travel Onetravel sucks at dark patterns Cory Doctorow

censorship Tiktok's internal policies are both weird and terrible Cory Doctorow

Gadgets This is your smartphone on feminism Cory Doctorow

dark patterns DoNotPay's latest service will auto-cancel your free trials before the billing period starts Cory Doctorow

privacy Firefox is finally fixing its broken screenshot tool Cory Doctorow

Business Kill sticky headers: a bookmarklet to get rid of the web's static blobs Cory Doctorow

amazon Amazon has Reasons not to let that negative review go up (Updated) Rob Beschizza

dark patterns Norwegian government report outlines how Facebook and others trick users into giving up their privacy Rob Beschizza

facebook Timely video about "dark patterns," the tricks websites use to manipulate you Rob Beschizza

facebook A tour of the manipulative, creepy bullshit Facebook pulls to stop you deleting your account Rob Beschizza

web theory When should web designers use modal overlays? Cory Doctorow

art Intricate mandalas created by Volt Agapeyev Andrea James

happy mutants Dark Patterns: why do companies pursue strategies that make their customers regret doing business? Cory Doctorow

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

Business A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Learning to See the Commons David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

art Persistence of Pong Rob Beschizza

transparency Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File Cory Doctorow

corruption Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing Cory Doctorow