computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

asshole design How Disney teaches kids to be suspicious Mark Frauenfelder

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happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

music Neil Young hates what the internet has done to music Xeni Jardin

Food Cheap frozen dinners styled and photographed as dishes from five star restaurants David Pescovitz

Alien invasion base on the moon, Michael Jackson’s body missing, and Prince Harry’s clash with Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Games How to modify your Nintendo Switch game case to hold up to 24 games (cheap gamer tricks) Xeni Jardin

trumpism Court nukes Ontario's Trumpian government bid to gut Toronto city council Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Buskers are the only performers making money at the Edinburgh Fringe. Here's how. Mat Ricardo

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amazon I would replace my Kindle Voyage with a Kindle Voyage Jason Weisberger

banana trick Dirty tricks people use to steal from self-checkout stations Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Pharma giant Allergan pays Mohawk tribe to serve as human shields against patent challenges Cory Doctorow

News Watch Prime Minister May hurry to her car as an angry crowd bellows at her Rob Beschizza

security Stingray for criminals: spreading mobile malware with fake cellphone towers Cory Doctorow

science fiction In defense of left-wing space utopias Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Now in print: Neil Gaiman's "novelistic" book of Norse mythos Cory Doctorow

travel Touring northern Colombia by car in the rainy season Maggie Tokuda-Hall