Entertainment Netflix's "The Circle" is my seventh layer of hell, and I can't stop watching it Thom Dunn
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
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
reefer madness Malcolm Gladwell wrote a flawed weed moral panic piece for The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder
music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff
Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart
books Ignoramus watch: Designers really want you to decorate your room by shelving your books backwards Cory Doctorow
television Would you kill to stop an asteroid panic? I asked the creators of Salvation Mark Frauenfelder
picks Biohacking for Newbies: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Getting an NFC Chip Implant Katherine Leipper