law How a law prof got a judge to rule that speeding cam tickets are unenforceable Cory Doctorow

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

class war Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it Cory Doctorow

Tom the Dancing Bug Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Chekhov's Gum, et al. Ruben Bolling

Kids Apple removed a teen's award-winning anti-Trump game "Bad Hombre" because they can't tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps Cory Doctorow

corruption Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers Cory Doctorow

Business How Amazon's crackdown on dirty sellers has made it easier for dirty sellers to kill good sellers' accounts Cory Doctorow

deplatforming The Kafkaesque experience of getting banned for life from Airbnb Mark Frauenfelder

politics Australia put an algorithm in charge of its benefits fraud detection and plunged the nation into chaos Cory Doctorow

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow

Business Company says facial features reveal terrorists and pedophiles 80% of the time Cory Doctorow

red tape The excruciating process of applying for unemployment on a Kafkaesque Massachusetts state website Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Laura Poitras's Whitney show and book are a glimpse into life under full-strength, targeted US surveillance Cory Doctorow

art Recreating the CIA's "top secret" abstract painting collection Cory Doctorow

Business Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries Cory Doctorow

nsa Congress passes USA Freedom Act, the NSA 'reform' bill. What does it mean for your privacy? Trevor Timm