racism Stop using the BLM hashtag on your black square (better yet, take it down and start listening and amplifying) Rusty Blazenhoff

black lives matter NYPD fires Daniel Pantaleo, the lying police officer who strangled Eric Garner to death Xeni Jardin

race Racist authoritarians insisted that ending stop-and-frisk would increase violent crime, but the opposite just happened Cory Doctorow

corruption Man gasps dying words into officer's bodycam: "They're killing me right now… I can't breathe." Cory Doctorow

police beerutality Police brutality gag from Bee Movie: "I can't breathe!" Rob Beschizza

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder

Games In praise of slow gaming Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects Cory Doctorow

#blacklivesmatter Eric Garner's killer will not be charged Xeni Jardin

Business "Owning your data" will not save you from data capitalism Cory Doctorow

happy mutants #SAD: Doonesbury's collected Trump strips afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The paradox of good government: the best stuff works well and is thus unnoticeable (and therefore easy to sell off) Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

History Introducing Faces of Auschwitz Seamus Bellamy

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow

politics The white supremacist origins of "public choice theory," the bedrock of contemporary libertarian thought Cory Doctorow

happy mutants William Gibson: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia Cory Doctorow

American Health Care Act Congress like rogue cells that need to be cured Carla Sinclair

art Self-defense performance art: Shaun Leonardo's "I Can't Breathe" Andrea James

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya