happy mutant "Failure is fuel": Abby Wambach summons "Wolf Pack" in commencement speech Rusty Blazenhoff

facebook Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers Thom Dunn

interviews Talking Comics with Ignatz Award-Winning Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver Jeffery Klaehn

elon musk Be like a SpaceX rocket in quarantine: pressurized yet chilled and not exploding Thom Dunn

truthers 9/11 Truthers are still at it about Building 7 Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

telcoms Record companies sue Charter because providing high-speed internet contributes to piracy Cory Doctorow

law This month, the climate-denyingist red state AGs lost their jobs to Dems: time to sue the US government Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

spytech The CIA's 1970s-era "Insectothopter" spy drone Clive Thompson

trumpism 4chan's trumpist trolls are exploiting the Ghost Ship fire to narc out other DIY venues Cory Doctorow

politics At long last, America's racist, crazy tough-on-crime prosecutors are losing elections Cory Doctorow

security Rules for trusting "black boxes" in algorithmic control systems Cory Doctorow

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

Business Phoenix airport threatens to kick out TSA, hire private (unaccountable) contractors Cory Doctorow

class war To understand the link between corporations and Hillary Clinton, look at philosophy, not history Cory Doctorow

books Home, a dystopian adventure by Tom Abrahams Jason Weisberger

perpetual motion Free energy for sale: Steorn's impossible Orbo hits the market Michael Ferrier

war Marshall Islands, site of largest-ever U.S. nuclear weapons test, sues 9 superpowers including USA Xeni Jardin