comedy WATCH: Hilarious and heartbreaking 'I Am Chris Farley' trailer Andrea James

conspiracy theory The 2024 Santa Monica Film Festival was chock full of red-pilled conspiracy content Jennifer Sandlin

Comics Why do the Guardians of the Galaxy comic book still struggle to catch on? Thom Dunn

Comics Dwellings is like Lynchian horror as a Saturday Morning Cartoon Thom Dunn

Comics Go behind the scenes of the disastrous Spider Man musical in Brian Michael Bendis's new comic Thom Dunn

conspiracy wackos Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says conspiracy-believing basketball player possesses "gelatinous ignorance" Jennifer Sandlin

twitter California heat temporarily disabled key Twitter data centers Thom Dunn

corruption Vegas politician arrested in suspected stabbing of journalist Thom Dunn

guns Gubernatorial candidate slogan is "Jesus Guns Babies" Rob Beschizza

science fiction There's a new Substack for speculative fiction and it looks great Thom Dunn

books Texas lawmakers considering a ban on 850 books. Here's the full list. Thom Dunn

art What happened to the nerdy girl from Rock and Roll High School? Mark Frauenfelder

Food Mathematicians analyze the geometries of the Pringle David Pescovitz

Audio When people used to press bootleg recordings onto X-Rays to pass around Soviet Russia Thom Dunn

media diets This is the "media diet" of 99% Invisible's Roman Mars Mark Frauenfelder

politics Trump and Biden face off in first Presidential debate Xeni Jardin

facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow

Business Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers' records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers' licenses, SSNs, and tax records Cory Doctorow

happy mutants 2019 Hugo Award finalists announced Cory Doctorow