happy mutants San Franciscans: see Peter S. Beagle & Effie Seiberg at this Saturday's SF in SF Cory Doctorow

happy mutants To do in San Francisco: reading with Peter Beagle and Carter Scholz Cory Doctorow

leaks Navy Yard worker outed by Unicorn Riot is indicted for lying to the FBI about his white nationalist group memberships Cory Doctorow

animals Cat and rhino are best friends Xeni Jardin

summer The decapitated swan pool float is a summer must-have for total weirdos Rusty Blazenhoff

politics It's time for a less compromising queer activism—and media Rob Beschizza

makers Teen girl's DIY glitter-shooting unicorn horn prosthetic arm in museum exhibit David Pescovitz

scholarship A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems Cory Doctorow

fake news Queen in drunken brawl, Prince Harry’s hell, and Meghan Markle’s secrets, in this week’s dubious Royal tabloids Peter Sheridan

gifts Decorative unicorn skull Rob Beschizza

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

politics KKK nut who shot at black man protesting racist Charlottesville rally gets 4 years in prison (yay) Xeni Jardin

unicorn Ride this unicorn like a mechanical bull Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants My science fiction story about EFF's proposed jailbreaking exemption Cory Doctorow

television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan

unicorns Wall-mounted Unicorn head Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Inexpensive unicorn-shaped speaker met with middling user reviews Rob Beschizza

fake news Sexbots, Nostradamus and Donald Trump, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business The Financial Times: Uber is doomed Cory Doctorow

science fiction Read: an excerpt from Tropic of Kansas, a spookily prescient comic dystopia about trumpism Cory Doctorow