music Today is the 30th anniversary of REM's "Lifes Rich Pageant" David Pescovitz

video games Cyberpunk: Edgerunners returns for a very meta season 2 Grant St. Clair

art Uncovered: read book samples without knowing who wrote it, what the title is, or looking at the cover Rob Beschizza

Technology Microsoft CEO wants people to shut up about AI being bad for us Séamus Bellamy

Games What is the Jedi problem, and why does every game designer fear it? Grant St. Clair

movies Fall, the movie about not falling, gets a sequel about an even bigger fall this fall Grant St. Clair

Games Games matter because games don't matter, says a philosopher Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Prompt your widgets with Googlebook, a laptop range for people into that sort of thing Rob Beschizza

Weird Don't fall for AI-generated sob stories Grant St. Clair

Games Aaron Paul enters the Wasteland for season 3 of Fallout Grant St. Clair

youtube What to do when scammers kidnap your daughter Grant St. Clair

Weird The weirdest scammers you've never heard of Grant St. Clair

auctions You can buy Cormac McCarthy's sports car Séamus Bellamy

History What thousands of years of foot traffic does to marble stairs Popkin

Just dance JD Vance endorsement makes things worse for Orbán Jason Weisberger

gaming The legal and creative battle over who gets to modify beloved games Séamus Bellamy

Games The most divisive Assassin's Creed game is getting a next-gen update Grant St. Clair

movies Emma Thompson plays a grieving widow turned survivalist badass Séamus Bellamy

books The Tokyo Vice author digs into cryptocurrency's darkest chapters Roger Park

politics Bannon texted Epstein a rehab plan, called him "God," shared lawyers Ellsworth Toohey