publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

V/H/S The Internet Archive has a treasure/trash trove of 20,000 VHS recordings from the 1980s and 1990s Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants My closing Decentralized Web Summit keynote: "Big Tech's problem is Big, not Tech" Cory Doctorow

gifs GifCities: a search engine for vintage GIFs Rob Beschizza

grateful dead Internet Archive to honor the Grateful Dead Jason Weisberger

offworld Play games like Oregon Trail or SimCity inside your own tweets Laura Hudson

censorship Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media Thom Dunn

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

politics New U.S. Department of Health spokesman deletes racist rant from Twitter Rob Beschizza

coronavirus "Hello (from the Inside)," a funny Adele parody about the struggles of being socially isolated Rusty Blazenhoff

greta thunberg Bristol newspaper publishes names and photos of local men calling for violence against Greta Thunberg Rob Beschizza

music Listen to spies' shortwave radio broadcasts David Pescovitz

books "The Art of Computer Designing": stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 Cory Doctorow

podcasts Podcast: The case for … cities that aren't dystopian surveillance states Cory Doctorow

Technology Twitter tells facial-recognition app maker to stop scraping photos, Clearview AI used by 600+ US law enforcement agencies Xeni Jardin

Games Japan’s "Filthiest Underground Gaming Magazine" enters the Internet Archive Rob Beschizza

podcasts Podcast: Inaction is a form of action Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

mistakes Disgraced Instagram star account rebrands as another person Rob Beschizza

happy mutants EFF announces major new EU focus and two amazing new hires Cory Doctorow