offworld Black characters in video games must be more than stereotypes of the inhuman Sidney Fussell

#blacklivesmatter It's not ok to use the term "slave," and the "B" in Black should be capitalized Rusty Blazenhoff

Comic Books Box of Bones — "Tales from the Crypt Meets Black History" Mark Frauenfelder

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow

censorship Tiktok has become a vital tool for monitoring abuses against Xinjiang Uyghurs, but that's threatened by the company's new censorship rules Cory Doctorow

trumpism #Rickyrenuncia: Bowing to popular pressure, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello has resigned Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Poland rejects the EU's copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2 Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Electrification 2.0: Rural broadband co-ops are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists Cory Doctorow

#deletefacebook Facebook Domination vs. Self-Determination Sean O'Brien

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants The BBC on Afrofuturism Cory Doctorow

first days of a better nation No one's coming – it's up to us: it's past time for technologists to be responsible to society Dan Hon

Science "It’s Never Aliens—until It Is" David Pescovitz

infosec Israeli firm Cyberbit illegally spied on behalf of Ethiopia's despots, then stored all their stolen data on an unencrypted, world-readable website Cory Doctorow

trumpism Puerto Rico, abandoned by Trump and facing disaster capitalism looting by big business, turns to socialist and anarchist collectives to rebuild Cory Doctorow

art African grain silos repurposed into art museum Andrea James

History The brilliant book that inspired Dune author Frank Herbert Rob Beschizza

web theory Longread: what will it take to re-decentralize the web? Cory Doctorow

usausausa How an obscure law allowed white, rich developers to steal African-Americans' land for a century Cory Doctorow

corruption Ethiopia shuts down national internet "to prevent exam cheating" Cory Doctorow