authoritarianism Climate purge: Trump demands list of Department of Energy climate negotiators Cory Doctorow
science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow
china Chinese authorities are secretly installing their anti-Uyghur surveillance app on the phones of tourists to Xinjiang province Cory Doctorow
surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow
Business Chinese environment ministry finds widespread pollution coverups and corruption at the local government level Cory Doctorow
tabloids Prince Harry’s paternity nightmare and the Royal Family changed forever, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
surveillance The New York Times's chilling multimedia package on China's use of "smart city" tech to create an open-air prison Cory Doctorow
useful idiots Marketers intentionally enrage social conservatives to promote brands Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow
corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow
corruption Chinese spies force US-based Uighurs into "voluntary" surveillance by threatening their families in China Cory Doctorow
