Copyfight Kickstarting Losswords: a mobile game you play by unscrambling passages from great literature Cory Doctorow

language Brain Rot is Oxford's word of the year Rob Beschizza

science fiction Masque of the Red Death, the feature-length musical SF horror animatic Rob Beschizza

improv everywhere Improv Everywhere spreads joy through spontaneous comedy Jennifer Sandlin

books In LA this weekend? Come to the California International Antiquarian Book Fair Mark Frauenfelder

predictions This 1963 newspaper article has a photo of a mobile phone prototype Mark Frauenfelder

books This tiny 5 millimeter book just sold for $4,000 David Pescovitz

racism America's obsession with tipping of course has racist roots Thom Dunn

public domain The Great Gatsby has entered the public domain Mark Frauenfelder

books Learn how not to cook with this 1820 book about culinary poisons Thom Dunn

reading Why it's okay you never finished reading that book, according to Francis Bacon in 1597 Clive Thompson

black lives matter The short film "An Occurrence at Arverne" will fill you with dread Andrea James

History 1912 Harrods catalogue scanned Rob Beschizza

Spoken Word with Electronics Often Feel Like You're Missing Eleven Days From Your Life? Blame the British Empire for The Calendar Act of 1750. Ethan Persoff

punk rock Celebrate Emma Goldman's birthday (belatedly) with this radical song Thom Dunn

books The best 250 adventure novels of the 20th century Mark Frauenfelder

books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

gwot Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it Cory Doctorow

censorship French officials call Project Gutenberg archive, 15 million ebooks, Grateful Dead recordings and Prelinger Archive "terrorism," demands removal from Internet Archive Cory Doctorow