surveillance Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you by your cellphone, and they abuse it like crazy Cory Doctorow

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science fiction New edition of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother/Homeland with intro by Edward Snowden Mark Frauenfelder

fantasy Watch this Tolkien expert's master class on every race in Middle Earth Andrea James

militarized policing Handy advice for dodging and disarming the sonic weapons used by militarized police Thom Dunn

Games Exhaustive tour of video game bathrooms Rob Beschizza

tolkien Can you tell the difference between antidepressants and Tolkien characters? Take the quiz! Thom Dunn

wired Wired just canceled Bruce Sterling's long-running blog Mark Frauenfelder

modern monetary theory Cory Doctorow wrote a good explainer about modern monetary theory Mark Frauenfelder

makers $3 router rebooter Mark Frauenfelder

monopolies Ticketmaster gets $500 million from Mohammad bin Salman Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Science fiction author Marc Laidlaw is reading his work on YouTube Mark Frauenfelder

makers Revisiting Make:'s weekly Math Monday column Gareth Branwyn

censorship Zoom says it's using artificial intelligence to block nudity Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Nitter is a new front end to Twitter that enhances privacy Mark Frauenfelder

bureaucratic cruelty Automating fake PDF signatures Mark Frauenfelder

zoom Public domain Zoom backgrounds Mark Frauenfelder

cory doctorow Cory Doctorow reads the author's note from his third Little Brother book, Attack Surface Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

Science NASA's Mars helicopter almost ready for take off David Pescovitz