History Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones." David Pescovitz
happy mutants 88 Names: Matt Ruff's MMORPG heist novel is "Snow Crash meets the King and I" Cory Doctorow
science fiction Kevin Kelly discusses "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" with author Neal Stephenson Gareth Branwyn
science fiction Bruce Sterling on Boris Johnson's bizarre, cyberpunk dystopia address to the UN Cory Doctorow
science fiction Interview with Neal Stephenson about his new novel and the state of the internet Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants Talking with Neal Stephenson about his latest book, "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Neal Stephenson's next book is a science fiction novel with a fantasy novel stuck inside of it Cory Doctorow
Business AT&T's dystopian advertising vision perfectly illustrates the relationship between surveillance and monopoly Cory Doctorow
trumpism AT&T promised it would create 7,000 jobs if Trump went through with its $3B tax-cut, but they cut 23,000 jobs instead Cory Doctorow
corruption The growth of Jamaican phone-scamming caused a crime-wave and martial law in Montego Bay Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Clown Egg Register: photos of the painstakingly painted eggs that English clowns stake their faces on Cory Doctorow
Science A machine learning system trained on scholarly journals could correct Wikipedia's gendered under-representation problem Cory Doctorow
security New Vpnfilter analysis: modules attack router owners and target industrial control systems; reinfection still possible, more routers vulnerable Cory Doctorow
security The military sysadmins in charge of Trump's cellphones can't get him to give up wildly insecure practices Cory Doctorow
Science Santa Fe: Come see Neal Stephenson, NASA's Pete Worden, Los Alamos's Nina Lanza, JPL's Sasha Samochina (and me!) at the Interplanetary Festival! Cory Doctorow
