• “You Are What You Tweet” – Tony Tulathimutte writes for The New Yorker about the pernicious culture of personal branding with his characteristic intelligence and cutting irony. Mark Zuckerberg, Paula Deen, and Jean Baudrillard all get name-checks.
  • “9 Questions About Britain You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask” – Overview of Teju Cole’s twitter parody of the current rhetoric around US intervention in the Syrian civil war.
  • A petition to name the San Francisco Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton. Come on, San Francisco. If anyplace is cool enough to get this done, it’s you. This particular opportunity is made all the more perfect by Norton himself having called for the construction of that very bridge. Let’s win one for whimsy.
  • “The Ecuadorian Library” – Bruce Sterling on Snowden, Assange, and the NSA.
  • “Mused: A Day at the Park” – A lovely little comic by Kostas Kiriakakis.
  • “Three Gray Fandoms” – Ursula Vernon writes, in the aftermath of WorldCon, about fandoms other than SF that skew old, and how they don’t actively drive away young people as SF does.