movies DoJ to scrap the Paramount antitrust rule that prohibits movie studios from buying or strong-arming movie theaters Cory Doctorow

writing tools The Writers' Co-op is a great new podcast about how to make your freelance writing career work Thom Dunn

coronavirus Entrepreneurs are seeing mini-empires of Airbnb properties collapse Mark Frauenfelder

News Pence won't let public health officials appear on CNN unless Trump's disinfo briefings run in full Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Babbel's deal on a lifetime of language training is back, just in time for your quarantine Boing Boing's Shop

Business Coronavirus: Amazon limits employee travel, Google bans travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, South Korea; Facebook cancels event Xeni Jardin

Business Turkey: Plane skids off Istanbul runway and breaks up, 120 injured Xeni Jardin

mistakes You'll never want to use AirBnB again after reading Vice's investigation into all the scams run on travelers Rob Beschizza

Business Here's a list of airlines halting China flights over Wuhan coronavirus Xeni Jardin

gender American Airlines now offers 'U' and 'X' gender markers for nonbinary flyers Xeni Jardin

corruption Defense contractors gleefully report record earnings in divisions that bid on "classified" projects, the fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget Cory Doctorow

viral Ms. Tanqueray on Humans of New York is everything Xeni Jardin

movies Fans of Hallmark Christmas movies now have a convention all their own John Struan

Disney The case for breaking up Disney Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Loot: a kids-only comic "store" in Brooklyn that incubates young comics fans and creators Cory Doctorow

donotpay Donotpay adds a feature that waits on hold for you, and now I'm ready to subscribe Cory Doctorow

travel Onetravel sucks at dark patterns Cory Doctorow

facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow

censorship How Wechat censors images in private chats Cory Doctorow

surveillance capitalism Internet users are wising up to persuasive "nudge" techniques Cory Doctorow