Business Piketty on the "Brahmin left" and the "merchant right" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow

weapons of math destruction Datification: the ideology that says that data isn't ideological Cory Doctorow

politics Roddy Piper in THEY LIVE: great analysis by Slavoj Žižek Andrea James

trump New Lincoln project ad says Trump is a "weak, shaky, unfit president" Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet Boxer Johann Trollmann challenged the Nazis' presumption of his ethnic inferiority Futility Closet

canada Incel terror killing at erotic spa Rob Beschizza

climate change Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real Thom Dunn

Science Anne Dagg, pioneering giraffe biologist and feminist critic of "evolutionary psychology" receives the Order of Canada Cory Doctorow

white nationalism This Washington State Representative has been accused of domestic terrorism and won't step down Thom Dunn

education Students at elite Shanghai university protest the removal of "freedom of thought" from the school charter Cory Doctorow

Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch

AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn

Funny Sign of the times Xeni Jardin

politics Stephen Miller's seriously racist emails Jason Weisberger

philosophy How America's hatred of poor people ties back to Puritan work ethic Thom Dunn

christ what an asshole New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: "cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one" Cory Doctorow

Funny McSweeney's: sure, Bernie is incredibly popular, but can he sway the "completely hateable assholes, who want what’s worst for everyone?" Cory Doctorow