robotics Simone Giertz makes a parent robot that pats her on the back (after she deposits money into it) Gareth Branwyn
Delightful Creatures Stray cat leads convenience store customer to pet food shelves Mark Frauenfelder
Funny Quarantine humor: 'I fooled my co-workers into thinking I live in a luxury apartment' Xeni Jardin
late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow
Business Frustrated game devs automated the production of 1,500 terrible slot machine apps and actually made money Cory Doctorow
class war Uber general counsel threatens California: pass a law that makes drivers into employees and we'll spend $60m on a ballot initiative to overturn it Cory Doctorow
don't be evil unless it costs money Google uses paid search results to shake down businesses, says Basecamp CEO Mark Frauenfelder
Old school In 1943, the chairman of the NY Fed backed Modern Monetary Theory: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete" Cory Doctorow
politics Trump got millions in 2018 from small Florida bank whose CEO got a Federal Reserve post months later Xeni Jardin
happy mutants How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell's case for resisting "The Attention Economy" Cory Doctorow
movies China's toxic livestreaming culture: the vicarious lives of angry, alienated, uneducated rural gamers Cory Doctorow