spiders The internet went wild for this 100% spiderless-pie Rusty Blazenhoff

police How every police officer becomes complicit in a terrible system Thom Dunn

Technology As gas tax revenues drop, states like Utah want EVs to pay for road upkeep Xeni Jardin

security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow

music Neil Young hates what the internet has done to music Xeni Jardin

star trek Brent Spiner on how Patrick Stewart's pronunciation of 'Data' changed how Americans say the word Rob Beschizza

racism Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst Catherynne Valente

music San Francisco: Kronos Quartet's Kronos Festival 2019, May 30 – June 1 David Pescovitz

picks Big U.S. news media Twitter accounts amplify Trump's lies uncritically 19 times a day: Study Xeni Jardin

art "A Message From the Future": short film about the "Green New Deal Decade," narrated by AOC, drawn by Molly Crabapple, presented by Naomi Klein Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow

eff This is bad: the UAE's favorite sleazeball cybermercenaries have applied for permission to break Mozilla's web encryption Cory Doctorow

surveillance Ios and Android app stores both host Saudi government app that lets men track their spouses' movements Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Thomas Piketty explains how Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is American as apple pie Cory Doctorow

politics Ex-NSA American mercenaries for UAE used 'Karma' to hack journalists and human rights activists Xeni Jardin

tsa Travel warning: four days until Trump's shut-down costs TSA screeners their first paycheck Cory Doctorow

apple phone 1980s 'Masquerade' shows how hard spies had it Jason Weisberger

psychedelic A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam Jason Weisberger

halloween Charles Phoenix's outrageous Cherpumple dessert concept will be a parade float Rusty Blazenhoff

#metoo Disgraced radio host publishes 7000-word pity piece about himself in Harper's Rob Beschizza