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Unlike other social media sites, Bluesky allows users to create their own algorithm. The site does not have ads, nor harvest data for artificial intelligence training. But it is still very small, and it does not make money.

This is an in-store event with author Cory Doctorow. The event will consist of a 30 minute discussion, followed by a Q&A with the audience, and finally a book signing. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently The Lost Cause, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual. Other recent books include Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Purchasing a copy of The Bezzle through Mysterious Galaxy will get you a numbered ticket for the signing line after the event. Only those who have purchased one of Cory's books through Mysterious Galaxy will receive a numbered ticket for the signing line. Those who have not purchased a book through us are still welcome to get their books signed, but will have to wait until after the numbered line has finished. New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he’s kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life. Martin has made his most dangerous mistake yet: trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun. To them, money is a tool, a game, and a way to keep score, and they’ve found their newest mark—California’s Department of Corrections. Secure in the knowledge that they’re living behind far too many firewalls of shell companies and investors ever to be identified, they are interested not in the lives they ruin, but only in how much money they can extract from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy. A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues. For more information visit: mystgalaxy.com Stay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

For the past several weeks, the beloved beaver has been embroiled in a court battle over whether she should return to the wild or stay at the rescue center where she has lived since she was a newborn.

Please join us to hear from Peter Sinclair, Media Director of the Dark Snow Project, who will present an overview of the status of the Greenland ice sheet and the challenges and importance of implementing clean energy in the Midwest. There is no charge for this online event but please register in advance. Peter Sinclair, as Media Director of the Dark Snow Project, an international scientific effort focused on the Greenland ice sheet, has spent a lot of time on and around the Big Ice with top-level science teams. Mr. Sinclair will talk about what scientists have been learning about the dynamics and unique vulnerability of ice sheets to climate change. The presentation will include vivid video, interviews, and drone footage shot on location over the last decade. Mr. Sinclair will also describe the ongoing war to site clean energy across the American heartland and where the war to decarbonize America will be won or lost in the coming decade. For more information visit: ncccalliance.org Stay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

The National Institutes of Health, the crown jewel of biomedical research in the U.S., could face big changes under the new Trump administration, some fueled by pandemic-era criticisms of the agency.

Around 30 missiles appear to have landed around Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, although damage was limited.

“We ended up with 126 tornado warnings” in Florida, Matthew Elliott, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, told NPR.

We have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person.

Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions.

This year's Lasker Prize for public service goes to South African researchers Salim and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim. The married couple made a startling discovery about HIV — and did something about it.