mistakes Timely article about how awful it is online Rob Beschizza

trump Did Nostradamus predict President Trump? Rob Beschizza

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

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

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

coronavirus Wuhan virus appeared in 1981 thriller novel Mark Frauenfelder

books Paper Girls 5: fate and free will (and dinosaurs and monsters) Cory Doctorow

conspiracy theories #D5: Advice for people who just realized that Qanon is bullshit Cory Doctorow

religion Google Translate's deep dream: some translation requests yield weird religious prophesies Cory Doctorow

media What’s old is new again in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

Psychic octopus killed for food David Pescovitz

fake news Bible predictions: talking pets, the Mark of the Beast, and an exploding pop star, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

usausausa The CPAC replacement speaker for Milo Yiannopoulos was a notorious Japanese cult-member Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Hugo Gernsback's introduction to the first issue of Amazing Stories, 1926 Cory Doctorow

offworld Feelings machines: games that capture a moment Leigh Alexander

John Dee was the 16th century's real-life Gandalf Jason Louv

Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life Mark Dery