happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff
happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow
Copyfight As the EU Copyright Directive was approved, Germany admitted it requires copyright filters, putting it on a collision course with the EU-Canada trade deal Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
rock'em sock'em robots The Themis Files: humanity races to kill itself before the aliens can Jason Weisberger
religion Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores Cory Doctorow
News Before Robert Bowers killed 11 in synagogue, on Gab he offered to help a white supremacist hate group dox a journalist Xeni Jardin
happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle
net neutrality To do right now: watch the Senate vote on whether to discuss saving Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow
Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart
books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura
