pessimism Alien schoolkid studies primitive human ruins in affecting short film Rob Beschizza

Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow

cinema The Beach Bum should start a cult — and not just the midnight movie kind Natalie Dressed

books Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism and seizing the means of information Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Capitalism torched the world, fascism rose from the ashes Cory Doctorow

Games The Polak Game: an exercise to help reveal your theories of the future Cory Doctorow

Comics Comics for a Strange World Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Channeling my @aaronsw: from the collected writings of Aaron Swartz Cory Doctorow

Science How we learn to be helpless—and unlearn it David McRaney

eff Your cyberpunk games are dangerous Jon Peterson

Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self Mark Dery