science fiction Ted Chiang: Elon Musk's fear of runaway AI is a projection of his repressed terror of runaway corporations Cory Doctorow

Business MoviePass CEO faces prison after defrauding investors  Ellsworth Toohey

graphic novels Graphic novel adaptation of Thomas Piketty's "Capital & Ideology" Thom Dunn

AI Google's AI search summaries use 10x more energy than just doing a normal Google search Thom Dunn

News Securus Technologies loves charging exorbitant fees for families to talk to incarcerated loved ones Yoy Luadha

Delightful Creatures A bird hotel in Borneo Carolyn Townsend

world news The lies that convinced people to vote for Brexit Yoy Luadha

conspiracy theory The 2024 Santa Monica Film Festival was chock full of red-pilled conspiracy content Jennifer Sandlin

sesame street Ad transforms Oscar the Grouch into darling of the contemporary art world Jennifer Sandlin

climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Naomi Klein unmasks Naomi Wolf's wild conspiracy theories in new book Mark Frauenfelder

capitalism "Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste" is a free ebook of critical essays and artwork about capitalism and consumerism Jennifer Sandlin

Comics Marvel's Children of the Vault is a post-human cyber thriller from the writer of 20th Century Men Thom Dunn

video games "Ramboos Big Adventure" is a video game designed to create a youth market for rambutan fruit Jennifer Sandlin

bananas From capitalism to banana-less society: the bizarre vision of socialists exposed! Thom Dunn

Comic Books Review: "Boys Weekend" is like a queer "Cabin in the Woods" for the CryptoBro era Thom Dunn

Noname new album Sundial drops this summer Elías Villoro

television Trailer for "I'm a Virgo" new show about a 13-ft tall teen Elías Villoro

politics How to write a Smiths song in one minute Jennifer Sandlin