News Communist shatterproof drinking glasses make a comeback Mark Frauenfelder

hypocrisy Karoline Leavitt casts stones from the imagined safety of her glass house Jason Weisberger

Technology AI vending machine lost $1,000 to social engineering Ellsworth Toohey

russia Tucker Carlson says Russia is a great country because a communist-era subway station in Moscow has a chandelier Mark Frauenfelder

History What is American Exceptionalism, anyway? Elías Villoro

censorship Indoctrination is nothing new in Florida's schools Elías Villoro

marijuana Did Mike Tyson smoke too much of his "Undisputed Cannabis" weed before meeting with Tony Hawk? Elías Villoro

This is the most interesting documentary about Soviet bus stops ever made Jennifer Sandlin

video games You can now play the unauthorized Indiana Jones video game created by Czechoslovak protestors in the 80s Thom Dunn

Space Space probe ejected a camera to take these selfies David Pescovitz

happy mutants Eastern Blocks: photographs of the brutalist towers of the former USSR Cory Doctorow

media Archive of the incredible mid-1960s magazine, "fact:" Mark Frauenfelder

china Protests after violent seizure of Peking University's Marxist Society Cory Doctorow

web theory Authoritarians used to be scared of social media, now they rule it Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

germany Marx's birthplace celebrates his bicentennial with Communist traffic-lights Cory Doctorow

china China's mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist's advocacy for "systems thinking" Cory Doctorow

web theory China's new army of nationalist trolls is an all-volunteer force Cory Doctorow

movies Ayn Rand supercharged the anti-Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood, in which the FBI classified "It's a Wonderful Life" as secret Communist propaganda Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow