evolution of ideas Fascinating chart shows the evolution of the English alphabet from Egyptian hieroglyphics Mark Frauenfelder
Reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Black Panther and the Crew" is a powerfully relevant superhero story about Black lives, police brutality, and US history Thom Dunn
art The revolutionary art of Black Panthers graphic designer Emory Douglas, a short documentary David Pescovitz
Kids Teen Vogue exec editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay: "proud to be 'the most insidious form of teen communist propaganda'" Cory Doctorow
books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow
eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow
books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
videos Watch: Tim Wu debates trustbusting with Tyler Cowen, who just wrote "a love letter" to Big Business Cory Doctorow
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
elections How a political outsider's fundraising tool is helping insurgent, working-class Dems mount primary challenges and campaigns Cory Doctorow
