Business There’s no pumpkin in “100% canned pumpkin” Cory Doctorow

music Watch Aretha Franklin bring the gospel funk to The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" David Pescovitz

occupy Seattle activists have established a 6-block autonomous zone around an abandoned police station Thom Dunn

useful stuff Useful wall-mount thread checker Mark Frauenfelder

mistakes Man carbonates milk Rob Beschizza

Games Double-layered D20 Rob Beschizza

racism Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst Catherynne Valente

google Google Stadia won't just need low latency, it needs a big pipe Jason Weisberger

fake news Princess Di’s killer, Burt Reynolds is a killer, and a killer milkshake, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

human rights Using statistics to estimate the true scope of the secret killings at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group

street art Street artists leave 'Please Clean Up After Your Democracy' signs to encourage voting Rusty Blazenhoff

class war Since 2007, debt-haunted grads have been doing public service to earn loan forgiveness, which they won't get Cory Doctorow

Endgames When asked about Cohen hush payments, Trump can't stop saying the word "campaign" Mark Frauenfelder

politics Right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate picks dictatorship-loving general as a running mate Seamus Bellamy

art Enjoy some of the most satisfying pop-up card designs ever Andrea James

video Watch how 19th-century Genaille-Lucas calculating rulers work Andrea James

scholarship Distinguished scientist on the mistakes pundits make when they predict the future of AI Cory Doctorow

web theory Slashdot is 20 Cory Doctorow

scholarship Either we don't live in a simulation, or computing works differently outside the Matrix Cory Doctorow

politics This 'Celebrating Fall' comic strip may cause panic attacks Rusty Blazenhoff