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facial recognition Ant-facial recognition tech at the Hong Kong protests was an art project Thom Dunn

happy mutants The Blot: correspondence between Jonathan Lethem and Laurence A. Rickels about Philip K Dick Cory Doctorow

reality Is this "base reality"? Probably not, say some Andrea James

science fiction Philip K. Dick Conference 4/29-4/30 in So Cal David Pescovitz

Philip K Dick Philip K. Dick was right: we are becoming androids Jesse Walker

science fiction Philip K. Dick: "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" David Pescovitz

rube goldberg Pee-wee's Big Adventure isn't the only movie with a Rube Goldberg breakfast machine Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids Penis fish, Simon Cowell’s missing boobs, and Hillary Clinton’s gay flings, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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

books Deluxe edition of Philip K. Dick’s Ubik John Struan

mistakes Man pretending to be cop arrested by actual cop Rob Beschizza

music Pedro Bell, the psychedelic painter behind Funkadelic's visual vibe, RIP David Pescovitz

happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Paul Di Filippo on Radicalized: "Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and Dickensian-Hugonian ashcan realism" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The magic theatre of High Weirdness Ferdinando Buscema

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