Bad driving Watch: Clueless driver cuts off bike on freeway, keeps going when man lands on car Carla Sinclair
tabloids Royals Clash, Clooneys divorce, and Jacko’s rotten feet in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan
tabloids Coronavirus can make you fat, the Queen is still dying, and a sex tape nightmare, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
alt-right A former InfoWars employee describes Alex Jones' bizarre and dangerous behavior Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff
Business A poor, Trump-voting Florida town opened a government grocery store to end its food desert, but it's "not socialism" Cory Doctorow
eu Relatives and cronies of Cambodia's dictator have bought "golden passports" from Cyprus and exfiltrated millions Cory Doctorow
corruption Phoenix's police union has a secret deal with the department to purge dirty cops' disciplinary records Cory Doctorow
Business The empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially downtown, especially during "surges"), overworked drivers Cory Doctorow
law A report from the Christchurch Call, where the future of "anti-extremist" moderation was debated at the highest levels Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Court case seeks to clarify that photographers don't need permission to publish pictures that incidentally capture public works of art Cory Doctorow
floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow
health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The promise and peril of "sonification": giving feedback through sound Cory Doctorow
canada Canada's housing market is slowly but surely imploding, and Canadians are more exposed than the US was in 2008 Cory Doctorow
