrelated to that homophonic English-language word… Read the rest of the article: The colonialism behind fantasy's vaguely Irish Elves
