happy mutants San Franciscans: see Peter S. Beagle & Effie Seiberg at this Saturday's SF in SF 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
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
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
television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan
science fiction Read: an excerpt from Tropic of Kansas, a spookily prescient comic dystopia about trumpism Cory Doctorow