Health Care Healthcare choice in America is a scam, according to the people who came up with it Thom Dunn
Business Amazon's NYC digs being built on land that would have been used for low-income housing Seamus Bellamy
art Now you can buy a mini version of that "Sorry to Bother You" man-boffing-horse sculpture Rusty Blazenhoff
fraud After decades of corporate theft, Spinal Tap is finally getting paid by Universal Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch With "OK boomer," millennials are killing intergenerational resentment Cory Doctorow
security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow
facebook Facebook to pay handpicked corporate news outlets up to $3 million a year to license content: WSJ Xeni Jardin
law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow
scholarship Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism A self-appointed wing of the American judicial system is about to make it much harder to fight terms of service Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon told to stop selling kids' school supplies that contain over 80 times the legal limit of lead Xeni Jardin
late stage capitalism Chase's idiotic poverty-shaming "inspirational" tweet, and Twitter users' magnificent responses thereto Cory Doctorow
facebook Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid Cory Doctorow
smart cities IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city's police-linked death-squads Cory Doctorow