happy mutants Kickstarting a seminar series with Ada Palmer and me about the history of censorship and information control Cory Doctorow
education Harvard and MIT are suing over the Trump administration's student immigration ruling Thom Dunn
Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder
Gadgets This digital ruler is the gadget that just gave measurement a 21st century makeover Boing Boing's Shop
Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann
happy mutants Annalee Newitz's "Future of Another Timeline": like Handmaid's Tale meets Hitchhiker's Guide Cory Doctorow
denialism A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial Cory Doctorow
publishing University of California system libraries break off negotiations with Elsevier, will no longer order their journals Cory Doctorow
happy mutants It's January, so it's time to settle in with the annual WELL State of the Union address, with special guest James Bridle! Cory Doctorow
Business What it's like to be a woman reporter on a cryptocurrency cruise where nearly all the other women are sex-workers Cory Doctorow
happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow
Incredibly Interesting Authors Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump Mark Frauenfelder
