facial recognition I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn

sexism Stop telling women to smile Heather Johanssen

happy mutants Boris the Babybot: a picture book about resisting surveillance Cory Doctorow

Comics The best Joker is the woman Joker who snaps after a lifetime of being told to "smile, baby" by shitty men Cory Doctorow

fake news Royal bombshells, Obama’s boozing daughter, and if Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

tabloids The Queen’s Nazi shame, JonBenet’s killer found, and Owen Wilson’s baby mama revealed, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Why Donald Trump is the tabloid president Peter Sheridan

fake news What Megyn Kelly is hiding, Bill Cosby found guilty, and Tom Cruise’s hair plugs, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Cartoonists New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast on Trump Mark Frauenfelder

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

game of thrones Death—and dragons—stalk the powerful in Game of Thrones Chris Weitz

I'm married. I'm a woman. I'm addicted to porn. Erica Garza

Victims of police torture fight for reparations Caroline Siede

40 of the world's weirdest flowers Nadina Hughes

fiction A Reasoned Account of Seasonal Anthropomorphism and Hoarding George Chen