web theory The predictable dystopian trajectory of China's Citizen Scores Cory Doctorow

immigration The US Department of Justice has officially begun to un-naturalize citizens Thom Dunn

privacy Toronto approves Google's surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans Cory Doctorow

finance "The People's Money": A crisp, simple, thorough explanation of how government spending is paid for Cory Doctorow

trumpism #Rickyrenuncia: Bowing to popular pressure, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello has resigned Cory Doctorow

eu EU expert panel calls for a ban on AI-based risk-scoring and limits on mass surveillance Cory Doctorow

Business Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist Cory Doctorow

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

education Millionaire dilettantes' "education reform" have failed, but teacher-driven, evidence-supported education works miracles Cory Doctorow

Food Court strikes down Iowa's unconstitutional ag-gag law Cory Doctorow

happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow

Science The future of science is in your hands: An interview with Michael Nielsen Karl Schroeder

News Maria Butina plea hearing set for Thursday, her spy boss Torshin missing, Putin unhappy Xeni Jardin

usausausa DHS plans to use credit-scores to judge who may become a citizen Cory Doctorow

trump Border troops bracing for possible clashes with armed crackpot militias of U.S. citizens, not Migrant Caravan Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Everyone — not just Europeans — needs to save the internet from the EU's terrible copyright proposal Cory Doctorow

orson welles Netflix to release Orson Welles' final film in November Rusty Blazenhoff

facebook Facebook will subject all of its users to "trustworthiness scores," similar to China's Citizen Scores Cory Doctorow

elections Missouri voters kill the state's anti-union law with a massively successful ballot initiative Cory Doctorow

surveillance Toronto's aural panic: why we need digital rights now Lilian Radovac