happy mutants San Franciscans: see Peter S. Beagle & Effie Seiberg at this Saturday's SF in SF Cory Doctorow
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How about global thermonuclear war? Perhaps Reddit is a bad place to teach your AI morality and ethics Jason Weisberger
dupe Verkada surveillance company used cameras to sexually surveil its own woman employees Mark Frauenfelder
tabloids Queen ends sham marriage, JonBenet's devil cult, and killer vending machines in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
leaks Navy Yard worker outed by Unicorn Riot is indicted for lying to the FBI about his white nationalist group memberships Cory Doctorow
Real things you can actually buy The decapitated swan pool float is a summer must-have for total weirdos Rusty Blazenhoff
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