picks Everything I've written on my Freewrite for the last year Jason Weisberger

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

useful stuff I am the master of my home plumbing Mark Frauenfelder

books How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English Cory Doctorow

infosec This Welsh password generator might keep you safe from hackers, but definitely from dragons Thom Dunn

license plates Geek's idea to get "NULL" license plate ends up backfiring David Pescovitz

Kids Apple removed a teen's award-winning anti-Trump game "Bad Hombre" because they can't tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps Cory Doctorow

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

law Deposition of opioid profiteer Richard Sackler reveals his bizarre defense: definitional games and insistence that words mean their opposite Cory Doctorow

Copyfight As the German Government Abandons Small Businesses, the Worst Parts of the EU Copyright Directive Come Roaring Back, Made Even Worse Cory Doctorow

security Survey of the 2019 security landscape reveals some surprising bright spots Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

travel I owe Anthony Bourdain so much Seamus Bellamy

neglecting gun safety Loaded gun stored in an oven gets too hot and shoots owner Carla Sinclair

disillusionment Post-internet lament Jasmina Tesanovic

comics. x-men: grand design X-Men: Grand Design: Mutant History Ed Piskor

b-side Fire and Fury lawyer responds to Trump's cease-and-desist letter: go pound sand Mark Frauenfelder

videos The Paradox of Tolerance: should intolerance be tolerated? Cory Doctorow

Kids Watch this incredible stop-motion animated with carved pumpkins Andrea James