politics Beyond fake news: the "constructed realities" of the polarized world Cory Doctorow

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Samsung faked a smartphone portrait with a stock photo taken with a DSLR Rob Beschizza

politics FBI Dir. Wray on Trump's FBI attacks: I'll only comment on 'opinions that matter' Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Thinking in Bets: a poker-master's Jedi mind-trick for being less wrong Cory Doctorow

trumpism Even though Trump supporters are impervious to fact-checks on most subjects, they still know that the GOP tax plan is a giveaway to the super-rich Cory Doctorow

surveillance Pentagon mass surveillance slurped up the world's social media traffic; then they dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server Cory Doctorow

podcasts When future desires and past beliefs are incongruent, desire usually wins out David McRaney

podcasts Why we often choose to keep useful information out of our heads David McRaney

psychology Great deal on book about cognitive biases: You Are Not So Smart Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Climate science and climate fiction – where data intersects with art Cat Sparks

podcasts How motivated skepticism strengthens incorrect beliefs David McRaney

travel Touring northern Colombia by car in the rainy season Maggie Tokuda-Hall

police San Francisco's bike lanes have become Uber's pickup/dropoff zones (and the cops don't care) Cory Doctorow

bible Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus – An exploration of prostitution as found in the Christian bible Gareth Branwyn

Internet Eternal September and the broadening of horizons Rob Beschizza

podcasts How Google uses behavioral science to make work suck less David McRaney

Crystal, an app that attempts to summarize your personality Clive Thompson

offworld When Twin Peaks meets video games Leigh Alexander