rfid Pretty-looking, RFID-blocking passport and ID card sleeves Jason Weisberger

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

late stage capitalism Doomsday Preppers are now selling timeshares, too Thom Dunn

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

anxiety A handy pamphlet for coping with extra-dimensional anxiety Thom Dunn

happy mutants Thanks to an article about why science fiction great John M Ford's books are out of print, they're coming back Cory Doctorow

Games Review / Control Rob Beschizza

tabloids Drugs, booze and kidnappers, oh my, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises Cory Doctorow

Science Despite the hype, the CBD molecule is actually pretty amazeballs Cory Doctorow

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

china Apple bends to Chinese government demands… again Seamus Bellamy

mental health I don't know about these new drugs, guys Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Empire Games: Charlie Stross starts a new phase in the Merchant Princes series, blending spycraft, Leninist thought experiments, and parallel dimensions Cory Doctorow

Food The main man for survivalist chow and prepper food David Pescovitz

Gadgets Review: Airmega 400S Air Purifier Rob Beschizza

History Everyday antisemitism: a 1936 letter from Germany to America Rob Beschizza

podcasts Is progress inevitable? David McRaney

books An excerpt from Tropic of Kansas, a novel about a Trumpian, dystopian America Cory Doctorow

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous