Science Your anxious dog might be a pessimist Gail Sherman

pessimism Alien schoolkid studies primitive human ruins in affecting short film Rob Beschizza

china China censors influencers who question work culture and traditional values Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump's net approval rating plummets 13 points. Did something happen? Rob Beschizza

one-trick phonies "Two-week Trump" is paralyzed by middle east decisions, so he attacks Biden instead Carla Sinclair

books Cory Doctorow's next audiobook, The Lost Cause, launches on Kickstarter Rob Beschizza

england Karen, the archetypal American busybody, honored by an eatery Elías Villoro

twitter Twitter suspends account tracking Musk's private jet travel Rob Beschizza

violence Where are the lines between incel misogyny and violence? Elías Villoro

horror Watch Roger the Rat, a film created during South Africa's pandemic lockdown Popkin

retro Here's an old clip of Michael Caine talking about the working class Devin Nealy

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow

cinema The Beach Bum should start a cult — and not just the midnight movie kind Natalie Dressed

books Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism and seizing the means of information Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Capitalism torched the world, fascism rose from the ashes Cory Doctorow

Games The Polak Game: an exercise to help reveal your theories of the future Cory Doctorow

Comics Comics for a Strange World Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Channeling my @aaronsw: from the collected writings of Aaron Swartz Cory Doctorow

Science How we learn to be helpless—and unlearn it David McRaney