Gadgets The Amazon reviews for a phone designed for rectal smuggling are pretty interesting reading Cory Doctorow
tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan
howdy doody time The Booty Duty bag: tactical toiletry for camping, fishing and hunting Jason Weisberger
late stage capitalism Winners Take All: the Davos Edition (how elites launder looting with phoney philanthropy) Cory Doctorow
corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow
News Rockefeller heir George O’Neill is Russia agent Maria Butina's ‘U.S. Person 2 & Rohrabacher's in this, too: Reports Xeni Jardin
Business Trump's “free market” FCC loves monopolies, especially when they rip off prisoners' families Cory Doctorow