happy mutants Excellent explainer: how consensus algorithms (including Bitcoin/blockchain) work Cory Doctorow

art Masterpiece by 13th century Italian painter Cimabue found in French woman’s kitchen Xeni Jardin

if you can't open it you don't own it Inside NYC's slowly-vanishing repair shops Clive Thompson

view source The "One HTML Page Challenge", a great example of view-source culture Clive Thompson

health Rep Pramila Jayapal's Medicare For All Act fixes America's dire and broken health-care system; take action to support it now! Cory Doctorow

patterns How to "code like a weaver" Clive Thompson

patterns A train station with walls designed using cellular automata "Rule 30" Clive Thompson

NASA How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record Ron Barry

religion Ten Commandments tablet up for auction David Pescovitz

syria How a small group of geeks led the Syrian refugee surge David Pescovitz

film Gorgeous drone footage in a light-drenched Byzantine church Andrea James

Book An interview with ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT on the occasion of the publication of THE CITY OF BLADES Boing Boing

class war Private funding of public services is bankrupting the UK Cory Doctorow

makers Ar ar humor: Generating jokes algorithmically with Wolfram Mathematica Cory Doctorow

copyright Hakim, the Masked Gamer of Minneapolis Rob Beschizza