Space Congress may fund the search for intelligent life in space as they can't find any in Washington Seamus Bellamy
web theory Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year Cory Doctorow
algorithms as scapegoats YouTube's algorithm overwhelmingly recommended Russia Today's video about the Mueller report Mark Frauenfelder
corruption Koch thinktank inadvertently proves that America would save trillions by switching to socialized medicine Cory Doctorow
Russian Interference An alt-right Tweeter with 80k followers is a fictional entity created by Russian troll farm Mark Frauenfelder
animation Chuck Jones directed this Oscar-winning government-funded cartoon promoting universal health care (1949) Mark Frauenfelder
Copyfight India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research blew so much money on rubbish patents, it's gone broke Cory Doctorow
Science Climate denial's internal contradictions spring from a need to defend economic doctrine Cory Doctorow
Business The Entrepreneurial State: how the "free market" stalls without government-funded innovation Gord Doctorow
corruption San Francisco Airport security screeners charged with complicity in drug-smuggling Cory Doctorow
timemachine This Day in Blogging History: 21st C principles; Dr Mario on universal health care; BB goes MT Cory Doctorow
Science Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds Cory Doctorow
