finance The retreat of "scientific selfishness," a literature review Cory Doctorow

facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair

afrofuturism Watch this opera adaptation of an Octavia Butler novel on Friday night Thom Dunn

COVID-19 What it's like to experience the dreaded COVID-19 "cytokine storm" Gareth Branwyn

Book World Made By Hand is a post-pandemic world novel Mark Frauenfelder

copyright A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property Thom Dunn

Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin

sex work Someone blew the whistle on Hookers for Jesus Thom Dunn

education Boston Police Union throws a tantrum over Black Lives Matter at school week Thom Dunn

transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn

health Ars Technica's dunk on Gwyneth Paltrow's Netflix series is the best dunk of all Cory Doctorow

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

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei

useful stuff Excellent lemon/lime squeezer Mark Frauenfelder

politics Peak billionaire: a billionaire tries to purchase a party nomination to outflank anti-billionaires so he can run against another billionaire Cory Doctorow

Business FTC takes action against stalkerware company Retina-X Gennie Gebhart and Eva Galperin

Space Samsung satellite crashes in family's yard Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Burbank! Come to an emergency City Hall meeting on 10/29 to deal with the city's eviction crisis! Cory Doctorow

pewdiepie PewDiePie goes on the record Rob Beschizza