art Esoteric programming language coded with images Rob Beschizza

art The Ellsworth Kelly postage stamps have arrived Rusty Blazenhoff

movies Movies depicted as fields of colored lines Rob Beschizza

art How a Black woman turned quilting into a surprisingly radical art form Thom Dunn

mistakes On anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre, a call for blood in America Rob Beschizza

gambling What Steve Forte can do with a pack of cards borders on the unbelievable Ferdinando Buscema

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

Business "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict Cory Doctorow

privacy Tech conference changes policy, rescinds requirement for chipped, unremovable bracelets for attendees Cory Doctorow

apps How much keyboard latency can you take? Rob Beschizza

Games Already regretting assigning Bret Easton Ellis to review Minecraft's photorealistic texture pack Rob Beschizza

security Towards a general theory of "adversarial examples," the bizarre, hallucinatory motes in machine learning's all-seeing eye Cory Doctorow

scholarship Calculating Facebook's value by figuring out how much you'd have to pay users to quit Cory Doctorow

music Gorgeous free mix of contemporary and archival "world music" and avant-garde soundscapes David Pescovitz

privacy Customizable ethics checklists for Big Data researchers Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Chicagoans can actually play "Machine Learning President," the election RPG Cory Doctorow

sexism Facebook allowed job ads to exclude women Rob Beschizza

Science Academic publishing is a mess and it makes culture wars dumber Rob Beschizza

happy mutants A gorgeous history of the mid-century modernism by Disney's finest illustrators of the 1950s Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza