corporate corruption Western Union fined $586 million for colluding with organized crime Mark Frauenfelder

nihilism Two great deep-dives mine the endless hole at the bottom of Mitch McConnell's inhumanity Thom Dunn

Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

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

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

corruption Elizabeth Warren calls Zuck and Thiel's secret Trump White House dinner "corrupt" Cory Doctorow

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elections Rashida Tlaib endorses Bernie Sanders Cory Doctorow

infosec After banning working cryptography and raiding whistleblowers, Australia's spies ban speakers from national infosec conference Cory Doctorow

corruption Hunter Biden's Ukraine gig was corrupt, just not in the way Republican conspiracists claim it was Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Robert Bork is the architect of the inequality crisis Cory Doctorow

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

corruption The internet has become a "low-trust society" 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

net neutrality Victory! House of Reps passes legislation to restore Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow

scholarship German neofascists used Qanon to expand their reach Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow