picks How a prisoner's amazing drawings of golf courses set him free Xeni Jardin

fashion Pedro Pascal gives the middle finger to the Met Gala's "Karl Lagerfeld" theme Jennifer Sandlin

racism Cincinnati police officer uses N-word in racist tirade at Black high school, caught on camera Carla Sinclair

Comics Image Comics turns 30 Devin Nealy

tabloids Royal dramas and Bill Gates' divorce in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow

privacy Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the minute-to-minute movements of 200 million+ Americans Cory Doctorow

surveillance Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you by your cellphone, and they abuse it like crazy Cory Doctorow

let them eat cake Steven Mnuchin and Louise Linton may have used a government plane to watch the eclipse Mark Frauenfelder

let them eat cake Steven Mnuchin's wife makes fun of Instagram followers for not being as rich as she is Mark Frauenfelder

fashion Stunning "Lucifer" bomber jacket from legendary filmmaker Kenneth Anger David Pescovitz

happy mutants Medusa's Web: Tim Powers is the Philip K Dick of our age Cory Doctorow

happy mutants It Isn't Even Past: location scouting the secret history of Rudy Valentino with Tim Powers Tim Powers

unwise tattoos Man regrets having crude drawing of a penis tattooed on thigh Rob Beschizza