privacy Tech conference changes policy, rescinds requirement for chipped, unremovable bracelets for attendees Cory Doctorow

politics Hidden fees in hotel and event ticket prices banned Rob Beschizza

book reviews Alan Moore's new whimsical, wonderful, and wordy novel Thom Dunn

art Getty Museum posts nearly 88,000 scans of artwork with Creative Commons Zero license Rob Beschizza

art Janet Sobel was a Ukrainian artist who dripped paint before Jackson Pollock Popkin

experimental film Helen Hill made the film "Your Pig Is Down The Road" to reveal to her husband that she bought him a pig as a gift Popkin

crypto Crypto crashes Rob Beschizza

death Afterlife is a short film that imagines life after death Popkin

kurt cobain Watch this horror video that a teenage Kurt Cobain made in 1984 Popkin

climate change Visceral new graphic novel of "Parable of the Sower" brings the dystopian prophecy to life Thom Dunn

science fiction Kickstart "The Deadlands," a new speculative fiction magazine about death Thom Dunn

serious business Substack, Ghost and the revenge of the bloggers Rob Beschizza

AI OpenAI discovers its visual AI can be fooled by written notes Clive Thompson

Comics REVIEW: "Department of Truth," a conspiracy thriller about conspiracy theories that literally change reality Thom Dunn

browsers "TabFS" turns your browser tabs into files on your computer Clive Thompson

Boing Boing Gadgets Brilliant makes learning about math and science shockingly fun Boing Boing's Shop

uber Judge to Uber and Lyft: Your drivers are employees, so deal with it Andrea James

gambling What Steve Forte can do with a pack of cards borders on the unbelievable Ferdinando Buscema

security Towards a general theory of "adversarial examples," the bizarre, hallucinatory motes in machine learning's all-seeing eye Cory Doctorow

music Gorgeous free mix of contemporary and archival "world music" and avant-garde soundscapes David Pescovitz