satire Marco Rubio's recent rant on socialism accidentally proved Marx right Thom Dunn

humblebragging Papa John Schnatter: "I've had more than 40 pizzas in the last 30 days" Mark Frauenfelder

uk Labour pledges universal broadband and nationwide fibre, will renationalise the farcical, terrible BT Openreach Cory Doctorow

shutdown Government shutdown puts national parks in nightmare mode Jason Weisberger

late stage capitalism Jamie Dimon is getting fed up with the protesters who "occupy" him everywhere he goes Cory Doctorow

germany Germany's far-right top spy just lost his job after gaslighting the country about right-wing, violent mob Cory Doctorow

uk UK visitors wait 2.5 hours to get through immigration at Heathrow Cory Doctorow

trump Obese orange baby has fit after TV tuned to wrong channel Jason Weisberger

Kansas finally bans cops from having sex with detainees, people undergoing questioning, witnesses, and people they pull over during traffic stops Cory Doctorow

Funny May The Farce be with you! Mad magazine's 1978 Star Wars parody David Pescovitz

Gadgets The Internet of Connected Sex Toys is every bit as horrifyingly insecure and poorly thought out as you imagine Cory Doctorow

web theory Complying with the new EU data protection directive requires a top-to-bottom redo of the adtech industry Cory Doctorow

Funny The Force Awakens: Bad Lip Reading with Mark Hamill as Han Solo David Pescovitz

Business How trolls like Milo Yiannopoulos monetize your hate, and what to do about it Cory Doctorow

fanac The Rocky Horror Picture Show and four decades of queer sci fi punk Evan J. Peterson

movies West coast premiere for nerd culture documentary Traceroute Cory Doctorow

politics Why identifying Satoshi Nakamoto is important Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Something New: frank, comedic, romantic memoir of a wedding in comic form Cory Doctorow

security A perfect storm of broken business and busted FLOSS backdoors everything, so who needs the NSA? Cory Doctorow