apple Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show makes happiness terrifying Grant St. Clair

apple I'm officially on board for whatever Vince Gilligan is cooking Grant St. Clair

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apple Will the new season of Silo stack up to the first two in the series? Séamus Bellamy

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plagiarism Phony Vivek Ramaswamy steals line after line from Barack Obama (video) Carla Sinclair

lauren boebert Lauren Boebert said she gave birth to her child in a truck, therefore parental leave should be banned Mark Frauenfelder

racism W says the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant GOP is "not going to win anything" Jason Weisberger

qanon QAnon cultists are in a tizzy over maps that don't have "D.C." after Washington Mark Frauenfelder

bats Cute fruit bats featured on new 2020 quarter Rusty Blazenhoff

law In a huge win for open data, Congress passes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act Cory Doctorow

politics Former NSA contractor Reality Winner sentenced to 5+ years in prison for leaking secret report on Russian election hacking to The Intercept Xeni Jardin

trumpism Donald Trump redesigned the Presidential Challenge Coin, replacing "E pluribus unum" with "Make America Great Again" Cory Doctorow

politics Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives Cory Doctorow

economics Roddenberry's Star Trek was "above all, a critique of Robert Heinlein" Manu Saadia

picks Budweiser renames its beer "America" Mark Frauenfelder