documentaries Watch this wonderful and mellow short documentary about janitors (1966) David Pescovitz

happy mutants Bipartisan legislation would force Big Tech to allow interoperability with small competitors Cory Doctorow

education #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago's teachers are back on strike Cory Doctorow

animals Watch a black bear break into a middle school David Pescovitz

privacy Australia wants to kill consent requirement in proposed data-sharing legislation, calls it "nuance" Cory Doctorow

Business Cisco's failure to heed whistleblower's warning about security defects in video surveillance software costs the company $8.6m in fines Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism LA school district prepares for strike with army of expensive scabs Cory Doctorow

Business Disney theme parks have a serious problem with cremain-scattering Cory Doctorow

security MyHeritage leaks data of 92 million who use the genealogy and family tree website Xeni Jardin

Business Online security is a disaster and the people who investigate it are being sued into silence Cory Doctorow

florida Red Cross "didn't show up" at Florida shelters during Irma Cory Doctorow

censorship Web's inventor and MIT prof explain ICANN to Ted Cruz, using small words Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Scholars and activists stand in solidarity with shuttered research-sharing sites Cory Doctorow

myers-briggs The Myers-Briggs personality test deemed expensive and silly Rob Beschizza

Business Restoring CC attribution to Flickr, because Yahoo broke it Cory Doctorow