satire An interview with Jordan Peterson, who believes in witches and dragons Cory Doctorow

News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin

dystopian entertainment New rules for Las Vegas casinos promise a grim, joyless experience Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Trump's personal valet just came down with Covid-19 Carla Sinclair

politics Twitter uses 'manipulated media' label for first time on clipped Biden video RTd by by Trump Xeni Jardin

News German proposal to control links to news stories: headlines, 3s of video, 128 pixel thumbnails Cory Doctorow

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

china Leaked documents document China's plan for mass arrests and concentration-camp internment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

surveillance Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society Cory Doctorow

nature is metal Look at this wild boar go after a hapless Japanese businessman Mark Frauenfelder

tools How to serve a billion images a month on a budget Rob Beschizza

late stage capitalism Man donates mother's body to science, discovers it was sold to the military for "blast testing" Cory Doctorow

crime FBI agent describes finding "Frankensteins" and a "cooler full of penises" at an unregulated Arizona body-donation center Cory Doctorow

uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow

cured with what is right Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Jason Weisberger

happy mutants The magic theatre of High Weirdness Ferdinando Buscema

Journalism Reporters who quote ums and ahs only make themselves look bad Rob Beschizza

Business Charter's new way to be terrible: no more prorated cancellations Cory Doctorow

apathy of the irish Ireland sits idly by as GDPR goes unenforced Jason Weisberger