sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing
jeffrey epstein The "Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Assistant Scheme" is a 2020 twist on the classic Nigerian Prince Scam Thom Dunn
greta thunberg Bristol newspaper publishes names and photos of local men calling for violence against Greta Thunberg Rob Beschizza
privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow
drugs A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic Cory Doctorow
privacy Facial recognition isn't just bad because it invades privacy: it's because privacy invasions fuel discrimination Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser Cory Doctorow
politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
twitter Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard…and then join it Cory Doctorow
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
privacy Majority of Americans know they're under constant surveillance, don't trust the companies doing it, and feel helpless to stop it Cory Doctorow
