security Voting systems in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously. Cory Doctorow

tv Teaser for Foundation TV series Rob Beschizza

police Protesting is a non-essential activity, according to the Raleigh Police Department Thom Dunn

Cartoonists Happy 99th birthday to MAD cartoonist Al Jaffee, and scans of my snappy answers I wrote as a kid Mark Frauenfelder

fires Customer demands refund at Burger King as restaurant burns down Rob Beschizza

native americans The Trump administration is blowing up a religious burial site to make room for their stupid wall Thom Dunn

cookie monster Waze's Cookie Monster voice is the only thing keeping me sane right now Thom Dunn

Business Why I won't buy an Ipad: ten years later Cory Doctorow

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

Entertainment Netflix's "The Circle" is my seventh layer of hell, and I can't stop watching it Thom Dunn

Gadgets JBL's Go 2 pocket bluetooth speaker is the perfect last-minute stocking stuffer Rob Beschizza

memes My music distribution service is now offering automated memes Thom Dunn

law enforcement That Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics has a new job on the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad Thom Dunn

DIY Hand-making 1,000 pencils from pallet wood Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance Cory Doctorow

fonts Test-drive nice programming fonts live on the web Rob Beschizza

mistakes Wonkette posts bizarre cease-and-desist letter it received from "Diamond and Silk" Rob Beschizza

data breaches An FDNY employee may have compromised the personal information of over 10,000 people Seamus Bellamy

cool story bro That guy who made up a story about stealing a brick of heroin from an MS-13 gang member says he now regrets it Mark Frauenfelder

monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow