basket of deplorables $1.28 billion border wall contract goes to company with history of fraud and sex crimes Mark Frauenfelder
coronavirus There will be no new comic books in any stores "until further notice," thanks to coronavirus. Thom Dunn
books The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars Cory Doctorow
publishing Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time." Cory Doctorow
dystopian science fiction Here's how Fisher Industries would like to make lots of money building a taxpayer funded border wall Mark Frauenfelder
trumpism Grifty conservative PACs raised millions pushing racist Obama conspiracies to elderly, low-income supporters, then kept almost all of it Cory Doctorow
privacy Florida DMV makes millions selling Floridians' data…for pennies (and you can't opt out) Cory Doctorow
When gentlemen disagree Youth baseball parents don't like child umpire's call, so they beat each other [UPDATED] Mark Frauenfelder
News Microsoft takes down MS Celeb facial recognition database, 10 million+ pics of ~100,000 faces, maybe yours, scraped under Creative Commons Xeni Jardin
trump Pools at Trump Florida resorts were shut 10x in one year by health & safety inspectors Xeni Jardin
surveillance China is sending its ethnic minorities to torture camps to be brainwashed out of Islam Cory Doctorow