happy mutants Fellowships to fund work on a "Human-Centric Internet" Cory Doctorow

Entertainment WATCH: Muppet Guys LIVE honor Jim Henson, 30 years later — Saturday, May 16, 4pm ET Xeni Jardin

News Social security for all — for now Maureen Herman

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

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

iot Imagining a "smart city" that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed Cory Doctorow

computer science Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating Cory Doctorow

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

viral Ms. Tanqueray on Humans of New York is everything Xeni Jardin

surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow

art That time my husband reported me to the Facebook police: a case study Daphne Keller

canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

science fiction Interview with Neal Stephenson about his new novel and the state of the internet Mark Frauenfelder

books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

music End.Game: a synth album from 19A0 Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Podcast: Adblocking: How About Nah? Cory Doctorow

computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

Business Adblocking: How about nah? Cory Doctorow

science fiction Revisiting Jonathan Coulton's album/graphic novel "Solid State" Cory Doctorow