Business How DRM and EULAs make us into "digital serfs" Cory Doctorow

Business Clicking "Buy now" doesn't "buy" anything, but people think it does Cory Doctorow

disasters Sci-fi author Ted Chiang on the disaster novel we're currently living through Gareth Branwyn

canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Talking Radicalized, monopoly and DRM with the Techdirt podcast Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism Cory Doctorow

ukpoli Britain's "nasty party" condemns its MPs' nastiness Cory Doctorow

facebook The emerging split in modern trustbusting: Alexander Hamilton's Fully Automated Luxury Communism vs Thomas Jefferson's Redecentralization Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism World Bank recommends that countries eliminate minimum wage, dismantle wrongful dismissal rules and contractual protections for workers Cory Doctorow

uk If this goes on… The 1% will own two thirds of the world by 2030 Cory Doctorow

elections The Rich and the Normal Jasmina Tesanovic

late stage capitalism Leaseholders in building sheathed in flammable Grenfell cladding sent a £2m bill for repairs Cory Doctorow

science fiction Floating cities "take shape" Rob Beschizza

happy mutants How optimistic disaster stories can save us from dystopia Cory Doctorow

Copyfight My keynote from the O'Reilly Security Conference: "Security and feudalism: Own or be pwned" Cory Doctorow

Business Sole and Despotic Dominion: how a 20th century copyright law is abolishing property for humans (but not corporations) Cory Doctorow

security Google launches Project Shield, to protect news sites from DDoS attacks Cory Doctorow

Funny Funny because it's true: "Tories to build thousands of affordable second homes" Cory Doctorow

dark enlightenment Forget the Tea Party: the future of the right is weird as hell Rob Beschizza