books 'Dark Matter' by Blake Crouch is a romp through problems with time travel Jason Weisberger

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

History Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones." David Pescovitz

books The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics Mark Frauenfelder

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

useful stuff Interview with Douglas Rushkoff Mark Frauenfelder

Business The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Learning to See the Commons David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

AI The worst thing about deepfakes is that we know about them Thom Dunn

christ what an asshole Robert Bork is the architect of the inequality crisis Cory Doctorow

google Deep look at the Googler Uprising, drawing on insider interviews Cory Doctorow

health Hospital checklists work really well — except when they're not used Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The magic theatre of High Weirdness Ferdinando Buscema

Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow

usausausa Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're working Cory Doctorow

television Future Man season 2 is brilliant Jason Weisberger

scholarship Amazon's monopsony power: the other antitrust white meat Cory Doctorow

law The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly Cory Doctorow

EU’s Parliament signs off on disastrous internet law: what happens next? Danny O'Brien

Business Believing in "meritocracy" makes you act like a dick Cory Doctorow