Business Banker implicated in one of history's biggest frauds says boss beat him with a tiny baseball bat Cory Doctorow

tabloids Roy Horn lives, China lied, and Murder Hornets Swarm America, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

television Dallas theme tune had French lyrics Rob Beschizza

surveillance Surveillance is the new blooming onion at Outback Steakhouse Thom Dunn

qanon The QAnon cult has started appropriating the Punisher skull logo, too Thom Dunn

Funny Woman used badly photoshopped image to convince boss she had a flat tire David Pescovitz

late stage capitalism Departing Kotaku writers post a farewell message to their private equity asshole boss: "Sup dude. Suck it." Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Adversarial Interoperability Cory Doctorow

tabloids Royal scandals and the Obamas divorce, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

Reviews Review: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: the Black Order is a fun, glitchy, gaming experience Seamus Bellamy

class war Stop saying "robots are coming for your job"; start saying "Your boss wants to replace you with a robot" Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism UPDATE: New York State goes after the Sackler family's opioid fortune, claims they funneled their Oxy millions through offshore laundries Cory Doctorow

corruption Ketamine works great for depression and other conditions, and costs $10/dose; the new FDA-approved "ketamine" performs badly in trials and costs a fortune Cory Doctorow

aviation TSA agents, unpaid for 30 days, are blasting explicit hip-hop in airport terminals Cory Doctorow

war criminals How Doonesbury helped turn George HW Bush into a mass-murdering war criminal Cory Doctorow

News Ian M. Smith, Homeland Security staffer tied to white supremacists, was in White House policy meetings with Stephen Miller Xeni Jardin

Business A/B testing tools have created a golden age of shitty statistical practices in business Cory Doctorow

trumpism With the number of people living under dictatorships up by a billion, a reminder of dictators' deceptively humanizing traits Cory Doctorow

News Haspel now likely to get CIA boss confirmation. Thanks, Democratic senators. You had one job. Xeni Jardin