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science fiction The Convoy: a glimpse of a deepfakes future owned by James O'Keefe-style hoaxers Cory Doctorow
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happy mutants Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow
Technology Augmented reality software shows where pipes and other underground structures are Andrea James
fake news Tom Cruise’s healing touch, Nazi Roseanne, and Vanna White’s hooker scandal, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura
sexual harassment Notes from the #MeToo march: thoughts and prayers can't right what is wrong Maureen Herman