games 2013 "Candy Crush teaches me nothing and steals my time and money. I can’t stop playing it." Mark Frauenfelder
Games Hideous Abomination, a tile-laying game where you never create the same monstrosity twice Rob Beschizza
happy mutants The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s Cory Doctorow
Business Rockstar Games made £4b between 2013-19, paid no corporate tax in the UK, claimed £42m in tax relief Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Wealth is correlated with greed, dishonesty and cheating — are these effects or a causes? Cory Doctorow
copyfraud Lionsgate accused of abusing YouTube's contentID system to remove criticism of its movies Rob Beschizza
happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow