AI Meta is tracking its employees' every mouse click — and they're mad Séamus Bellamy

mistakes Unpleasant AI-generated McDonald's ad depicts Christmas misery Rob Beschizza

politics This Polish trailer park LARP experience lets you roleplay the death of the American Dream for 390 euros Jennifer Sandlin

News Trump delegate's Qanon husband busted for child sexual abuse material Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

tabloids Melania's Pay-Off and King Charles "master-stroke" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Comic Books After nearly 30 years, there's finally a new issue of Miracleman by Neil Gaiman Thom Dunn

goth Have "elder goths" figured out how to age more successfully? Gareth Branwyn

AI The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a "good girl" but not too friendly, and is totally OK with wife-beating Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Kids Animated short 'Tend' explores fatherhood and priorities Andrea James

corruption Trump's spy agencies say AI vendors will sell them needle-detection tools for infinite haystacks Cory Doctorow

books Sourdough: a delicious story about nerdism and the flesh, by Robin "Mr Penumbra" Sloan Cory Doctorow

valid prettiness Renoir sucks—or does he? Rob Beschizza

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery

cancer Punktober, not Pinktober Naomi Horn

music Eurovision 2013: An American in London Leigh Alexander

Entertainment Pop and politics collide at Europe's awesomely trashy song contest Leigh Alexander