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AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

boston This-City's-Makin'-A-Comeback Bingo Card Thom Dunn

scams Here are five scams visitors to Prague should know about Mark Frauenfelder

corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

Gadgets New iPad Mini, iPad Air Rob Beschizza

photography White bats chilling out peacefully in their leaf tent Xeni Jardin

law A brilliant, simple exercise to teach privacy fundamentals Cory Doctorow

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

puzzles This is what 'going viral' looks like Rusty Blazenhoff

book reviews Two new fun and gorgeous books by National Geographic Adam Gelbart

trumpism A human being at Facebook manually approved the idea of targeting ads to users interested in "white genocide" Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Is the Holy Stone HS100 the best drone money can buy? Rob Beschizza

Business As "porn for women" tops search terms, a porn site offers cash grants for female pornographers Cory Doctorow

Games 42-byte hack adds two-player battles to Karateka Rob Beschizza

travel Overtourism: the plague affecting the world's most interesting places Andrea James