Technology Astrohaus' Freewrite Traveler might not be ideal for every writer, but maybe you'll dig it Séamus Bellamy

Boing Boing Gadgets Alphasmart modded with mechanical keys Rob Beschizza

Games Solid reviews for Starfield, Bethesda's open-world space game Rob Beschizza

twitter Musk paid accused rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tate over $20,000 for posting to Twitter Mark Frauenfelder

mermaids Dr. Jalondra Davis researches and teaches courses about mermaids Jennifer Sandlin

video games Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser launches new studio Grant St. Clair

bari weiss The rise and fall of the "Anti-Woke" industrial complex Thom Dunn

photography The mystery person who spies on theme parks from the sky Ruben Bolling

deaths Feminist scholar Maria Mies dead at 92 Elías Villoro

science fiction Flux is a dizzying, dazzling debut novel about trauma, time travel, and 80s cop shows Thom Dunn

for whom the hipaa tolls Complaint filed after writer and "whistleblower" publish details of young trans patient Thom Dunn

movies Ben Affleck is pretty adamant that he'll never direct a movie for DC Devin Nealy

movies The Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to focus on "quality over quantity" in the coming phases Devin Nealy

football Celebrate the World Cup with these bloody, sexy true crime soccer stories Thom Dunn

media Right-wing political propaganda posing as local news circulating across country Jennifer Sandlin

movie reviews Instead of "Triangle of Sadness," try "Gilligan's Island." It doesn't think so highly of itself Natalie Dressed

writing Alpha is a distraction-free portable writing device from the creators of the Freewrite Rob Beschizza

politics The origins of student debt Elías Villoro

statistics Teenage chess grandmaster cheated often, says chess.com Rob Beschizza