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Gerald Koch Hasn't Been Accused of a Crime, but the Feds Put Him in Jail Anyway
Gerald Koch was sent to jail two weeks ago for refusing to tell a grand jury all about his anarchist friends and their political beliefs. Grand juries are secretive by nature. Prosecutors won't acknowledge if a grand jury exists, let alone what is...
Will Potter
6.4.13
Nocturnal Submissions

Another Dumpy Motel Room
1988. I’m alone in the night, driving slowly, when a whore materializes from a thick puff of fog. I brake and flip on my wipers and park the Camaro under a streetlamp. The whore appears at my passenger-side door and fumbles with the handle. I unlock it...
Scot Sothern
6.4.13
Motherboard Blog

How to Cool Our Sweltering Cities Without Air Conditioners
We can do more than battle heat waves with armies of air conditioners.
Mat McDermott
6.4.13
Features

Imagen if Jary, Gerge, Elane, and Krame from 'Seinfeld' All Released Indie Record's Today and Then Pichfork Reviewed Them Lol
Imagen if the characters from Senfeld all relesed indie rock albem's and then Pichfork reviewed them today? LOL, well thats is EXACTLY what I imagened for you this week.
@Seinfeld2000
6.4.13
video

The Microscopic Art Of Jon Hopkins' Immunity: How It Was Created
Splashes and shards of crystalized color give visual form to the microscopic sounds of Hopkins' latest album.
TCP Staff
6.4.13
A Few Impressions

‘American Psycho’: Ten Years Later/Twenty Years Later
'American Psycho' is (at least for now) the pinnacle of Bret Easton Ellis's art: the dark-hearted swansong of an era that sums up its subject matter with a perfect balance of breadth and incisiveness. Gross satire delivered with a hyperrealistic...
James Franco
6.4.13
News

The War on Weed: Still Expensive, Racist, and Failed
At a certain point, anti-drug-war advocates have to stop being subtle, which might be why the American Civil Liberties Union’s new study on the “war on marijuana” doesn’t fuck around: “Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests,” it...
Matt Taylor
6.4.13
Question Of The Day

How Would You Hold Up in a UK Prison?
Everyone already knew prisons were pretty violent places that you should probably try your hardest to avoid. But should you somehow find yourself in one, how do you think you'd hold up?
James Tennent
6.4.13
Motherboard

High Country
There are fortunes to be made in the Silicon Valley of weed. In pt 1 of 'High Country,' Motherboard goes to Denver to check out next-gen, cannabis-extraction tech and size up weed crowdsourcing and the contradictory science of the plant.
Brian Anderson
6.4.13
Neither Big nor Easy

On the Death of a Dog I Should Have Loved Better
I am surprised to find myself depressed upon the death of my dog this past Sunday during our fishing trip on Lake Pontchartain. I am surprised I’m even calling Meshcha “my dog,” as I was never very fond of her, and didn't want her in the first place...
Michael Patrick Welch
6.4.13
Motherboard Blog

From Tahrir to Occupy to Istanbul: An Anatomy of Current and Future Protest
Here we go again.
Brian Merchant
6.4.13
Motherboard Blog

Bitcoin Faces Its Critics
Is this the beginning of the internet-of-finance? Or is it a cypherpunk pipe dream?
ALEC LIU
6.4.13
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