damn they had style Soviet Synthpop of the 80s Jason Weisberger

crowdfunding An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character Gareth Branwyn

What Me Worry? Jack Dorsey nukes 40% of Blocks staff because AI Jason Weisberger

books John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction John Shirley

Games After plagiarism scandal, Bungie's Marathon gets a release date Grant St. Clair

china Inside Qingdao's authentic German quarter: A colonial legacy in modern China Séamus Bellamy

video games Elden Ring is getting a multiplayer spinoff Grant St. Clair

politics Matt Gaetz pulls out Jason Weisberger

Comic Books "Alter Ego" is a great new crime novel about IP, AI, and comic book industry con artists Thom Dunn

Public safety No one has any idea how often Cruise driverless vehicles have hit pedestrians Natalie Dressed

Barbie Barbie competitor Bratz piles on Bob Knetzger

black lives matter Alan Moore has been donating all his Watchmen money to Black Lives Matter Thom Dunn

climate change Amazon wants to give hundreds of millions of dollars to oil companies for carbon removal Thom Dunn

books "Bridge" is a dimension-hopping thriller about grief, motherhood, and parasitic worms Thom Dunn

gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza

design The No CSS Club celebrates websites with no stylesheets, let alone javascript. There should be a No HTML Club for websites that are pure text Rob Beschizza

pigs George Orwell on the real meaning of Animal Farm: get rid of the pigs Thom Dunn

tabloids Bimbo Duchess and a giant UFO in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

music Listen to the isolated vocal tracks from "London Calling" Thom Dunn