News NYPD proudly stages seizure of 106 pounds of legal hemp Mark Frauenfelder

Weird Watch these cars and motorcycles drive into another dimension David Pescovitz

tabloids Megxit Explodes – Who’s to blame? in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow

aviation Veteran Boeing manager was transferred to 787 production; based on he saw there, he won't fly in a Dreamliner and begs his family not to Cory Doctorow

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native americans A Canadian podcast reveals everything wrong with the Trump administration's migrant baby adoption policy Thom Dunn

privacy The top FBI lawyer who tried to force Apple to backdoor its crypto now says working crypto is essential to public safety and national security Cory Doctorow

Steampunk Steampunk nearly went mainstream, then nearly vanished Rob Beschizza

law The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly Cory Doctorow

Funny Humorous ad about South African explorer discovering Europe in 1650 Rob Beschizza

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

#metoo Someone pulled their dick out: Louis C.K. and the #MeToo movement Maureen Herman

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

counterfactuals What if humans weren't the first civilization on Earth? Clive Thompson

china China's mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist's advocacy for "systems thinking" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The financial crisis created a precariat army of RV-nomad seniors who serve as Amazon's seasonal workers Cory Doctorow

toys This storytelling chart explains nothing about season 7 of Thrones Rob Beschizza