Billionaires in Space Watch an unmanned Blue Origin rocket fire its escape capsule Jason Weisberger

bdsm Armie Hammer has already launched his post-cannibal kink redemption campaign Thom Dunn

mistakes Elon Musk the first person to lose $200bn Rob Beschizza

russia This Twitter feed tracks flights of Russian oligarch's jets as they take off and land all over the globe Mark Frauenfelder

NASA Why 2021 was the weirdest year in space Gareth Branwyn

bitcoin The wild world of bitcoin erotica Mark Frauenfelder

gawker Gawker's back Rob Beschizza

societal goals CEO of homeless shelter remarks on billionaires joyriding in space Jason Weisberger

you can keep'em for the birds and bees A lot of folks want Jeff Bezos to stay in space Jason Weisberger

money MacKenzie Scott to donate another $2.74B to charities, Jeff is going to space for 11 minutes Jason Weisberger

Business NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, & Dynetics to build lunar landing systems for manned moon mission Xeni Jardin

events Angelenos! I'm speaking in Culver City tomorrow about the sale of .ORG to private equity Cory Doctorow

science fiction Welcome to 2020 and your annual State of the World discussion with Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and The WELL Cory Doctorow

politics Peak billionaire: a billionaire tries to purchase a party nomination to outflank anti-billionaires so he can run against another billionaire Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Porch of Doom: a Halloween haunt that sends visitors to a billionaires' Mars where they are expected to do all the dirty work Cory Doctorow

poor little rich boy Elon Musk tells the court he's "financially illiquid" Mark Frauenfelder

trumpism Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow

class war Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA teachers' strike Cory Doctorow

twitter American Conservative laments market concentration and private property as bad for free expression Cory Doctorow

fake news Queen collapses, Stacy Peterson's body found, Jennifer Aniston's post-divorce hook-ups, and other news that never happened, in this week's fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan