geographical cockups Gaelic sign welcomed visitors to Penis Island Rob Beschizza

voter suppression Trump's campaign against mail-in voting is backfiring by discouraging Republican absentee voters Thom Dunn

Space This curious object fell from the sky in northern India David Pescovitz

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

trump Trump calls mail-in ballots "corrupt" but reiterates that it's fine when he does it Thom Dunn

Business Coronavirus emergency is 'Public Enemy Number 1,' says World Health Organization Xeni Jardin

australia Australia's location corrected Rob Beschizza

lazy journalism "People are idiots because they can't locate country X on a map" articles are idiotic Mark Frauenfelder

crime Florida man convicted of smuggling lizards from Philippines in electronics Xeni Jardin

elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow

scholarship Bernie Sanders got the GAO to study the life chances of millennials, and the report concludes that debt is "crushing their dreams" Cory Doctorow

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

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facebook Activists target Facebookers over "Gold Tier" sponsorship of Kavanaugh event Cory Doctorow

media Royal sex scandal lies, lawsuits and hair loss, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

maps Rude maps Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow

china Huawei employees worked with China's military on AI systems and internet surveillance Xeni Jardin

national security Here's how hackers could hijack America's Wireless Emergency Alert system Xeni Jardin

scholarship Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow