books Grant Morrison's new novel Luda is overwhelmingly fabulous Thom Dunn

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

books Comics legend Grant Morrison to release their first novel Devin Nealy

fontography A bi-directional font that can be read forwards or backwards Clive Thompson

Cartoonists J.R. Williams is a pop-art treasure Popkin

children of tay Yet another chatbot, trained on online utterances, starts spewing hate Clive Thompson

protest Drowning out the far-right with terrible jazz Gareth Branwyn

police Police called to school over stolen juice box David Pescovitz

kern county Despicable California sheriff says it's "better financially" to kill suspects rather than "cripple" them Carla Sinclair

usausausa Fox and other conservative sites hastily nuke posts urging vehicular murder of left-wing protesters Cory Doctorow

music Forty years of hip hop masterfully cut up into one song David Pescovitz

health The new Republican health care bill classes rape, PTSD, and domestic abuse as excludable pre-existing conditions Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The Gimmick Economy: how central banks pretend software isn't eating the world Cory Doctorow