Julian Smith Julian Smith stars in surreal dispute over pronunciation of "Milk" Andrew Yi

movies Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson talks about Henry Cavill's exit from the upcoming DCU Devin Nealy

music The Pavement museum exhibition is real even if it's "sort of a joke" Jennifer Sandlin

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

magazines Reasonably Sized Homes magazine should exist Rob Beschizza

science fiction There's a new Substack for speculative fiction and it looks great Thom Dunn

the well Here's The Well's "State of the World 2021" Mark Frauenfelder

lawsuits Dominion Voting Systems' security director sues Trump campaign and others for baseless vote-rigging accusations Mark Frauenfelder

Netflix Watch the wonderfully creepy trailer for "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," the new film by Charlie Kaufman Thom Dunn

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

Netflix Black Mirror Season 6? You're living it! Gareth Branwyn

Environment "The current [insect] extinction crisis is deeply worrisome," say experts Mark Frauenfelder

Science More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after "bombshell" report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct Cory Doctorow

deepfakes Jim Meskimen impersonates 20 celebs in 2 minutes in remarkable deepfake video Mark Frauenfelder

late stage capitalism After unsuccessful legislative reform, German radicals defy the law to dumpster-dive at grocery stores Cory Doctorow

events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow

happy mutants 2019 Hugo Award finalists announced Cory Doctorow

events Where to catch me this weekend at SXSW Cory Doctorow

politics Glenn Beck's TheBlaze to merge with Mark Levin's CRTV Gina Loukareas

happy mutants "The End of Trust" – EFF/McSweeney's collaboration on privacy and surveillance – is in stores and free to download now! Cory Doctorow