happy mutants The finger-tentacled baby sculptures of Clay Per Day Cory Doctorow

Games Hideous Abomination, a tile-laying game where you never create the same monstrosity twice Rob Beschizza

politics Twitter says it won't remove Trump tweets on deceased former Joe Scarborough staffer Lori Klausutis Xeni Jardin

art Noah Wall paints audio portraits using the structures of New York Gareth Branwyn

disasters Sci-fi author Ted Chiang on the disaster novel we're currently living through Gareth Branwyn

gans GANfield: ai-generated Garfield Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family's life under the Khmer Rouge Cory Doctorow

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

Kids Illinois schools don't just lock special ed kids in solitary, they also restrain them Cory Doctorow

surveillance Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington

late stage capitalism Burbank! Come to an emergency City Hall meeting on 10/29 to deal with the city's eviction crisis! Cory Doctorow

usausausa Cable is bullshit, and so is 5G: give me fiber or give me death! Cory Doctorow

snowden Edward Snowden on the global war on encryption: "This is our new battleground" Cory Doctorow