marijuana On the grave dangers of smoking marijuana Xeni Jardin

Business Twitter: We killed “a large network of fake accounts” and others for abusing API feature that matched phone numbers to usernames Xeni Jardin

books The American Library Association says Melvil Dewey is canceled John Struan

mistakes Please note that the at-home "metoo"-branded rape kits aren't real products Rob Beschizza

media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How fanfic archives lead the world in data organization Cory Doctorow

health Twitter users answer the question: "When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?" Cory Doctorow

monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

Kids Children in Virginia's Trump supporting counties became more abusive Jason Weisberger

tech Twitter invaded by astroturf army of Amazon-branded happy warehouse workers Rob Beschizza

corruption Cornered FCC admits that its website was never hacked Cory Doctorow

art Help save artist Kal Spelletich's robots and the future of tech-art David Pescovitz

law Debullshitifying Microsoft's smear campaign against the recycler it helped send to prison Cory Doctorow

Science Self-powering camera: an image sensor that's also a photovoltaic cell Cory Doctorow

scholarship Adversarial patches: colorful circles that convince machine-learning vision system to ignore everything else Cory Doctorow

the eyes have it An "international eye chart" from 1907 Clive Thompson

politics Review: Wolfen (1981) Rob Beschizza

libraries Card catalogs had their own elegant standardized handwriting Andrea James

politics Hugely successful Facebook fake news author considers himself a "satirist" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tonight in Brooklyn, the NY premiere and opening reception of Chelsea Manning's 3-D portraits Cory Doctorow