music Listen: The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli covers "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" David Pescovitz

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politics Nearly forgotten pundit makes fun of Tim Walz's son Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction Sci-fi magazines are getting inundated with AI fiction submissions Thom Dunn

tabloid Putin wears lifts and Prince Harry hits the bottle in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

cars Your car's automated safety features are probably making driving less safe Thom Dunn

tabloids New Queen's royal war and Joe Biden's cover-up in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

video games Looking back at 25 years of the Goldeneye video game for Nintendo 64 Thom Dunn

blackwater A PR firm claimed Glenn Greenwald will promote Erik Prince's new smartphone. "All a lie", he says Thom Dunn

music Wax Italia: Digging for 45s in Florence and Rome Lee Keeler

racism On this day, George Stinney became the youngest American executed in the 20th century Devin Nealy

Exclusive excerpt of three new Christmas Ghost Stories by Seth Mark Frauenfelder

mysteries The mysterious case of the dead hiker whose body can't be identified by anyone Thom Dunn

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher's lamp Gina Loukareas

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

Business Facebook shares plummet on tiny shortfall in predicted growth Cory Doctorow

facebook An elegant plan to use peer-pressure to fight Alex Jones on Facebook Cory Doctorow

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