books Unhappy birthday, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four! Devin Nealy

1984 Amusing ourselves to death, a spot-on future prediction from 1985 Gareth Branwyn

muppets Someone made a fake trailer for "The Muppets 1984" Thom Dunn

surveillance Backlash in China brewing against rampant face-recognition in daily life Clive Thompson

superheroes 'Wonder Woman 1984' trailer features villains Cheetah and an evil man in the White House Andrea James

books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow

drinks The place of gin in Orwell's 1984 Rob Beschizza

surveillance Santa Cam knows when you are sleeping AND awake Rusty Blazenhoff

books George Orwell's letter from his former French teacher, Aldous Huxley, about Nineteen Eighty-Four David Pescovitz

banana republic Abandoned Republic is a website that archives vintage Banana Republic Catalogs Jennifer Sandlin

anti-democracy in America Ron DeSantis' "Stop Woke" act is stopped by Florida judge: "Positively dystopian" Carla Sinclair

Culture The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever Rob Beschizza

tabloids Biden's dementia, belligerent UFOs and Fox News lies, in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

the mountain goats A compilation of training montages from iconic movies Jennifer Sandlin

androgynous In praise of The Replacements' Androgynous Jennifer Sandlin

deaths Shoichiro Toyoda, who made Toyota a global automaker, dead at 97 Rob Beschizza

scotland 90-year-old Scotsman accidentally builds a Hobbit House Thom Dunn

Bye Kyrsten Ruben Gallego announces his Senate run Jennifer Sandlin