gop Pathological liar Santos gets green light to attend classified briefings Mark Frauenfelder

alcohol Amsterdam tells Britain's violent, drunken tourists to stay away Rob Beschizza

facebook Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse now a "deserted fantasyland" Rob Beschizza

crime Manson family murderer recommended for parole, California governor says nope David Pescovitz

commercials A chatty relative runs out of battery juice in this 1994 Duracell commercial: The Puttermans Popkin

politics Psychedelic beer served for political gain David Pescovitz

Comic Books Ed Piskor's Red Room is a splatterpunk masterpiece Popkin

Science Sex as a cure for nasal congestion, flying rhinoceroses, and cat-human communication: winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel prizes David Pescovitz

passings Tommy Kimball, RIP Mark Frauenfelder

movies MGM buys movie rights to Ben Mezrich's book proposal about r/wallstreetbets David Pescovitz

tabloids Armie Hammer's cannibalism and Lizzie Borden's ax in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Schilling Jr.

Old school "spacehey", a new social network that reboots the design of MySpace Clive Thompson

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

Business Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow

happy mutants It's January, so it's time to settle in with the annual WELL State of the Union address, with special guest James Bridle! Cory Doctorow

corruption Deleting Facebook is not enough: without antitrust, the company will be our lives' "operating system" Cory Doctorow

class war McMansion meanings: why do America's jumbo-sized status homes have useless "formal spaces?" Cory Doctorow

a preference for solitude The benefits of social withdrawal Mark Frauenfelder

bandwidth A web magazine you can read only if you turn off your wifi Clive Thompson

publishing txt.fyi and "antisocial media" Rob Beschizza