money Solved: mystery of random cash rolls appearing on sidewalks in UK village David Pescovitz

marijuana I had dinner at LA's OG Cannabis Cafe Jason Weisberger

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

Business The three biggest Chinese business scams that target foreign firms Cory Doctorow

science fiction That time Charlton Comics published a trans sci-fi story in 1953 Thom Dunn

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

Business Many Chinese manufacturers are behaving as though they have no future Cory Doctorow

health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow

Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe First cannabis cafe in the US opens today Carla Sinclair

trumpism The NRA begs gun nuts for donations, spends lavishly on its board of directors and execs Cory Doctorow

elections Europe's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets Cory Doctorow

happy mutants How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell's case for resisting "The Attention Economy" Cory Doctorow

burning man The BLM's Burning Man environmental impact statement is terrible, calls for drug searches, dumpsters, and a 19,000,000lb concrete wall Cory Doctorow

debt Apple launches credit card, gaming service Rob Beschizza

education What's wrong with blaming "information" for political chaos Cory Doctorow

floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The EU hired a company that had been lobbying for the Copyright Directive to make a (completely batshit) video to sell the Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow

law Man who yelled "guilty!" to get out of jury duty was promptly arrested David Pescovitz

canada Canada's housing market is slowly but surely imploding, and Canadians are more exposed than the US was in 2008 Cory Doctorow

prison You can buy death row inmate's art at the San Quentin gift shop Rusty Blazenhoff