lawsuit 'Rolling Stone' gives an unflinching portrait of Johnny Depp and the financial mess he's in Rusty Blazenhoff

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

science fiction Kim Stanley Robinson on how the coronavirus is rewiring our imaginations Gareth Branwyn

tabloids His Royal High-ness Prince Harry’s Pot Farm, and stars with only months to live, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

politics Iowa Democratic party chief quits after caucus trainwreck Rob Beschizza

radiation There's a new radiation-eating fungus strand growing at Chernobyl Thom Dunn

tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan

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checkmate Why chess wrecks the bodies of grandmasters Clive Thompson

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Business Now that Uber and Lyft are public, their inevitable financial collapse is much clearer Cory Doctorow

telcoms Record companies sue Charter because providing high-speed internet contributes to piracy Cory Doctorow

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

tips Why switching attention from one thing to another wrecks your productivity Mark Frauenfelder

facebook Facebook news chief to media: ‘Work with Facebook or die’ Rob Beschizza

machine learning Check out these machine-learned Burning Man camp names Rusty Blazenhoff

drugs Smoke some shoes? The DEA's list of slang terms for cannabis David Pescovitz

trumpism Why "leftism" is parting ways with "liberalism" and what it means for the future of American politics Cory Doctorow

fake news Why Donald Trump is the tabloid president Peter Sheridan