picks Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says Fox News is "much, much more powerful and much more destructive than Twitter" Xeni Jardin
happy mutants The Spider Network, a novelistic account of the mediocre rich men who robbed the world with Libor Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Women's March and the Judean People's Front: After Occupy, after trumpism, a new networked politics Cory Doctorow
class war Silicon Valley's CEOs are just like CEOs everywhere: banal financial engineers, not superheroes and supervillains Cory Doctorow
fiction Bruce Sterling: "From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter," a short story Bruce Sterling
Interview with Soviet-era TV ad director Harry Egipt: erotic ice cream and nightmare chicken Xeni Jardin
events The Art of Harvey Kurtzman at the Museum of American Illustration: exclusive preview Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants Using Kickstarter to make fine art without galleries or grand committees or gazillionaires Cory Doctorow
happy mutants JWZ: you don't need to sleep under your desk to succeed in a startup, but if you do, it'll make your VCs plenty rich Cory Doctorow